John Wilkes Booth: America's Most Infamous Assassin

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  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  Před 3 lety +47

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    • @chriservin5975
      @chriservin5975 Před 3 lety +4

      I always check out your sponsors...every other add pop up I get is still for Vincero! Lol

    • @jimmiedmc1
      @jimmiedmc1 Před 3 lety +2

      Simon's next channel ... Allegedly , a biographics type show in the buisness blaze satire on current people and events

    • @chriservin5975
      @chriservin5975 Před 3 lety +3

      I've been hoping you'd cover Booth. Thank you.

    • @cryptofeen1438
      @cryptofeen1438 Před 3 lety +2

      Think you should do a show on Michael Collins

    • @S0P2024
      @S0P2024 Před 3 lety +3

      Congrats on 1 million Subs

  • @henriquebraga5266
    @henriquebraga5266 Před 2 lety +84

    There's an interesting story involving Edwin Booth and Lincoln's own son. Mere months prior to John's murderous act, in late 1864, after the president's son, Robert, had purchased his ticket on a train platform in Jersey City, he was accidently pressed by a large throng of people against the car body while waiting his turn. The train began to move and Robert was twisted off his feet and dropped into the open space between the platform and the train, personally helpless. When he believed he was about to be crushed by the moving train, his coat collar was seized and he was quickly pulled up and out to a secure footing on the platform. Upon turning to thank his rescuer, Robert saw it was Edwin Booth.
    Edwin Booth saved the life of Lincoln's own son. Ironic.

  • @oscarengel7660
    @oscarengel7660 Před 3 lety +376

    His father was litterally named Brutus...poor guy never had a choice.

  • @JMac7395
    @JMac7395 Před 3 lety +232

    Can only imagine what was going through the mind of Lincoln's bodyguard. He stepped away from his post one time & his ward was killed smh.

    • @shadowking1380
      @shadowking1380 Před 3 lety +31

      I know right? Though from some historical documentaries I’ve watched Lincoln apparently gave his bodyguard the night off

    • @mlee6050
      @mlee6050 Před 3 lety +12

      Always a night off or just quicker check something :(

    • @InnerDness
      @InnerDness Před 3 lety +13

      He must have felt like a real silly goose

    • @finkaiser3994
      @finkaiser3994 Před 3 lety +19

      Nobody will ever convince me otherwise that the President having essentially zero protection at all, despite normality’s of the era, was a completely retarded decision. I understand that times were different in 1865 but still crazy. The fact that it took two more presidential assassinations before things started to change is unbelievable.

    • @theawesomeman9821
      @theawesomeman9821 Před 3 lety +2

      Nobody thinks this was a set up? Been reading "Killing Lincolhn"

  • @kdryan21
    @kdryan21 Před 3 lety +127

    The bed Lincoln died in can be seen at the Chicago History Museum while the chair he was sitting in can be seen at the Henry Ford museum in Detroit.

    • @shadowsnake8989
      @shadowsnake8989 Před 3 lety +5

      Thanks for the info. I've been to both, I live near one and I never knew that.

    • @katieholland4244
      @katieholland4244 Před 3 lety +8

      The Lincoln Museum in Springfield, IL has Mary Todd's bloody dress.

    • @Pepperminge_Mononoke
      @Pepperminge_Mononoke Před 3 lety +6

      @@katieholland4244 i vote we clone him from the DNA

    • @Powerule23
      @Powerule23 Před 3 lety +5

      So, I'm learning now learning from this comment that the bed I saw in the Petersen House was not the actual bed.

    • @bobgunter9608
      @bobgunter9608 Před 3 lety +6

      Does the chair still have blood stains on it ?

  • @BlarggOMighty
    @BlarggOMighty Před 3 lety +388

    Just think, if he never killed anyone, he would've went down in history as one of the most famous actors of all time.

    • @CherryVanityRawr
      @CherryVanityRawr Před 3 lety +82

      Someone said it was like if Liam Hemsworth decided to assassinate the Australian prime minister and honestly, pretty much.

    • @quanbrooklynkid7776
      @quanbrooklynkid7776 Před 3 lety +5

      Damn

    • @shakiMiki
      @shakiMiki Před 3 lety +11

      No he wouldn't.

    • @BlarggOMighty
      @BlarggOMighty Před 3 lety +6

      @@shakiMiki What makes you say that

    • @Morbos1000
      @Morbos1000 Před 3 lety +21

      That was the only real surprise to me in the video. I thought he was some run of the mill actor, not one so famous he became wealthy from it.

