Talk:John Quincy Adams

This article has been used as a source by a Television Show. See the 2012 TV and radio source article for details. The citation is in: "Auction Kings" Season 3, Episode 3, first aired May 2nd, 2012. Part of the intro to the article (zoomed in on a computer tablet) was used to help verify partial authenticity of a document purportedly signed by John Quincy Adams.

Bunker Hill and the young Adams

May we insert a comment concerning Adams and his mother Abigail witnessing the Battle of Bunker Hill? The event had a great impact on Adams which he wrote about later in his life.

Proposed addition: "At the age of eight, Adams, in the company of his mother Abigail, witnessed the Battle of Bunker Hill, a traumatizing experience that made a deep impression lasting into his final years."

Nathaniel Philbrick: "From Seventy-one years after that day, in the jittery script of an old man, John Quincy Adams described the terrifying afternoon when he and his mother watched the battle from a hill beside their home in Braintree: “I saw with my own eyes those fires, and heard Britannia’s thunders in the Battle of Bunker’s hill and witnessed the tears of my mother and mingled with them my own.” They feared, he recounted, that the British troops might at any moment march out of Boston and “butcher them in cold blood” or take them as hostages and drag them back into the besieged city. But what he remembered most about the battle was the hopeless sense of sorrow that he and his mother felt when they learned that their family physician, Dr. Joseph Warren, had been killed.

Warren had saved John Quincy Adams’s badly fractured forefinger from amputation, and the death of this “beloved physician” was a terrible blow to a boy whose father’s mounting responsibilities required that he spend months away from home. Even after John Quincy Adams had grown into adulthood and become a public figure, he refused to attend all anniversary celebrations of the Battle of Bunker Hill..."

https://www.penguin.com/ajax/books/excerpt/9781101622704

Bunker Hill: a City, a Siege, a Revolution. New York: Viking, 2013. ISBN 0-670-02544-5 OCLC 818953755

Cite Error; Reference 76.

Can someone take a look at reference #76? If I try to fix it I'm liable to break the references even further. Thanks a bunch! -- Sleyece (talk) 12:19, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Changing Adams' Wikipedia picture

So yesterday I changed the Wikipedia picture of John Quincy Adams from a black and white photograph of Adams to a color painting. The reason for this change was because the photograph of John Quincy Adams was taken after he was president, while the painting was made while he was president. --Helloguyswhatisup (talk) 20:53, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

EDIT: My edit was recently reversed, why? --Helloguyswhatisup (talk) 16:40, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Probably because: #1) Its is the article LEDE graphic and those kinds of changes should usually be discussed here first; and #2) Photos are prioritized over paintings in the encyclopedia. You can start such a discussion here, but if you check the archives above, you'll see this has been discussed before, and it's very probable that discussion still wouldn't result in an IAR situation here. Good luck, GenQuest ^"scribble" 03:51, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

The painting of John Quincy Adams I used may have actually been from after John Quincy Adams left office, as the Wikimedia Commons page for that painting put the date as "circa 1820s-1830s", so does anybody know of a painting that was made between 1825 and 1829? --Helloguyswhatisup (talk) 22:57, 5 February 2021 (UTC)