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James (Jim) Patterson (Zweig Photography)
News: See Jim's review of Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine at http://breakingpointfilm.com/
Bob Woodward and Jim Patterson, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Campus. (Photo: Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library)
Jim Patterson (Credit Photo: New York Times, 1994)
Jim Patterson, 2017, Please credit photo (Courtesy Smithsonian Institution)
Jim Patterson interviewing U.S. Congressman Glenn Browder, one of the last Democrats elected to the U.S. Congress. 1995.
Jim Patterson with former Indiana US Senator Dan Coates now 5th Director of National Intelligence in the Trump Administration. Capitol Hill Victory Party 2016.
Jim Patterson, official diplomatic portrait.
Jim Patterson Washington DC 2017.
Jim Patterson at his Watergate Office, 2016.
Classes Taught:
Economics/Public Affairs and Policy, Graduate School US Dept of Agriculture 1988-1998.
Valley Times News
Agricultural Marketing Service (USDA)
Congressional Testimonial
Senator Howell Heflin
Environmental Marketing
How to Be A Green Consumer
Commodity Marketing
Graduate School Training
Fairfax County Adult Education
Foreign Service Examination Results
Agricultural Education Magazine
American Foreign Service Association Life Membership
Valley Times-News March 8, 2004
Commerce People Magazine
This 2-page document is the justification for the award I received from US Department of Commerce, 1987. This was a great honor and it led to greater Department-wide productivity as measured by the Office of the Secretary!
National Guard Magazine
Honorary Colonel Alabama National Guard
Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Ph. D. Former Sec. of State and Alabamian.
DC Speaking Event
US Senator Richard Shelby
Washington Scene Valley Times-News
1995-2006
Testimonial
Microcomputing Economist 1985-1990
Capitol PC Monitor, Washington DC
Sec Clayton Yeutter Testimonial
Additional awards below. Recent Articles:
2020:
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2020/01/07/alabama-voices-u-s-must-reset-iran-relations-trump-style/2828047001/
2019
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0809-evelyn-davis-20190808-dgtglnsmtrd5fgr2o7sopky7lq-story.html
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2019/07/25/alabama-voices-trump-may-have-his-reagan-moment-iran/1803624001/ Donald Trump's Ronald Reagan Moment in Montgomery Alabama.
Montgomery Advertiser Alabama Voices: I didn’t compromise my Alabama upbringing for Hollywood Jan. 29, 2019
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2019/01/29/i-didnt-compromise-my-alabama-upbringing-hollywood/2706410002/:
DACOR, February 2018 Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche, Statesman
40 Years after the Kopper Kettle explosion, Alabama Living January 2018
http://alabamaliving.coop/article/40-years-after-the-kopper-kettle-explosion/Explosion in 1978 destroyed much of downtown Auburn, December 26, 2018
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/12/26/explosion-1978-destroyed-much-downtown-auburn/969959001/
The Congressional Record, U.S. House of Representatives, December 18, 2017, "Explosions" a Sermon preached by Rev. Rod Sinclair, St. Dunstan's Episcopal College Center, Auburn University, January 22, 1978.
