Did a massacre occur in the Palestinian village of Tantura in May 1948 during the Palestine war? In March 1998, Theodor (Teddy) Katz, an Israeli student, submitted his Master’s thesis “The Exodus of the Arabs from the Villages at the Foot of the Southern Carmel in 1948” to Haifa University. The thesis discussed the fate of the Palestinian villages of Tantura and Umm al Zinat. Katz asserted that as many as 250 of Tantura’s inhabitants were massacred by Israel’s Alexandroni 33rd Battalion after the village was conquered from May 22-23. Katz’s findings were based on the 130 oral testimonies he collected from Palestinian refugees from Tantura and Alexandroni veterans. Haifa University first approved the thesis but then reversed its decision after a group of Alexandroni veterans sued Katz for libel in a Tel Aviv District Court. Israeli historian Benny Morris states, “there can be little doubt that the [Israeli] troops went in [to Tantura] with the intention of driving out the inhabitants,” and “dozens of villagers were killed.” Yet, Morris is skeptical that the alleged massacre occurred because, “The charge of massacre was based solely on oral testimony.” Morris asserts that, “In light of the available evidence, it is doubtful whether there was a massacre at Tantura.” What is the value of oral testimony in establishing the historical facts of the 1948 war? Morris wrote that, “the Katz case highlights the ineluctable fragility of historiography based on oral testimony.” Can oral history be relied upon to reconstruct events that occurred decades before? This paper will explore the Palestinian claims that a massacre occurred in Tantura, and Israeli claims that it did not. The methodology will entail a literature review of published primary and secondary sources, primarily Israeli and Palestinian, and a comparison of previously collected oral histories with Tantura villagers, including my own oral histories, and any available contemporary documentary sources.