My grandparents and my dad worked for Hughes aircraft. My grandfather invented tools that were needed that didn't already exist. He was a tool and die maker/ machinist. He was self taught. When he retired Hughes had to hire him back for awhile because the college educated engineers couldn't figure out how to do the job. My grandpa's name appears on the patent paperwork for the tools that he invented. My grandmother did some of the wiring for the early NASA projects.
Even though you show videos of it, no biography of Hughes is complete without mentioning the Spruce Goose. My mother met Hughes. For a time he lived in San Antonio, early 1950's. My mother was a cashier at the Piggly Wiggly on San Pedro Ave. He would come in and have his staff load multiple carts full of groceries. He would only let my mother ring up the purchases because she was the fastest cashier (and a good looking blonde). The groceries all went to a nearby orphanage.
The biggest plane in the world at the 👁️👀👁️ time Hughes was dragged into Congress to explain why it was costing so much money 🤑 as it probably wouldn't or couldn't fly Hughes SAID if it doesn't fly I'll leave the USA and never return 😊 he personally flew it two it A half a mile
Well done video, particularly the early biography information. However, you didn't mention the one key incident that led to Howard Hughes's physical and mental decline -- his near fatal plane crash in 1946. According to doctors, it was a miracle he survived, suffering numerous broken bones, a broken neck and severe burns all over his body. This is key to understanding his strange behavior he became known for. As a direct result of the accident, he became addicted to pain killers for the rest of his life. Side note: One of the best books I've read about Howard Hughes is "The Investigation" by Gary Magnesen about the famous "Mormon will" mentioned in this video.
@@tintindb He was such a great test pilot that the Army banned him from flying any prototypes of Army aircraft after the 1946 crash where he massively screwed up.
It lacks a lot of things: his deals with providing planes to the Air Force, the creation of TWA, his fundamental role in turning Las Vegas what it is today, the fake diaries of Howard Hugues that he debunked on press conference by phone with several journalists to recognize his voice. The video makes seem that he did no movie at all at RKO and that was a short affair: he owned RKO for 10 years: from the 40s to the 50s. It is a very incomplete biography.
I bought a micrometer on eBay, in the bottom of the box was a piece of cardboard, on the back side of the card was the printing of a Hughes Aircraft time card.
I don't know how effective those leather helmets were in preventing brain damage in the early years of aviation, but being Howard Hughes, he didn't always wear one. Just like some people today who still don't wear a seatbelt when they drive, because they are "great drivers", he felt he was "invincible" in the air. He was a "daredevil" who took unnecessary chances when he flew, and ended up with plane crashes that could have been avoided.
Fools! Hughes became the enemy of the state when he healed himself of multiple broken bones with Florida oranges. This meant Calcium and Vitamin C were a miracle healer, making him the target of the Rockefellers. They in turn, made him insane with fear. He became paranoid, It destroyed him. destroyed h
You don't mention how he inherited so much in the first place. His father invented the rock crushing drill bit used for oil drilling and patented it, then refused to sell any, instead leasing them out for a fortune and retaining full control. As he put it "This does not give me a monopoly of the oil drilling business, people can always use a pick and shovel."
Baker-Hughes still leases drilling tools. Supplied with full factory and engineering support and a field crew to take over and operate them. It is a very good way to do business. As the inventor and manufacturer are involved with every use, and can ensure it is used as effectively as possible. While learning every thing that is known about the operation, making improvements based on this experience, and keeping it in-house. So anyone who wants to compete has to start where you started, from zero, without gaining the coveted 10:1 advantage that comes from copying. Brilliant.
Hughes was also a pioneer in chronic pain management. He was nearly killed in a 1946 plane crash, and spent the rest of his life battling pain from it.
In 1986 I took a job at Hughes Aircraft Company in Tucson Arizona, and the old guys there told me that every Christmas back in the old days, Howard Hughes would send a rail road train out to the tracks that cut through the Factory Area, and there they would unload free turkeys for all of the employees, so that they could all have sumptuous Christmas dinners. After Hughes died the new owners allowed that tradition to lapse. So, yeah, Howard Hughes had his problems, but where he was good, he was great. Thumbs up- for the good in him.