http://lgbtweekly.com/2017/11/25/could-harvey-milk-and-jesse-helms-have-worked-together/
Christian Science Monitor Reader Recommendation Eric Hoffer The Ordeal of Change
DACOR December 2017 Newsletter Townsend Harris First U.S. Consul to Japan
Christian Science Monitor Reader Recommendation I Like People Grove Patterson
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/10/19/auburn-graduate-recalls-correspondence-silent-film-star-lillian-gish/779392001/
Evelyn Y. Davis and Me, Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/09/14/opinion-evelyn-davis-vamp-wall-street-pioneer-womens-rights/666037001/
Christian Science Monitor July 10 & 17, 2017
Brief Reader Recommendation Ustinov's Diplomats
Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/07/06/alabama-voices-former-young-republican-looks-back-1976-election/455880001/
Montgomery Advertiser July 30 (edited for digital and print editions) Fearless Freedom Rider
Happy to support the work of the World War I Centennial Commission with this contribution on the 1927 US film "Wings." June 13, 2017
http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/2539-review-france-screening-of-1927-film-wings.html
Patterson: Violence Against Christians is Global Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser Print edition May 7, 2017 http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/05/03/patterson-violence-against-christians-global/101242112/
90th Anniversary of Wings, first Film to Receive Academy Award as Best Film, Screened at the Embassy of France in recognition of U.S. Entry in WWI, Classic Images, July 2017 (Edited)
90th Anniversary Appreciation of "Annie Laurie" and the Massacre of Glencoe on Film, Classic Images June 2017 (Edited)
Ustinov's Dipolomats, DACOR Bulletin, July/August 2017
http://dacorbacon.org/live/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/DACOR-Bulletin-Jul-Aug-2017-for-web.pdf
Marie McDonald: Drugs and "The Body" Drug Addiction of Actress Marie McDonald Classic Images May 2017
My father, myself, Montgomery Advertiser, April 30, 2017
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/04/27/alabama-voices-my-father-myself/100972344/
A Star for Alabama's Louise Fletcher Montgomery Advertiser April 12, 2017 (working) http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/04/12/column-star-alabamas-louise-fletcher/100120852/
Patterson Greets Princess - Valley Times News, Lanett, Alabama (3rd Congressional District) April 6, 2017. Color Photo with Alabama Cherry Blossom Princess 2017.
Breslin's Visit to Alabama School, New York Daily News, April 6, 2017
Agriculture Education Magazine An Appreciation for Trade Ambassador, Agriculture Secretary and Educator Clayton Yeutter (working)
Foggy Bottom News, Photo Essay Diplomat Honors Mexican President Benito Juarez in Foggy Bottom March 2017 (working)
Remembering Trade Ambassador Clayton Yeutter, DACOR Bulletin May 2017, page 20. Private Circulation Newsletter Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired, Washington DC (Diplomatic And Consular Officers Retired)
Arbor Day April 2017 Washington Post Blog (Working)
Fraternity of Alpha Zeta Newsletter Tribute to Dr. Clayton Yeutter April 2017
http://www.alphazeta.org/dnn/News/ArtMID/6668/ArticleID/2439/Tribute-to-Dr-Clayton-Yeutter
USAToday Jimmy Breslin in Alabama 1963
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/03/28/column-powerful-words-breslin-continue-inspire/99727010/
Powerful words of Jimmy Breslin Continue to Inspire March 29 2017 Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/03/28/column-powerful-words-breslin-continue-inspire/99727010/
Wisdom needed in US-Mexican Relations March 21 2017 Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/03/20/column-may-wisdom-prevail-us-mexican-relations/99404036/
Research Mentioned in San Francisco Chronicle on Charles Schumer-Donald Trump March 14, 2017
http://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/garchik/article/Donald-Trump-as-a-law-and-order-president-10999088.php
Classic Images March 2017 Griffith and Gish's The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Friday January 13,2017
Dr. King and Auburn's Kopper Kettle Explosion of January 15 1978
Valley Times News Lanett, Alabama (3rd Congressional District)
West Point Tmes News, Wet Point, GA (3rd Congressional District)
February 23, 2017 Elitists Miss the Point of Mess Trump Faces
Valley Times News Lanett Alabama (3rd Congressional District)
West Point Times News West Point GA (3rd Congressional District)
Patterson Speaks at Chinese Embassy (Photo) February 16, 2017
Valley Times News Lanett Alabama (3rd Congressional District)
West Point Times News West Point GA (3rd Congressional District)
February 10 Manufacturing is More than Huge Plants: Micromanufacturing
Valley Times News Lanett, Alabama (3rd Congressional District)
West Point Times News West Point GA (3rd Congressional District)
February 7, 2017 Appreciation Dr. Charles Otto, 96, A Caring Veterinarian
Valley Times News Lanett Alabama (3rd Congressional District)
West Point Times News, West Point GA (3rd Congressional District) 2016
"Nothing was too Hard for Helen Keller" Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/10/13/nothing-too-hard-helen-keller/92017568/
Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective Book Review. Agricultural History, Winter 2015 Volume 89 Number 1, pages 124-125.
