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< | '''John Siegenthaler''', an American journalist, created and founded the | ||
==Wikipedia controversy== | |||
In 2005, an anonymous edit to [[Wikipedia]] said <blockquote>John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven. John Seigenthaler moved to the Soviet Union in 1971, and returned to the United States in 1984," Wikipedia said. "He started one of the country's largest public relations firms shortly thereafter."<ref name=JS-UT-WP>{{citation | |||
|date = 29 November 2005 | |||
|journal = USA Today | |||
|title = A false Wikipedia 'biography' | |||
|author = John Seigenthaler | |||
|url = http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm | |||
}}</ref></blockquote> | |||
The material also spread to reference.com and answers.com. It was removed when Seigenthaler pointed out, to [[Jimmy Wales]], that only one sentence was true: he was [[Robert F. Kennedy]]'s administrative assistant. | |||
He was also one of his pallbearers. | |||
Revision as of 13:07, 23 May 2010
John Siegenthaler, an American journalist, created and founded the
Wikipedia controversy
In 2005, an anonymous edit to Wikipedia said
John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven. John Seigenthaler moved to the Soviet Union in 1971, and returned to the United States in 1984," Wikipedia said. "He started one of the country's largest public relations firms shortly thereafter."[1]
The material also spread to reference.com and answers.com. It was removed when Seigenthaler pointed out, to Jimmy Wales, that only one sentence was true: he was Robert F. Kennedy's administrative assistant.
He was also one of his pallbearers.
- ↑ John Seigenthaler (29 November 2005), "A false Wikipedia 'biography'", USA Today