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Thomas Anthony Dooley III
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Thomas Anthony Dooley III (January 17, 1927 – January 18, 1961) was an American physician who worked in Southeast Asia at the outset of American involvement in the Vietnam War. While serving as a physician in the United States Navy and afterwards, he became celebrated for his humanitarian and anti-communist political activities up until his early death from cancer. After his death, the public learned that he had been recruited as an intelligence operative by the Central Intelligence Agency, and numerous descriptions of atrocities by the Viet Minh in his book Deliver Us From Evil had been fabricated.
Dooley has been called "a key agent in the first disinformation campaign of the Vietnam War," garnering support for the US government's growing involvement there.[1] Dooley, one critic said, is an example of "celebrity sainthood" and the "intersection of show business and mysticism occupied the space where Tom Dooley was perhaps most at home"; nevertheless, he "helped to pull American Catholicism away from its insular, angry anti-Communism" and he lived a life that does not "invite facile judgment." [2] Despite his flaws, he inspired many others to become involved in philanthropic work.
Dooley authored three popular books that described his activities in Vietnam and Laos: Deliver Us From Evil, The Edge of Tomorrow, and The Night They Burned the Mountain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Anthony_Dooley_III
Thomas Anthony Dooley III (January 17, 1927 – January 18, 1961) was an American physician who worked in Southeast Asia at the outset of American involvement in the Vietnam War. While serving as a physician in the United States Navy and afterwards, he became celebrated for his humanitarian and anti-communist political activities up until his early death from cancer. After his death, the public learned that he had been recruited as an intelligence operative by the Central Intelligence Agency, and numerous descriptions of atrocities by the Viet Minh in his book Deliver Us From Evil had been fabricated.
Dooley has been called "a key agent in the first disinformation campaign of the Vietnam War," garnering support for the US government's growing involvement there.[1] Dooley, one critic said, is an example of "celebrity sainthood" and the "intersection of show business and mysticism occupied the space where Tom Dooley was perhaps most at home"; nevertheless, he "helped to pull American Catholicism away from its insular, angry anti-Communism" and he lived a life that does not "invite facile judgment." [2] Despite his flaws, he inspired many others to become involved in philanthropic work.
Dooley authored three popular books that described his activities in Vietnam and Laos: Deliver Us From Evil, The Edge of Tomorrow, and The Night They Burned the Mountain.
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Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that January 17 is the anniversary of the birth of American physician who worked in Southeast Asia Thomas Anthony Dooley III "at the outset of American involvement in the Vietnam War."
Rest in eternal peace Thomas Anthony Dooley III.
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Images:
1. Dr. Thomas A. Dooley in Vietnam
2. Thomas Anthony Dooley, III in surgery
3. Thomas Anthony Dooley III 'I must remember the things I have seen. I must keep them fresh in memory, see them again in my mind's eye, live through them again and again in my thoughts. And most of all , I must make good use of them in tomorrow's life.'
4. Dr. Thomas Anthony Dooley with interacting with schoolchildren
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"Dr. Tom Dooley
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I ought to do, and what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I will do.” - Dr. Tom Dooley
Thomas Anthony Dooley was born in St. Louis January 17, 1927, the first of three sons born to Thomas and Agnes Dooley. As a child pianist, he often soloed with the city orchestra. His family urged him to consider a career as a concert pianist and enrolled him in the Julliard School of Music during his teens, but by this time he intended to pursue a medical career. From 1940-1944, Dooley attended St. Louis University High School where he developed into a swimming and track star. After high school, Dooley began his undergraduate studies at Notre Dame. He interrupted his undergraduate studies by enlisting in the United States Navy as a Medical Corpsmen in 1944. Dooley received an honorable discharge from the Navy and resumed studies at Notre Dame. Dooley received his Doctor of Medicine degree from St. Louis University in 1953 and accepted a medical internship as a lieutenant in the Navy. He volunteered aboard the U.S.S. Montague, a cargo ship used to transport refugees from North to South Vietnam.
