John McCandlish Phillips Jr. (December 4, 1927 – April 9, 2013) was an American

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and author on religious subjects.Fox, Magalit (April 9, 2013)
McCandlish Phillips, Times reporter who exposed Jewish Klansman, dies at 85.
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'' He worked at ''

'' from 1952 to 1973 before focusing his career on

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Life and career

Phillips was born in

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and graduated from

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in Massachusetts. He served in the

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from 1950 to 1952 at

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, where he became a

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. In 1962, he helped found the New Testament Missionary Fellowship in Manhattan. In 1965, despite death threats, McCandlish exposed the Jewish background of senior

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and

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official Dan Burros. Burros committed suicide the day the article was published, and McCandlish won the Page One Award from the Newspaper Guild of New York for the piece. Phillips died in Manhattan from complications of

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. The World Journalism Institute's John McCandlish Phillips Director of Mentoring is named in his honor.

Selected publications

*''The Bible, the Supernatural and the Jews'' (1970) *''The Spirit World'' (1970) *''City Notebook'' (1974) *''What Every Christian Should Know About the Supernatural'' (1987)

References

External links

McCandlish Phillips Chair of Journalism
1927 births 2013 deaths American male journalists The New York Times journalists 20th-century American journalists Brookline High School alumni People from Glen Cove, New York {{US-journalist-1920s-stub