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Thanks mike.  Have it downloaded, unzipped and on the Victor Stream's SD card.
Pat, K9JAUAt 09:11 PM 2/6/2015, you wrote:
>Below is a book review that I wrote for my local ACB chapter
>newsletter. While there are probably more defenative works out there
>that are exclusively about XERF, and the other border blaster stations,
>this one, which is about its founder, has a good bit of information.
>Plus, even without the radio element, the story of what this crazy dude
>really did and got away with for years is pretty amazing in and of itself.
>
>The Wolf Man Jack autobiography, which is also available from the NLS
>download site, is another good read about XERF in particular.
>
>You can also google "border blaster radio", for more information.
>
>XERF, XEG, and XELO, which was on 800, pounded into Mississippi from
>dusk until well after dawn year round.
>
>
>
>BOOK REVIEW
>Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster,
>the Man Who Pursued Him,
>and the Age of Flimflam
>by Pope Brock,
>Reviewed by Mike Duke
>
>Category: Medicine and Health
>Read by Jim Zeiger
>Reading time 11 hours 47 minutes.
>db67282
>
>What do country music pioneers such as the Carter Family, Jimmy Rogers,
>Patsy Montana, Gene Autrey, Woody Guthrie, and legendary DJ Wolf Man
>Jack have in common?
>
>They all owed a major part of their success to a powerful "Border
>Blaster" radio station which was established in Del Rio, Texas, by John
>Romulus Brinkley.
>
>Brinkley also invented the "infomercial," the media saturation
>political campaign, and the predecessor to the call in show, the write
>in show. His radio program, "Medical Question mailbox," brought over 5
>thousand dollars per week in contributions to his radio station at the
>peak of the great depression.
>
>But, radio broadcasting was not the primary occupation of J. R.
>Brinkley. As the title suggests, he was a Charlatan; a "quack" medical
>doctor, who scammed thousands of people, and caused the death of
>hundreds  by claiming to cure impotence with goat-testicle transplants.
>Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical
>Association, spent nearly 20 years trying to prosecute and discredit him.
>
>Pope Brock weaves the tale of the quack doctor, the pioneer
>broadcaster, and the man who was determined to silence him, into an
>amazing story which will remind readers that truth, indeed, is stranger
>than fiction, and in this case, much more scary.
>
>2008.

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