But when a patient complained that he struggled with impotence, Brinkley hit on the idea that would make him a millionaire. 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. Toggenburg goats, the breed used by Dr. John R. Brinkley for his goat-gland transplantations, 1921. After this look at quack doctor John Brinkley, check out Dr. Henry Cotton, whose patented technique killed 30 percent of his patients. He attended Gettysburg College and received a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1981. [12], In 1912, Brinkley left his family to try to regain the thread of his education, this time in St. Louis, Missouri. The operating room at Dr. John Brinkleys hospital in Milford, Kan., 1921. Brinkley used his new border blaster to resume his campaign for governor by using the telephone to call in his broadcasts to the transmitter. The surgery involved simply sewing a young goats testicle onto a patients scrotum. Unfazed, Brinkley began using some of the first "electrical transcriptions"what today would be called pre-recordingsto circumvent the law. The group of activists said the shooter's actionswent beyond self-defense. But his hopes were dashed when the California medical board denied his application for a permanent license to practice medicine, having found his resume "riddled with lies and discrepancies" (most of which were discovered and pointed out to the board by Fishbein). [50] In 1932, the Mexican government allowed Brinkley to increase his wattage to 150,000 watts. 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. 1987. After high school, he attended the University of North Carolina and Vanderbilt University, but earned degrees from neither, because ''I didn't think there was anything they could teach me,'' Mr. Brinkley said. The model and fashion designer said she shares her win with H-Town. In 1938, Brinkley's old nemesis, Morris Fishbein, entered the picture again with a vengeance, publishing a two-part series called "Modern Medical Charlatans" that included a thorough repudiation of Brinkley's checkered career, as well as exposing his questionable medical credentials. At the 1964 Democratic Convention, the NBC team grabbed 84 percent of the viewership. Brinkley and his wife Susan, married 31 years as of Tuesday, moved to Houston to be near friends and their daughter and son-in-law, Alexis and Jeremiah Collins. [12], After redistricting, 85-year-old Republican incumbent U.S. 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". [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. [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. [13] Minnie and John Brinkley moved to Judsonia, Arkansas, where he again obtained an "undergraduate license" to practice medicine, advertising his specialty as "diseases of women and children". Goat glands, Brinkley soon began to claim, werent just an impotence cure. In the 2003 . 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. His style of writing and delivering the news -- clipped sentences spoken in measured cadences and in a sardonic voice -- was echoed by legions of young television commentators, imitated by comedians and mimics, and instantly recognized. In fact, very little of it is. [12] After two years of studies, and ever-deeper debts, Brinkley doubled his summer workload by taking two shifts at Western Union, but came home one day to find his wife and daughter gone. The Brinkleys denied such rumors. 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. At his clinic, Brinkley began to perform more operations he claimed would restore male virility and fertility through implanting the testicular glands of goats in his male patients at a cost of $750 per operation[20] ($10,100 in current dollars). He worked as a telegraph operator and delivered mail while tirelessly studying the bible and home remedies in his spare time. The patient then begged Brinkley to try the operation, which Brinkley did, for $150. [51] Local residents claimed to not need a radio to hear Brinkley's station; with ranchers claiming that they received it through their metal fences and in their dental appliances. 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. In 1917, Brinkley premiered a most audacious aphrodisiac scamtransplanting goat testicles into the scrota of men chasing the vigor of youth. During the early-1980s, David was an EMT/Firefighter with the New Market District Volunteer Fire Company, and a volunteer EMT driver as Frederick County initiated its Paramedic program. [8] In late 1906, he returned home to Aunt Sally after hearing that she was unwell. [44][45], Brinkley ran again in 1932 as an Independent, receiving 244,607 votes (30.6 percent of the vote), losing to Republican Alf Landon, later Republican nominee for President in 1936.