Howard Louis Carr Jr. (born January 17, 1952) is an American conservative radio talk-show host, political author, news reporter and award-winning writer.

[4] At UNC, Carr was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and wrote at student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel and graduated in 1973.

[7] As a political reporter for WNEV (now WHDH) in 1982, his coverage of then-mayor Kevin White was so relentless that after the mayor announced he was not running again, he told The Boston Globe that one of the things he enjoyed most about his impending retirement was not having Carr chase him around the city.

Murphy denied all of the allegations and claimed the newspaper libeled him, ruining his physical and emotional health and damaging his career and reputation as a good man.

The Howie Carr Show has since become syndicated on more than twenty-five radio stations throughout northern and central New England, and can be heard elsewhere via live streaming on HowieCarrShow.com.

[14] In September 2016, the pay television channel Newsmax TV began simulcasting The Howie Carr Show.

[15] Carr has filled in for several nationally syndicated talk show hosts, including Mark Levin and Dennis Miller.

Carr's second book, Hitman, was released in April 2011, two months before Whitey Bulger (then under the name Charlie Gasko) was arrested after sixteen years on the run.

After he fled Boston due to a pending federal indictment, Bulger succeeded him and remained the boss until 1995.

Whitey was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list from 1999 until his arrest in Santa Monica, California, on June 22, 2011.

[17][18] While Carr believes Whitey Bulger wanted him dead ("his greatest regret is not killing me"), due to his finger-pointing at Billy Bulger, he disputes Kevin Weeks' claim that they were close to killing him by either blowing him up with explosives placed inside a basketball,[19] or by shooting him from a cemetery across the street from Carr's former home at 91 Concord Road in Acton, Massachusetts.

[20] My problems started when I wrote a magazine story quoting the then-mayor of Boston, Kevin White.

During cutaways after a TV interview, a reporter asked White about the source of Billy Bulger's almost absolute power at the State House.

He mentioned nothing about any C-4 or high-powered rifles, but when he was arrested in 1999 his indirect threats against me were included in a DEA detention warrant.

[22] In 2012, Carr moved into fictional writing with his third book, Hard Knocks,[23] which was followed three years later by Killers, his sixth and most recent release.

[24] During Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Carr hosted rallies, and he had lunch with the candidate on his private jet.

On June 29, 2016, Carr, as an opening speaker at a rally for Trump in Bangor, Maine, made a Native American "war whoop" when referring to Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.

[25] Carr had candidate Trump on his radio show more than a dozen times, including election night.

[citation needed] In 2019,[28] he moved his official residency to Florida although he continues to live in Wellesley one day short of six months a year.

An hour later, fellow host Grace Curley announced that Carr caught a virus from his grandson and had been checked into the hospital.

[35] Carr took the next day off and slowly eased back into the show over the rest of the week with guest hosts filling in.