Talk:James O. Richardson

Reference 2 may be problematic
While it does cite many passages from Richardson's memoirs, reference 2 is from the Institute For Historical Review, which is a notorious Holocaust-revisionist group. See, for example, the Wikipedia page covering it, which does a good job summarizing its activities. I'm currently searching for another source to cite that will bring in these quotations, without giving the IHR any more traffic or respectability. Dblowe (talk) 19:28, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Under attack
The whole section regarding the Pearl Harbor attack sounds suspect to me. It lacks citations and doesn't read as neutral POV to this writer. Thoughts? Tchaika (talk) 00:29, 31 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree. Much of this article currently consists of rumor-mongering. In particular, the following statement should be removed if it cannot be properly sourced: "As of 2010, the CIA has not released many of the JN-25 messages deciphered before December 7, 1941." If there are no objections, I will delete it. --Westwind273 (talk) 08:02, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * There were no JN-25 messages decrypted; there were only very fragmentary breaks. Delete it. TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  08:58, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Identifying those who posit a Roosevelt set-up to Pearl Harbor as "historical fact seekers" is opinion, plainly. I can't see how so many deep insinuations can stand behind a single citation, penned so soon after the events to which they claim to offer the "final secret". I think the subtitle qualifies the work nicely in the broad scheme. DulcetTone (talk) 02:55, 24 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I should have done this long ago. It's an excuse to claim there was a conspiracy & has damn all to do with Richardson. Removed. TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  03:50, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Richardson
Two items. First, the citations regarding Richardson are improving as per above from 2011, but it's my perception that many books have been written about Pearl Harbor. Therefore, I find the reliance on Flynn to be better than nothing but not as good as it can be.

Odd reference to Offline Source
After the first blockquote in the Pearl Harbor and Aftermath section, there's a psuedo-reference asking readers to "[see Skipper Steely, Pearl Harbor Countdown, Pelican Publishing)." Obviously, whoever put in the reference believes it's in support of the paragraph but I don't have the book to verify it or replace it with a better reference. Can anyone else? If so, please replace this substandard ref. Thanks! -- Srwalden (talk) 19:37, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Cousin of Gore Vidal
In his 2000 novel The Golden Age (the last entry in his saga of American History, Narratives of Empire) Gore Vidal introduces Admiral Richardson as a cousin of his grandfather, "the blind senator" Thomas Gore of Oklahoma. In Part 6, chapter 2 of the novel, the Admiral, his cousin the Senator and another [fictitious] senator have a most interesting conversation about the events leading to the Attack on Pearl Harbor and war with Japan.

208.87.248.162 (talk) 01:21, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Place of death
I am disturbed that the bio abstract box says he died in Bethseda, Maryland (I imagine that would be the Naval Hospital), but the text says he died at his home in D.C.

Lorens (talk) 22:07, 7 November 2016 (UTC)