Talk:Ramón Mercader

message: "...On August 20 the same year, Mercader..." 
This looks like careless editing. What year?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.145.0.162 (talk) 14:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: is it fitting that a lying murderer died painfully of cancer? 174.24.17.22 (talk) 19:23, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Murder of Trotsky

message: Why did not anybody make a movie or a book about this guy. I mean, Leon Trotsky was FAR more powerful then any American president. His story is fantastic Hollywood stuff. Assassin sent by KGB undercover to kill one of the most powerful men on Earth. Befriends his target for about two years and kills him. Damn...I'll have to write a story about this guy. He deserves it (he was only twenty six when he killed Trotzky).
Has been done ---> 
Snottily 12:16, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why not a movie? 

message: The use o fthe name for assassins in major films is notable content, showing continued awareness of his deeds. I have restored the deletion. DGG (talk) 13:04, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: restoration of content

message: The story goes Sylvia Ageloff met Mercader as Jacques Mornard in Paris. Ageloff moved back home to New York where Mercader met her with the Frank Jacson passport. He explained he bought the passport for $3500 to avoid military service.
Also Canadian passports were issused as early as 1915. lookie
BaomoVW (talk) 23:55, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: re: Frank Jacson

message: "Mornard" looked like Mercader's relatives. A Belgian would not know Catalan phrases. The fingerprints from 1950
would come partly from the Franquist police, of course.
Mercader was too dark and short to be a Belgian.
The unusual spelling "Jacson" has been described as a double bluff to disarm suspicion,
but it was probably just a stupid mistake.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.44.108.96 (talk) 14:04, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identity 

message: The correct name of this man was "Jaume Ramon", not "Jaime Ramón", this is the spanish name, but not the original one, which was written and pronounced in the catalan way.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Freecatalonia46 (talk • contribs) 17:29, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real name 

message: I just asked  on his userpage about the source for his recent edit.  Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:37, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mixed sources 

message: His nationality is referred to as Spanish, not Catalan. Catalonia is part of Spain. Here are examples of this:   (all refer to him as Spanish). Not to mention, he is referred to as a Spaniard, not a Catalan in the Spanish Wikipedia. (N0n3up (talk) 06:20, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Another page of wikipedia cannot be a reference to wikipedia 77.224.177.143 (talk) 07:53, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish, not Catalan 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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message: sentences like this should never appear in a serious encyclopedia 37.119.180.240 (talk) 20:36, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "His last words are said to have been:.." 

message: The Leon Trotsky article claims:
"Trotsky was then taken to a hospital and operated on, surviving for more than a day, but dying, at the age of 60, on 21 August 1940 from exsanguination and shock."
But the Ramón Mercader article claims:
"Trotsky was taken to a hospital in the city and operated on but died the next day as a result of severe brain injuries."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by HappyTrojans (talk • contribs) 10:35, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death of Trotsky 

message: https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1959/9/12/my-strange-encounter-with-the-worlds-most-mysterious-assassin
His wife graduated from a US university. He was responsible on electricity in a prison. In 1959 he refused from a 1 mln USD contract for a book and a movie so that not to recognize his identity as Ramon Mercader though it had been established by Delgado, his  father Pau Mercader, by his fingerprints etc.etc.~SSt01  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SSt001 (talk • contribs) 21:00, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Mercader in a prison 

message: I recently removed a startling quote from this article. It read:  The source given was a 2017 Guardian article (link), which does indeed include the quote, but also hedges by phrasing it as "said to have been". There is no actual attribution given. An IP editor added the quote to our Wiki article the same day that the Guardian story was published in 2017.
I am completely unable to track down a pre-2017 source for these supposed last words. I don't know what's going on with The Guardian, but it seems to me that if this is not a total fabrication, it *must* show up in some sources between Mercader's 1978 death and the 2017 newspaper article. A book called Day of the Assassins, published in 2021, mentioned it in a paragraph sourced from The Mind of an Assassin, by Isaac Don Levine. Levine's book was published in 1959 and republished in 1979, just after Mercader's death. However, I have borrowed a copy and verified that the 1979 edition of The Mind of an Assassin makes no mention whatsoever of these "last words" by Mercader. I cannot find any other trace of a pre-2017 source for this quote. Given this, I think we have to regard the quote as highly dubious until a pre-2017 source can be located. I will place an invisible comment in the article to this effect. —Ganesha811 (talk) 17:34, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last words completely unverifiable - need pre-2017 source