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 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. Then he started broadcasting his radio into Mexico, where he couldnt be censored. [12], In 1912, Brinkley left his family to try to regain the thread of his education, this time in St. Louis, Missouri. John Brinkley and Billy, the first baby born after the goat gland graft, Feb. 20, 1920. . 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.''. [12] Instead, Brinkley bought a certificate from a shady diploma mill known as the Kansas City Eclectic Medical University and returned home. There, Brinkley met Sally Margaret Wike, the daughter of a well-off school board member. Del Rio became known as "Hillbilly Hollywood". [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. The agent found a woman hobbling around Brinkley's clinic who had been given goat ovaries as a cure for a spinal cord tumor. [citation needed] He was later buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. 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. 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. He worked as a telegraph operator and delivered mail while tirelessly studying the bible and home remedies in his spare time. He was 82. 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. 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. 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]. He married Maggie Brown on 13 December 1893, in Wilson, North Carolina, United States. Fishbein and Brinkley's former teacher, Max Thorek, heard about the degree and pressured the Italian government to rescind it. Their hold on America would evaporate as viewers perceived more hustle at CBS News. The Reply All podcast episode #86, "Man of the People", is about Brinkley's life. There, Sally Brinkley confronted the couple, informing Minnie Brinkley that her husband was a bigamist. 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). Marten. [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. He was born October 25, 1928 in Morganton, the son of the late John . He attended The Darlington School in Rome Georgia and graduated from Staunton Military Academy in Staunton Virginia. 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. (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]. David McClure Brinkley was born on July 10, 1920, in Wilmington, N.C. Congressman Roscoe Bartlett was placed into a district that Obama won. [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. [34], Brinkley began claiming his goat glands could also help male prostate problems, and expanded his business again. So Brinkley did just that. He soon joined ABC News, where Roone Arledge was planning a Sunday morning program. 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. [7] Sally often delighted in tormenting the young Brinkley. He never took himself that seriously.". Brinkley had a miracle cure; and nobody in the world, he claimed, could pull it off but him. He was named an "admiral" in the Kansas Navy and sponsored a hometown baseball team called the Brinkley Goats.[16]. 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. 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 married Susan Melanie Benfer the same year. 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. He was the illegitimate son of John Brinkley and Sally Burnett. The, Clark, Carroll D., and Noel P. Gist. "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. "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. 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. Newly elected governor Larry Hogan appointed Brinkley to the position of Secretary of Budget and Management in January 2015. In short, Brinkley was a master of the publicity stunt; when a prominent newspaper reporter ran an article critical of his qualifications to run a state, Brinkley sent him a goat. 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. He was born Oct. 25, 1928, in Morganton, the son of the late John Dallas Brinkley Sr. and Ruth . "I thought they were all colossal bores, ABC's worst of all," he said. Brinkley would be sued more than a dozen times for wrongful death between 1930 and 1941. 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. [8] They traveled around posing as Quaker doctors, giving rural towns a medicine show where they hawked a patent medicine. [17] Four days later, Minnie and Brinkley were married again, this time in Liberty, Missouri. [27], Brinkley's activities inspired the film industry term 'goat gland'the grafting of talkie sequences onto silent films to make them marketable. Dr. John Brinkley and Billy, the first baby born after the goat gland graft, Feb. 20, 1920. David had substance, but he was someone you liked. 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. He variously cajoled, shamed and appealed to men's (and women's) egos, and to their desire to be more sexually active. Both ''Magazine'' and ''Journal'' were critically acclaimed, although neither attracted as large a share of the television audience as critics thought they deserved. A view of Dr. John Brinkleys estate, 1939. Brinkley divorced his first wife, Ann, in the 1960s. Also around this time, the Internal Revenue Service began investigating him for tax fraud. He ran a 16-room clinic where he helped nurse the victims of a flu pandemic back to health, and his community respected and appreciated his efforts. In 2010, he was selected as Minority Whip alongside Senator Allan H. Kittleman who was selected as Minority Leader. ''The Huntley-Brinkley Report'' ended with Mr. Huntley's retirement in 1970, but Mr. Brinkley remained at NBC for 11 years after Mr. Huntley's departure. Brinkley sued Fishbein for libel and $250,000 in damages ($4,810,000 in current value). Hough crushed Brinkley in the primary election, 68%-32%.