Brinkley, John (1766?-1835), astronomer and bishop, was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, and baptised 31 January 1767, illegitimate son of John Toler and Sarah Brinkley, who later married James Boulter. Brinkley operated clinics and hospitals in several states and was able to continue practicing medicine for almost two decades despite his techniques being thoroughly discredited by the broader medical community. Debt consequently found Brinkley again and this time it ended in a brief jail sentence. Ferguson. Brinkley married Susan Melanie Benfer the same year. For years, John Brinkley dabbled in other schemes. [57] By 1936, Brinkley had amassed enough wealth to build a mansion for himself and his wife on 16 acres (6.5ha) of land. John Brinkley, photographed shortly after losing his medical license, Milford, Kan., July 3, 1930. David McClure Brinkley was born on July 10, 1920, in Wilmington, N.C. It also inspired a wave of similar programs. He was born September 28, 1937 in Bath County, Virginia a son of the late John Kenna Brinkley, Sr. and Hattie Elizabeth Deeds Brinkley. Brinkley used his new border blaster to resume his campaign for governor by using the telephone to call in his broadcasts to the transmitter. John Kenna Brinkley, Jr., age 75, of 37 Brinkley Hill Drive, Millboro, VA died Monday February 11, 2013 at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke. ''Most of the news isn't very important. "The most important thing about David Brinkley, it wasn't the appearance or how you look on the air," said David Glodt, former This Week producer. Though Brinkley's American radio license had been revoked, XER's signal was so strong that it could still be heard in Kansas. Within weeks, construction resumed and soon two 300-foot (91m) towers reached into the sky. He was born in 1978, son of both Michael Douglas and Dianra Douglas (maiden name Luker). [9], In 1907, Brinkley settled with his wife in Chicago, where they celebrated the birth of a daughter on November 5 Wanda Marion Brinkley. He grew up in North Carolina mountain community of Burnsville. Moreover, he was responsible for some dozen cases of malpractice. But what little he had left disappeared in 1938 when Dr. Morris Fishbein wrote an article calling Brinkley a modern medical charlatan., Brinkley sued him for libel, demanding $250,000, but the judge accepted that Fishbein had written nothing but the plain, honest truth. The Reply All podcast episode #86, "Man of the People", is about Brinkley's life. If the operation was a success, Chandler wrote, he would make Brinkley the "most famous surgeon in America", and if not then he should consider himself "damned". He often railed at what he saw as the incompetence of big government. [23] His burst of publicityand his stratospheric claimsattracted the attention of the American Medical Association, which sent an agent to the clinic to investigate undercover. In 2012, Brinkley was featured in episode 1 of season 3 of the Travel Channel series Mysteries at the Museum. With Mr. Brinkley in charge, the program's blend of political news, commentary and sometimes quarrelsome debate established it as both a ratings leader and a trend setter on Sunday mornings. [10][11] Brinkley worked for Western Union as a telegrapher at night and attended classes during the day, while debts mounted from tuition, the cost of raising a family, and from Sally's self-centered whims. [35] He also started a new radio segment called "Medical Question Box", where he would read listeners' medical complaints over the air and suggest proprietary treatments. He was also, almost by accident, an advertising and radio pioneer who began the era of Mexican border blaster radio. He was elected to the House of Delegates along with Paul S. Stull defeating Thomas H. Hattery and Thomas Gordon Slater. In 2010, he was selected as Minority Whip alongside Senator Allan H. Kittleman who was selected as Minority Leader. Later, the 24-year-old niece of Mingus moved into the house: Sarah Candice Burnett. It was called KFKB: Kansas First, Kansas Best. In his final election night program, in 1996, Mr. Brinkley delivered some parting shots, calling President Clinton a bore and telling voters they could expect more ''goddamned nonsense'' for the next four years. Together with his wife, Sally Wike, Brinkley staged a theatrical play to attract crowds to whom he could then sell tonics and herbal medicines as quack doctors. In 1998, Stull and Brinkley easily won re-election defeating Democratic challenger Valerie M. Hertges, In 2002, Brinkley was elected to the Maryland Senate, representing District 4, which covers Carroll County and Frederick County. Around this time, Brinkley decided to sever the rest of his ties to Kansas, closing down his hospital there and opening a new one in Del Rio, which took up three floors of the Roswell Hotel, where he lived with his wife.