Although programmers quickly obtained an injunction preventing the Utah Cable Television Programming Decency Act from being enforced, Wilkinson spent up to $2 million defending it over the next four years and losing at every turn.
, barring pants for women, regulating women’s skirt length and men’s hair length, ordering students to report their peers’ violations, and mandating “virtue and sexual purity.”
Son David Wilkinson also made headlines when, after his office lost a case to Brian Barnard, he failed to pay the attorney’s legal fees, as ordered by a court. That is until Barnard persuaded a judge, he grew up in Washington, D.C., until the family moved to Provo in 1951, when his father became president of BYU, owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served a Latter-day Saint mission to Germany from 1957 to 1959.
Wilkinson was a “wonderful father,” according to his obituary, and his family “will remember him most for his curiosity and love of learning, his gift of conversation, and his witty sense of humor. He loved researching family history, reading the newspaper, ice cream, tennis and BYU football.” Wilkinson is survived by his wife, Tricia, four children, 17 grandchildren, and one sister. He was preceded in death by his parents and four siblings.
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