Border Radio Collection 1917-[2010]

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Border Radio Collection 1917-[2010]

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The Border Radio Collection,1917-[2010], contains papers, audio, video, and photographs documenting the historyof super-power radio broadcasting along the U.S.-Mexico border. The collectionincludes research materials on Dr. John R. Brinkley and Norman Baker.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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XERA (Radio station (Villa Acuna, Mexico)

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Wolfman Jack, 1939-1995

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XER (Radio station : Ciudad Acuña, Mexico)

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XERF (Radio station : Ciudad Acuña, Mexico)

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Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942

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Physician; radio pioneer; Kansas, Texas gubernatorial candidate. Of Milford, Kan.; Del Rio, Tex. From the description of John R. Brinkley papers, 1925-1976. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 297116121 John Romulus Brinkley (later John Richard Brinkley) was born July 8, 1885 in Jackson County, North Carolina. He attended Chicago's Bennett Medical College, and the Eclectic Medical University at Kansas City, Kansas. After passing the Arkansas E...

Gonzalez, Arturo C.

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Roth, Durell M.

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In the early 1930s, many AM radio stations began broadcasting from Mexico into the United States. These "border-blasters", as they were called, spanned the entire U.S.-Mexico border and used super-power transmitters that were heard across North America and other countries. The first known border-blaster, XED, the Voice of the Two Republics in Reynosa, began broadcasting in 1930. The next year radio station XER, owned by Dr. John R. Brinkley, began regular broadcasting fr...

Baker, Norman, 1882-1958

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