  • @RankinMsP
    @RankinMsP Před 3 lety +64

    "He was a handsome man.."
    Shows a picture or expired raw pastry with mould around the edges

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Před 3 lety +14

    1:15 - Chapter 1 - All the world's a stage
    4:25 - Chapter 2 - Now's the winter of our discontent
    6:00 - Mid roll ads
    7:25 - Chapter 3 - What fool these mortals be !
    9:05 - Chapter 4 - Beware the ides of march
    11:30 - Chapter 5 - Et tu brute ?
    14:10 - Chapter 6 - What's done can't be undone
    16:15 - Chapter 7 - The slings & arrows of outrageous fortune
    18:25 - Chapter 8 - The evil that men do lives after them

  • @harryhampton1324
    @harryhampton1324 Před 3 lety +2

    Love your videos, Sir. Splendid flow to your vocal delivery. A quality declining of late. Many thanks. X

  • @jeffbuck2111
    @jeffbuck2111 Před 3 lety +70

    Could you do one on Fredrick the Great? A military leader who also led an enlightened rule?

    • @theawesomeman9821
      @theawesomeman9821 Před 3 lety +2

      How about Napoleon?

    • @Din0rM22
      @Din0rM22 Před 3 lety +3

      @@theawesomeman9821 Napoleon is too overlocked

    • @Viroh
      @Viroh Před 3 lety +5

      @@theawesomeman9821 There is one already...

    • @colbiashimaru
      @colbiashimaru Před 3 lety +2

      Wait he did fredrick the great 2 days ago... good job dude!

    • @deandrenicholas2545
      @deandrenicholas2545 Před rokem

      ​@Diego Rodriguez what is overlocked?

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke Před 3 lety +39

    The US would be a very different place today had Booth been thwarted, how different we will never know, but it would be different for sure...

    • @neilpemberton5523
      @neilpemberton5523 Před 3 lety +7

      I'm not sure about that, and I'm a huge Lincoln fan. After the war many Northerners calmed down and realised it was safe to be racist once more. The South basically waited until the North was tired of sending troops down to enforce the civil rights of ex-slaves. Then they brought in Jim Crow for the next century or so. I can't believe Lincoln would have served more than two terms. The strain of the war turned him into a man old before his time.

    • @victorcarrillo1570
      @victorcarrillo1570 Před 3 lety +2

      Yes. Lincoln couldn"t wait to have the country reunited without heavy punishment the way the Radicals Republicans wanted and imposed on the south for 10 years after LIncoln was assassinated. Booth's stupid act worked against the rebels

    • @xCaptxCrunchx
      @xCaptxCrunchx Před 3 lety

      Lincoln was weak and soft, if Ulysses Grant was President during that time, he would’ve made the confederacy symbology illegal in this country.

    • @diypictures
      @diypictures Před 3 lety +1

      @@neilpemberton5523 You have a point to an extent. Johnson sent the national guard to deal with "the situation" but when it wasn't working he pulled them and just let the south be because he was worried about starting another civil war. Thing is those "situations" were so strong and they felt so bold about it because they felt they now had a bit of an ally in the white house and they were right... to an extent. So we'll never really know but its interesting to think about.

    • @ballsonyourmomschin1781
      @ballsonyourmomschin1781 Před 3 lety +2

      The civil rights movement of the 60’s would mean the 1860’s not the 1960’s

  • @THEtodd_83
    @THEtodd_83 Před 3 lety +2

    I'm loving these videos, keep up the good work!

  • @genuinehearts8247
    @genuinehearts8247 Před 3 lety +2

    I can’t always watch it all but one of my top favorite channels right now. Thank you for helping educate it saves more than people know. Especially your two pieces on Pocahontas and Nellie Bly. Stunning.

  • @dandymc2458
    @dandymc2458 Před 3 lety +98

    I'd be curious on the life of James Earl Ray. Any chance of an episode about him

    • @TheRealCaptainFreedom
      @TheRealCaptainFreedom Před 3 lety +5

      He was a lifelong criminal and flim-flammer, but a good shot.

    • @KD-kl4sx
      @KD-kl4sx Před 3 lety +2

      You have to email him with your suggestions on new videos

    • @daveyjones815
      @daveyjones815 Před 3 lety +2

      @@KD-kl4sx so that's why my constant asking doesn't work

    • @KD-kl4sx
      @KD-kl4sx Před 3 lety +2

      @@daveyjones815 Yeah on his other channels and I’m presuming this one he always says you have to email him for suggestions, I wasn’t being clever

    • @samsamson391
      @samsamson391 Před 3 lety +2

      Are you kidding me? Haven't you heard? Simon will be starting a whole new channel on that guy!!
      J/K ...we love Simon Whistler in this house hold.

