Danny Thomas’ ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Has a Hollywood/Fundraising Connection That Still Shines 50 Years Later

By Abny Santicola

“Danny Thomas was very known and very loved in America and trusted, and he started the institution because of a promise he made,” O’Brien says. “So we have a whole generation of people who grew up watching Danny Thomas, trusting him and believing in him, and we have worked very hard to maintain that trust.”