Talk:Jon-Erik Hexum/Archives/2013

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"or a 66 year old man suffering from cataracts" ... Cataracts are treated via the surgical removal of the crystallin lens. An artifical lens is then inserted in its place. There is no such thing as a 'lens transplant.' The only part of the eye used for transplant is the cornea. I have removed this reference. 137.197.67.31 15:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Disregard this section of comments
I previously made the following comments regarding the article. I just spent 13 hours cleaning up the style and informational errors on the page, providing additional references when necessary. Though personal communications technically are to be placed only inline, the letter to Gretha Hexum would have been quite long when adequately cited inline. Therefore, it is referenced in the References section in a style consistent with the other references. Jared82ca (talk) 21:04, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

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This is really a poor article. There are a number of mistakes in it that come from relying on these errant sources: While researching and creating a Web site about Jon-Erik Hexum, I discovered that these sources were flawed, and just how many "sources" simply copy misinformation from another source and pass it along. I double and triple checked these facts from the best sources before posting a word. I also found copies of firsthand documents (death certificate, letter from transplant bank to Gretha Hexum). See my user page to verify these.
 * Entertainment Weekly. Jon-Erik Hexum's Fatal Joke. October 14, 1994. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,304026,00.html.
 * Snauffer, Douglas. The Show Must Go on: How the Deaths of Lead Actors Have Affected Television Series. N.p.: McFarland, 2008.
 * Andy Meisler, "Television; When a Series Loses One of Its Own," New York Times, November 8, 1992, under "Arts/Television," http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/08/arts/television-when-a-series-loses-one-of-its-own.html.
 * Parish, James. The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols. Chicago: Contemporary Books of McGraw Hill, 2001.

The errors being perpetuated include:
 * 1) Hexum was born in Englewood, New Jersey, not Tenafly. When his father left, his mother moved the family to Tenafly. In addition, the nearest hospital is in Englewood.
 * 2) Hexum is of Norwegian and Icelandic heritage. His father was an immigrant but his mother was born in Minnesota.
 * 3) The character of Mac Harper on Cover Up is not a former model turned weapons expert. Mac is a CIA ex-Green Beret outrider posing as a male model.
 * 4) After his organs were harvested, his body was returned to Los Angeles for autopsy but not for burial. Hexum was cremated at Grandview Crematory in Glendale, and his mother scattered his ashes off the coast of Malibu.
 * 5) Cover Up resumed two weeks after Hexum's death, not four as stated. "Golden Opportunity" was broadcast on November 3, 1984: two days before what would have been Hexum's 27th birthday.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jared82ca (talk • contribs) 20:20, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Contradiction: His body (did, didn't) leave California
In the Death section, the article reads "With his mother's permission, Hexum was flown to Las Vegas and taken off life support so that his organs could be donated.", but in the Info section, the article reads "His body never left California. jt" which was seemingly signed by someone named jt (I deleted the letters jt from the article). --nertzy 03:43, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I think there is a misunderstanding about his body being flown to Las Vegas. In a report following his death, they said he was flown to San Francisco, not Las Vegas. The man who needed a heart transplant was from Las Vegas, but the way I understood it, the transplantation was done in San Francisco. I cannot state the exact source of this fact, but I think that's what the other person meant with: his body never left california. Lenaxena 21:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Excuse me: Did the heart transplant recipient not leave California after the surgery to return home to Vegas? If he did, then Hexum's body also left California. Piecewise, sure, but it did! (Yet another decade-old trivial mistake corrected.)

Birth date
It's true that his death certificate shows a different birth date than the date you usually read on various websites (including imdb), but that date IS wrong: http://boles.com/called/hexum4.jpg

I wrote an email to Jon-Erik Hexum's brother Gunnar Hexum and he replied:

You are right, his birthday is November 5, 1957

I think that should be proof enough!

So I'd stick to November for the article.

-- Lenaxena 19:00, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Hexum.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:39, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Deleted content
The article included reference to "controversy unrelated to Hexum" that led to the show being cancelled. I could find no reference to this elsewhere and the Wikipedia article on the series makes no reference to this. As it was irrelevant to Hexum anyway, I just took out the reference. 68.146.70.124 (talk) 15:37, 19 December 2013 (UTC)