RFK: 1948 dispatches from Palestine

Robert Kennedy's 1948 Reports from Palestine
JCPA U.S. Policy, June 2008 by Lenny Ben-David

In April 1948, one month before Israel declared independence, Robert Kennedy, then 22, traveled to Palestine to report on the conflict for the Boston Post. His four dispatches from the scene were published in June 1948. The newspaper closed in 1956, and for decades the reports were virtually forgotten. Read the dispatches...