[46]. [3] After he reached adulthood, he married four more times, and outlived each of his young wives. Early years. He died Wednesday, at age 82, after a year of illness after a fall at his other home, in Jackson Hole, Wyo., said his son John Brinkley. Bobby Lacer He was born October 25, 1928 in Morganton, the son of the late John Dallas Brinkley Sr. and Ruth Holloway Brinkley . For years, John Brinkley dabbled in other schemes. Because Brinkley held a fortune which he circulated generously throughout Kansas, the governor fought to protect him himself. Then he started broadcasting his radio into Mexico, where he couldnt be censored. For all his later infamy as a charlatan, accounts of his success at nursing flu victims back to health, and the lengths to which he went to treat them, were resoundingly positive. Newly elected governor Larry Hogan appointed Brinkley to the position of Secretary of Budget and Management in January 2015. It ''was full of such racy items as who was buying 10-cent sodas for whom,'' Mr. Brinkley later said, ''each one separated by three dots.''. Male listeners were offered an array of expensive concoctions which included Mercurochrome injections and pills, all designed to help them regain their sexual prowess. Jeff Greenfield, the CNN news analyst, said, ''David Brinkley created a whole generation of political junkies.''. He and Huntley were the most popular TV newscasters of their time, prospering viewers with the news of the day, then signing off with a "Good night, Chet," and a "Good night, David.". As journalist, in 1979, Joel Brinkley traveled to Cambodia to cover the fall of the Khmer Rouge for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980. When Brinkley was 13, the school term was lengthened, and a better teacher engaged. Later it included George Will, Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson. Thus Brinkleys goat-gland operations became world famous and after years of struggling to pay his debts, John Brinkley became a millionaire. Brinkley responded by joking that the patient would have no problem if he had "a pair of those buck [goat] glands in you". Soon after his bankruptcy the U.S. Post Office Department began investigating him for mail fraud, and Brinkley became a patient himself, having suffered three heart attacks and the amputation of one of his legs due to poor circulation. "Dr. John R. Brinkley: A Case Study In Collective Behavior.". Brinkley returned to the position of minority leader in 2013 following a five-year hiatus. 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. Wikimedia CommonsDr. Under heavy pressure from the State Department, the Mexican government halted construction on XER, but it was only temporary. David McClure Brinkley was born on 10 July 1920 in Wilmington, North Carolina. They married on January 27, 1907, in Sylva, North Carolina. There, he began working as an "undergraduate physician",[12] but failed to establish himself. [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. 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. [36] It is estimated that this generated $14,000 in profit weekly for Brinkley, or about $11,809,000 per year in current value. But Brinkley fought back. View John Brinkley's genealogy family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. One year later, that farmers wife gave birth to a little boy named Billy: the first baby born of the goat-gland procedure. 61 released a four-part audio drama podcast by Edward Einhorn and hosted by Dan Butler, entitled The Resistible Rise of J. R. Brinkley [69][70], Minnie Brinkley holding John Richard Brinkley III. A populist, Brinkley campaigned on a vague program of public works (a state lake in every county), education (free textbooks for public schoolchildren and increased educational opportunities for blacks), lower taxes, and old-age pensions. He was a celebrated radio broadcaster and healer, he owned a large estate, a yacht, and had a go for Kansas governor. [58] Brinkley continued living high in Del Rio, until in 1938 a rival doctor began cutting into Brinkley's business by offering similar procedures much more cheaply. Thus they don't have any family connection besides their surname. [7] Sally often delighted in tormenting the young Brinkley. In 1975, Brinkley moved to The Richmond News Leader in Virginia where he covered local and regional government. Brinkley returned to Kansas undaunted and began to expand his clinic in Milford. Its just too bad John Brinkleys career involved more finagling than it did medical training. Mr. Brinkley retired from his weekly stint as moderator of ''This Week With David Brinkley'' in November 1997, saying he would contribute commentary and perform other duties for the network. John is married to the former Kristen Davis and they are blessed with eight children - Wini (2005), John (2007), Lyn (2009), Andy (2011), George (2014), Charles (2016), JEB (2018) and Bess (2020). Unsurprisingly, in light of his questionable medical training (75 percent completion at a less-than-reputable medical school), frequency of operating while intoxicated and less-than-sterile operating environments, some patients suffered from infection, and an undetermined number died. In November, his Chief of Staff, Bud Otis, was reportedly soliciting the support of Maryland Republicans to run for his seat should he decide to retire. Although initially Brinkley promoted this procedure as a means of curing male impotence, he later claimed that the technique was a virtual panacea for a wide range of male ailments. In 2010, he was selected as Minority Whip alongside Senator Allan H. Kittleman who was selected as Minority Leader. John Dallas "Dack" Brinkley Jr., of Valdese, passed away at his home on Saturday, February 19, 2022. Carl Mydans/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images. In later years Mr. Brinkley said he thought the sign-off was ''silly and inappropriate.''