McCandlish Phillips
McCandlish Phillips | |
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Phillips in the 1970s | |
| Born | John McCandlish Phillips Jr. December 4, 1927 Glen Cove, New York, U.S. |
| Died | April 9, 2013 (aged 85) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Brookline High School |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | The New York Times |
John McCandlish Phillips Jr. (December 4, 1927 – April 9, 2013) was an American journalist and author on religious subjects. He worked at The New York Times from 1952 to 1973. McCandlish was most well known for writing a story for the Times which revealed that senior Ku Klux Klan and former American Nazi Party official Dan Burros was ethnically Jewish, which resulted in Burros committing suicide.
Several years later Phillips stopped his work as a journalist to focus his career on evangelical Christianity. In 1962, he helped found the New Testament Missionary Fellowship in Manhattan.