[20]. [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. 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. The surgery involved simply sewing a young goats testicle onto a patients scrotum. [6] Young Brinkley attended a one-room log cabin school in the Tuckasegee area, held each year during three or four months of winter. Word spread, and soon, Brinkleys clinic was filled with men willing to pay $750 to have a goats testicles implanted onto their scrotum. In October 1914, the Brinkleys moved to Kansas City where he enrolled at that city's Eclectic Medical University to finish out his last year remaining of the education he started at Bennett. His diploma from Eclectic allowed him to practice medicine in eight states. [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 later called his departure ''a rending, wrenching experience'' that brought tears to his eyes. Former President Bill Clinton has said the Huntley-Brinkley coverage of the conventions fueled his early interest in politics. Later, the 24-year-old niece of Mingus moved into the house: Sarah Candice Burnett. [12] The family of five immediately moved to New York City, and shortly thereafter to Chicago. 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. John Brinkley, photographed shortly after losing his medical license, Milford, Kan., July 3, 1930. 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. Following one of his crude operations, the body of a patient would typically absorb the goat tissue as foreign matter. 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. 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. "Dr. John R. Brinkley: A Case Study In Collective Behavior.". The group of activists said the shooter's actionswent beyond self-defense. [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. [6] The family had little money during this time. Keystone-France/Gamma-RaphoDr. Briers was among several ABC 13 employees who recently announced they had babies on the way. ", "He was a big jazz fan," said Shara Fryer, who grabbed his last television interview in 1999, for a KTRK show about the millennium. Together with Walter . Carl Mydans/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images. [52], Brinkley continued his old radio format of medical advice keyed to advertising products. [50] In 1932, the Mexican government allowed Brinkley to increase his wattage to 150,000 watts. Aware of the baby's arrival after 14 years of marriage, some observers wondered if Brinkley had taken his own goat gland treatment. [8] Afterward, he was comforted by Sally Wike, age 22 and one year older than Brinkley. From the start, the American Medical Association knew the operation was a farce and they did everything in their power to shut John Brinkley down. [12], At school, Brinkley was introduced to the study of glandular extracts and their effects on the human system. Thus they don't have any family connection besides their surname. The patient then begged Brinkley to try the operation, which Brinkley did, for $150. He publicized operations on senators and stars alike, and in 1923, he even set up his own radio station. [19], As recounted in the biography that Brinkley had commissioned, he struck upon the idea of transplanting goat testicles into men when a patient came to him to ask if he could fix someone who was "sexually weak". 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. Roosevelt Wilson Dill and Grover Humphres. Brinkley immediately resigned his position as Minority Whip upon losing the election to the more conservative Jacobs. In 1917, Brinkley premiered a most audacious aphrodisiac scamtransplanting goat testicles into the scrota of men chasing the vigor of youth. He appealed to the immigrant vote by putting German and Swedish-speaking people on the air at KFKB. 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. The new father enrolled at Bennett Medical College, an unaccredited school with questionable curricula focused on eclectic medicine. 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. For a couple of years in Milford, Brinkley made an honest living. By 1964, the programs's coverage of the Democratic convention drew a remarkable 84 percent share of the viewers. Daughter of John H and Mary Jane (Gaines) Brinkley, with husband. [38] The medical board revoked his license, stating that Brinkley "has performed an organized charlatanism quite beyond the invention of the humble mountebank". He came to think that Congress had dangerously isolated itself from the rest of the country. Son of David Brinkley and Flora Ann Brinkley Husband of Private Father of Private and Private Brother of Alan Brinkley; Joel Brinkley; Private and Private . [49] XER, at 840kilohertz on the AM dial, radiated by a sky wave antenna, made its first broadcast in October 1931. Within weeks, construction resumed and soon two 300-foot (91m) towers reached into the sky. Ferguson. His first marriage, to Ann Fischer, ended in divorce. He was born the illegitimate son of his father and his mothers niece on July 8, 1885, in Beta, N.C. Brinkleys father was a country physician who died in 1896 which led Brinkley to become the familys breadwinner. The elder Brinkley was a true "mountain doctor," having "read" medicine, but with no formal training. Brinkley was born and raised in Frederick County, where he attended Linganore High School. [3] Contents 1 Early life 2 Education 3 Life and career Meanwhile, the Brinkleys accrued some debt. [62] The jury verdict unleashed a barrage of lawsuits against Brinkley, by some estimates well over $3 million in total value. [24] His public profile grew, and his gland business in Milford continued at a brisk pace. He had a rare brush with controversy in 1996 when, on election night, he called President Clinton "a bore." 