. "He also loved architecture and woodworking. In 2012, Brinkley was featured in episode 1 of season 3 of the Travel Channel series Mysteries at the Museum. He was educated by . However, both are honorable people in their respective fields. [7], As a telegrapher, Brinkley went to New York City to work for Western Union, after which he moved to New Jersey to work at one, then another, railway company. David Brinkley was born in Frederick, Maryland, the only son of Dr. George Ross Brinkley and Jean Brinkley. It also inspired a wave of similar programs. On February 11, 1913, his daughter Naomi Beryl Brinkley was born. [64], His house, commonly called the Brinkley Mansion, still stands today at 512 Qualia Drive in Del Rio and has been designated Texas Historic Landmark number 13015. When John William Brinkley was born on 27 November 1870, in Elm City, Wilson, North Carolina, United States, his father, Albert Brinkley, was 25 and his mother, Delphia Ann Weaver, was 20. Brinkley was arrested in Knoxville and extradited to Greenville where he was put in jail for practicing medicine without a license and for writing bad checks. Brinkley's new father-in-law paid Brinkley's bail, but only contributed $200 to his fraudulent debt settlement ($5,800 in current value.). As a write-in candidate, he received more than 180,000 votes (29.5 percent of the vote) and lost to Harry Hines Woodring, later Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Franklin D. They were really poorly done, part of the wallpaper.". 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). After his birth on September 3, 1927, the tiny voice of Brinkley's son John Richard Brinkley III, nicknamed "Johnny Boy", was heard on the radio program. Marten. These affiliated pharmacies sold Brinkley's over the counter medicines at highly inflated prices, sent a portion of their profit back to Brinkley and kept the rest. Brinkley boasted a stable of a dozen Cadillacs, a greenhouse, a foaming fountain garden surrounded by 8,000 bushes, exotic animals imported from the Galapagos Islands, and a swimming pool with a 10-foot (3.0m) diving tower. By 1932, 11 such stations had opened, including XENT, XERB, XELO, XEG and XEPN. Burke. On August 23, 1913, after a four-day courtship,[14] Brinkley and Jones married at the Peabody Hotel, even though he was still married to Sally Brinkley. Secretary Brinkley began his career working in life insurance in 1982, earned his professional designations in 1984, and opened his own office in Frederick in 1988. [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. David Brinkley, who died Wednesday night at his Houston home of complications from a fall taken last year, will be remembered for earning that familiarity. Meanwhile, the Brinkleys accrued some debt. 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 had no properly accredited education as a physician and bought his medical degree from a "diploma mill". Wikimedia CommonsToggenburg goats, the breed used by Dr. John R. Brinkley for his goat-gland transplantations, 1921. When he was off the air, and after he retired, Brinkley pursued passions removed from his persona as worldly news anchor. [61] A few days later, the jury found for Fishbein, stating that Brinkley "should be considered a charlatan and a quack in the ordinary, well-understood meaning of those words". In 1923, Dr. John Brinkley broadcast that he had found a cure-all for impotence and insanity alike in goat testicles until it was discovered that he was, in fact, a quack. The ruling paved the way for a barrage of lawsuits. The interview and video was capture by long-time Brinkley antagonist, Dr. Morris Fishbein. In 1922, Brinkley traveled to Los Angeles at the invitation of Harry Chandler, owner of the Los Angeles Times, who challenged Brinkley to transplant goat testicles into one of his editors. John D. Brinkley, 20, son of Fannie Brinkley, father dead, and Elizabeth Morgret, 22, daughter of Adam & Jane Morgret, were married December 28, 1889 at house of J.M. . "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. To prevent the court from inquiring of Sally directly, he wrote that they had been married in New York City, and that he did not know her current place of residence. In 2016, director Penny Lane made Nuts!, a documentary about Brinkley's life that uses animation to illustrate scenes from his life. Esther Candis (Brinkley) Radford. A film based on the podcast episode is in development, to be written by director Richard Linklater and starring Academy Award nominee Robert Downey Jr.