David McClure Brinkley was born July 10, 1920, in Wilmington, N.C., the son of William Graham Brinkley, a railroad man, and Mary MacDonald West Brinkley. Goat glands, Brinkley soon began to claim, werent just an impotence cure. Brinkley divorced his first wife, Ann, in the 1960s. After this look at quack doctor John Brinkley, check out Dr. Henry Cotton, whose patented technique killed 30 percent of his patients. Regardless, he didnt last long at the Medical University and dropped out. His first marriage, to Ann Fischer, ended in divorce. [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. 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. 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. [16][39], Brinkley reacted to losing his medical and broadcast licenses by launching a bid to become the Governor of Kansas, a political position that would enable him to appoint his own members to the medical board and thus regain his right to practice medicine in the state. 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. 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. Biography - A Short Wiki He was a TV newscaster for 50 years and the partner of Chet Huntley. Brinkley also marketed like no one ever had. 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. Benito Mussolini himself revoked the degree, though Brinkley claimed it until he died. While he was still a student at New Hanover High School in Wilmington, he worked for a weekly newspaper, owned by a relative, providing a column about high school activities. [7] Sally often delighted in tormenting the young Brinkley. But in 1932, Congress passed a law outlawing this practice, known as the Brinkley Act. Brinkley will be buried Monday in a private graveside service in Wilmington, N.C. Aware of the baby's arrival after 14 years of marriage, some observers wondered if Brinkley had taken his own goat gland treatment. 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. [8] Brinkley's next move was to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he played right-hand man, helping hawk virility "tonics" with a man named Dr. More of Montgomery County was put into the district, while another part of Montgomery County was removed and added to northern Frederick County to reform the 8th District. That generation included John Chancellor, who died in 1996, and Walter Cronkite. In 2012, Brinkley was featured in episode 1 of season 3 of the Travel Channel series Mysteries at the Museum. He was named an "admiral" in the Kansas Navy and sponsored a hometown baseball team called the Brinkley Goats.[16]. The agent found a woman hobbling around Brinkley's clinic who had been given goat ovaries as a cure for a spinal cord tumor. 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. In the Republican primary election in 2012, Brinkley won nearly 20% of the vote, falling short of Bartlett's 43.6%. 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. [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. Not everybody bought into the goat-gland bonanza. Carl Mydans/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesA view of Dr. John Brinkleys estate, 1939. Dr. John Brinkley and his wife during better days, 1921. The operating room at Dr. John Brinkleys hospital in Milford, Kan., 1921. view all [62] The jury verdict unleashed a barrage of lawsuits against Brinkley, by some estimates well over $3 million in total value. He would go on the radio and fill the airwaves with vicious diatribes in which he called the AMA a meat-cutters union who just couldnt compete with his miracle cure. 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. Indeed, the journey of Dr. John Brinkley was certainly a colorful one. Wikimedia CommonsDr. ', After all, Brinkley posited, the root of almost every problem started in the glands. Meanwhile, the Brinkleys accrued some debt. Dr. John Brinkley, photographed shortly after losing his medical license, Milford, Kan., July 3, 1930. 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.[1]. 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. [28], While in Los Angeles, Brinkley toured KHJ, a radio station Chandler owned. There, Sally Brinkley confronted the couple, informing Minnie Brinkley that her husband was a bigamist. 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. [12], After redistricting, 85-year-old Republican incumbent U.S. 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). Daughter of John H and Mary Jane (Gaines) Brinkley, with husband. [12], In 1912, Brinkley left his family to try to regain the thread of his education, this time in St. Louis, Missouri. [9][10] 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. He then moved to Washington, where NBC, impressed by his ability to write for the ear, hired him as a news writer. 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. David Brinkley was born in Frederick, Maryland, the only son of Dr. George Ross Brinkley and Jean Brinkley. He declared bankruptcy in 1941, the same year implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement provided an avenue for the United States to get Mexico to shut down XERA. Brinkley was sued for more than $3 million, all in all, and became completely bankrupt. 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. Son of Coy and Icelee (Knox) Dill, with wife's uncle. Brinkley finished his studies at 16 and began to work carrying mail between local towns, and to learn how to use a telegraph. Just whatever came in. 