He then moved to Washington, where NBC, impressed by his ability to write for the ear, hired him as a news writer. Under heavy pressure from the State Department, the Mexican government halted construction on XER, but it was only temporary. Brinkley sued Fishbein for libel and $250,000 in damages ($4,810,000 in current value). Not everybody bought into the goat-gland bonanza. Littrell was defeated by Timothy R. "They came on talking like normal people.". 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. [62] The jury verdict unleashed a barrage of lawsuits against Brinkley, by some estimates well over $3 million in total value. He had no properly accredited education as a physician and bought his medical degree from a "diploma mill". [3] Brinkley senior's first marriage was annulled because he was underage. Brinkley also continued packing his radio lineup with up-and-coming country and roots singers whose careers his radio station helped launch (including Patsy Montana, Red Foley, Gene Autry, Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family, the Pickard Family, and others). Thus they don't have any family connection besides their surname. He summed up his career as the subtitle of his 1995 memoir, ''David Brinkley'': ''11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, 1 Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations, 2,000 Weeks of News and Other Stuff on Television and 18 Years of Growing Up in North Carolina.''. John Brinkley, photographed shortly after losing his medical license, Milford, Kan., July 3, 1930. He retired as Master Sergeant. Brinkley returned to Kansas undaunted and began to expand his clinic in Milford. 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. Just whatever came in. Both ''Magazine'' and ''Journal'' were critically acclaimed, although neither attracted as large a share of the television audience as critics thought they deserved. Minnie and John Brinkley honeymooned in Kansas City, Denver, Pocatello and Knoxville. 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. John Richard Brinkley died when his son was ten years old. Brinkley began to turn a modest profit, and was finally able to pay Bennett Medical University the amount owed for tuition. from the personal collection of David Brinkley. He was born in 1978, son of both Michael Douglas and Dianra Douglas (maiden name Luker). His diploma from Eclectic allowed him to practice medicine in eight states. '', https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/us/david-brinkley-82-newsman-model-dies.html. 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. Wikimedia CommonsThe operating room at Dr. John Brinkleys hospital in Milford, Kan., 1921. He was a great storyteller of the news. Later it included George Will, Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson. These treatments were only available at a network of pharmacies that were members of the "Brinkley Pharmaceutical Association". A sign advertising where Dr. John R. Brinkleys prescriptions can be filled, 1939. Within weeks, construction resumed and soon two 300-foot (91m) towers reached into the sky. In the months leading up to his retirement, he observed that he had covered 22 national political conventions, which he had come to regard as ''cruel and unusual punishment.''. He was the illegitimate son of John Brinkley and Sally Burnett. Several months later, Brinkley was allowed to increase to one million watts, "making XER far and away the most powerful radio station on the planet" that, on a clear night, could be heard as far away as Canada. [60] The trial began on March 22, 1939, before Texas judge R. J. There, Brinkley met Sally Margaret Wike, the daughter of a well-off school board member. [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. Word spread, and soon, Brinkleys clinic was filled with men willing to pay $750 to have a goats testicles implanted onto their scrotum. On his deathbed with all the consequences of his deceptions rearing their heads, Brinkley declared: If Dr. Fishbein goes to heaven, I want to go the other way., Most believe he did just that when he died on May 26, 1942, penniless and exiled to San Antonio, Tex. 1987. ''Most of the news isn't very important. 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.''. [3][4], Although he was stripped of his license to practice medicine in Kansas and several other states, Brinkley, a demagogue beloved by hundreds of thousands of people in Kansas and elsewhere, nevertheless launched two campaigns for Kansas governor, one of which was nearly successful. "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. Brinkley was born and raised in Frederick County, where he attended Linganore High School. [6] Young Brinkley attended a one-room log cabin school in the Tuckasegee area, held each year during three or four months of winter. Unfazed, Brinkley began using some of the first "electrical transcriptions"what today would be called pre-recordingsto circumvent the law. This is where the prime similarities occur between him and Douglas Brinkley. [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. 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. [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. Transplant em, graft em on, the way Id graft a Pound Sweet on an apple stray.. [3] After he reached adulthood, he married four more times, and outlived each of his young wives. