John McCaffery (November 30, 1913 - October 3, 1983), also known as John K. M. McCaffery, was an American television host who appeared on many game shows and talk shows during the 1940s and 1950s including Americana, Television Screen Magazine, What's the Story, One Minute Please, and Author Meets the Critics.
McCaffery was best known as anchorman of what was called The eleventh Hour News.[1]
McCaffery was a native of Moscow, Idaho, who grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University, with a master's degree from the latter institution. He had two sisters.[2]
McCaffery taught English at City College of New York, Pratt Institute, and St. Joseph's College for Women before he became a public relations pracitioner. He worked in advertising for Doubleday, Doran and Company publishers, after which he became an editor for Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. After that, he was a fiction editor for The American Magazine and an editor for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He was a columnist for Publishers Weekly and edited several books.
McCaffery was the host of Author Meets the Critics on NBC television.[3] He was host of Room 416, a 15-minute weeekday morning program on WNBC radio in 1947.[4]
McCaffery also hosted the following game shows:
McCaffery and his wife, Dorothy, had four sons. He died on October 3, 1983, in Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, Connecticut, at the age of 69.