  • @SunnyNight
    @SunnyNight Před 3 lety +11

    Can you do a video on Henry Dunant? He helped found the International Committee of the Red Cross (our modern day Red Cross!) AND assisted in establishing the first Geneva Convention. He’s super interesting but not many people know about him, and given the influence of the Red Cross today I think it’d be nice to make a video about him.
    He wrote a memoir called ‘A Memory of Solferino’ where he describes his experience coming across the aftermath of a battle and trying to help wounded soldiers from both sides and also soothe the dying until their last breath. It’s worth a read, his experiences then moved him to be a humanitarian and directly let to the establishment of the Red Cross that has saved millions to this day.

  • @kevinhensley4643
    @kevinhensley4643 Před 11 dny

    Enjoyed listening again. Thank you for sharing

  • @johnwilkesbooth1863
    @johnwilkesbooth1863 Před rokem +1

    Im loving this document

  • @worstwaystodie5763
    @worstwaystodie5763 Před 3 lety +18

    "But how did you find the play, Mrs Lincoln?"

  • @joeystrittmatter6890
    @joeystrittmatter6890 Před 3 lety

    Love your work

  • @alanshore17
    @alanshore17 Před měsícem

    Very good video. Well done!

  • @franciscobuenrostro3891
    @franciscobuenrostro3891 Před 3 lety +11

    I can’t wait to see a video on Lincoln

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 Před 3 lety +3

      I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
      A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
      And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
      I guarantee as evil as these people were known to be Simon won't cover them for one special reason, it would ruin his career.
      He would be branded an anti-semite, and he wouldn't want that.
      We don't know of these people for the same reason.

    • @annescholey6546
      @annescholey6546 Před 3 lety +2

      Also the obscure killer of James Garfield a failed Jesuit.

  • @austinwallett5140
    @austinwallett5140 Před 3 lety +21

    While we're on the subject of high profile assassinations, you should do a video on James Earl Ray. His two months on the run following Martin Luther King Jr's death are pretty interesting.

  • @MR.AYRAL9
    @MR.AYRAL9 Před 3 lety

    👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Your english is so satisfying to listen ! ( work on point as usual)

  • @anthonybraceful1945
    @anthonybraceful1945 Před 3 lety +1

    SIMON, YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!

  • @cristobalvillarroel2618
    @cristobalvillarroel2618 Před 3 lety +52

    Failed artists have tendencies to change history for the worst

    • @StegoAqua
      @StegoAqua Před 3 lety +8

      That and the son of ceos of successful construction CEOs

    • @CrapImGud
      @CrapImGud Před 3 lety +22

      Excepted Booth wasn't failed in the slightest.

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 Před 3 lety +6

      Right that's why he hated THEM. A convenient way to sidestep the fact that THEY had betrayed his country at the end of the war. THEY dominated the prostitution business, as THEY dominate the porn industry today. That THEY were trying to bring about a violent communist uprising in his country like THEY did in Russia. Putin's says the first communist government in Russia were over 80% THEM. THEY set up the Cheka police read up about their atrocities on wiki.
      But it was because he was a failed artist?!?
      Failed artists DON'T "have tendencies to change history for the worst", THEY do.

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 Před 3 lety +7

      @@briancooper2833 Van Gogh was a failed artist and he didn't tyrannize anyone.
      Mao wasn't an artist at all and he killed more than anyone in 20th century, (but don't worry the one's Mao killed weren't God's Chosen People, so we've being led to believe that it wasn't that bad. That's why we don't' hear about it that much. He and his party were funded by God's Chosen People's bankers though.)
      There's no correlation between the two, let alone causation.
      Hitler was more of a war hero who repeatedly risked his life for his country during WW1, than a failed artist, he made his small living selling his paintings.

    • @cristobalvillarroel2618
      @cristobalvillarroel2618 Před 3 lety +7

      I was just making a joke and sudenly there is a guy saying that Hitler was a war hero LOL

  • @Dank-gb6jn
    @Dank-gb6jn Před 3 lety +14

    Stonewall Jackson video needs to be made. Second suggestion, President McKinley.

    • @savagedarksider5934
      @savagedarksider5934 Před 3 lety

      How A video about John L Sullivan ?

    • @Dank-gb6jn
      @Dank-gb6jn Před 3 lety

      @@savagedarksider5934 who?

    • @savagedarksider5934
      @savagedarksider5934 Před 3 lety

      @@Dank-gb6jn He was A Boxer from the 19th Century.