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007. ABC's ''This Week With David Brinkley'' at first featured Benjamin C. Bradlee, then editor of The Washington Post, and Karen Elliot House, a diplomatic reporter for The Wall Street Journal. It was here that Brinkley learned that popular opinion held that the healthiest animal slaughtered at the plant was the goat, something that would prove pivotal to his later medical career. John (JD) Brinkley 88 (Dec 20, 1927 - April 26, 2016) died on Tuesday after an extended illness. [13] Brinkley and Minerva had a son, John, who would commit suicide in the 1970s. [21], Soon after Brinkley opened up shop, he scored an advertising coup that made major newspapers come calling: the wife of his first goat gland transplantation patient gave birth to a baby boy. He reinvented the Sunday talk show. They had three sons, who survive him: Joel, of Chevy Chase, Md., a Washington correspondent for The New York Times; Alan, of New York, the incoming provost of Columbia University who is also the Allan Nevins professor of history there; and John, of Silver Spring, Md., a director of the United States Institute for Peace in Washington. 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 was orphaned at an early age and was raised by an aunt. 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. Both state no previous marriages. 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. . He had no properly accredited education as a physician and bought his medical degree from a "diploma mill". ", Shelby, Maurice E. "John R. Brinkley and the Kansas City Star. In the '70s, his writing talents and wry wit were on nightly display as a commentator for NBC News. The chemistry between the two, thanks largely to the controlled astringency of Mr. Brinkley's commentary, gave the broadcast a dominant place in the ratings, overtaking Mr. Cronkite's evening news program on CBS in two years. There, he began working as an "undergraduate physician",[12] but failed to establish himself. He was born August 9, 1937, the son of Charles Blane and Joyce Luster Brinkley of North Carolina. In 1945, NBC made him the moderator of a television news show called ''America United,'' which was shown in the Washington area. [8] Brinkley's next move was to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he played right-hand man, helping hawk virility "tonics" with a man named Dr. He had retired from ABC only months before. Their hold on America would evaporate as viewers perceived more hustle at CBS News. '', He described his commentaries as ''the sauce, the spice, the flavoring to be mixed in with the wars, the medical discoveries and the economic upheavals that fill the front pages.''. He was born September 28, 1937 in Bath County, Virginia a son of the late John Kenna Brinkley, Sr. and Hattie Elizabeth Deeds Brinkley. "David was the perfect combination of substance and style. [17], In 1917, Brinkley, now an Army Reservist, was called up for service during World War I. His colleague Roger Mudd once observed that Mr. Brinkley ''brought a level of political sophistication and literary craftsmanship and a lively sense of humor that television had never known before and that hasn't been equaled since.''. Biography - A Short Wiki He was a TV newscaster for 50 years and the partner of Chet Huntley. By 1932, 11 such stations had opened, including XENT, XERB, XELO, XEG and XEPN. Therefore, he's a bore, and will always be a bore.''. Fortunately, weve broken down the best fitness mirrors for a variety of needs. [14] His current district has Obama at just 40%, while the newly redrawn district has Obama at 56%.[15]. Eager for better credentials, in 1925 Brinkley traveled to Europe searching for honorary degrees. He was a renaissance man.". 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. 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). Toggenburg goats, the breed used by Dr. John R. Brinkley for his goat-gland transplantations, 1921. In Memphis, Brinkley met 21-year-old Minerva Telitha "Minnie" Jones, a friend of Crawford's and the daughter of a local physician. Marten. Both the legitimacy of his research and his medical degree were in constant question throughout his practice and for good reason. The local newspaper reported that the duo left about 30 to 40 local merchants with unpaid checks. Wikimedia CommonsDr. 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. His first marriage, to Ann Fischer, ended in divorce. Meanwhile, the Brinkleys accrued some debt. [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. [8] Afterward, he was comforted by Sally Wike, age 22 and one year older than Brinkley. [33] Fishbein's interest in putting Brinkley out of business grew and he wrote more articles featuring stories about people who had grown sick or died after seeing Brinkley. The two former partners met again in jail. Brinkley began promoting goat glands as a cure for 27 ailments, ranging from dementia to emphysema to flatulence. John graduated from Hampden-Sydney College summa cum laude, Valedictorian, in 1959. Because he could not pay his debts, other medical colleges refused to accept him. 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. Last Updated: June 10, 2019: View Complete Profile. 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. [65][66], Brinkley's life and career is the subject of several books written in the 20th and 21st centuries, including works by Clement Wood (1934 or 1936), Gerald Carson (1960), R. Alton Lee (2002), and Pope Brock (2008). For a couple of years in Milford, Brinkley made an honest living. He attended Gettysburg College and received a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1981. TV Show Host The tv show host David Brinkley died at the age of 82. He filled newspapers with ads of himself holding little baby Billy, the worlds first goat-gland child. But in 1930, the Kansas Medical Board held a hearing to see if Brinkleys license should be revoked, and they discovered something they couldnt ignore: Brinkley had signed 42 death certificates. 