[67][68] In 2020, Untitled Theater Company No. This is where the prime similarities occur between him and Douglas Brinkley. John Romulus (changed to John Richard) Brinkley, controversial medical charlatan, broadcaster, and political candidate, the only son of John and Candice (Burnett) Brinkley, was born near Beta, Jackson County, North Carolina, on July 8, 1885. Though Brinkley claimed his work could not be replicated or learned by attendance at a few clinics, modern experts believe that the process was apparently fairly archaic. John is married to the former Kristen Leigh Davis of Pinson and they have four children. [3] Contents 1 Early life 2 Education 3 Life and career 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. John Richard Brinkley died when his son was ten years old. 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. He variously cajoled, shamed and appealed to men's (and women's) egos, and to their desire to be more sexually active. There, Brinkley met Sally Margaret Wike, the daughter of a well-off school board member. Brinkley, the judgment read, should be considered a charlatan and quack in the ordinary, well-understood meaning of those words.. [6] He ran unopposed to any Democrats in the general election and convincingly defeated the write-ins.[7]. Minnie and John Brinkley honeymooned in Kansas City, Denver, Pocatello and Knoxville. 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. David Brinkley Biography Born David McClure Brinkley, July 10, 1920, in Wilmington, NC; died after complications from a fall, June 11, 2003, in Houston, TX. After hed spent some time as a traveling telegrapher, Brinkley married and his nomadic business changed. However, he only served a little over two months, most of the duration of which he was sick with a nervous breakdown, before being discharged. [60] The trial began on March 22, 1939, before Texas judge R. J. According to accounts of the time, the signal was so strong that it turned on car headlights, made bedsprings hum, and caused broadcasts to bleed into telephone conversations. His diploma from Eclectic allowed him to practice medicine in eight states. [34], Brinkley began claiming his goat glands could also help male prostate problems, and expanded his business again. [14] His current district has Obama at just 40%, while the newly redrawn district has Obama at 56%.[15]. [17], In 1917, Brinkley, now an Army Reservist, was called up for service during World War I. Dr. John Brinkley, photographed shortly after losing his medical license, Milford, Kan., July 3, 1930. Just whatever came in. [2] He is a public spokesperson on conservation issues. They could cure almost anything. When the commercial turned up only on the program Mr. Brinkley had just retired from, ABC pulled the commercial, but reinstated it a few months later. ", "He was a big jazz fan," said Shara Fryer, who grabbed his last television interview in 1999, for a KTRK show about the millennium. Dr. John Brinkley claimed to have found a cure for almost any ailment. John graduated from Hampden-Sydney College summa cum laude, Valedictorian, in 1959. In his 1995 memoir Mr. Brinkley told how he came to deliver the news in his distinctive melodic fashion. [17] Four days later, Minnie and Brinkley were married again, this time in Liberty, Missouri. He was named an "admiral" in the Kansas Navy and sponsored a hometown baseball team called the Brinkley Goats.[16]. Brinkley divorced his first wife, Ann, in the 1960s. Brinkley also marketed like no one ever had. When Brinkley refused to give up his goal of becoming a doctor, Sally Brinkley left him one final time, taking the three girls home to North Carolina. Brinkley lost his medical license and, six months later, he lost his radio station, too. [5] He went on to overwhelmingly defeat Timothy Schlauch in the general election. So there was considerable dismay when Mr. Brinkley appeared for A-D-M on his old show with these self-introductory words: ''Since television began, I have brought you the news -- wars, elections, victories, defeats. Later in the decade, Brinkley became a Nazi sympathizer.[48]. 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. By 1923, he had enough capital to build KFKB ("Kansas First, Kansas Best" or sometimes "Kansas Folks Know Best")[16][29] using a 1kilowatt transmitter. Brinkley became known as the "goat-gland doctor"[2] after he achieved national fame, international notoriety and great wealth through the xenotransplantation of goat testicles into humans. 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]. The couple reunited in their rocky marriage. [8] When Kittleman resigned in 2011, Brinkley again ran for Minority Leader, but was rejected in favor of the conservative Senator Nancy Jacobs. [62] The jury verdict unleashed a barrage of lawsuits against Brinkley, by some estimates well over $3 million in total value. Woodring later admitted that had those votes counted, Brinkley would have won. 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. He sued the commission, but the courts upheld the revocation and the case KFKB Broadcasting Association v. Federal Radio Commission became a landmark case in broadcast law. Daughter of John H and Mary Jane (Gaines) Brinkley, with husband. John was the son of John Robert and Bonnie Brinkley. Here is all you want to know, and more! By 1930, when the Kansas Medical Board held a formal hearing to decide whether Brinkley's medical license should be revoked, Brinkley had signed death certificates for 42 people, many of whom were not sick when they showed up at his clinic. 