Meet John Doe

A female newspaper reporter writes a final column; a phony story of a man who plans to jump off of City Hall on Christmas Eve; as a protest of the mistreatment of the common people in society. When the article is a hit; the reporter must come up with someone to impersonate the man she fabricated; so she recruits a down on his luck former ballplayer to take on the identity. When the newspaper publisher; with aspirations towards a Presidential bid; plots to use the man for his political gain; the reporter and the ballplayer are forced to make a decision about keeping up the ruse.