James Francis Jewell Archibald (September 22, 1871 – May 29, 1934) was an American war correspondent.

[2] He was embedded with German troops in World War I and was arrested when he returned to the United States.

[3][4] He was born on September 22, 1871, in Chautauqua County, New York to Dr. Francis Albert Archibald and Martha Washington Jewell.

[5] 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.

[6] The letter described a plan to delay the production of American munitions by a strike action.