Meet John Doe
A newspaper columnist facing dismissal invents a letter from a fictional everyman threatening to take his own life in protest of social injustice, and when the story explodes the paper hires a down-on-his-luck former ballplayer to play the part, setting off a national movement that soon slips beyond anyone's control.
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