John McCandlish Phillips, Jr. (December 4, 1927 – April 9, 2013) was an American journalist and author on religious subjects.
Phillips was born in Glen Cove, New York and graduated from Brookline High School in Massachusetts.
In 1965, despite death threats, McCandlish exposed the Jewish background of senior Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party official Daniel 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.
The World Journalism Institute's John McCandlish Phillips Director of Mentoring is named in his honor.”[3]