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Robert St. John Robert St. John (1902-2003) moved to Oak Park when he was eight years old and he attended Emerson School and Oak Park River Forest High School. After his high school graduation in 1920, St. John went to work as a reporter in Cicero covering notable local stories related to Al Capone and prohibition. He later took his reporting skills overseas to cover the events leading up to World War II. At first he was told that he was too old, at age 37, to be a foreign correspondent; but he sailed for Europe anyway and arrived in Budapest the day the Nazis attacked Poland. He visited other countries like Yugoslavia, England, and Germany and was even wounded in the process by a stray bullet while on a Greek train. St. John returned to the United States. Famous for his war experiences he also wrote books about his adventures. He would later be asked to report on wars in the Middle East, Indochina, and Africa. Aside from being a foreign correspondent and news reporter, St. John was also a public speaker and lecturer and an author of many award-winning non-fiction works. Some of his more famous works include: “Ben-Gurion,” “From The Land of Silent People,” and “The Man Who Played God.” |
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