Bennett was appointed as the first Director of the Point Four Program, a technical assistance program for developing nations. Bennett is generally credited with the creation of the method of using specialists from American colleges and universities to teach people in other countries on how to improve food production, housing, health, and education with available resources. During his time with the program, he travelled to 33 nations, establishing around 105 projects. The Point Four Program was later subsumed into the newly created U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Death Bennett died in a plane crash near Tehran, Iran while serving on an official visit to discuss U.S. technical aid with Iranian officials. His wife was also with him and was killed in the crash. Bennett was returning to a student event at Oklahoma State University. Secretary of State Dean Acheson spoke at a memorial event in Washington D.C for Bennett. He was interred at Highland Cemetery, Durant, Oklahoma. The Bennett Memorial Chapel at Oklahoma State University serves as a memorial to Bennett and his wife, and to the students of Oklahoma A&M College who were killed in World War I and World War II. Notes References Further reading External links Truman Library collection of Henry G. Bennett Papers President Truman's Point Four Program Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library at Southeastern Oklahoma State University Library Henry G. Bennett Distinguished Fellows Program 1886 births 1951 deaths Presidents of Oklahoma State University Ouachita Baptist University alumni Presidents of Southeastern Oklahoma State University United States Assistant Secretaries of State People from Choctaw County, Oklahoma 20th-century American academics