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. NBC decided that Mr. Brinkley had on-camera talent and in 1950 made him a news commentator. The local newspaper reported that the duo left about 30 to 40 local merchants with unpaid checks. [3] Brinkley senior's first marriage was annulled because he was underage. 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. No specialty, no emphasis on this or that or anything else. David Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC, where his children were Alan Brinkley, John Brinkley, Alexis Brinkley, and Joel Brinkley. [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. Sally Brinkley, unable to obtain an extradition order from Canada, dismissed her suit for alimony and child support, allowing Brinkley to return to Chicago with the child. Brinkley sued Fishbein for libel and $250,000 in damages ($4,810,000 in current value). I am perfectly aware of everything now and feel as if snatched from the grave. [16], Six months after losing his medical license, the Federal Radio Commission refused to renew his station's broadcasting license, finding that Brinkley's broadcasts were mostly advertising, which violated international treaties, that he broadcast obscene material, and that his Medical Question Box series was "contrary to the public interest". The operation was judged a success, and Brinkley received his promised attention in Chandler's paper, which sent many new customers Brinkley's way, including some Hollywood film stars. Their hold on America would evaporate as viewers perceived more hustle at CBS News. His gland business made more money than ever, and had begun attracting patients from around the globe. "I thought they were all colossal bores, ABC's worst of all," he said. [13] They injected colored water into their patients at $25 a shot ($700 in current dollars), telling them it was Salvarsan[13] or "electric medicine from Germany". [52], Brinkley continued his old radio format of medical advice keyed to advertising products. [22] He started a direct mail blitz and hired an advertising agent, who helped Brinkley portray his treatments as turning hapless men into "the ram that am with every lamb". [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. Where do the Astros stack up in MLB Networks position rankings? [8] They traveled around posing as Quaker doctors, giving rural towns a medicine show where they hawked a patent medicine. Later, the 24-year-old niece of Mingus moved into the house: Sarah Candice Burnett. Brinkleys stories were incredible. MacMillan. "He loved to play poker," his son John recalled. [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. "Medical Charlatanism: The Goat Gland Wizard of Milford, Kansas." in the summer of 1914, where he opened a practice as a specialist in diseases of women and children. Benfer had a daughter, Alexis, from a previous marriage. Anyone can read what you share. [17] Bartlett went on to lose the general election to Democrat John Delaney. Brinkley's career began when he worked at the Associated Press in Charlotte, North Carolina. Last Updated: June 10, 2019: View Complete Profile. He then moved to Washington, where NBC, impressed by his ability to write for the ear, hired him as a news writer. Brinkley would be sued more than a dozen times for wrongful death between 1930 and 1941. He defeated Republican incumbent Timothy R. Ferguson in the primary election. His first marriage, to Ann Fischer, ended in divorce. That same year, the St. Louis Star published a scathing expose of medical diploma mills, and in 1924, the Kansas City Journal Post followed suit, bringing unwelcome attention Brinkley's way. David McClure Brinkley was born on July 10, 1920, in Wilmington, N.C. [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. He was 82. Chronicle reporters Michael Hedges, in Washington, and Jeannie Kever contributed to this story. Brinkley immediately resigned his position as Minority Whip upon losing the election to the more conservative Jacobs. He appealed to the immigrant vote by putting German and Swedish-speaking people on the air at KFKB. He has appeared in at least 4 movies. He wished, however, to become a doctor. 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. Because he could not pay his debts, other medical colleges refused to accept him. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [12], Brinkley set up a storefront business in Greenville, South Carolina, with a man named James E. Crawford (using the alias J. W. 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. In 1965, a consumer-research company found that the twosome was recognized by more adult Americans than John Wayne or the Beatles. In 1934, Mexico revoked Brinkley's broadcast license, the result of pressure from the United States. 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