In August 1954, Dooley transferred to Task Force Ninety, a unit participating in the evacuation of over 600,000 North Vietnamese known as the "Passage to Freedom." Here Dooley served as a French interpreter and medical officer for a Preventative Medicine Unit in Haiphong. Dooley eventually oversaw the building and maintenance of refugee camps in Haiphong until May 1955, when the Viet Minh took over the city. Dooley returned to the United States later in 1955 and published his first book, a Vietnam memoir, entitled Deliver Us From Evil (1956). The book climbed the best-seller lists and appeared in a condensed form in Reader's Digest, which also reprinted it in eleven languages. The United States Chamber of Commerce listed Dooley among the ten "Outstanding Men of America." He became the youngest United States Navy Medical Corps officer in history to receive the Navy's Legion of Merit. Dooley also received the highest national decoration of the South Vietnamese government.
In 1956, Dooley resigned from the Navy and persuaded the International Rescue Committee to sponsor bush hospitals in Southeast Asia. Donating the royalties from Deliver Us From Evil, Dooley and three former Navy corpsmen, established a hospital at Nam Tha, a village five miles south of the China border in Laos. Dooley said they chose Laos because the country, with 3,000,000 people, had only one "bonafide" doctor. St. Patrick's hospital in Nam Tha consisted of a surgical ward with 15 beds, a medical ward with mats for 30 people, an operating room, and an out-patient clinic. Dooley's team constructed the buildings in the style of the indigenous architecture, using bamboo and thatch. The hospital had no electricity, x-ray equipment, plumbing, or air-conditioning. Dooley treated about 100 patients a day for such diseases as tuberculosis, malnutrition, diphtheria, dysentery, pneumonia, small-pox, and burns.
In October 1957, Dooley and his staff turned St. Patrick's over to the government of Laos, to be run by Dooley-trained Laotians. During his stay in Nam Tha, Dooley wrote a second book, The Edge of Tomorrow That year, Dooley started the Medical International Cooperation Organization, or MEDICO. A non-sectarian group, it wanted to build, stock, supply, and train staff for small hospitals along the Iron and Bamboo curtains. MEDICO planned to turn over the hospitals to the host country's government. The organization received hundreds of thousands of dollars in medicine and supplies from pharmaceutical houses throughout the United States. Early in 1958, Dooley established his second hospital in Laos at Muong Sing near the China border. In August 1959, Dooley underwent chest surgery for melanoma, a rapidly spreading form of cancer. Dooley announced afterward, "I am not going to quit. I will continue to guide and lead my hospitals until my back, my brain, my blood and my bones collapse." Dooley returned to the lecture circuit in October, raising one million dollars for MEDICO. In 1960, Dooley published his third book, The Night They Burned the Mountain (1960). In June 1960, Dooley received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Notre Dame University. Seven months later, Dooley flew back to New York Memorial Hospital. The cancer had spread to his lungs, liver, spleen, heart, and brain. Dr. Tom Dooley died January 18, 1961, one day after his thirty-fourth birthday."
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Rest in eternal peace Thomas Anthony Dooley III.
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Images:
1. Dr. Thomas A. Dooley in Vietnam
2. Thomas Anthony Dooley, III in surgery
3. Thomas Anthony Dooley III 'I must remember the things I have seen. I must keep them fresh in memory, see them again in my mind's eye, live through them again and again in my thoughts. And most of all , I must make good use of them in tomorrow's life.'
4. Dr. Thomas Anthony Dooley with interacting with schoolchildren
Background from [https://www.stjohnwc.org/dr-tom-dooley.html]
"Dr. Tom Dooley
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I ought to do, and what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I will do.” - Dr. Tom Dooley
Thomas Anthony Dooley was born in St. Louis January 17, 1927, the first of three sons born to Thomas and Agnes Dooley. As a child pianist, he often soloed with the city orchestra. His family urged him to consider a career as a concert pianist and enrolled him in the Julliard School of Music during his teens, but by this time he intended to pursue a medical career. From 1940-1944, Dooley attended St. Louis University High School where he developed into a swimming and track star. After high school, Dooley began his undergraduate studies at Notre Dame. He interrupted his undergraduate studies by enlisting in the United States Navy as a Medical Corpsmen in 1944. Dooley received an honorable discharge from the Navy and resumed studies at Notre Dame. Dooley received his Doctor of Medicine degree from St. Louis University in 1953 and accepted a medical internship as a lieutenant in the Navy. He volunteered aboard the U.S.S. Montague, a cargo ship used to transport refugees from North to South Vietnam.