    • @Dank-gb6jn
      @Dank-gb6jn Před 3 lety +1

      @@savagedarksider5934 cool! Boxing is something I like to watch on occasion, idk if a video on Mr. Sullivan would draw a large view count though...I mean I could be wrong though so I guess it’d be a cool video to see as well!

  • @PumpkinBreath
    @PumpkinBreath Před 3 lety

    I love these videos

  • @sethmathews8081
    @sethmathews8081 Před 3 lety

    Yes!!! Do more

  • @Digital_PeterGriffin
    @Digital_PeterGriffin Před 3 lety +4

    I’d love to see you do one on Terrence McKenna

  • @JTwiss88
    @JTwiss88 Před 3 lety +20

    There’s a great film called “the conspirator” starring James Macavoy about the military trial of Mary Surratt. If you found this vid interesting I’d give it a go

    • @gchong506
      @gchong506 Před 2 lety +2

      It also stars JENNY as Mary

  • @AustriaGermany
    @AustriaGermany Před rokem

    great video

  • @gaylonjohnson904
    @gaylonjohnson904 Před 3 lety +2

    Starting my day off great!!!! Keep up the great content Simon 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

  • @suzuyj
    @suzuyj Před 3 lety +48

    Do a video on Alexander Hamilton the 10 dollar founding father.

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 Před 3 lety +1

      I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
      A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
      And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
      I guarantee as evil as these people were known to be Simon won't cover them for one special reason, it would ruin his career.
      He would be branded an anti-semite, and he wouldn't want that.
      We don't know of these people for the same reason.

    • @kerenbraddock3015
      @kerenbraddock3015 Před 3 lety +5

      without a father got a lot farther by working a lot harder

    • @daygoncornhole2395
      @daygoncornhole2395 Před 3 lety

      @@jasonwomack4064 hahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @jurrepur1999
      @jurrepur1999 Před 3 lety +1

      @@kerenbraddock3015 by being a lot smarter. By 14 they put him in charge of a trading charter.

    • @sirproperlydecapitatedpodm8694
      @sirproperlydecapitatedpodm8694 Před 3 lety +1

      @@truth5705 i wish Simon would cover those guys so that this guy would shut tf up replying to every comment with this shyte.

  • @shadehunter
    @shadehunter Před 3 lety +9

    As an American, I learned a ton from this segment. I knew Booth assassinated Lincoln.... we're taught that in school.
    What we're not taught is that there was an organized group of conspirators, lack of security of the president at the time, how Booth was pursued and died, or even that Booth was a famous actor. We're just taught Booth's name and that Lincoln was killed in a theater. Nothing more.
    So, thank you kindly! This kicked ass!

    • @atlasmasterdmind4070
      @atlasmasterdmind4070 Před 2 lety

      How? We were taught that in school and i graduated in 1999?

    • @shadehunter
      @shadehunter Před 2 lety

      @@atlasmasterdmind4070 Idk, man. Blame on eastern KY schools.

    • @iiseandigits7439
      @iiseandigits7439 Před rokem

      Booth wasn’t shot in the barn. He wasn’t even at the barn at the time the union troops were there

    • @solidalfie
      @solidalfie Před rokem

      same. We werent even told why he assasinated lincoln or anything. But mostly i came here cause he seems interesting

  • @blackcreeper_3426
    @blackcreeper_3426 Před 3 lety

    Nice Video 😀👍

  • @BurrShotHam711
    @BurrShotHam711 Před 3 lety +1

    yes Simon, you should do one on Alexander Hamilton

  • @TheEvilCommenter
    @TheEvilCommenter Před 3 lety +5

    Good video 👍

  • @Venusupreme
    @Venusupreme Před 3 lety +40

    It’s amazing how I can hate Booth so much but feel sorry for him at the same time. He was already rich and famous, so his killing Lincoln has to have come solely out of a desire to do what he thought was right. He also tried to challenge the leader of the union troops to a duel in exchange for his freedom when they had him cornered in the barn, which makes me think he saw himself as the protagonist of a play, expecting to be hailed as a hero after slaying the perceived tyrant.
    Obviously he was horribly wrong. The fact that he didn’t expect everyone to think of him as a villain for killing the president makes me think he had a few screws loose...

    • @disasterdisaster581
      @disasterdisaster581 Před 3 lety +3

      He was the hero though.
      He lost in the end, but heroes often do.

    • @bills6093
      @bills6093 Před 3 lety +14

      Yeah, even southerners who hated Lincoln, were appalled at the idea of sneaking up behind him at the theater and shooting him in the back of the head in front of his wife...cowardly acts were pretty much universally disliked.

