that Brinkley "should be considered a charlatan and a quack in the ordinary, well-understood meaning of those words". The jury verdict unleashed a barrage of lawsuits against Brinkley, by some estimates well over $3 million in total value. Also around this time, the Internal Revenue Service began investigating him for tax fraud. 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. 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. On May 26, 1942, Brinkley died penniless of heart failure in San Antonio; the mail fraud case had not yet come to trial. He was later buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. His grave was defaced in early 2017. The winged angel atop the column marking his grave was cut off and stolen. 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. Legacy 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). In 2012, Brinkley was featured in episode 1 of season 3 of the Travel Channel series Mysteries at the Museum. In 2016, director Penny Lane made Nuts!, a documentary about Brinkley's life that uses animation to illustrate scenes from his life. The Reply All podcast episode #86, "Man of the People", is about Brinkley's life. 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. In 2020, Untitled Theater Company No. 61 released a four-part audio drama podcast by Edward Einhorn and hosted by Dan Butler, entitled The Resistible Rise of J. R. Brinkley References Sources Branyan, Helen B. "Medical Charlatanism: The Goat Gland Wizard of Milford, Kansas." The Journal of Popular Culture 25#1 (1991): 31–37. online Bonner, Thomas Neville. The Kansas doctor: a century of pioneering, University of Kansas Press, 1959, p. 210. Brinkley, John R. Dr. Brinkley's Doctor Book, J.R. Brinkley, 1937. Brock, Pope. Charlatan: