Interview: John Calpin (2nd Interview)

Interview: John Calpin (2nd Interview)

When he graduated from Temple University with a journalism degree in 1925, John Calpin (1904-1991) became a police reporter for The Philadelphia Bulletin. There, he witnessed first hand the impact of Prohibition on the city of Philadelphia and the vast power of the Republican City Machine. In the decades that followed, Calpin would go on to become a newspaper bureau chief and civic reformer.

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Charles Hardy

John Calpin

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United States--Trials, litigation, etc.

Gambling

Journalism.

Newspapers.

Reporters and reporting.

Race relations

William Jones