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 between Brinkley's own advertisements, his new station featured a variety of entertainment including military bands, French lessons, astrological forecasts, storytelling and exotica such as native Hawaiian songs, and American roots music including old-time string band, gospel and early country. She died on December 25, 1906. He wrote: 90 percent insanity cases and 75 percent of divorce cases are due to diseased glands.. The network had just picked Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw as the anchors for ''Nightly News'' and Mr. Brinkley felt he had no role. Then he started broadcasting his radio into Mexico, where he couldnt be censored. By the time of his death in 2003, he'd accumulated a career in news and television spanning more than fifty years. The model and fashion designer said she shares her win with H-Town. Though Brinkley's American radio license had been revoked, XER's signal was so strong that it could still be heard in Kansas. [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). Later it included George Will, Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson. The patient then begged Brinkley to try the operation, which Brinkley did, for $150. The new father enrolled at Bennett Medical College, an unaccredited school with questionable curricula focused on eclectic medicine. 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. Carl Mydans/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images. On February 11, 1913, his daughter Naomi Beryl Brinkley was born. Both the legitimacy of his research and his medical degree were in constant question throughout his practice and for good reason. [37], The Kansas City Star, which owned a radio station that competed with Brinkley's, ran an unfavorable series of reports on him. 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He retired as Master Sergeant. Valdese, North Carolina - John Dallas "Dack" Brinkley Jr., of Valdese, passed away at his home on Saturday, February 19, 2022. It started as small-town fame but Brinkley became a national sensation in 1922 when, Harry Chandler, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, invited him to perform the operation on one of his editors which Chandler believed to be a total success. 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. In the 1960's, he had also been the host of ''David Brinkley's Journal.'' 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.''. The Huntley-Brinkley style changed broadcast journalism. Border Radio: Quacks, yodelers, pitchmen, psychics, and other amazing broadcasters of the American airwaves, Texas Monthly Press, Austin. He also covered a series of stories about the Ku Klux Klan and its leader David Duke. However, both are honorable people in their respective fields. David Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC, where his children were Alan Brinkley, John Brinkley, Alexis Brinkley, and Joel Brinkley. . The ruling paved the way for a barrage of lawsuits. 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. [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]. "The radio diary of Mary Dyck, 19361955: The listening habits of a Kansas farm woman. [38] The medical board revoked his license, stating that Brinkley "has performed an organized charlatanism quite beyond the invention of the humble mountebank". He filled newspapers with ads of himself holding little baby Billy, the worlds first goat-gland child. [12], Brinkley set up a storefront business in Greenville, South Carolina, with a man named James E. Crawford (using the alias J. W. Brinkley married Susan Melanie Benfer the same year. He lived in the mountains until he went in the Navy where he served on the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany during the Korean War. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. "Until Huntley-Brinkley, everybody delivered the news as if they were delivering the nation's obituary," said Roberts. Therefore, he's a bore, and will always be a bore.''. He attended The Darlington School in Rome Georgia and graduated from Staunton Military Academy in Staunton Virginia. Its just too bad John Brinkleys career involved more finagling than it did medical training. A view of Dr. John Brinkleys estate, 1939. Within weeks, construction resumed and soon two 300-foot (91m) towers reached into the sky. Mr. Brinkley liked to say that he made all his learning errors at a good time, because at that point, there were only a few hundred people with television sets in Washington. Along the way, though, he won 10 Emmys, 3 George Foster Peabody awards and, in 1992, the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H. W. Bush. He is the grandson of Kirk Douglas. Mr. Brinkley was married twice. In the 2003 . 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. 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. Littrell was defeated by Timothy R. In Memphis, Brinkley met 21-year-old Minerva Telitha "Minnie" Jones, a friend of Crawford's and the daughter of a local physician. 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". Early years. When Del Rio's city elders refused to put the competitor out of business, Brinkley closed up shop and reopened in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, with another hospital at what is now Marylake Monastery. No specialty, no emphasis on this or that or anything else. "Medical Charlatanism: The Goat Gland Wizard of Milford, Kansas." [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. [12], At school, Brinkley was introduced to the study of glandular extracts and their effects on the human system. At the same time, other doctors were also experimenting with gland transplantation, including Serge Voronoff, who had become known for grafting monkey testicles into men. [11] Brinkley returned to the position of minority leader in 2013 following a five-year hiatus. 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 graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1981. Esther Candis (Brinkley) Radford. Brinkley's rise to fame and fortune was as quick as his eventual fall was precipitous. Keystone-France/Gamma-RaphoDr. As part of the Huntley-Brinkley team, Mr. Brinkley held forth from Washington, while Huntley, a saturninely handsome correspondent who was given to punditry, reported from New York. John Romulus Brinkley (later John Richard Brinkley; July 8, 1885 - May 26, 1942) was an American quack. 