Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31851 CONGO MEDICAL MISSIONARY REPORTED
DEAD LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo -- Refugees escaping from rebel-held territory
in the Congo reported that Dr. Paul Carlson (right), shown here in a happier
moment, had been put to death. The medical missionary, serving under the
Evangelical Covenant Church of America, was captured when he refused to leave
his hospital in the northern Congo. His wife (right) and children, Wayne, 9,
and Lynette, 6, (in the foreground) reached safety. The doctor’s threatened
execution, after being charged as a spy by rebels, was delayed for one week
after the U.S. State Department and churchmen in America urged Kenya Prime
Minister Jomo Kenyatta, as chairman of a Special Organization of African
Unity Committee, to intervene in his behalf. The Carlson family is shown here
with Philip Littleford of Baltimore, Md., a medical student in Africa on a
fellowship, and Joann LeVahn of Minneapolis, Minn., a staff nurse at the
mission hospital. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
(FRE-Ph-11D-64-NBM)
Creator:
Smith, Kline & French Laboratories. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964--Death and burial., Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964., Evangelical Covenant Church of America--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Carlson, Lois Lindblom., Carlson, Wayne., Carlson, Lynette., LeVahn, Joann., Littleford, Philip.
Topics:
Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa., Missions, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
Geographic subjects:
Kinshasa (Congo), Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356683