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Beyond the Latino World War II Hero: The Social and Political Legacy of a Generation, Ch. 2 "Embracing the Ether," Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez, University of Texas Press, 2009.

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' . . . "Dr." Brinkley was best known as the "goat gland surgeon," for his trademark surgical procedure to replace a man's prostate gland with a goat prostate; thus, Brinkley claimed, the patient would be imbued with renewed vigor. In 1930 the Federal Radio Commission revoked his KFKB broadcasting license in Kansas, accusing him of defrauding the public with false promises of medical cures. After losing a court appeal, Brinkley moved his operation to Villa Acuña (now Ciudad Acuña) in 1931 and was given a license to broadcast, first at 75,000 and later at 500,000 watts. His station, XER, operated until 1934 and resurfaced the following year as XERA, which lasted until 1941. . . '
Kooksville populist (and/or medical flim-flam) is not guaranteed to have any particular political effect. But maybe if this guy fights the medical establishment, he might also fight big corporations in general. And might have some effect in the 1946 generally anti-union mid-terms as well as overall rightward drift of U.S. politics?

There were other of these "Border Blasters."

PS Ciudad Acuña is across the border from Del Rio, Texas.
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