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Note about reference 21...

In reference 21, Jefferson County, Louisiana is mentioned, however the state of Louisiana has no counties, but rather "parishes", a hold over from the era of Napoleonic rule. John.m.horn (talk) 20:54, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Eddie Rickenbcker Movie?

When I was maybe 13 or 14 I remember seeing some sort of movie about Eddie Rickenbacker where Jimmy Stewart played him. But I can't find this film anywhere or of Stewart ever played Rickenbacker in a movie. Can anyone confirm this? The movie I remember was black and white and Stewart was very young. 68.116.185.215 (talk) 03:56, 31 March 2011 (UTC)Jim Daubney

There was a movie that came out in 1945 called Captain Eddie that was about Rickenbacker. It starred Fred MacMurray as Eddie and was done by 20th Century Fox. Comments on the net say it wasn't very good. GroveGuy (talk) 05:46, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
The movie with Jimmy Stewart was made in 1957 and was called "The Spirit of St. Louis". It was about Charles Lindbergh.12.167.240.235 (talk) 17:37, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Date of Death?

The page for July 23 says that he died on July 23, 1973, but this page says he died on July 27th.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.118.253.68 (talk) 21:46, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Done. This page also now says July 23. GroveGuy (talk) 07:34, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Cites needing clarification

There are a number of shortened footnote cites like "Rickenbacker, p. 115" in this article, and three books by Rickenbacker listed in the References section. I'm guessing that all those cites are meant to refer to the 1967 book, but that's just a guess. This ought to be fixed. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:10, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I see that User:GroveGuy fixed some of the cites in this edit. Thanks. If anyone else has access to the cited sources, fixes on the rest of the cites are still needed. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:39, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Ah! I found [1], [2], [3] (probably some others too -- I've lost track), where disambiguating year info was removed from the rest cites. I've restored those. All were from the 1967 book and all look OK now. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:15, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

The ones I didn't fix were where on that page in the 1967 book the information wasn't found. I thought it might be from another book. For example, "using the word safe" is not found on page 261.GroveGuy (talk) 20:17, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
I don't have the book and cannot verify or refute the cites. All I could do was verify that the disambiguating date info was present in past versions of the article when the cites were cast as inline harvard refs and was removed without clarifying explanation when the cites were recast as shortened footnotes. If your reverification against the cited source refutes the claimed supporting cite, I'd say that the proper thing to do would be to replace the refuted cites with a {{failed verification}} tag or with a {{citation needed}} tags, possibly with a |reason= parameter explaining that a cite which failed verification was removed. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:48, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
I'll fix them as soon as I can. GroveGuy (talk) 01:25, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
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