Background
Dubois, Jules was born on March 31, 1910 in New York City. Son of Paul and Edith (Gordon) Dubois.
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Dubois, Jules was born on March 31, 1910 in New York City. Son of Paul and Edith (Gordon) Dubois.
Student of University Panama, 1939-1940.
On his unexpected death of a heart attack in Bogotá, Colombia, in August 1966, he was described as "the world"s most widely known and most decorated reporter of Latin American affairs". Dubois worked for the New York Herald Tribune (1927–1929), before moving to Panama and working on various newspapers there. At the outbreak of World World War II he became an army intelligence officer, serving in Panama, North Africa and Europe as well as the Pentagon.
He was a graduate of the United States. Army"s command and general staff school at Fort Leavenworth.
His obituary declared that "he knew every president, every chief of staff, every dictator, and most of the would-be dictators in Latin America," and "could get more information on a telephone in a hotel room in one afternoon than most correspondents could get in months of traveling"
In 2000 the Inter-American Press Association"s new headquarters building was named after Dubois. In 1977 The New York Times reported that Dubois was said to have been a Central Intelligence Agency asset.
Member American Academy Political Science, Inter American Press Association (secretary 1950-1951), Committee Freedom of the Press (board directors, Executive Committee. Clubs: National Press (Washington).
Married Maria Lucila de la Guardia, January 22, 1937. Children: Lucille Isabel, Jules Edward, Victor Allen, Mary Helen.