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, the judgment read, should be considered a charlatan and quack in the ordinary, well-understood meaning of those words.. He filled newspapers with ads of himself holding little baby Billy, the worlds first goat-gland child. 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. He was educated by . Therefore, he's a bore, and will always be a bore.''. He defeated Republican incumbent Timothy R. Ferguson in the primary election. This approach did not work, and he lost yet another political campaign; he would lose again in 1934. Its just too bad John Brinkleys career involved more finagling than it did medical training. 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. 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New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.. With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in . 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.. 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]. 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. 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. Regardless, he didnt last long at the Medical University and dropped out. View John Brinkley's genealogy family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. 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. 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. 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). 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. After covering presidential elections since the 1956 Eisenhower-Stevenson race, the 1996 election was Mr. Brinkley's last as a broadcaster. [8] When Kittleman resigned in 2011, Brinkley again ran for Minority Leader, but was rejected in favor of the conservative Senator Nancy Jacobs. On April 22, 1922, the headlines of the Los Angeles Times read in bold letters: NEW LIFE IN GLANDS DR. BRINKLEYS PATIENTS HERE SHOW IMPROVEMENTS MANY VICTIMS OF INCURABLE DISEASES ARE CURED TWELVE HUNDRED OPERATIONS ARE ALL SUCCESSFUL.. [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". [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". 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. 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. "Medical Charlatanism: The Goat Gland Wizard of Milford, 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). [9][10] Brinkley began to turn a modest profit, and was finally able to pay Bennett Medical University the amount owed for tuition. 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. [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. [16] Soldiers from the Mexican army arrived at the station's doorstep to shut him down, and for a time he had to broadcast from nearby XEPN, located in Piedras Negras, Coahuila. 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. [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". Lichty, Lawrence Wilson and Topping, Malachi C. RineyKehrberg, Pamela. Son of Coy and Icelee (Knox) Dill, with wife's uncle. Brinkley, John Romulus (1885-1942). In his 1995 memoir Mr. Brinkley told how he came to deliver the news in his distinctive melodic fashion. In later years Mr. Brinkley said he thought the sign-off was ''silly and inappropriate.''. After being rebuffed by several institutes in the United Kingdom, Brinkley found a willing suitor in the university in Pavia, Italy. Brinkley had not waited the required six months from divorce to subsequent remarriage. from the personal collection of Tammy Peacy. The model and fashion designer said she shares her win with H-Town. Wikimedia CommonsDr. Brinkley faced another Republican challenge from Delegate Michael Hough, who aligned himself with the more conservative Tea Party faction[18] Hough accused Brinkley of being a "tax-and-spend liberal"[19] and of cooperating too much with the Democratic majority and then-Governor Martin O'Malley. David Brinkley married the former Flora Ann Fischer in 1946 and had three sons; they divorced in 1972. In 1970, Huntley retired, and Brinkley co-anchored, with John Chancellor, NBC Nightly News. The interview and video was capture by long-time Brinkley antagonist, Dr. Morris Fishbein. In reality, the medicine was likely colored water. view all 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.''. ''In my own work I have, for better or worse, always dealt or tried to deal with everything that falls under the heading of news,'' Mr. Brinkley wrote in his 1996 book, ''Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion.'' In 1908, the Brinkleys buried an infant son who had lived only three days. The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley by R.A. Lee, 2002. He joined ABC in 1981, and ABC News gained respect as he became host of Issues and Answers, retitled This Week. Later, the early-evening Huntley-Brinkley report became a television staple at a half-hour. Later in the decade, Brinkley became a Nazi sympathizer.[48]. In 1975, Brinkley moved to The Richmond News Leader in Virginia where he covered local and regional government. He then procured work as an Electro Medic Doctor in Greenville, S.C where he would inject patients with electric medicine from Germany, that alleged it could strengthen masculine virility. 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