In his book that first told the story of Philomena Lee and Michael Hess, British journalist Martin Sixsmith identified Doc Hess as a physician at a veterans hospital in St. Louis.

And in 2004, in an overgrown cemetery near the ruins of a former monastery, that is where Philomena Lee found a simple headstone of black marble, bearing these words: “Michael A. Hess. A Man of ...

Philomena Lee, whose amazing story became the film, ... His name was Michael Hess. He’d been a successful D.C. lawyer. He had contracted AIDS and died at age 43.

Philomena Lee complete biography, from the Philomena film to her search and heartbreak over her stolen son. ... Anthony had been adopted by an American family and named Michael Hess.

Her actions are backed by the Adoption Rights Alliance, which helped create the Philomena Project in collaboration with Lee and her daughter, Jane Libberton. Michael Hess was adopted by Michael ...

PHILOMENA LEE: You’ve got to remember it was 1952, ... LAWTON: They learned that Anthony, whose adopted name was Michael Hess, had become a high-powered lawyer in Washington, DC.

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Why you should read: Originally published in 2009, “Philomena” tells the true story of Michael Hess, who was a lawyer, and later deputy chief counsel and chief counsel for the Republican ...

Anthony Lee, later Michael Hess, in an undated photograph. Anthony was raised in Missouri. He and some 2,200 Irish infants and toddlers were sent to America between 1945 and the 1960s, to be ...

I see the film “Philomena” and I am deeply moved. So much so that I go home and spend several hours researching the true story of Philomena Lee. I’m able to sort history from the inevitable ...

Sir, – Michael Hess had been chief counsel of the US Republican party under the Reagan-Bush administrations, and was not someone whose politics I would have shared. Last May, however, I ...