Brandeis Alum Appears on History Channel TV Show

Jack A Wheat ('79) discusses "Doll Babies", and Cabbage Patch Kids.

On Sunday, November 27th, Brandeis Alum Jack Wheat ('79) appeared on the History Channel in the series The Toys That Built America in an episode covering the Cabbage Patch Kids craze.

As a law student at Brandeis School of Law and a young lawyer in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Wheat provided legal assistance and representation to the late Martha Nelson Thomas, the Kentucky artist who created the soft sculpture "Doll Babies" that preceded Cabbage Patch Kids, in an intellectual property suit regarding the provenance of the popular toys.

Mr. Wheat is the head of the intellectual property practice group at McBrayer PLLC. Read more about The Toys That Built America and find airtimes here.