In August 1954, Dooley transferred to Task Force Ninety, a unit participating in the evacuation of over 600,000 North Vietnamese known as the "Passage to Freedom." Here Dooley served as a French interpreter and medical officer for a Preventative Medicine Unit in Haiphong. Dooley eventually oversaw the building and maintenance of refugee camps in Haiphong until May 1955, when the Viet Minh took over the city. Dooley returned to the United States later in 1955 and published his first book, a Vietnam memoir, entitled Deliver Us From Evil (1956). The book climbed the best-seller lists and appeared in a condensed form in Reader's Digest, which also reprinted it in eleven languages. The United States Chamber of Commerce listed Dooley among the ten "Outstanding Men of America." He became the youngest United States Navy Medical Corps officer in history to receive the Navy's Legion of Merit. Dooley also received the highest national decoration of the South Vietnamese government.
In 1956, Dooley resigned from the Navy and persuaded the International Rescue Committee to sponsor bush hospitals in Southeast Asia. Donating the royalties from Deliver Us From Evil, Dooley and three former Navy corpsmen, established a hospital at Nam Tha, a village five miles south of the China border in Laos. Dooley said they chose Laos because the country, with 3,000,000 people, had only one "bonafide" doctor. St. Patrick's hospital in Nam Tha consisted of a surgical ward with 15 beds, a medical ward with mats for 30 people, an operating room, and an out-patient clinic. Dooley's team constructed the buildings in the style of the indigenous architecture, using bamboo and thatch. The hospital had no electricity, x-ray equipment, plumbing, or air-conditioning. Dooley treated about 100 patients a day for such diseases as tuberculosis, malnutrition, diphtheria, dysentery, pneumonia, small-pox, and burns.
In October 1957, Dooley and his staff turned St. Patrick's over to the government of Laos, to be run by Dooley-trained Laotians. During his stay in Nam Tha, Dooley wrote a second book, The Edge of Tomorrow That year, Dooley started the Medical International Cooperation Organization, or MEDICO. A non-sectarian group, it wanted to build, stock, supply, and train staff for small hospitals along the Iron and Bamboo curtains. MEDICO planned to turn over the hospitals to the host country's government. The organization received hundreds of thousands of dollars in medicine and supplies from pharmaceutical houses throughout the United States. Early in 1958, Dooley established his second hospital in Laos at Muong Sing near the China border. In August 1959, Dooley underwent chest surgery for melanoma, a rapidly spreading form of cancer. Dooley announced afterward, "I am not going to quit. I will continue to guide and lead my hospitals until my back, my brain, my blood and my bones collapse." Dooley returned to the lecture circuit in October, raising one million dollars for MEDICO. In 1960, Dooley published his third book, The Night They Burned the Mountain (1960). In June 1960, Dooley received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Notre Dame University. Seven months later, Dooley flew back to New York Memorial Hospital. The cancer had spread to his lungs, liver, spleen, heart, and brain. Dr. Tom Dooley died January 18, 1961, one day after his thirty-fourth birthday."
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1959 THOMAS DOOLEY MD, LECTURE
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1959 THOMAS DOOLEY MD, LECTURE
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Images:
1. Dr. America - Dr. Thomas A Dooley with a Vietnamese child on his lap
2. Thomas Anthony Dooley III 'What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too.'
3. Thomas Anthony Dooley III 'Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.'
4. Dr. Thomas A Dooley gives a piano recital for an audience of Kha in Laos in 1961. A talented musician, Dr. Dooley plays daily to relax. Hill folk wander in and out; woman at right wears the knee-length Kha skirt.
Background from [https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/d/dooley/]
"Thomas A. Dooley III (1927 – 1961)
Thomas Dooley was a doctor who organized medical aid clinics in Southeast Asia during the 1950s. His books introduced many Americans to the growing conflict in Southeast Asia, which would eventually result in the Vietnam War.
Thomas A. Dooley III was born on January 17, 1927. His parents, Thomas A. Dooley Jr. and Agnes Wise Dooley, were members of a prominent Irish Catholic family in St. Louis. Dooley attended private schools in the city and graduated from St. Louis University High School in 1944.