    • @mikepatrick5909
      @mikepatrick5909 Před 3 lety +5

      Kinda like Jane Fonda thinking that sitting on that North Vietnamese tank was a good idea..lol

    • @dynasty0019
      @dynasty0019 Před 3 lety +7

      @@mikepatrick5909 Whenever I visited my local VFW there's always couple of Vietnam Vets shooting darts at a pinup of Jane Fonda.

    • @onyx7273
      @onyx7273 Před rokem +2

      He didn’t think of himself as a villain because he truly believed Lincoln was a villain and many besides him believed that too, north and south. Lincoln was actually pretty hated at the time.

  • @42Oregon
    @42Oregon Před 3 lety +2

    Simon, could you do a bio on Jessie Owens?

  • @deylinpillay5197
    @deylinpillay5197 Před 3 lety +2

    Huge fan of the channel 👊🏻 Especially the WW2 bios and the serial killers.
    Please do a BTK bio

  • @cooperwesley1536
    @cooperwesley1536 Před 3 lety +20

    Me thinking to myself during my daily drool over Simon:
    "Why is a sassy, saucy Brit giving history-loving Americans a history lesson on American history?"

    • @ewestner
      @ewestner Před 3 lety +5

      Because SIMON, that's why. :-)

    • @cooperwesley1536
      @cooperwesley1536 Před 3 lety +5

      @@ewestner I love a good beard, can't lie.

  • @ryanrizzo4869
    @ryanrizzo4869 Před 3 lety +12

    What a well done and informative video! As usual, I'm here to request that Biographics put their touch on the life and times of Ip Man, legendary martial arts mentor to the late, great Bruce Lee. Four overhyped action movies just really don't shine the light on the real man like Biographics can. Thank you in advance! -A Loyal Subscriber

  • @loupiscanis9449
    @loupiscanis9449 Před 3 lety

    Thank you

  • @nayfepacewell8923
    @nayfepacewell8923 Před 3 lety

    Ooh this will be a good one.
    Going to watch this with dinner tonight.

  • @kathgibbs2881
    @kathgibbs2881 Před 3 lety +8

    Video suggestions:
    Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator
    Henry VIII: The Tudor Tyrant
    Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen

  • @yourstruly4817
    @yourstruly4817 Před 3 lety +12

    "Hastla la vista...Abey."
    - John Wilkes Booth 1865

  • @CharizardMaster69
    @CharizardMaster69 Před 3 lety +1

    8:47 The town is called Appomattox Court House

  • @blakefrancis6635
    @blakefrancis6635 Před 2 lety

    Video Suggestions:
    Henry V: The Life that led to Agincourt
    Claus Graf von Stauffenburg: The Man who nearly killed Hitler
    George VI: The Man who was never supposed to be King

  • @savagedarksider5934
    @savagedarksider5934 Před 3 lety +5

    Here some future videos I would love to see:
    1. Frank Gotch
    2. John L Sullivan
    3. Queens Elizabeth
    4. Tsar Nicholas II

  • @dena81
    @dena81 Před 3 lety +8

    OG Business Blaze fans know just how much Simon hates math... But I love how he made sure to emphasize that point in the ad

  • @6aliph77
    @6aliph77 Před 2 lety

    Could you do an episode Lincoln??

  • @danthegamechanger3855
    @danthegamechanger3855 Před 3 lety +1

    Great video 🔥👍 keep up they amazing work 👍🔥

  • @imnotsuperstitiousbutiamal4186

    That what you get for watching plays, He could’ve just went to the movies.

  • @sevenapollo6882
    @sevenapollo6882 Před 3 lety +4

    Could you do a video on the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson?

  • @rolldogg01
    @rolldogg01 Před 3 lety +1

    Bloopers reel!!! Please!!!

  • @waynegoddard4065
    @waynegoddard4065 Před 3 lety +2

    Can you do a video about Princess Anne? Nobody hears about her anymore and the kidnapping attempt is pretty interesting. If not do one about Jimmy Saville.

  • @Mulambdaline1
    @Mulambdaline1 Před 3 lety +11

    As much as I hate Booth, this was a great video! I often ask myself, how history would have been different if Lincoln had survived? I think we would all have been better off!

    • @Mulambdaline1
      @Mulambdaline1 Před 3 lety +6

      @Fedora McTippington racist much? I’m feel good knowing all those who fought for the south are burning in hell.

