Norman Baker and The Naked Truth

Archival-blog essay by Rory Grennan, published on FSU Special Collections & Archives' Illuminations blog 1 June 2022 (updated 26 August 2024 per the page's own byline/date line, fetched directly), drawing on the library's Norman Baker/The Naked Truth magazine holdings. Confirms, in the author's own directly-fetched wording: 'By 1930, Baker had established the Baker Hospital in Muscatine, claiming through his publications and broadcasts that his treatments could cure cancer and other illnesses'; that Iowa sued him for practicing medicine without a license and the Federal Radio Commission separately sought to revoke KTNT's broadcast license, both in 1930, and 'Both injunctions were successful, and the hospital and radio station closed in 1931'; and that 'In 1934, Baker brought a suit against the American Medical Association, Iowa State Medical Society and Muscatine County Medical Society, alleging that these groups had conspired to deprive him of his ownership of KTNT and the Baker Hospital.' Also describes The Naked Truth magazine as Baker's promotional publication, featuring before-and-after patient photographs and cancer-cure claims.