"Radio Breaks Barrier For Lepers"

For years attempts had been made to install radio receivers that would enable the patients of the Kalaupapa Settlement to hear radio. All previous attempts had failed. Often called "the loneliest place in the world", the settlement was completely cut off from the rest of the world.

After the Navy, R.L. Cooke was hired by the Mutual Telephone Company of Honolulu to head their wireless department.

He was sent to Kalaupapa to make another attempt at installing the receivers and was successful. The patients considered him a "Kahuna" of great power.

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