Biography

He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University from 1967-68.

After being discharged from Valley Forge Hospital, he was assigned to command C Company, 6th Battalion, 32nd Armor, 194th Armored Brigade, which was a company composed entirely of wounded soldiers, at Fort Knox. Clark has stated many times that this experience is what convinced him to continue his military career past the five years commitment as required of West Point graduates, which would have concluded in 1971.

His only child, Wesley Clark (Wesley K. Clark, Jr.) was born in 1969 while he (Wesley K. Clark, Sr.) was serving in Vietnam.

Graduated from Hall High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA as a National Merit Scholar.

While he was at Oxford, a Jewish cousin, who lived in England, telephoned him and informed him of his Jewish heritage, after having received permission from his mother, Veneta Clark, who was back in Arkansas. His mother would later tell him that she did not share his Jewish heritage with him while he was a child to protect him from bullying and other anti-Semitic dangers in the Ku Klux Klan south.