| James Francis Jewell Archibald | |
| Birth Date: | 22 September 1871 |
| Birth Place: | Chautauqua County, New York, US |
| Death Place: | Hollywood, California, US |
James Francis Jewell Archibald (September 22, 1871 - May 29, 1934) was an American war correspondent. He was the first man wounded in the Spanish–American War.[1] He was embedded with German troops in World War I and was arrested when he returned to the United States.[2]
He was born on September 22, 1871, in Chautauqua County, New York to Dr. Francis Albert Archibald and Martha Washington Jewell.[3] He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1888.[1]
By 1910 he was living in Washington, DC.[4]
He was detained by the British in World War I and was found to be carrying a letter from Constantin Theodor Dumba, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the United States to Stephan Burián von Rajecz, the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Vienna.[5] The letter described a plan to delay the production of American munitions by a strike action.[6] He was charged with performing an "unneutral service" and later released.[5]
His wife filed for divorce in 1927.[7]
He committed suicide with a gunshot on May 29, 1934, in Hollywood, California.[8]