@@brigittebeltran6701 Yeah, I was in Tucson when Raytheon bought out General Dynamics from San Diego. F! Just a few years before Raytheon had bought out Hughes Aircraft and they had problems asserting their Corporate Culture over the Hughes Culture, and so being so unsure of itself, well, the General Dynamics Culture took over. Well, the Hughes and Raytheon Culture had been great for dedicated and competent workers, that is, you could extend your expertise outward into as many projects as you could handle, and your territory would be recognized and your contributions appreciated. But the General Dynamics California crowd, well, they needed to take their engineers to the men's room to show them how to wipe their asses. But their Engineers picked up the same vibe of being helpless as their men. Instead of asking us how our own lines worked, they'd try to find more senior engineers belonging to our venders or whatever. It turned into a crappy place to work, when before it had been a kind of Worker's Paradise... even the Hughes and Raytheon Engineers had like it, because once the Workers knew their lines and everything was going smooth, then it would be like a Perpetual Motion Machine, everything taking care of itself. But the General Dynamics Engineers crashed everything and then insisted on sifting the ashes with nobody's help.
@@JohnJohnson-pq4qz Well, Hughes might have been tight with a nickel but maybe that contributed to his being able to keep the factory doors open when other companies failed. When I was there I knew really old guys that had been working there over 30 years, and they weren't complaining. but I hated Union Contract time, where the Union Anarchists would be twisting our arms and threatening to burn our houses and trash our cars unless we screamed for Boss Blood loud enough. Really, you wonder where hate in our Society comes from, and the Unions are still legal to do what they do. You would think conspiracy to violence and extrortion and coercion would be indictable offenses., but apparently where Unions are concerned, it's all just written off as "Boys Being Boys".
The most amazing thing about Howard Hughes is how much he was able to accomplish in spite of his many phobias, mental illnesses, and having to live in chronic pain. Most people would have killed themselves.
He was a genius...Except that he made that Spruce Goose plane that couldn't fly... For your information, lots of people who have mental illness are superior in intelligence.
He most likely lied about his birth date, I'm 100% sure of this. He said he was born December 24, 1905, which would have given him Mercury in Sag. He was most likely born September 24, 1905, with Mercury in Virgo. There is absolutely no way he had Mercury in Sag. Sag is too focused on the big picture to worry about details. Virgo specializes in small details. Hughes was obsessed with minor detail. When I contacted Astrotheme and pointed this out to them, they immediately agreed and changed his birth date on their website to the September 24 date. Check it out, Wikipedia differs to Astrotheme now. I am honored to have corrected this.
When I was doing my psychiatric nurse training. We still had a group of patients who had neurosyphilis. One we called The Sheriff, he had a toy sheriff's badge, and a very realistic cap gun. Lovely guy, he'd been the head window cleaner at Buckingham Palace. Mad as a box of frogs, but a lovely, gentle guy.
I despair of younger people these days to use not precautions (there IS still Chlamydia & HIV that show no symptoms!). These young people seem to think that it they get a STD then a course of antibiotics will be the end of it. That is not always the case with syphilis.
@@TheCloggydoggy Ikr! I feel like such an old lady but these kids make me crazy! As a GenXer: condoms condoms condoms PLUS birth control (whether barrier, pharma, or spermicide). Congratulations Millenials, you brought back SYPHILIS! Completely unheard of, except older cases, and almost eradicated when I was coming up. Can't even speak about Gen Z. Sad really but watcha gonna do. I'll pull up a rocking chair with ya Cloggydoggy and complain about kids today, smh. 😁❤️🍻
@@AndyYoung789 Trump’s has the symptoms of syphilis. That is why he uses orange makeup and dyes his hair. His rambling speeches and beliefs that Hannibal Lector was a great man are also the results of infection.
While he was in hospital after the plane crash he found the hospital bed so uncomfortable that he set about redesigning it, and the hospital beds we have today is the result? He was also very hard of hearing (something else we have in common ) I find him fascinating so thank you for sharing your video. 🙏🏻🇬🇧
@@glynisforbes-bloomfield3325 From personal experience I wouldn’t say hospital beds are comfortable. Facts are facts we don’t know the real truth only what we have been programmed to believe. Your social security number if proof your just a cow.
