Thomas Anthony Dooley III
Physician
1927 – 1961
Who was Thomas Anthony Dooley III?
Thomas Anthony Dooley III was an American who, while serving as a physician in the United States Navy and afterwards, became increasingly famous for his humanitarian and political activities in South East Asia during the late 1950s until his early death from cancer. He 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. These three were later collected into a single volume and published as "Dr. Tom Dooley's Three Great Books." The book jacket of "The Edge of Tomorrow" states that Dooley traveled "to a remote part of the world in order to combat the two greatest evils afflicting it: disease and Communism.
Dooley's legacy continues through the work of the Dooley Foundation-Intermed International, which has carried on the work of Dr. Dooley for the past 50 years. Its headquarters are based in New York City and headed by Dr. Verne Chaney, President and Founder. Dooley-Intermed is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-sectarian, non-political, private voluntary organization receiving its financial support entirely from private contributions.
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- Born
- Jan 17, 1927
St. Louis - Also known as
- Dr. Thomas Anthony Dooley
- Ethnicity
- Irish American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Notre Dame
- St. Louis University High School
- Lived in
- St. Louis
- Died
- Jan 18, 1961
- Resting place
- Calvary Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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