Dooley went to the University of Notre Dame for a short time before enlisting in the U.S. Navy. While in the military, Dooley served as a medical corpsman in naval hospitals in New York and California. He briefly returned to Notre Dame before being admitted to the St. Louis University School of Medicine in 1948. As a medical student, Dooley was inconsistent and often skipped class. He was forced to repeat his senior year.
After finally graduating from medical school in 1953, Dooley was not allowed to begin a residency in St. Louis because his professors did not believe he was ready. He decided to reenlist in the navy. From 1954 to 1955 he participated in Operation Passage to Freedom, which assisted refugees evacuating from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam. Dooley acted as a spokesman for the cause. His experiences in Vietnam led him to write a best-selling book, Deliver Us from Evil.
Dooley’s anticommunist views quickly made him a popular figure not only in Catholic circles, but also in American society as a whole. His fame came at a time when many Americans were afraid communists would take over the government. Years after his death, it was revealed that Dooley was being used by the CIA for propaganda.
During a publicity tour for his book in early 1956, Dooley was quietly forced to resign from the navy because of his sexual orientation. However, he did not let this incident slow him down. Almost immediately, Dooley announced he was returning to Southeast Asia to set up a medical missions operation in Laos. The first clinic was established in the fall of 1956. While working in Laos, Dooley maintained a weekly radio program, That Free Men May Live, which was broadcast on KMOX in St. Louis.
In the next few years, Dooley wrote two more books, The Edge of Tomorrow and The Night They Burned the Mountain, both about his medical work in Laos. He also focused on raising funds to expand medical missions throughout the world. The new organization was called MEDICO (Medical International Cooperation) and flourished in the beginning because of Dooley’s celebrity status as an author and public speaker. His popularity likely paved the way for John F. Kennedy to become the first Catholic president of the United States.
Unfortunately, Dooley’s success was brief. Diagnosed with an aggressive form of skin cancer in 1959, he died in New York on January 18, 1961.
Without Dooley’s strong personality to keep it going, MEDICO was soon absorbed by the relief organization CARE. However, Dooley’s humanitarian efforts continued to inspire others. When President Kennedy created the Peace Corps in 1961, he cited Dooley’s service as an example."
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Images:
1. Dr. America - Dr. Thomas A Dooley with a Vietnamese child on his lap
2. Thomas Anthony Dooley III 'What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too.'
3. Thomas Anthony Dooley III 'Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.'
4. Dr. Thomas A Dooley gives a piano recital for an audience of Kha in Laos in 1961. A talented musician, Dr. Dooley plays daily to relax. Hill folk wander in and out; woman at right wears the knee-length Kha skirt.
Background from [https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/d/dooley/]
"Thomas A. Dooley III (1927 – 1961)
Thomas Dooley was a doctor who organized medical aid clinics in Southeast Asia during the 1950s. His books introduced many Americans to the growing conflict in Southeast Asia, which would eventually result in the Vietnam War.
Thomas A. Dooley III was born on January 17, 1927. His parents, Thomas A. Dooley Jr. and Agnes Wise Dooley, were members of a prominent Irish Catholic family in St. Louis. Dooley attended private schools in the city and graduated from St. Louis University High School in 1944.
Dooley went to the University of Notre Dame for a short time before enlisting in the U.S. Navy. While in the military, Dooley served as a medical corpsman in naval hospitals in New York and California. He briefly returned to Notre Dame before being admitted to the St. Louis University School of Medicine in 1948. As a medical student, Dooley was inconsistent and often skipped class. He was forced to repeat his senior year.
After finally graduating from medical school in 1953, Dooley was not allowed to begin a residency in St. Louis because his professors did not believe he was ready. He decided to reenlist in the navy. From 1954 to 1955 he participated in Operation Passage to Freedom, which assisted refugees evacuating from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam. Dooley acted as a spokesman for the cause. His experiences in Vietnam led him to write a best-selling book, Deliver Us from Evil.
Dooley’s anticommunist views quickly made him a popular figure not only in Catholic circles, but also in American society as a whole. His fame came at a time when many Americans were afraid communists would take over the government. Years after his death, it was revealed that Dooley was being used by the CIA for propaganda.
During a publicity tour for his book in early 1956, Dooley was quietly forced to resign from the navy because of his sexual orientation. However, he did not let this incident slow him down. Almost immediately, Dooley announced he was returning to Southeast Asia to set up a medical missions operation in Laos. The first clinic was established in the fall of 1956. While working in Laos, Dooley maintained a weekly radio program, That Free Men May Live, which was broadcast on KMOX in St. Louis.
