The story ( a version of which appears in the Hearst-inspired Orson Welles film Citizen Kane ) first showed up in the memoirs of reporter James Creelman in 1901 , and there is no other source for it . The story ( a version of which appears in the Hearst-inspired Orson Welles film Citizen Kane ) first appeared in the memoirs of reporter James Creelman in 1901 , and there is no other source for it .