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词条 John Lake (journalist)
释义

  1. Personal background

  2. Career

  3. Disappearance

  4. Reactions

  5. See also

  6. References

  7. External links

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}}John Eric Lake (born February 18, 1930 in Albany, New York - disappeared December 10, 1967) was the sports editor of Newsweek until his mysterious disappearance.[1]

Personal background

John Eric Lake was born February 18, 1930 in Albany, New York.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} He graduated in 1951 with a B.A. degree in journalism from Syracuse University, where he met his wife Alice Conlin.[1] The couple married in 1952 while Lake was serving in the U.S. Navy in Honolulu, Hawaii.[1] He returned to graduate school at Syracuse after he was discharged from the U.S. Navy.[1] The couple had a daughter and a son.[1][2] His wife and children later moved to New Jersey and then to Islesford, Cranberry Island, Maine.[1] John Lake was declared missing in December 1967 and deceased by a court in New Jersey in 1975.[1][9]

Career

The Binghamton News Press hired both John Lake and his wife in 1952, and he worked in sports while she wrote features.[1] In 1959 Lake became a staff writer at the New York Herald Tribune.[1][3] Lake worked with Red Smith while at the Tribune.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} In February 1964, he moved to Newsweek to become its sports editor.[1][2][3] He succeeded Dick Schaap in this role.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} In his last year at the magazine, Lake authored three cover stories (nine in four years) on such varied topics as "The Black Athlete", the Indy 500 and the World Series.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} Lake was hired as a ghost writer for Bob Gibson's autobiography and had all but submitted the work.[4][5] Lake's last issue for Newsweek was the December 11, 1967 issue with a cover featuring a dark-haired, bespectacled Robert McNamara, asked, "Why is He Leaving?"{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} After Lake's disappearance in 1967, he was replaced as sports editor six months later by Pete Axthelm, a writer for Sports Illustrated.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}

Disappearance

John Lake was last seen in midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Sunday, December 10, 1967. At that time, he was walking toward the subway to go home.[3][6][7] A missing persons report was filed by his wife, Alice, four days later.[3] His disappearance was investigated by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, which was hired by Newsweek.[3] Years after, a police officer from missing persons showed his son a February 1968 photo of a corpse who closely resembled Lake but could not be positively identified.[3]

Missing Person documents:

  • New York Police Agency Case Number: 29273
  • NCIC Number: M-563761275
  • NamUs MO#4386

Reactions

Lake was admired by other journalists and athletes. Peter Benchley, author and screenwriter, who edited the Radio/TV section at Newsweek at the time, admitted to being intimidated by him.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} Mario Andretti, auto race driver, called him the most prepared journalist from the national media that ever interviewed him.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} Bert Sugar, boxing raconteur, recalls it was John Lake that moved press conferences from showmanship to seriousness with a single question.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}

See also

  • List of missing people

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ellsworthamerican.com/obituary/alice-conlon-lake|title=Alice Conlon Lake|work=The Ellsworth American|date=November 2, 2011 |type=Obituary}}
2. ^{{cite news|first=Mel |last=Gussow |title=Newsweek Alumni: Nostalgia and History |newspaper=New York Times |date=March 1, 2004 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/arts/newsweek-alumni-nostalgia-and-history.html}}
3. ^{{cite news|first=Dan |last=Barry |title=The Father Who Never Came Home |newspaper=New York Times |date=August 24, 2005|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/nyregion/the-father-who-never-came-home.html}}
4. ^{{cite book|first=Dennis |last=D'Agostino|title=Keepers of the Game: When the Baseball Beat was the Best Job on the Paper|publisher=Potomac Books, Inc.|year=2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVWNfH0rNioC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.appelpr.com/ARTICLES/pepe-scd-vintage-books.htm|title=Pepe by Marty Appel|work=appelpr.com|access-date=2015-12-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305004108/http://www.appelpr.com/ARTICLES/pepe-scd-vintage-books.htm|archive-date=2016-03-05|dead-url=yes|df=}}
6. ^{{cite web|title=Case Report - NamUs MP #4386 | url= https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/case_report_html/4386}}
7. ^{{cite web |title=John Eric Lake |url=http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/l/lake_john.html |access-date=2015-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151108082357/http://charleyproject.org/cases/l/lake_john.html |archive-date=2015-11-08 |dead-url=yes |df= }}

External links

  • John Lake Biography
  • John Lake chapters
  • John Lake at the Doe Network
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