Michael Medved is an American

People of the United States

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 radio host

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, author, political commentator and film critic. His Seattle, Washington-based nationally syndicated talk show

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, The Michael Medved Show, airs throughout the U.S. on Salem Radio Network

Salem Radio Network

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Medved was born into a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, and was raised in San Diego, California

California

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, where his scientist father, David Medved

David Medved

David Bernard Medved was a physicist, entrepreneur, and trained astronaut. He was born to elderly Jewish Ukrainian-American immigrants who never went to school and never spoke English. His interest in science was initiated upon receiving a chemistry set as a Bar Mitzvah present...

, worked for the defense contractor Convair

Convair

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 and later for NASA

NASA

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. Medved attended Palisades High School when the family moved to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California.