    • @lyndoraburroughs-robinson5663
      @lyndoraburroughs-robinson5663 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Mulambdaline1 Thank you 😊

    • @setsuna9757
      @setsuna9757 Před 2 lety

      Yeah the reconstruction would have never failed if Lincoln is alive.
      Lincoln is a great civil rights activist and a president at the time. Not to mention he is a great propagandist.
      Great with his speeches and great at rallying his people.
      The discontent of the north having the union troops in the south would be low and the rebuilding of the South. Would have gone much smoother.

    • @iiseandigits7439
      @iiseandigits7439 Před rokem

      Eh

    • @onyx7273
      @onyx7273 Před rokem +1

      @@Mulambdaline1 you could end up there by assuming all those people are in hell.

  • @evapunk333
    @evapunk333 Před 3 lety +21

    How is he SO good at doing the segway into the ad??!!

    • @petermorgan6884
      @petermorgan6884 Před 3 lety +8

      Segue. A Segway is what you ride off a cliff on.

    • @bagsmohess
      @bagsmohess Před 3 lety +5

      Years of being a shill

    • @barrydysert2974
      @barrydysert2974 Před 3 lety +2

      Think about all His channels and how much He puts out. Now add how many years practice and a brilliant mind. That's how!:-) 💜🖖

    • @skillganon606
      @skillganon606 Před 3 lety +1

      Oh if you think this is good you need to Blaze with the rest of the legends.

  • @obeidallabirair7644
    @obeidallabirair7644 Před 3 lety

    Great Video
    I want to next see a video about Justinian the great or Justinian I

  • @frijoles8770
    @frijoles8770 Před 3 lety +2

    Can you make a video on the Dakota 38?

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 Před 3 lety +1

      I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
      A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
      And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
      I guarantee as evil as these people were known to be Simon won't cover them for one special reason, it would ruin his career.
      He would be branded an anti-semite, and he wouldn't want that.
      We don't know of these people for the same reason.

  • @kozytime3232
    @kozytime3232 Před 3 lety +21

    William H. Seward is the only "famous" ancestor of my family. My grandpa claimed to have some documents of his before donating them to the Smithsonian and says one of them was him writing about the assassination attempt. I wish he or my father had made copies so I could read them. Still as always great work and great video!

    • @teajayeh169
      @teajayeh169 Před 3 lety +3

      That’s pretty cool, I just found out not long ago I was a distant relative to Winston Churchill. I’m not even English. I’m Swedish, Norwegian and Native American. Kind of weird. But I guess on my fathers side of the family somehow I’m related to him.

  • @cthrew1603
    @cthrew1603 Před 3 lety +8

    Ads in the middle of an "episode", especially if one pays $20 bucks a month for CZcams Premium to get rid of ads, is a total drag. Between this practice and Patreon accounts CZcams has become worse than cable.

    • @awzthemusicalreviews
      @awzthemusicalreviews Před 3 lety +2

      Google: "Come to us to find out all of the worst things that humans have done to each other! No topic is off limits!"
      Also Google: "You said the word 'shot'! DEMONETIZED!!!"

  • @Hamzakhan-dt3gv
    @Hamzakhan-dt3gv Před 3 lety

    Interesting video idea

  • @brentvenneman6710
    @brentvenneman6710 Před 3 lety

    Could pllyou look at the conspiracy after Lincoln assignation. It was very interesting to look at some of the theories.

  • @rogerevans9666
    @rogerevans9666 Před 3 lety +5

    When an adolescent, Booth told his companions once that if there was a bridge connecting Spain to Morocco, he would want to be the one who destroyed it because then his name would live forever. Fame or infamy, so long as his name lived forever. This is called "Herostratic fame" after the Greek who burnt the Temple of Diana (or Artemis) at Ephesus (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World). Before Herostratus was executed, he said he destroyed this huge building just to obtain everlasting fame. Also, a gypsy once read Booth's palm and said that he would have a very successful career but would have a disastrous end. We know this happened because he told his friends and his sister shortly after his palm was read. They remembered this incident.

  • @bellz222
    @bellz222 Před 3 lety +4

    How about a video covering the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping? I have always been fascinated by the mysterious nature of this case.

    • @iiseandigits7439
      @iiseandigits7439 Před rokem

      I already know everything about that. Just search up “history‘s greatest mysteries” and you’ll find it.

  • @alexanderveritas
    @alexanderveritas Před 3 lety +2

    Is it only me that thinks that there’s quite a resemblance between this Lewis Powell fellow and the actor Brandon Routh?

  • @justina7300
    @justina7300 Před 3 lety +2

    Simon! You should do a video on Émile Zola and H.G. Wells!
    Great video as always.

