Larry King

== Early life and education ==
King was born in [[Brooklyn]], New York, on November 19, 1933.<ref>{{cite news |title=Five interesting things about Larry King |url=https://apnews.com/article/34dfa3571b5c41378b643f8c5273d205 |access-date=January 3, 2021 |agency=Associated Press |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=November 19, 2018 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103105158/https://apnews.com/article/34dfa3571b5c41378b643f8c5273d205 |url-status=live }}</ref> His parents were [[Orthodox Jews]] who immigrated to the United States from [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet Belarus]] in the 1920s.<ref name="JVL"/><ref name="Telegraph">{{Cite news|last=Obituaries|first=Telegraph|date=January 23, 2021|title=Larry King, broadcaster whose CNN show was the platform of choice for politicians and celebrities – obituary|language=en-GB|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/01/23/larry-king-broadcaster-whose-cnn-show-platform-choice-politicians/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/01/23/larry-king-broadcaster-whose-cnn-show-platform-choice-politicians/ |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=January 23, 2021|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Легендарный американский телеведущий 76-летний Ларри Кинг разводится в восьмой раз|url=http://bulvar.com.ua/gazeta/archive/s16_63802/6090.html|access-date=January 23, 2021|website=bulvar.com.ua|archive-date=January 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116030234/https://bulvar.com.ua/gazeta/archive/s16_63802/6090.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He was one of two sons of Jennie (née Gitlitz), a garment worker who was born in [[Minsk]] in the [[Russian Empire]] (today in Belarus), and Aaron Edward Zeiger, a restaurant owner and defense-plant worker who was born in [[Pinsk]]<ref name="test">{{cite journal|last=Bloom|first=Nate|url=https://jweekly.com/2008/04/18/celebrities-16/|title=Celebrities|newspaper=[[Jweekly.com|Jewish Weekly]]|date=April 18, 2008|access-date=October 12, 2015|archive-date=March 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318020022/http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/34806/celebrities|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=11356 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040324093953/http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=11356 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 24, 2004 |date=November 14, 2003 |title=Q & A With Larry King | last= Wenig | first= Gaby |work=Jewish Journal|access-date=February 15, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=King|first1=Larry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9cnlO8NDbKYC|title=When You're from Brooklyn, Everything Else is Tokyo|last2=Appel|first2=Martin|date=1993|publisher=Thorndike Press|isbn=978-1-56054-661-0|language=en}}</ref> (also in modern-day Belarus).

King attended [[Lafayette High School (New York City)|Lafayette High School]], a public high school in Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324128504578344613307656772|title=Larry King: Back in Brooklyn|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|first=Jason|last=Gay|date=March 7, 2013|access-date=March 8, 2015|archive-date=January 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103105305/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324128504578344613307656772|url-status=live}}</ref> When King was nine years old, his father died of a heart attack.<ref name=Saner>{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/05/larry-king-cnn-piers-morgan-kardashians|title=Larry King: 'The secret of my success? I'm dumb'|date=November 5, 2015|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref name=nyt15>{{Cite news|last=Leibovich|first=Mark|date=August 26, 2015|title=Larry King Is Preparing for the Final Cancellation (Published 2015)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/magazine/larry-king-is-preparing-for-the-final-cancellation.html|access-date=January 25, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> This resulted in King, his mother, and brother going on government [[Welfare (financial aid)|welfare]].<ref name=Saner/> King was greatly affected by his father's death, and subsequently lost interest in his schoolwork.<ref name=bde>{{cite web|url=http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=23&id=39620 |title=King of the Brooklyn Celebrity Path |publisher=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |date=November 19, 2010 |first=Vernon |last=Parker |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141119052105/http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=23&id=39620 |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 19, 2014 }}</ref>

After graduating from high school, King worked to help support his mother.<ref name="BHoF">{{cite web|title=Larry King biography|url=http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/kin0bio-1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980201232837/http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/kin0bio-1|archive-date=February 1, 1998|access-date=July 27, 2010|work=Achievement.org|publisher=Broadcaster's Hall of Fame}}</ref> From an early age, he desired to work in radio broadcasting.<ref name="BHoF"/>