User:BMcCJ/John Thompson Whitaker

John Thompson Whitaker (b. 1906, d. 1946) was a notable journalist, foreign correspondent and OSS officer. He is most notable for _______________.

John T. Whitaker was born in 1906 in __________. John graduated from The University of the South (Sewanee), phi beta kappa, Valedictorian, etc, in 1927. A memorial dedicated to him is in the University Chapel.

He was indeed a journalist and I think had been a friend/colleague of [John I. B. McCulloch]. He wrote a book which is packed away somewhere here, "We Cannot Escape History" published in 1943. Also, "Americas to the South."

In 194? he was married to [Elizabeth Ten Broeck Jones] in Washington, D.C.

He had cancer, and died in 1946, with President Truman attending the funeral.