  • @ethanramos4441
    @ethanramos4441 Před 3 lety +10

    “I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but ‘I must fight the course.‘ Tis all that’s left of me”
    John Wilkes Booth

  • @guilhermesequeira9373
    @guilhermesequeira9373 Před 3 lety +3

    Do Lincoln pleaseee

    • @newvocabulary
      @newvocabulary Před 3 lety

      Wrestler turned Tyrant that caught a well deserved bullet?

    • @guilhermesequeira9373
      @guilhermesequeira9373 Před 3 lety

      @@newvocabulary probably it isn't the same Lincoln... I am talking about the one who kept the nation together and gave freedom to the slaves 🙃

    • @newvocabulary
      @newvocabulary Před 3 lety

      @@guilhermesequeira9373 not worth the price. I'd prefer two nations to whatever the hell abomination Lincoln created.

    • @guilhermesequeira9373
      @guilhermesequeira9373 Před 3 lety

      @@newvocabulary sure it is your opinion

  • @jordancollins6368
    @jordancollins6368 Před 3 lety

    Brilliant content thanks for this.

  • @GothicQueen1
    @GothicQueen1 Před rokem +1

    You should do Leon Czolgosz. :)

  • @ashcoates25
    @ashcoates25 Před 3 lety +7

    Interestingly we get to see Lincoln's assassin's video before Lincoln's himself

    • @RumbScroll101
      @RumbScroll101 Před 3 lety +1

      Soooooo???? Get ur own channel

    • @silentkilla14
      @silentkilla14 Před 3 lety

      Lol

    • @pappagetti
      @pappagetti Před 2 lety

      This guy is scary.. Booth is something right out of a Stephen King novel.. In some ways he's actually more interesting that Lincoln..

  • @shoogie1994
    @shoogie1994 Před 3 lety +7

    yall should a video on the Balfour declaration.

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 Před 3 lety +4

      I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik, Aaron Soltz, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
      A lot of them were Chekist read up about the atrocities of the Cheka on wiki.
      And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
      I guarantee as evil as these people were known to be Simon won't cover them for one special reason, it would ruin his career.
      He would be branded an anti-semite, and he wouldn't want that.
      We don't know of these people for the same reason.

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 Před 3 lety

      @@truth5705 more of the same cut and paste b.s. from you.
      Never have the balls to post as an original comment. Always sneaking onto other people's comments.

  • @mmilller452
    @mmilller452 Před 3 lety +1

    yoo should do a video on Andrew Johnson

  • @ewestner
    @ewestner Před 3 lety +2

    Edwin Booth is buried a mile away from me at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA. Not a word on his gravestone about his more (in)famous brother. (Not that I'm surprised about that, of course.)

  • @quinnzyker6521
    @quinnzyker6521 Před 3 lety +17

    I thought he did it because Lincoln kept saying “now you fucked up”

  • @Ishbikes
    @Ishbikes Před 3 lety +4

    Lmao 😂 the Harry Hawk line..

  • @chriservin5975
    @chriservin5975 Před 3 lety

    SIMON!!! Please do an episode on
    Michelleto Corella.

  • @DixieHomestead
    @DixieHomestead Před 3 lety

    Do a video on David E. George and John St Helen.

  • @seansolidworks4736
    @seansolidworks4736 Před 3 lety +17

    With a different hair style Wilkes boothe has an uncanny resemblance to Edgar Allen Poe. Both from Maryland. Go terrapins! Land turtles!

    • @KaladinVegapunk
      @KaladinVegapunk Před 3 lety +1

      Haha yeah I always thought that too, similar facial structure
      And yet poe had a way tougher life and turned it into legendary writing
      Booth was a hack actor who killed a great man
      Whether it was in support of the traitors and slavers doesn't really matter
      It's just lucky it lived back then haha, nowadays hed be a regular on fox news and would have joined in storming the capital

    • @bolt7047
      @bolt7047 Před 3 lety +1

      @@KaladinVegapunk Wilkes would 100% be one of the actors that would join fox news or the daily wire. And then say the reason he got kicked out of Hollywood was "the radical left" and not him being racist.

  • @sofa_king_kool
    @sofa_king_kool Před 3 lety +13

    I realize that this request does not pertain to this video at all, but I'd love a biographic on Kurt Vonnegut. Also, FREE DANNY!!!

