Jack Wheeler, 1944-2010

John P. “Jack” Wheeler III, a Vietnam veteran who was one of the three founders of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, was found dead on New Year’s Eve in Wilmington, Delaware. According to the Wilmington News-Journal , Wheeler’s death at age 66 is being considered a homicide.

Wheeler, a 1966 West Point graduate who also had an MBA from Harvard and a juris doctorate from Yale University Law School, was the first chairman of  the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s board of directors. He and co-VVFM founders Jan Scruggs and Bob Doubek, were responsible for the Fund’s successful multi-million dollar campaign that resulted in the construction of The Wall.

Jack Wheeler served as a staff officer in Vietnam, and later held positions with the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff. After he left the Army in 1971, Wheeler founded the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program during the Reagan Administration.


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