Talk:John Rees (journalist)

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Stumbled across this page just now...It's presently an unsourced smear, but I don't have the information to fix it. I added POV tag and cite requests and will put the page on RFC. --FRS 19:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I dug through a bit on the Internet. He was a police informant but I couldn't find enough material to justify calling him a spy. The Washington Post and Skeptics.org found his reporting on Lyndon LaRouche legitimate enough to cite. Added external links and made slight text modifications. Durova 23:33, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re-write by subject[edit]

John Rees, or someone claiming to be John Rees, re-wrote the article in this edit. Mr. Rees, if you are reading this, I would suggest you have another go at it, keeping these factors in mind: first of all, a biographical article shouldn't be written in the first person. Secondly, Wikipedia has a rule that articles must be based on published sources. I see that you object to material from Chip Berlet and Political Research Associates that you regard as incorrect -- I symphathize with you on that, I too think that those are very unreliable sources. But under Wikipedia rules, you either have to present rebuttal evidence from another published source, or make a specific challenge to the material based on the unreliability of the source. This can be time consuming. Best of luck on that. I have made some corrections to the article based on non-controversial things you assert about yourself, such as your nationality. --Niels Gade (talk) 16:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lede says he is British, but the factbox says American, born ‘c. 1926’. Article says Rees himself claimed to have been born in Lithuania circa 1964. Can we have some consistency? Valetude (talk) 08:50, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

He clearly wasn't born in 1964 - I knew him and would guess sometime in the late 30s. Grace Metalious died in 1964. Maybe the piece is clumsily trying to say that he made the Lithuania claim (which I never heard) in 1964. Cross Reference (talk) 15:10, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

He was Lithuanian. He left with the SS in 1944. 122.150.92.52 (talk) 03:31, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not Grace Metalious[edit]

That can't be Grace Metalious in the photograph with Nancy Reagan. If it were Grace Metalious, it would have had to have been taken before February 25, 1964, the day that Metalious died. Even assuming that it was taken before that date, long before Nancy Reagan became very prominent as First Lady, and even assuming that Nancy Reagan looked the same in the early 1960s as she did in the 1980s, the woman identified as Grace Metalious just clearly isn't. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jersey Jan (talk • contribs) 02:01, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Photo with Nancy Reagan not Grace Metalious[edit]

Metalious died in 1964. Recommend changing photo caption. 2001:8F8:1D13:DF98:347F:ECC:1DFF:DC40 (talk) 16:36, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]