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. He started out, in 1941, as an $11-a-week newspaper reporter for the Morning Star in Wilmington, N.C. By 1956, as co-anchor of a 15-minute newscast on NBC, he had become as familiar in America as Lucille Ball. Cameron Douglas. Also around this time, the Internal Revenue Service began investigating him for tax fraud. [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". It would be discovered decades later that he applied for an illegitimate certification through a diploma mill years earlier which would enable him to be accepted at the University in Kansas. JOHN BRINKLEY OBITUARY John Allen Brinkley, 72, of Huntsville, passed away on January 2, 2022. The network had just picked Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw as the anchors for ''Nightly News'' and Mr. Brinkley felt he had no role. David Brinkley was born in Frederick, Maryland, the only son of Dr. George Ross Brinkley and Jean Brinkley. John Allen Brinkley, Jr. John graduated from a local high school, attended in-state universities and law schools. [41], His campaign was conducted as an independent write-in candidate, because he waited to declare his candidacy until September, after the ballots had already been printed. "The radio diary of Mary Dyck, 19361955: The listening habits of a Kansas farm woman. [8] They traveled around posing as Quaker doctors, giving rural towns a medicine show where they hawked a patent medicine. Brinkley and Crawford decided to settle out of court with Greenville's angry merchants for a sum of several thousand dollars, most of which Crawford paid. In the 1950s and '60s, as co-anchor with Chet Huntley of NBC's The Huntley-Brinkley Report, he helped invent the network television newscast. 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. Hale, Will Thomas and Merritt, Dixon Lanier. 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. Brinkley's rise to fame and fortune was as quick as his eventual fall was precipitous. In 2016, director Penny Lane made Nuts!, a documentary about Brinkley's life that uses animation to illustrate scenes from his life. He defeated Republican incumbent Timothy R. Ferguson in the primary election. [4], As a member of the House of Delegates, he was Deputy Minority Whip from 1997 to 1998. Brinkley was sued for more than $3 million, all in all, and became completely bankrupt. He was raised in New Market, Maryland and graduated from Linganore High School in 1977. At the clinic in the hotel where he lived he also performed prostate operations. [40] At his side was KFKB's biggest country-music star, Roy Faulkner, who took to the stage with guitar and hat in hand. I am perfectly aware of everything now and feel as if snatched from the grave. Together with Walter . 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. In 1908, the Brinkleys buried an infant son who had lived only three days. Brinkley finished his studies at 16 and began to work carrying mail between local towns, and to learn how to use a telegraph. ', After all, Brinkley posited, the root of almost every problem started in the glands. [28], While in Los Angeles, Brinkley toured KHJ, a radio station Chandler owned. John Brinkley managed to maintain his track to becoming a doctor, however, and after settling in Milford, Kan. in 1916, established what would become his medical breakthrough. Brinkley will be buried Monday in a private graveside service in Wilmington, N.C. Later, the early-evening Huntley-Brinkley report became a television staple at a half-hour. Dr. John Brinkley claimed to have found a cure for almost . Though Brinkley's American radio license had been revoked, XER's signal was so strong that it could still be heard in Kansas. [17] Four days later, Minnie and Brinkley were married again, this time in Liberty, Missouri. Winding up a long night, when ABC correspondents gathered around Peter Jennings, the anchor, Mr. Brinkley said of the newly re-elected Mr. Clinton: ''He has not a creative bone in his body. [12] Instead, Brinkley bought a certificate from a shady diploma mill known as the Kansas City Eclectic Medical University and returned home. [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". 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 used his new border blaster to resume his campaign for governor by using the telephone to call in his broadcasts to the transmitter. Carl Mydans/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images. 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. His gland business made more money than ever, and had begun attracting patients from around the globe. Del Rio became known as "Hillbilly Hollywood". Brinkley did not join the testicle with blood vessels and consequently, the gland did not actually interact with the patients bodies internally and had no real medical foundation. He appealed to the immigrant vote by putting German and Swedish-speaking people on the air at KFKB. [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. Brinkleys stories were incredible. Brinkley lost his medical license and, six months later, he lost his radio station, too. "Aunt Samantha, First Woman to Record Country Music" by Rose Hooper in The Sylva Herald, February 11, 2001. Brinkley's career began when he worked at the Associated Press in Charlotte, North Carolina. [56] His business, fueled by radio advertisements and speeches, continued to thrive, and he opened another clinic in San Juan, Texas, specializing in the colon. ", "He was a big jazz fan," said Shara Fryer, who grabbed his last television interview in 1999, for a KTRK show about the millennium. That generation included John Chancellor, who died in 1996, and Walter Cronkite. 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. [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. 