Wow!! Thanks for the info!! ❤ I’ve spent way too much time in hospital beds in my life & I can barely stand the “fancy” ones that some places have; I can’t even imagine what the hospital beds were like back then!!😢👎 Go Howard!!❤
I'm from Houston. My uncle was his personal pilot. My aunt didn't like him flying Hughes around with all of the starlets. He said he was an odd duck but a good guy.
He can be credited for specialized cable television, as well. He had an affinity for old western shows and movies. He would continuously call the television stations and request old westerns to be broadcast. They advised him that if that is what he wanted, then he should buy a network. He DID and looped nothing but old westerns! Fun fact…although not for him, I’m sure.
This is apocryphal at best. He owned the television broadcaster in Las Vegas, and did make requests by telephone. Mostly, he endlessly watched films using a motion picture projector in his room..
@@MrShobar HH was an amazing man a real Genius but in viewing part of his film the outlaw His movie making was not up to the likes of John Houston imo who made great western films. Oh well guess you can't be good at everything This however does not in any way take away his genius HH was such a creative and energetic "go-getter" in his youth he was brave too and to top everything else very attractive So sad that his later life was spent mentally unhinged
@@MrShobarhe DID make requests..and he DID purchase NVs first broadcast station KLAS in the late 60s. He intended to air more westerns and aviation films.
Once you said scandalous I knew it was Syphillis. That was rampant back in the day and without the knowledge we have today it was far worse. Thanks for clearing up how he died, I always did wonder that.
My aunt had that happen. Her husband gave it to her and she never knew until it had gone to her brain. She then began to drink beer day and night, stay up all night (she lived with us at that point) and would chainsmoke all night. She did get off the beer with some medical help but died at 63, such a shame, because she was the nicest person but her horrible husband gave that to her and destroyed her life.
I was honored to him in person . He stopped by my DaDs house to meet us thank my DaD for all the drawings he had done for him. My didn’t one cent for all those drawings. Very nice and kind man!
I always remember reading that after his security guys accidentally lost his wife's cat he made them all write letters to the cat, asking how it was. A very eccentric genius.
I learned to fly helicopters in the Hughes TH-55 Osage in Texas. They were internal combustion engines and 6 fan belts drove the main rotor. We called them "Mattel Messerschmidts" due to their relatively small size. The fun started after I soloed and we got to tear ass around the Mineral Wells area. Thank you Howard. BTW, the basic model was updated and nowadays known as the Schweizer S300.
I worked on a computer for Summa Corporation (Hughes' company) in Las Vegas in July of 1977 and it was as if Howard Hughes was still alive and everything was running accordingly. The TV stations only played the best movies and constantly. The class of his hotels is unmatched by the hotels today and they spoiled me forever.
One of the invention we see every day that Howard designed was for his movie starring Jane Russell called the Outlaw and knowing that sex sells wanted her large bust shown in the very best way and also to satisfy the movie censors. He, therefore, personally designed the uplift bra with wire support that all of us men today enjoy. Thanks Howard RIP
I was living in the Bahamas and spent most days doing Dolphin Shows with my Boyfriend at the time. It was at Brittania Beach Resort, where Howard Hughes spent the last years of his life holed up. He had the ENTIRE TOP FLOOR. Everybody knew that he was nuts and many rumors circulated among the Staff.
I believe he lived the last year of his life at the Princess Hotel in Acapulco. He was carried out as he was dying and put on a plane to Houston where he died en route.
I suffer OCD and anxiety and watching the Aviator I saw exactly my own condition. Particularly the inability to choose and make a decision along with the repeating of lines. Its living hell, it truly is
I discovered I'm autistic while having my 5-year old daughter diagnosed. I am 57, so in my day there was no chance to even get close to the source of my "odd" behaviour. Everyone around me assumed I was strongly eccentric at best, a candidate for the lunatic asylum at worst. The funny thing is that my 2-and-a-half-year old son is showing traits of autism: lining up of his toys following perfect geometric patterns, obsessions about topics which become all-consuming (it was trains, now it's planets), fixations, etc. And about our OCD, I don't wanna even go there. Besides, for me it's too late. If I'm lucky I have ten years left. What good would it do?
