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FEATURE

“Great Legends Continue to Inspire”

By W.A.D. President Emeritus Raymond A. Pendleton

The year was 1979 when internationally renowned medical pioneer Dr. Alton Ochsner,
President Emeritus of the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, addressed the annual
conference of the World Association of Detectives and received its Truth in Action award.
The doctor’s lifelong work not only created an understanding in patients that smoking
causes lung cancer, but caused both patients and society throughout the world to react
boldly to shame their governments into lifesaving action.

In addition to his medical work, Dr. Ochsner created and funded lesser-known programs to
deter the spread of communist aggression throughout Latin America, using print and radio media of the Information
Council of the Americas, and was credited for preserving free societies in three South American countries. W.A.D.’s
past president Ray Pendleton served as INCA’s director of security at the time.

Now, 39 years later, Dr. Ochsner will be honored by New Orleans, “America’s Most Interesting City”, as one of its 300
most outstanding citizens during the forthcoming 300th anniversary of the city’s founding. But W.A.D. will recall
him as a legend in the medical investigative and security fields that he pioneered.

Article: Alton Ochsner, Sr., MD, 1896-1981
The Times Picayune, January 28, 2018, page A15

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