In the next few years, Dooley wrote two more books, The Edge of Tomorrow and The Night They Burned the Mountain, both about his medical work in Laos. He also focused on raising funds to expand medical missions throughout the world. The new organization was called MEDICO (Medical International Cooperation) and flourished in the beginning because of Dooley’s celebrity status as an author and public speaker. His popularity likely paved the way for John F. Kennedy to become the first Catholic president of the United States.
Unfortunately, Dooley’s success was brief. Diagnosed with an aggressive form of skin cancer in 1959, he died in New York on January 18, 1961.
Without Dooley’s strong personality to keep it going, MEDICO was soon absorbed by the relief organization CARE. However, Dooley’s humanitarian efforts continued to inspire others. When President Kennedy created the Peace Corps in 1961, he cited Dooley’s service as an example."
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Dr. Tom Dooley and his assistant treating patients at Namtha hospital in Laos. HD Stock Footage
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1. Dr. Thomas Anthony 'Tom' Dooley, III
2. Dr. Thomas Dooley treats a Laotian woman, 1959
3. Dr. Thomas A Dooley with medical staff in Laos
4. Headstone of Dr. Thomas A Dooley
Dr. Tom Dooley and his assistant treating patients at Namtha hospital in Laos. HD Stock Footage
"Men seen riding bicycles. Dr. Tom Dooley and his assistant examining and treating patients at Namtha hospital in Laos. Dr. Tom Dooley administering to native men, women and children. Some patients stand and some sit as they wait for their turn for check-up. Location: Laos. Date: 1957."
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Background from [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/290/thomas-anthony-dooley]
"Dr Thomas Anthony “Tom” Dooley, III
BIRTH 17 Jan 1927 at Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
DEATH 18 Jan 1961 (aged 34) at New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA
BURIAL Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum; Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
PLOT Sec 19, lot 906
MEMORIAL ID 290 · View Source
MEMORIAL
Physician, Author, Humanitarian. Best known for his philanthropic work in Indochina. Born in St. Louis, MO, Dooley served as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy after graduation from St. Louis University Medical School. In 1954, he was assigned to the USS Montague, which was traveling to Vietnam to evacuate refugees. While with the Navy, he organized refugee camps in Vietnam where he developed strong anti-communist sentiment. His experiences there are related in his first book, "Deliver Us from Evil: The Story of Vietnam's Flight to Freedom". In 1956 he left the navy to start a private, mobile medical unit in Loas. He helped found the Medical International Cooperative Organization (MEDICO), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing medical aid for developing countries. Dooley personally raised nearly $1 million for MEDICO through his television appearances, lecture tours and books, including "The Edge of Tomorrow" and "The Night They Burned the Mountain", both about his experiences in Laos. In 1959, Dooley returned to the U.S. for cancer treatment. He died in 1961 from malignant melanoma. Dooley was awarded the Legion of Merit, the National Order of Vietnam, and posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal. After his death there were unsuccessful efforts to have him canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. Dooley's example was cited by President John F. Kennedy when he launched the Peace Corps.
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Dr. Thomas Dooley, 34, the famed "jungle doctor" of Laos and author of the best - selling "The Night They Burned the Mountain," is dead of cancer. His health had failed rapidly in the past few days and he died in his sleep Wednesday night in Memorial Hospital, just-a day after his birthday. He had continued his fight against disease in primitive areas until his own illness forced him to a painful halt last month. He entered the hospital Dec. 27.
President Eisenhower, in one of the hundreds of birthday messages sent to him, said: "It must have been a source of heartened gratification to realize that in so few years you have accomplished so much for the good of distant peoples and have inspired so many others to work for all humanity."
Francis Cardinal Spellman had visited him Wednesday. Dr. Dooley received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church from the Rev. Francis Xavier Senniger about 10 minutes before his death. A solemn pontifical funeral Mass will be conducted in the St. Louis, Mo., Cathedral Monday at 9:30 a.m. by Bishop Leo C. Byrne. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.
