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Memorable Manitobans: James Hugh “Jim” Richardson (1894-1963)
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Jim Richardson
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Journalist.
Born at Windsor, Ontario on 23 November 1894, his family moved to Winnipeg around 1908 and he attended Kelvin High School. In 1912, after being expelled from school, he began a career in journalism as a reporter for the Winnipeg Telegram. The next year, he moved to California and became a reporter for the Los Angeles Evening Herald. He eventually rose to the position of City Editor before moving to the Post Record (1935-1936) then the Los Angeles Examiner (1937-1957). His autobiography For The Life of Me: Memoirs of a City Editor was published in 1954. In April 1958, he was inducted into the Manitoba Order of the Buffalo Hunt during a visit to Winnipeg to recount his journalistic reminiscences at the 70th anniversary celebrations of the Winnipeg Press Club. He died at Boulder City, Nevada on 30 September 1963. His papers are in the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Archives.
See also:
Cool Things in the Collection: Chapel Board: In Reverse and Backwards by Sheilla Jones
Manitoba History, Number 70, Fall 2012
Sources:
“‘You never get to live as other people do’,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 April 1958, page 1.
Finding Aid for the James Hugh Richardson Papers, 1917-1962, UCLA Archives.
We thank Jim McCullough for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 27 November 2017
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