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. 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.''. He joined ABC in 1981, and ABC News gained respect as he became host of Issues and Answers, retitled This Week. John (JD) Brinkley 88 (Dec 20, 1927 - April 26, 2016) died on Tuesday after an extended illness. [32], The advertising boost his radio station gave him was enormous, and Milford benefited as well; Brinkley paid for a new sewage system and sidewalks, installed electricity, built a bandstand and apartments for his patients and employees, as well as a new post office to handle all of his mail. [3] Brinkley senior's first marriage was annulled because he was underage. He has appeared in at least 4 movies. Here is all you want to know, and more! Of course, John Brinkley had his nay-sayers. [13] The two opened their shop as the "Greenville Electro Medic Doctors", and placed advertisements to attract men who were concerned about their manly vigor. Brinkleys stories were incredible. [8] They traveled around posing as Quaker doctors, giving rural towns a medicine show where they hawked a patent medicine. [3] Contents 1 Early life 2 Education 3 Life and career After covering presidential elections since the 1956 Eisenhower-Stevenson race, the 1996 election was Mr. Brinkley's last as a broadcaster. Brinkley lost his medical license and, six months later, he lost his radio station, too. In his 1995 memoir Mr. Brinkley told how he came to deliver the news in his distinctive melodic fashion. He defeated Republican incumbent Timothy R. Ferguson in the primary election. Determined to become a doctor, John Brinkley began to practice as a mens specialist in Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tenn. Around this time he left his wife and remarried. [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. His competition from Del Rio opened a new cancer center in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, about 150 miles (240km) northwest of Little Rock.[59]. Brinkley's career began when he worked at the Associated Press in Charlotte, North Carolina. 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. He was a celebrated radio broadcaster and healer, he owned a large estate, a yacht, and had a go for Kansas governor. He had no properly accredited education as a physician and bought his medical degree from a "diploma mill". He was born in 1978, son of both Michael Douglas and Dianra Douglas (maiden name Luker). His role was relegated to commentator during the last half of the decade. [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. Brinkley enlisted a pilot with his own plane (Brinkley dubbed it The Romancer)[16] to deliver him in grand style at his campaign rallies. He entered the life insurance business with Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company, and earned his professional designations Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) & Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) from The American College of Financial Services in Bryn Mawr, PA in October, 1984. 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. "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. But the debt crippled Brinkley and he was forced to drop out of school shy of his degree. *Fowler, Gene and Crawford, Bill. Brinkley began to turn a modest profit, and was finally able to pay Bennett Medical University the amount owed for tuition. Brinkley called it the "Sunshine Station Between the Nations". 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]. In 1870, at the age of 42, he married Sarah T. Mingus. The interview and video was capture by long-time Brinkley antagonist, Dr. Morris Fishbein. One of his most popular shows was the Medical Question Box, where he would read listeners medical complaints and explain to them how they could be treated by either goat gland or one of the licensed products sold at Brinkleys pharmacies. [63], His grave was defaced in early 2017. In later years Mr. Brinkley said he thought the sign-off was ''silly and inappropriate.''. Read on to learn Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul touring new mezcal around Houston, Watch: Houston drivers destroy their cars on popular bar's ramp, Houston facing storms, return to typical winter weather this week, Activists call for Houston taqueria shooter to be charged, Alperen Sengun breaks records held by Hakeem Olajuwon, Shaq. By 1932, 11 such stations had opened, including XENT, XERB, XELO, XEG and XEPN. Brinkley had not waited the required six months from divorce to subsequent remarriage. He was later bailed out by his new father-in-law and moved to Judsonia, Ark. John Brinkley, photographed shortly after losing his medical license, Milford, Kan., July 3, 1930. Allen was a beloved member of the community who made a lasting impact on those who crossed his. Male listeners were offered an array of expensive concoctions which included Mercurochrome injections and pills, all designed to help them regain their sexual prowess. [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. [8] Afterward, he was comforted by Sally Wike, age 22 and one year older than Brinkley. Broadcast journalist. in the summer of 1914, where he opened a practice as a specialist in diseases of women and children. 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 home in Houston. Jeff Greenfield, the CNN news analyst, said, ''David Brinkley created a whole generation of political junkies.''. 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. . BRINKLEY, John L., 75, of Richmond, formerly of Hampden-Sydney, Va., passed away September 14, 2012. 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