Talk:John M. Patterson

Questions
Why polish Wikipedia has a large article (section and pictures) about gov. Patterson, and english has so little?

And what about his role in Invasion on Cuba in 1961? Seymour Hersh wrote about this in "Dark Side of Camelot".

Name spelling
If there's a reason for spelling "Malcolm" as "Malcom" in this article's title, we ought to mention it. If there isn't, we ought to correct it. - Nunh-huh 01:47, 2 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Given that there are roughly the same number of Google hits on "John Malcom Patterson" and "John Malcolm Patterson", and that the official sites prefer the more common spelling, I suspect most of the hits for the misspelling are our mirrors, so I'm moving the article pending any reason it should be at "Malcom" - Nunh-huh 23:17, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Question
Is it an error that in the intro it states that he was the 49th governor and in the side table it shows him as the 44th? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.145.192.220 (talk) 23:43, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

In Popular Culture?
It should be worth noting that there is a rather heavily fictionalized/romanticized movie about Patterson's road to the AG's office called "The Phenix City Story." The city omits any serious organized crime references (the phrase "the mob" is used, but the "mobsters" are all local rednecks) and deliberately gives Patterson a black war buddy sidekick in the usual (for the era) attempt to ignore the racist element of the "anti-crime reform" movement that Patterson came to lead. The fact that the movie was made while Patterson was running for Attorney General and released while he was attorney general, and thus had a serious impact on how he was viewed during the bulk of his political career thereafter, would seem to make it worth mentioning.EclecticGeek (talk) 16:40, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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