Alabamian Recall September 11, 2001
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/09/09/alabamian-recalls-sept-11-2001/90002648/
Church Violence Past and Present, Montgomery Advertiser, August 4, 2016 http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2016/08/04/church-violence-past-and-present/88064964/
Recalling My Role in the Golden Globe and Academy Award winning film "Selma."
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/contributors/2015/01/08/selma-role-recalls-fathers-courage/21456239/
Refused to Play A Racist in "Selma"
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/01/being_cast_in_selma_was_therap.html
Des Moines Register Gone Death Count of September 11 Continues
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/09/10/gone-death-count-continues/72027742/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Readers-Picks/2015/0622/Reader-recommendation-In-Peace-and-Freedom-My-Journey-in-Selma Christian Science Monitor
New York Times Promotions and Family Matters http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/22/business/at-work-promotions-and-family-matters.html
Christian Science Monitor "We Were Unintended Integrationists" https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-32612189/we-were-unintended-integrationists
http://inthesetimes.com/article/15679/the_republican_war_on_snap_is_only_symbolic
http://inthesetimes.com/article/14192/goodbye_mr._quips
Christian Science Monitor A Large Matter of 13 Cents
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2012/0920/A-large-matter-of-13-cents
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0308/p18s03-hfes.html Charlie Chaplin Brings Out Smiles A Visit to Charlie Chaplin's loved statue in Leicester Square London Christian Science Monitor
James Patterson, an award-winning international economist and freelance political and economics journalist, is a Life Member of the American Foreign Service Association, a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and members of the California and New York State Societies.
A longtime Washingtonian, his journalism, essays and reviews have appeared in Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Service Journal, Bloomsbury Review, Inside NAFTA, Excelsior (Mexico City), Choices, American Writer, The Writer, Washington Window, Raleigh News & Observer, The Hill, Montgomery (AL) Advertiser, Writers’ Journal, Rural Heritage, Agricultural History, The Agricultural Education Magazine, Journal of Food Distribution Research, Berkeley (CA) Daily Planet, In These Times, Columbus (OH) Dispatch, Writer’s Digest, San Francisco Examiner, Washington Times, Nostalgia Magazine, Government Computer News, PC Monitor, New York Episcopalian, Des Moines Register, Mobile (AL) Press Register, Pueblo Chieftain, Washingtonian, Horizons, Auburn Magazine, Special Living, Disability Rag, Mainstream, Government Executive, Federal Times, Employment in the Mainstream, and many others.
As economics attache at the US Embassy in Mexico City, he survived earthquakes, assaults, robberies and intestinal parasites and did the difficult early work implementing and interpreting NAFTA while reporting on political and economic developments in a changing country. He helped open the first White Castle restaurant in Mexico in 1996, long before Harold and Kumar made the unique sliders an international phenomenon.
He served in Venezuela during the second presidency of Carlos Andrés Pérez, known as CAP. The first coup attempt against CAP came while I was in Venezuela. The coup was led by Lieutenant-Colonel Hugo Chávez, who was later elected president. CAP was later impeached in a financial scandal. I recall walking from Hotel Tamanaco in Caracas to a nearby McDonald’s with heavily armed military troops along the streets. I mean big machine guns and huge bazooka-like weapons.
While serving in Rio de Janeiro, he met tennis stars Martina Navratilova and Yugoslavian Monica Seles and helped prevent an international incident when Yugoslav agents attempted to abduct Seles at their mutual hotel. (In 1993 Seles was stabbed while playing in Germany.) While serving in Ireland he gained the gift of eloquence by kissing Lord Blarney’s Stone hanging upside down high atop Blarney Castle. Later he helped stop an Irishman who threatened to bomb the Bank of Ireland. He visited famous homes of the Beatles in Liverpool and Pancho Villa in Mexico.