11. He was born October 25, 1928 in Morganton, the son of the late John . [17] Bartlett went on to lose the general election to Democrat John Delaney. He wrote: 90 percent insanity cases and 75 percent of divorce cases are due to diseased glands.. The Reply All podcast episode #86, "Man of the People", is about Brinkley's life. Fishbein and Brinkley's former teacher, Max Thorek, heard about the degree and pressured the Italian government to rescind it. David Brinkley was an author and a television presenter ( Source : abcnews) Many believed Douglas to be the son of David, but he was born to his parents, Edward Brinkley and Anne Elizabeth Brinkley. They had three children, Alan, Joel and John. As an author, he delighted readers with what he had to say and how he said it, able to use humor, pathos or great thought with self-deprecating aplomb. ", This page was last edited on 10 January 2023, at 21:08. [31], Brinkley spoke for hours on end each day on the radio, primarily promoting his goat gland treatments. Brinkley had not waited the required six months from divorce to subsequent remarriage. The National Health and Public Safety History Museum presents a lost American Medical Association investigation interview with "Johnny Boy" Brinkley, the only son of notorious self-proclaimed doctor and radio personality, John R. Brinkley, Jr. Lichty, Lawrence Wilson and Topping, Malachi C. RineyKehrberg, Pamela. In his obituary The New York Times eulogized him as a quack with a gaudy career., Perhaps forebodingly and somewhat ironically, the obituary warned against the power of mass media, and how mighty a force is radio for evil as well as good.. "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. Moreover, he was responsible for some dozen cases of malpractice. [1] Early life, education, and pre-political career[ edit] David Brinkley was born in Frederick, Maryland, the only son of Dr. George Ross Brinkley and Jean Brinkley. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1981. He was also found guilty of mail fraud and due to complications concerning a blood clot, lost his leg. [50] In 1932, the Mexican government allowed Brinkley to increase his wattage to 150,000 watts. The Huntley-Brinkley style changed broadcast journalism. 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. They could cure almost anything. The Federal Radio Commission refused to renew his contract. Regardless, he didnt last long at the Medical University and dropped out. In 1917, Brinkley premiered a most audacious aphrodisiac scamtransplanting goat testicles into the scrota of men chasing the vigor of youth. 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). "He also loved architecture and woodworking. [16] The new father enrolled at Bennett Medical College, an unaccredited school with questionable curricula focused on eclectic medicine. [12], At school, Brinkley was introduced to the study of glandular extracts and their effects on the human system. Brinkley returned to the position of minority leader in 2013 following a five-year hiatus. [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". The next year, be became Washington correspondent for NBC's nightly 15-minute news program, ''Camel News Caravan,'' named after the cigarette company that sponsored it. 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. [6] Sarah T. "Aunt Sally" and John Brinkley moved with the young boy to East LaPorte within the same county, near the Tuckasegee River. But in 1932, Congress passed a law outlawing this practice, known as the Brinkley Act. [9][10] ''Just news. On February 11, 1913, his daughter Naomi Beryl Brinkley was born. Anyone can read what you share. [2], In 1994, Brinkley was elected to the House of Delegates, serving two terms representing District 4A. "Medical Charlatanism: The Goat Gland Wizard of Milford, Kansas." Jeff Greenfield, the CNN news analyst, said, ''David Brinkley created a whole generation of political junkies.''. view all After covering presidential elections since the 1956 Eisenhower-Stevenson race, the 1996 election was Mr. Brinkley's last as a broadcaster. From then on, Brinkley was on the AMA's radar, including catching the eye of the doctor who would eventually be responsible for his downfall, Morris Fishbein, who made his career exposing medical frauds.[22]. 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. But when a patient complained that he struggled with impotence, Brinkley hit on the idea that would make him a millionaire. Benfer had a daughter, Alexis, from a previous marriage. Phony Dr. John Brinkley Healed People With Goat Testicles And Made $12 Million Doing It, Mark Oliver is a writer, teacher, and father whose work has appeared on The Onion's StarWipe, Yahoo, and Cracked, and can be found on his, Deep-Sea Fisherman Pulls Up 'Smiling' Worm That Turns Its Face Inside Out [VIDEO], The True Story Behind Legendary Jazz Pianist Don Shirley And, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch. Carl Mydans/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesA view of Dr. John Brinkleys estate, 1939. Brinkley called it the "Sunshine Station Between the Nations". 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. 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. The winged angel atop the column marking his grave was cut off and stolen. [37], The Kansas City Star, which owned a radio station that competed with Brinkley's, ran an unfavorable series of reports on him. He has appeared in at least 4 movies. 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. When he was off the air, and after he retired, Brinkley pursued passions removed from his persona as worldly news anchor. 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