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McDonald was born on April 1, 1935 in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]].<ref name="Killing"/> His family was "a family of physicians", and he was a cousin of [[General]] [[George S. Patton]].<ref name="Killing"/> He graduated from Darlington High School, a nondenominational school, in 1951, and in 1953 he graduated from Davidson College with a degree in history.<ref name="Killing"/><ref name="BDUSC">[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000413 McDONALD, Lawrence Patton, (1935 - 1983)]. ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. Retrieved September 4, 2016.</ref> After that, he attended Emory University School of Medicine, graduating in 1957, did training at Grady Memorial Hospital for urology in Atlanta.<ref name="Killing">Marion, Nancy, E. & Oliver, Willard M. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MQkWBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108 ''Killing Congress: Assassinations, Attempted Assassinations and Other Violence against Members of Congress'']. Lexington Books, Lanham. 2014. ISBN 9780739183601.</ref>

McDonald was born on April 1, 1935 in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]].<ref name="Killing"/> His family was "a family of physicians", and he was a cousin of [[General]] [[George S. Patton]].<ref name="Killing"/> He graduated from Darlington High School, a nondenominational school, in 1951, and in 1953 he graduated from Davidson College with a degree in history.<ref name="Killing"/><ref name="BDUSC">[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000413 McDONALD, Lawrence Patton, (1935 - 1983)]. ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. Retrieved September 4, 2016.</ref> After that, he attended Emory University School of Medicine, graduating in 1957, did training at Grady Memorial Hospital for urology in Atlanta.<ref name="Killing">Marion, Nancy, E. & Oliver, Willard M. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MQkWBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108 ''Killing Congress: Assassinations, Attempted Assassinations and Other Violence against Members of Congress'']. Lexington Books, Lanham. 2014. ISBN 9780739183601.</ref>

From 1959 to 1961, McDonald served in the U.S. Navy as a flight surgeon, being stationed at Keflavik naval base in [[Iceland]].<ref name="Killing"/> He met and married his first wife, Anna Tryggvadottir, here, and they would have three children together.<ref name="Killing"/> It was also in Iceland that McDonald would learn about and grow to strongly oppose [[Communism]].<ref name="Killing"/> He worried that the policies of the U.S. were helping to further Communism and its goals.<ref name="Killing"/>

From 1959 to 1961, McDonald served in the U.S. Navy as a flight surgeon, being stationed at Keflavik naval base in [[Iceland]].<ref name="Killing"/> It was in Iceland that McDonald would learn about and grow to strongly oppose [[Communism]].<ref name="Killing"/> He worried that the policies of the U.S. were helping to further Communism and its goals.<ref name="Killing"/>

After he left the Navy, McDonald practiced medicine at the McDonald Urology Clinic in Atlanta and did his postgraduate training in urology at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, graduating in 1966.<ref name="Killing"/><ref name="BDUSC"/>

After he left the Navy, McDonald practiced medicine at the McDonald Urology Clinic in Atlanta and did his postgraduate training in urology at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, graduating in 1966.<ref name="Killing"/><ref name="BDUSC"/>

===Committee and association membership and involvement===

===Committee and association membership and involvement===

According to Staff Writer Maggie Willis in an August 28, 1983 article in the ''Marietta Daily Journal'', aside from Larry McDonald, serving in the Congress and as president of the John Birch Society, his other committee and association membership included the following: Movement to Restore Democracy, Georgia Right to Life Committee, American Life Lobby, Congressional Advisory Committee of Christian Voice, Inc., Atlanta Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry and Human Rights, National Pro Life Political Action Committee, Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, National Rifle Association, National Committee to Keep and Bear Arms, Gun Owners of America, Second Amendment Foundation, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, American Conservative Union (congressional adviser), American Security Council (congressional adviser), Conservative Caucus (congressional adviser), National Federation of Independent Business (congressional adviser), National Advisory Board of the Committee for a Free China, Association of American Dentists, Young Americans for Freedom, National Advisory Council of the American Legislative Exchange Council, Congressional Advisory Panel of the National Tax Limitation Committee, Conservatives Against Liberal Legislation, American Civil Defense Association, Fund to Restore an Educated Electorate, Conservative Leadership Youth Foundation Advisory Board, Joseph McCarthy Foundation, and The Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics. It is not known how may of the above involvements were held concurrently.

According to Staff Writer Maggie Willis in an August 28, 1983 article in the ''Marietta Daily Journal'', aside from Larry McDonald, serving in the Congress and as president of the John Birch Society, his other committee and association membership included the following: Movement to Restore Democracy, Georgia Right to Life Committee, American Life Lobby, Congressional Advisory Committee of Christian Voice, Inc., Atlanta Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry and Human Rights, National Pro Life Political Action Committee, Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, National Rifle Association, National Committee to Keep and Bear Arms, Gun Owners of America, Second Amendment Foundation, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, American Conservative Union (congressional adviser), American Security Council (congressional adviser), Conservative Caucus (congressional adviser), National Federation of Independent Business (congressional adviser), National Advisory Board of the Committee for a Free China, Association of American Dentists, Young Americans for Freedom, National Advisory Council of the American Legislative Exchange Council, Congressional Advisory Panel of the National Tax Limitation Committee, Conservatives Against Liberal Legislation, American Civil Defense Association, Fund to Restore an Educated Electorate, Conservative Leadership Youth Foundation Advisory Board, Joseph McCarthy Foundation, and The Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics. It is not known how may of the above involvements were held concurrently.

==McDonald aboard KAL 007==

==McDonald aboard KAL 007==