I understand his cleanliness OCD as I have it. I've always been a germaphobe but got worse after getting covid in 2020. I am always washing my hands especially after touching something someone else. Refuse to touch door handles unless I use part of my clothing as a barrier. It can be hell at times
I have OCD for a lifetime and panic attacks from anxiety, I joke that when I'm walking around with tissue boxes on my feet you'll know I lost it. I've broken my back 3 times, no doctor will give me pain meds since 2012 because they're afraid to lose their license, my spine is collapsing. Nothing will get to you more than constant, sometimes excruciating pain, and not being able to sleep.
There's a 1980 movie called "Melvin and Howard" about Melvin Dumar's claim. Like most "based on a true story" movies, it's mostly BS. Jason Robards as Howard Hughes is worth the watch alone.
Some genius types never fit in. They are true aliens on this planet and see through all the games people play. If at age 11 invented his autobicycle, he was advanced beyond most.
That’s an interesting point. Perhaps, it’s less about the genius and more about wealth? I have always thought that being born into a family with a history of greatness puts a lot of pressure on you to do something great rather than seek personal fulfillment. I also believe being born into so much wealth that you will never need to work at anything denies the sense of accomplishment that comes from applying yourself to a task and succeeding. Instead of feeling like a capable adult, they feel unaccomplished and like they have to do something amazing to ‘earn’ their good fortune, at least in the eyes of the world. So, the try-fail-try again cycle the rest of are in is suddenly terrifying because people are watching and they don’t want to embarrass themselves. Obviously not all wealthy people are bothered by forming an identity apart from just being rich. Certainly fewer and fewer as the wealth gap divides us. Invariably wealthy people seem to have access to more vices than others, but it’s their unformed personal identity that leads them down the destructive path. Just a thought.
@@Blackbird_Singing_in_the-Night His family wasn't rich until his dad invented the rock crushing drill bit in the Humble Texas oilfields outside of Houston.
I worked at Hughes tools in the old industrial part of Houston, we were demolishing out but saving machines to send to another drill co. In Texas, well the weird thing i noticed was when we were able to go back into the mgmt area of the shop. It looked like you went back in time to 1940s, old typewriters, suits n hats hanging, couches that were leather from way back like you were in a museum, just bizzar , even smelled like old times. I didn't like going back in there it felt like you were being watched and weren't supposed to be in there ,we were told Not To Touch anything, that howard Hughes wanted it left like this .
Howard Hughes is a hero to me, a mentor. Talk about guts, as a pilot, a genuis, over the edge. Losing both his parents at an early age would have been traumatising. I have ocd and I didn't realise until I had purchased over 6 Harley Davidson motorcycles, and I had no home, living in a caravan, over 60nyears old still driving milk tankers to survive, and bought more. Until my body gave up, osteo in the hip, so bought small Sportster, can't get on it, so bought a scooter. I have an aircraft for 18 months and can not get in it. Howard Hughes was a great man and loved aviation, an inspiration and sorry to see his ill health and destruction.
@@schrisdellopoulos9244 Actually a Kiwi like Shane Van Gisbergen, living in Australia. I survived an aircraft crash, cropdusting in a Piper PA 25 235 Pawnee. They usually explode on impact, fuel tank behind engine. Mine didn't, and I went in nose first after hitting power wires, and my crash helmet had damage from hitting the internal cockpit crash cage; so I Praise God regularly.
During the 70s, we lived in the Hotel Intercontinental in Managua, Nicaragua. Howard Hughes spent a good amount of his late years living in the same hotel and same rooms. We loved hearing about his weird habits from the staff.
He is a true American hero. The man hated communists and communism, he was a natural born aviation and defense genius. Contributing much to the field. Companies and products still exist to this day thanks to him. When singled out among everyone else for doing what he did for the country during war by asswipe, jealous politicians and rivals, he clowned on them all with great results. Was he odd? Yes, but so what. He is one of the greatest humans, and there will never be anyone like him ever again.
Hughes suffered from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) which went undiagnosed by a medical community that had not yet formally identified the disorder as a recognized mental illness. His extroverted type A high achiever personality made this illness worse but it was his pain killer drug addiction, (the result of chronic unbearable pain following his plane crash,) that exacerbated the OCD symptoms even more. Had he access to modern treatment for OCD and pursued drug addiction treatment he would not have fell victim to the combination of their effects. What happened to Hughes could have happened to anyone. He was a great visionary whose contributions to aviation and space technology are still in use today. Lastly, unlike what the title of this video suggests , Hughes never lost his mind, his OCD did play out with some pretty strange behavior, but he knew it was strange, which is why he stayed away from people, that , and germs, but truly crazy people don't try to hide their behavior like Hughes did, he knew it was strange, crazy people don't have that wherewithal !
