Enid Morning News · Enid, Oklahoma · 18 November 1959
CP-1959-007
CARE Seeks To Help Hungry Arab Refugees From Palestine
Dr. George S. Benson, “Looking Ahead”
Transcribed from the clipping
“The shocking plight of these Arab refugees has not been adequately reported in America… The Texan is A. K. Baracat, Amarillo merchant. Born in Jerusalem, he came to Texas more than 50 years ago… He wrote his Congressman and Senator Lyndon Johnson. He wrote Vice President Richard Nixon, and President Eisenhower… Mr. Baracat kept after them… It gives us a dramatic answer to the question: ‘But, what can an ordinary citizen do?’”
Context added by this archive
A Palestinian American who is neither a victim nor, in the papers’ word, a propagandist: a merchant in Amarillo who spent years writing to a president, a vice president and a future president until an aid agency moved. Told he was beating his head against a wall, and held up by a syndicated columnist as the answer to what an ordinary citizen can do.
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"CARE Seeks To Help Hungry Arab Refugees From Palestine," Enid Morning News, 18 November 1959. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1959-007. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1959-007
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