Patterson’s father, a Korean era vet, also served with the Alabama National Guard at integration of the University of Alabama in June 1963 and for the third civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. In 2014 Alabama Governor Robert Bentley posthumously honored the senior Patterson for his service to Alabama. The younger Patterson appears as a reporter in the Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning 2015 film “Selma.” His scenes were filmed in Atlanta, Father’s Day weekend 2014.
The younger Patterson also appeared in crowd scenes in Tim Burton’s 1996 “Mars Attacks,” Martin Ritt’s 1979 “Norma Rae,” and John Wayne’s 1968 “The Green Beret.” His scenes were filmed in Washington DC, Opelika, Alabama, and Ft. Benning, Ga, respectively. In 2016 his review of the documentary Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine appeared on the film's website.
Columns: The Microcomputing Economist (PC Monitor), Facts and Numbers (Choices), Washington Scene,(Alabama Press Association)
Education: Foreign Service Institute (1995) Washington DC, Georgetown University, Foreign Programs Studies, Auburn University MS 1983. Life member Auburn University Alumni Association
Favorite vacations include Cliff Island, Maine, Brighton, UK, Dublin, Ireland, Paris, Tel Aviv, Seoul, Ho Chi Min City, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, and Amsterdam.
Jim Patterson in costume as a print reporter for his scenes in the Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning 2015 film "Selma." Jim's scenes were filmed in Atlanta Father's Day weekend and he had his late father's Alabama National Guard photo in his pocket. The film work was in June but the actual events were in March, ergo the winter coat. My scenes were filmed on Saturday and Sunday and the locations were not announced. Still, we had hecklers shouting racial slurs and the song Dixie blaring from automobiles.
Ten Years of Dedicated Service at Graduate School,
US Department of Agriculture teaching economic and business writing, journalism,editing, and interviewing.
16th Place in the 5th Annual Short Short Story Competition by Writer's Digest. My manuscript was "Used." This one brought us a check.
Casting letter for my role as a reporter in the 2015 Golden Globe and Academy Award winning film "Selma." I got the part through the Alabama Film Commission due to my late father's service with the Alabama National Guard at the integration of the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) in June 1963 and for the third Selma in 1965. I have written more than 200 articles and given hundreds of speeches on my family experience in segregated Alabama.
Jim Patterson, front in tie, reporting on a Memorial Concert for Pete Seeger, Lincon Center, New York.
Writing for Change Jim Patterson was instrumental in banning tobacco sales at retail pharmacies in San Francisco,
Testimonial letter After a Selma Discussion in Georgia.
7th place for my manuscript "Working Relationships" in the 73rd Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition. Approximately 20,000 entries.
2004 Interview with then-U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama)
Jim Patterson Member Alabama Press Association
Washington Window, Book Review
Jim Patterson Member National Book Critics Circle
2006
San Francisco Chronicle
2007
Washington Post 2005
Volunteer San Francisco AIDS Foundation
2007-2009
Bloomsbury Review 2005
Review Rednecks and Bluenecks
Facts and Numbers
Choices Magazine of the Agricultural Economics Association
Jim Patterson columnist and editor 1987-90
Executive Order by President Lyndon B. Johnson March 1965
This EO sent my father and other Alabama National Guardsmen to protect Civil Rights marchers from Selma to Montgomery Alabama. I have a role as a reporter in 2015's Academy and Gloden Globe Award-winning film "Selma."
San Francisco sketcher who caught be working with a client.
Published in:
Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, Des Moines Register, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Mobile (Alabama) Press Register, AL.com (Alabama), Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser, San Francisco Examiner, Pueblo (Colorado) Chieftain, Alabama Living, Auburn Magazine, Baltimore Sun, The Sun, Writer's Digest, The Writer, Writer's Journal, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomsbury Review, Foreign Service Journal, New York Daily News, Sun Sentinal, Bay Area Reporter, Bay Times of San Francisco, Agricultural History, Opelika-Auburn News, Washington Window, New York Episcopalian, National Guard Magazine, Journal of Food Distribution Research, Choices, Horizons, Employment in the Mainstream, Disability Rag, Federal Times, EEO Trends & Issues, Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, The Hill, LGBT Weekly (San Diego), etc.
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