[55]. [43] An article published at the time in The Des Moines Register estimated that between 30,000 and 50,000 ballots were disqualified in this manner. So Brinkley did just that. He filled newspapers with ads of himself holding little baby Billy, the worlds first goat-gland child. Biography - A Short Wiki He was a TV newscaster for 50 years and the partner of Chet Huntley. Over the years, Mr. Brinkley's commentaries remained consistently tart. In 1942, he got a reporting job with United Press in Atlanta and later worked for the news agency in Montgomery, Ala., Nashville and Charlotte, N.C. Perhaps in an effort to legitimize his cure-all tonic business, Brinkley moved his family to Chicago in order to enroll in the Bennett Medical College. Chronicle reporters Michael Hedges, in Washington, and Jeannie Kever contributed to this story. . [17], In 1917, Brinkley, now an Army Reservist, was called up for service during World War I. [25] California didn't recognize Brinkley's license to practice medicine from the Eclectic Medical University, but Chandler pulled some strings and got him a 30-day permit. [30] Brinkley took to his radio station's airwaves to crow about his victory over the American Medical Association and Fishbein, who by this time had started giving speeches and writing articles for the Journal of the American Medical Association deriding Brinkley and his treatments as quackery. . The goat gonads failed to engraft into the body, as they were simply placed within the human male testicle sac or the abdomen of women, near the ovaries. The local newspaper reported that the duo left about 30 to 40 local merchants with unpaid checks. [2], In 1994, Brinkley was elected to the House of Delegates, serving two terms representing District 4A. Aware of the baby's arrival after 14 years of marriage, some observers wondered if Brinkley had taken his own goat gland treatment. "I thought they were all colossal bores, ABC's worst of all," he said. He also began selling airtime to other advertisers (at $1,700 an hour, $27,600 in current value), giving rise to new hucksters shilling products such as "Crazy Water Crystals", "genuine simulated" diamonds, life insurance, and an array of religious paraphernalia, including what was purported to be autographed pictures of Jesus Christ. [14] His current district has Obama at just 40%, while the newly redrawn district has Obama at 56%.[15]. [16], To resolve the possibility of his bigamy being exposed, Minnie pushed Brinkley to file for divorce from Sally, which he did in December 1915. BRINKLEY, John L., 75, of Richmond, formerly of Hampden-Sydney, Va., passed away September 14, 2012. In World War II, he said, he took to underlining words to insure the correct emphasis on the radio and developed his ''jerky, labored way of speaking.''. [12], In 1911, before Brinkley was finished with his third year of studies, Sally left him again, and bore him another daughter, Erna Maxine Brinkley, on July 11, 1911, back home in the Tuckasegee area. Transplant em, graft em on, the way Id graft a Pound Sweet on an apple stray.. "Medical Charlatanism: The Goat Gland Wizard of Milford, Kansas." The Huntley-Brinkley style changed broadcast journalism. Brinkley sued Fishbein for libel and $250,000 in damages ($4,810,000 in current value). [6] Young Brinkley attended a one-room log cabin school in the Tuckasegee area, held each year during three or four months of winter. His competition from Del Rio opened a new cancer center in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, about 150 miles (240km) northwest of Little Rock.[59]. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. After hed spent some time as a traveling telegrapher, Brinkley married and his nomadic business changed. The Federal Radio Commission refused to renew his contract. [3] The family called Brinkley's wife "Sally" to differentiate between the two Sarahs. After covering presidential elections since the 1956 Eisenhower-Stevenson race, the 1996 election was Mr. Brinkley's last as a broadcaster. In between, he won 10 Emmys, three Peabodys and, in 1992, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Marten. [13] Brinkley told the sheriff that it was all Crawford's fault, and gave investigators enough information that they were able to arrest Crawford in Pocatello. John Romulus Brinkley (later John Richard Brinkley; July 8, 1885 May 26, 1942) was an American quack. A sign advertising where Dr. John R. Brinkleys prescriptions can be filled, 1939. David R. Brinkley (born September 24, 1959) is an American politician who served as the Secretary of Budget and Management for the U.S. state of Maryland from 2015 to 2023. Fishbein and Brinkley's former teacher, Max Thorek, heard about the degree and pressured the Italian government to rescind it. Archer had gotten itself into serious difficulty with the government in 1996, paying a $100 million fine for the price-fixing of food and feed additives. The legend of the fateful visit