Dooley was a co-founder with Dr. Peter Comanduras of Washington, D.C., of MEDICO (Medical International Cooperation Organization), a nonprofit, nonsectarian health service. Dooley's dedication to administering to the ailing in remote areas began in 1954, when, as a Navy doctor, he witnessed the plight of refugees evacuated from Communist North Viet Nam.
Clipped from The Decatur Herald, 20 Jan 1961, Fri, Page 22
Bio by: Katie
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1. Dr. Thomas Anthony 'Tom' Dooley, III
2. Dr. Thomas Dooley treats a Laotian woman, 1959
3. Dr. Thomas A Dooley with medical staff in Laos
4. Headstone of Dr. Thomas A Dooley
Dr. Tom Dooley and his assistant treating patients at Namtha hospital in Laos. HD Stock Footage
"Men seen riding bicycles. Dr. Tom Dooley and his assistant examining and treating patients at Namtha hospital in Laos. Dr. Tom Dooley administering to native men, women and children. Some patients stand and some sit as they wait for their turn for check-up. Location: Laos. Date: 1957."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEAo_qzcf-k
Background from [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/290/thomas-anthony-dooley]
"Dr Thomas Anthony “Tom” Dooley, III
BIRTH 17 Jan 1927 at Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
DEATH 18 Jan 1961 (aged 34) at New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA
BURIAL Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum; Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
PLOT Sec 19, lot 906
MEMORIAL ID 290 · View Source
MEMORIAL
Physician, Author, Humanitarian. Best known for his philanthropic work in Indochina. Born in St. Louis, MO, Dooley served as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy after graduation from St. Louis University Medical School. In 1954, he was assigned to the USS Montague, which was traveling to Vietnam to evacuate refugees. While with the Navy, he organized refugee camps in Vietnam where he developed strong anti-communist sentiment. His experiences there are related in his first book, "Deliver Us from Evil: The Story of Vietnam's Flight to Freedom". In 1956 he left the navy to start a private, mobile medical unit in Loas. He helped found the Medical International Cooperative Organization (MEDICO), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing medical aid for developing countries. Dooley personally raised nearly $1 million for MEDICO through his television appearances, lecture tours and books, including "The Edge of Tomorrow" and "The Night They Burned the Mountain", both about his experiences in Laos. In 1959, Dooley returned to the U.S. for cancer treatment. He died in 1961 from malignant melanoma. Dooley was awarded the Legion of Merit, the National Order of Vietnam, and posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal. After his death there were unsuccessful efforts to have him canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. Dooley's example was cited by President John F. Kennedy when he launched the Peace Corps.
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Dr. Thomas Dooley, 34, the famed "jungle doctor" of Laos and author of the best - selling "The Night They Burned the Mountain," is dead of cancer. His health had failed rapidly in the past few days and he died in his sleep Wednesday night in Memorial Hospital, just-a day after his birthday. He had continued his fight against disease in primitive areas until his own illness forced him to a painful halt last month. He entered the hospital Dec. 27.
President Eisenhower, in one of the hundreds of birthday messages sent to him, said: "It must have been a source of heartened gratification to realize that in so few years you have accomplished so much for the good of distant peoples and have inspired so many others to work for all humanity."
Francis Cardinal Spellman had visited him Wednesday. Dr. Dooley received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church from the Rev. Francis Xavier Senniger about 10 minutes before his death. A solemn pontifical funeral Mass will be conducted in the St. Louis, Mo., Cathedral Monday at 9:30 a.m. by Bishop Leo C. Byrne. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.
Dooley was a co-founder with Dr. Peter Comanduras of Washington, D.C., of MEDICO (Medical International Cooperation Organization), a nonprofit, nonsectarian health service. Dooley's dedication to administering to the ailing in remote areas began in 1954, when, as a Navy doctor, he witnessed the plight of refugees evacuated from Communist North Viet Nam.
Clipped from The Decatur Herald, 20 Jan 1961, Fri, Page 22
Bio by: Katie
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*Dr. Tom Dooley*... Multi-talented former Naval Officer who honestly had no personal limits when it came to assisting so many worldwide...
I learned about a true American hero today.... And will not soon forget his name !!
Thanks Again Marty & Stephen.... Much appreciated friends!!
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I learned about a true American hero today.... And will not soon forget his name !!
Thanks Again Marty & Stephen.... Much appreciated friends!!
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