1. Jack Abraham Newfield was an American journalist, columnist, author, documentary filmmaker and activist.
19 Facts About Jack Newfield
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Jack Newfield wrote numerous books about modern social and political subjects, including A Prophetic Minority and Robert Kennedy: A Memoir.
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When he was four years old, his father, Phillip Jack Newfield, died of a heart attack.
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Jack Newfield was arrested in the South at a sit-in in 1963 and spent two days in a Mississippi jail with Michael Schwerner, who was murdered in that state in June 1964 with James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.
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Jack Newfield served as a copy boy at the New York Daily Mirror and later became editor of the West Side News, a local weekly.
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Jack Newfield resided on Charlton Street in Greenwich Village for most of his adult life.
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Jack Newfield considered himself a "participatory journalist", involved in politics and advocacy.
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Stone, Jack Newfield held himself to a professional standard of moral emotionalism.
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From 1988, Jack Newfield was editor and writer in an investigative reporting unit at the New York Daily News.
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Jack Newfield wrote A Prophetic Minority, his account of the early 1960s civil rights movement, the formation of the SNCC, the voter registration initiative in Mississippi, the expansion of the SNCC to include white students and the rise of SDS.
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Jack Newfield was traveling with Kennedy and his campaign when the senator from New York was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles on in June 1968.
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Jack Newfield was a politician; His enemies said he was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend.
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In 1988, Robert Kennedy: A Memoir was adapted into an acclaimed documentary, which Jack Newfield wrote and co-directed.
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Jack Newfield was writer and reporter of JFK, Hoffa and the Mob, a 1992 PBS documentary.
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Jack Newfield advocated for professional boxers to be viewed as members of the "exploited working class".
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Jack Newfield was an investigative reporter who wrote openly about social reform.
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From 1999 to 2004, Newfield wrote a series of columns advocating for the idea of a memorial honoring Jackie Robinson, legendary for his role as the first black professional baseball player in the major leagues, and Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team captain Pee Wee Reese, who together made history.
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Still working until the end of his life, Jack Newfield died in New York City, succumbing to kidney cancer on December 20,2004, at the age of 66.
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Jack Newfield received the American journalism George Polk Award in 1979 for reporting on politics at the Village Voice.