occurred at the farm of a patient who claimed to be sexually weak. Brinkley, halfway joking, pointed at a goats testicles and said: You wouldnt have any trouble if you had a pair of those buck glands in you., Well, why dont you put em in? The farmer famously replied. There was such a fine art to goat gland surgery, Brinkley claimed, it cannot be taught by correspondence, and, simple though it sounds to hear it, it cannot be. He had retired from ABC only months before. Brinkley began promoting goat glands as a cure for 27 ailments, ranging from dementia to emphysema to flatulence. The network had just picked Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw as the anchors for ''Nightly News'' and Mr. Brinkley felt he had no role. from the personal collection of David Brinkley. Del Rio became known as "Hillbilly Hollywood". Not everybody bought into the goat-gland bonanza. He was born October 25, 1928 in Morganton, the son of the late John . His prospects for success in Kansas destroyed, Brinkley sold KFKB to an insurance company and decided to move closer to the Mexican border, where he could operate a high-power radio station with impunity. While David was a well-known TV news anchor and a best-selling author during his lifetime, Douglas's career was beginning. He was also found guilty of mail fraud and due to complications concerning a blood clot, lost his leg. "Obviously, he was a pioneer, but a lot of people are pioneers and don't leave the kind of footprints he has left on our business," said ABC colleague Sam Donaldson on Thursday. In 1975, Brinkley moved to The Richmond News Leader in Virginia where he covered local and regional government. Though Brinkley was barred at the door, his appearance elevated his profile in the press, which eventually resulted in his own demonstration at a hospital in Chicago. 12. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007. Three days before the election, the Kansas attorney general (who had prosecuted Brinkley before the medical board) announced that the rules surrounding write-in candidates had changed, and that the doctor's name could only be written in one specific way for the vote to count (as J. R. Brinkley). [31], Brinkley spoke for hours on end each day on the radio, primarily promoting his goat gland treatments. In 1950, when Mr. Brinkley first went on the air, major news programs were no longer than 15 minutes. They were really poorly done, part of the wallpaper.". The Mexican government, eager to get even with its northern neighbors for dividing up North America's radio frequencies without giving any to Mexico, granted Brinkley a 50,000-watt radio license and construction began on XER, his new "border blaster" across the bridge from Del Rio in Villa Acua, Coahuila (since renamed Ciudad Acua). Esther Candis (Brinkley) Radford. Allen was a beloved member of the community who made a lasting impact on those who crossed his. After studying the irritations and enlargements of the prostate gland in elderly men, and paying the university $100 ($2,700 in current value), Brinkley graduated on May 7, 1915. In 1998, he surprised many of his admirers in the news business when he agreed to become a spokesman for Archer-Daniels-Midland, the agribusiness giant. He appealed to the immigrant vote by putting German and Swedish-speaking people on the air at KFKB. David Brinkley, the wry reporter and commentator whose NBC broadcasts with Chet Huntley from 1956 to 1970 helped to define and popularize television news in America, died on Wednesday night at. On November 30, 2011 Roll Call reported that Brinkley will run for Maryland's 6th congressional district and, if necessary, will primary Bartlett, according to his friend and supporter, state Delegate LeRoy Myers. He wrote: 90 percent insanity cases and 75 percent of divorce cases are due to diseased glands.. Brinkley's career began when he worked at the Associated Press in Charlotte, North Carolina. But when a patient complained that he struggled with impotence, Brinkley hit on the idea that would make him a millionaire. [6] He ran unopposed to any Democrats in the general election and convincingly defeated the write-ins.[7]. [13] He made little profit, and joined the Army Reserve Medical Corps. Therefore, he's a bore, and will always be a bore.''