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June 24, 2012
Bill Moyers
PBS
In 1967, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy traveled to Mississippi to check on the progress of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, better known as the War on Poverty. What he found, writes Peter Edelman in his book "So Rich, So Poor," was "children, thousands of them, hungry to a point very near starvation." Kennedy was "deeply moved and outraged" and made relieving hunger a top priority.
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