  • @jaytrace1006
    @jaytrace1006 Před 3 lety +2

    Robert Todd Lincoln was, of course, Lincoln’s son. Seems like I had read that he was able to see his father before death. Then, he was in the Cabinet of James Garfield when he was assassinated. And, he was not far away when McKinley was shot & killed. He thought it unwise after that to attend any Presidential functions.
    Lastly, there was a story about how he had fallen off a platform on to some recessed train tracks with a train coming right at him. A guy reached out & saved his life. That guy was Edwin Booth.

  • @kenyattaclay7666
    @kenyattaclay7666 Před 3 lety +2

    Pennsylvania and Maryland are the dividing line between north and south and Booth is from Maryland so he was from the south.

  • @Samm815
    @Samm815 Před 3 lety +10

    Fun Fact: JWB's brother saved Lincoln's son from being run over by a train.

    • @o-o2399
      @o-o2399 Před 3 lety +1

      This is going to get big .

  • @CYCLONE4499
    @CYCLONE4499 Před 3 lety +8

    Before Booth assassinated lincoln he ran a photography business.The business motto was:
    "We only take head shots!"
    Ha.

  • @marcus._.2x
    @marcus._.2x Před 3 lety +2

    I went to the venue where he had his last show before he killed Lincoln right there in front of the slavery fountain is in Mountgomrey AL it’s like real tense in That spot, it’s where some of the first slaves in America were sold, jwbs last performance and where Rosa parks got on that bus

  • @WharHammer
    @WharHammer Před 3 lety +1

    An idea for a video: Valery Alekseyevich

  • @huwguyver4208
    @huwguyver4208 Před 3 lety +7

    Great video. While where on assassinated world leaders, perhaps Simon could do one on Yitzhak Rabin.

  • @sararoberts2973
    @sararoberts2973 Před 3 lety +3

    My ancestor, Jonathan Baldwin Turner knew Lincoln. Maybe that’s why I’m an admirer of Lincoln.

  • @FortyWink
    @FortyWink Před 3 lety +1

    Hey Biographics team, can you make an episode on Osamu Dazai?
    Thanks.

  • @iwatchDVDsonXbox360
    @iwatchDVDsonXbox360 Před 3 lety +2

    Suggestions:
    Osman I
    Ismail I
    Babur
    Shivaji I
    Abu Bakr
    Hongwu
    We still doesn't have any Ottoman sultans, i think it's time to get at least one. 😁

  • @Adelink_lol
    @Adelink_lol Před 3 lety +5

    I trust you'll be doing an Abraham Lincoln Biographic next? :)

    • @mikaelleonbriones6356
      @mikaelleonbriones6356 Před 3 lety +3

      He has done Grant AND Booth consecutively, this screams the Lincoln video we where all thirsty for since this channel was a thing

    • @tranphuongnam1860
      @tranphuongnam1860 Před 3 lety +1

      Stanton and Sherman when

  • @ARIXANDRE
    @ARIXANDRE Před 3 lety +7

    I would like a video on Akira Kurosawa, legendary Japanese film maker. Cheers and keep up the great work!

  • @stevedietrich8936
    @stevedietrich8936 Před 3 lety +2

    Abraham Lincoln's eldest son was Robert Todd Lincoln. About a year prior to Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Robert Todd Lincoln's life was saved by Edwin Booth. Robert Lincoln and Edwin Booth were both on a crowded train platform. Lincoln lost his balance and fell into the space between the platform and the track. Edwin Booth reached down and pulled Lincoln up to safety before the moving train could crush him. Lincoln had a connection to the murder of 3 Presidents. He was in James Garfield's cabinet and was present when Garfield was murdered. He was also present when William McKinley was murdered.

    • @eldridgedavis
      @eldridgedavis Před 3 lety

      My goodness

    • @stevedietrich8936
      @stevedietrich8936 Před 3 lety +2

      @@eldridgedavis Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Robert Lincoln felt he was a jinx to others and it affected his life. He died in 1925.

  • @neptune7111
    @neptune7111 Před 3 lety

    Can you please make a video on Lazaro Cardenas.

  • @o-o2399
    @o-o2399 Před 3 lety +6

    Rip Lincoln

  • @tristanreiley8263
    @tristanreiley8263 Před 3 lety +4

    Could you do a video about Jimmy Hoffa? Working man hero, or the Mafia’s greatest ally

  • @shahrozekhan5476
    @shahrozekhan5476 Před 3 lety +1

    Sir I love your channel and learn alot from them. As a history fanatic, your videos are very informative and interesting to watch. After watching this one.. can I request from you that could you make one like this on Abraham Lincoln? Would be a pleasure to watch that one

  • @gustavomonteiro165
    @gustavomonteiro165 Před 3 lety

    PLEAAAAAAASE do one on Santos Dumont