. He was a great storyteller of the news. Some of Mr. Brinkley's finest moments involved the coverage of politics by ''The Huntley-Brinkley Report,'' particularly its live reporting from the party conventions, starting in 1956. In Memphis, Brinkley met 21-year-old Minerva Telitha "Minnie" Jones, a friend of Crawford's and the daughter of a local physician. Valdese, North Carolina - John Dallas "Dack" Brinkley Jr., of Valdese, passed away at his home on Saturday, February 19, 2022. Word spread, and soon, Brinkleys clinic was filled with men willing to pay $750 to have a goats testicles implanted onto their scrotum. '', https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/us/david-brinkley-82-newsman-model-dies.html. When agents from California came to arrest Brinkley, the governor of Kansas, Jonathan M. Davis, refused to extradite him because he made the state too much money. Both the legitimacy of his research and his medical degree were in constant question throughout his practice and for good reason. "Chet was in New York and David was in Washington, which is how that whole `good night' thing got started," said Liz Trotta, who worked as a reporter with NBC in the '60s. Dr. John Brinkley and Billy, the first baby born after the goat gland graft, Feb. 20, 1920. [9][10] He attended Gettysburg College and received a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1981. Their marriage lasted until Brinkley's death. [3] Incumbent George Littrell ran for the State Senate seat left open by Charles H. Smelser. Both state no previous marriages. (The patient's son later told The Kansas City Star that Brinkley had in fact offered to pay his father "handsomely" if he'd go along with the experiment.)[16]. Daughter of John H and Mary Jane (Gaines) Brinkley, with husband. [54], Brinkley was still shuttling back and forth from Milford to Del Rio, often broadcasting from XER over the telephone. Wikimedia Commons Dr. John Brinkley and Billy, the first baby born after the goat gland graft, Feb. 20, 1920. In October of the same year, Brinkley and his wife moved to Milford, Kansas, after having spotted a newspaper advertisement saying the town needed a doctor. But the AMA journal's readership was mostly restricted to other doctors, while Brinkley's radio station poured directly into peoples' homes every day. David Brinkley married the former Flora Ann Fischer in 1946 and had three sons; they divorced in 1972. John Romulus Brinkley (later John Richard Brinkley; July 8, 1885 - May 26, 1942) was an American quack. They could cure almost anything. Still, Clinton agreed to be interviewed on Brinkley's last show, during which the newsman apologized. The Brinkleys denied such rumors. Just whatever came in. Brinkley called it the "Sunshine Station Between the Nations". Carl Mydans/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images. "They came on talking like normal people.". Some of his colleagues in television news expressed reservations and puzzlement, since representing a corporation appeared to be in conflict with Mr. Brinkley's image of independence as a news man. By 1964, the programs's coverage of the Democratic convention drew a remarkable 84 percent share of the viewers. John R. Brinkley Got Rich on Glandular Gullibility For centuries, men robbed by age of lead in their personal pencils had been buying potions said to jump-start Mister Johnson. Then, read up on Dr. Death, the surgeon who killed 31 people. [15][13] While in Kansas City, Brinkley took a job as the doctor for the Swift and Company plant, patching minor wounds and studying animal physiology. He defeated Republican incumbent Timothy R. Ferguson in the primary election. [53], When the FRC banned what they called "spooks" (mind readers, fortune-tellers and other mystics) from broadcasting on U.S. radio in 1932, many of them followed Brinkley's model, opening their own border blasters in Mexico. He immediately saw the power radio held as an advertising and marketing medium and resolved to build his own to promote his services, even though at the time advertising on public airwaves was very much discouraged. "His style, the fact that he seemed down to earth, his humor -- that attracted people to him," said Cokie Roberts, who with Donaldson co-anchored This Week after Brinkley's departure. He was educated by . John J. O'Connor, reviewing this phase of his career for The Times, called Mr. Brinkley ''one of the more articulate and persuasive practitioners'' of television news reporting. John is A/V Rated by his peers . "Until Huntley-Brinkley, everybody delivered the news as if they were delivering the nation's obituary," said Roberts. David McClure Brinkley was born on 10 July 1920 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He kicked off his candidacy just three days after he lost his medical license, using his radio station to help his campaign. He was the illegitimate son of John Brinkley and Sally Burnett. In 2016, director Penny Lane made Nuts!, a documentary about Brinkley's life that uses animation to illustrate scenes from his life. He was unable to pay Bennett Medical College the tuition he owed them, so they refused to forward his scholastic records to any of the medical schools that Brinkley had approached. The two former partners met again in jail. Influenza and insomnia went away after every goat gland operation, he claimed, while the insane would see clearly within just 36 hours of an operation. Brinkley would be sued more than a dozen times for wrongful death between 1930 and 1941. 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