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114 - In
Memory:
Wallace
Wilkinson, 60 Dies
b. May 23, 1928
- d. June 29,
2002
It
was Wilkinson Who Proclaimed the Year 1992
for Nathan B. Stubblefield,
The True Inventor of Modern-day Radio
Kentucky
Governor
-
1987 to 1991
Wallace
Wilkinson, whose warm,
radiant personality
placed him in the first rank role as Governor of
the Commonwealth of Kentucky -- by advancing his
sincere efforts and expertise in showing those in
around him, how to finance and update the Kentucky
educational system, during a time when it was
needed.
----
He was also the man behind
the efforts of those professors teaching at Murray
State University, and Joe Pat James of radio
station WNBS, that enabled Wilkinson to proclaim
Nathan B. Stubblefield, as the "true inventor of
radio".
-The
Governor's proclamation stated:
"NOW, THEREFORE, I,
WALLACE G. WILKINSON, Governor of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky, do hereby proclaim that Nathan B.
Stubblefield is the true inventor of radio and
should be so recognized internationally as such,
and that Murray in the Commonwealth of Kentucky be
recognized as the birthplace of radio, and that the
year 1992 be proclaimed as NATHAN BEVERLY
STUBBLEFIELD YEAR IN KENTUCKY IN RECOGNITION OF HIS
ACCOMPLISHMENT, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 100TH
ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ACHIEVEMENT. Signed 29th day of
April, 1991."
----The
former Kentucky Governor Wallace Wilkinson, a
self-made millionaire, a Democrat, was governor of
the Commonwealth, from 1987 to 1991. The Governor,
businessman had been battling a recurrence of
lymphatic cancer, first diagnosed during his term
of office. "He died at St. Joseph Hospital in
Lexington one day after suffering a stroke", said
his attorney, Robert Brown.
Wilkinson,
while governor,
was the leader of the
educational group who helped create the state's
lottery system to help raise the necessary funds to
overhaul the States public school system. After the
Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) and the
creation of a state lottery, he strongly supported
economic development in rural areas through the use
of bonds and incentives.
-----
His schoolbook business
empire collapsed in bankruptcy
in 2002. He created
his first bookstore as a teenager, that grew into a
national company. At its peak, Wallace's Book
stores operated 91 shops on 60 college and seminary
campuses.
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His administration helped
create the Kentucky Lottery, which he had pushed as
an alternative to higher taxes; and the 1990
Kentucky Education Reform Act, which created high
performance standards, held schools accountable for
their results and greatly increased school
funding.
The Govenor,
as most controversial
Kentuckians are treated -- was always
reminded
during the last 12 years, by
questions about whether or not, he and his backers
used his office to advance his business
empire.
After he became governor,
Wilkinson allegedly got a state-regulated company,
Kentucky Central Life Insurance, to pay an inflated
price to fund his money-losing hotel he owned in
Frankfort, Kentucky. Central Life Insurance went
bankrupt, and the state insurance commissioner,
sued Wilkinson.
-----
The former governor, paid
$11 million to settle the case in 1999. Last year's
group of creditors sued to have his companies
seized.
-----The
lawsuit touched off a highly public bankruptcy in
which Wilkinson admitted that his debts exceeded
assets by more than $300 million. His main
companies were liquidated, and many of his holdings
were auctioned.
Governor
Wilkinson stated in a 1992
personal interview with
Troy Cory - Stubblefield and Chris Harris, in
Pikesville,
Kentucky, "that it was
the writings about Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and
Nathan Stubblefield that encouraged him to enter
into the world of Kentucky business, education and
politics. The part of his Stubblefield
proclamation,
"for
which he never received proper
credit",
says it all about the
Governor, says attorney, Scott Stubblefield, the
grandson of Nathan.
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"WHEREAS Nathan Beverly
Stubblefield did broadcast the human voice without
the benefit of wires, using wireless telephony
which he invented; and, WHEREAS, He did accomplish
this in 1892, in his hometown of Murray in the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, four years before anyone
else was able to transmit messages without the
benefit of wires; and, WHEREAS, His
invention,
for which he never received proper credit, has
come to be known as radio."
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The allegations that: --
Wilkinson got a state-regulated insurance, to pay
an inflated price to fund his money-losing hotel he
owned in Frankfort, Kentucky, is analogous to the
Stubblefields' Family, Murray, Kentucky, land deal.
Stubblefield sold his Telephon-Del - Green College
in 1913 -- for a land for College "swap" deal, that
went sour, with a few Commonwealth educational
officials. Both Kentucky and Stubblefield lost "a
lifetime" of radio historical credibility over that
transaction.
The Governor
can be seen
in VRA's
Flip Flop, the
historical Stubblefield events that took place
during Wilkinson's term in office.
The
Players: Troy Cory; Tina Kincaid; Mike Lipman;
Chris Harris; Jossi Sigl; Dr. Glenn Wilcox, Phd.;
L.J.Hortin, Phd.;Melvin Belli; Wayne Gan and
Gov. Wilkinson, Kentucky
Respectfully
Josie
Cory,
Publisher/Editor TVI Magazine
*TVI Magazine, Associated press,
Reuters, BBC, and
WNBS's D-Diaries Archives were used in compiling
this news report.
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