We learned about Hughes' OCD in psych class in the 70s; it was fairly well-known that Hughes didn't bathe, shave, or cut his nails and-apparently-shuffled around with Kleenex boxes on his feet.
That was directly before he died. His caregivers weren't doing their job. I feel sorry for the man, someone should have watched after him. I am well acquainted with mental illness and lots of times it is prevalent in the rich and in the poor. I admired him, Howard Hughes was a genius. Takes one to know one...
@@user-rk4jx4zc5d Yes, I agree. Why weren't the individuals responsible for his care investigated and charged with neglect/abuse? His 'Doctor' prescribing massive amounts of Codeine was also negligent, if not criminal. The neglect and abuse that HH was subjected to was astounding!! Then there is the matter of the dubious financial transactions, benefiting those 'caring' for him.
In his youth, Hughes attended Prosso School in Houston, under the tutelage of James Richardson, second husband of Ethel Sloan Park Smith (my grandmother). My father Wilbur, uncle Ralph, and aunt Lucille all attended Prosso and knew Hughes well, especially since Hughes was a bully who picked on Ralph until Lucille, with flailing arms, beat the hell out of Howie. Later, Dad drew on his acquaintance for a job and wound up working on the “Spruce Goose.” I remember asking Dad what Hughes was like. He answered, tersely (as was his wont), “Son of a bitch.”
The saying: Money does not bring happiness! It pisses me off because I would make good use of that much money and certainly not waste my life away! Money brings happiness in the right hands!!
@@beatricerigaud8942 What does money have anything to do with happiness? I can be blessed and happy with money. Which one would you pick poor and happy or rich and happy. I’ll take the rich and happy personally.
I can't "like" this video because it completely overlooks his relationship with the CIA. The Russian Submarine alone was an amazing feat and reveals just how much he and the CIA worked together. This part of his life needs to be explored and/or exposed.
@@evelynhyland I never saw Mr. Hughes so your dad was lucky. I worked for Hughes Radar Systems in the prototype shop. The place was excellent in every way possible. We didn't even have to clean our machines because there were other employees to do that. The older guys were eager to share tricks of the trade and the cafeteria was a restaurant. Armed guards worked the elevators to get down to the shop and it paid well. The only downfall was the drive to El Segundo, CA.
That doesn't really explain his post 1950s weirdness. Antibiotics were commonplace after 1945 and he could easily have received treatment. He was still quite sane as late as the mid 1950s. So the cause was probably entirely psychological.
No, my aunt got it from her husband in the 60s, she never knew until it went to her brain. If you don't know or get a blood test it could happen today.
Don't even try pretending that's Howard in photo with the long scraggly hair next to a young Howard. It's Jason Robards as Howard in his OSCAR winning performance.
Syphilis. Makes sense. It is strange how he wasn't prescribed penicillin after is was discovered in 1930. He had the money and connections. By 1941 it was purified for mass use. He still would've suffered ill effects, but at least it wouldn't have gotten worse.
Hughes inherited enough to buy out all his relative's interests in the Hughes Tool Company. Smart move for a young man. But you missed this point. Also, Hughes discovered his father's body on the lawn of their home. He'd died of a heart attack.
At 10:20 you say that Nixon ordered the Watergate break-in. Actually, Nixon was unaware beforehand of the break-in. Also, the main source of income for Hughes was his patented invention of a special kind of drill bit used for hard rock oil drilling. Hughes also founded TWA airlines.
Yep. He inherited Hughes tool but built TWA and fought the government corruption with Pan AM non stop. They hated his competition that was hurting them.
Yes this isn't a good representation of Howard Hughes Shame people drag his life through the muck..he was brilliant. I enjoyed watching Leonardo C in the Aviator.
44 years ago, I read the book, Empire by Barlett and Steele. His father invented the Hughes Drill Bit for oilfield drilling, before that the industry used a drill collar that pounded a hole in the ground, the Hughes bit was rotary, cutting a hole with liquids to enhance the process. It was seminal and revolutionary, and a good manager would have owned the world with ownership of that technology. Mr. Hughes was high IQ smart, but the common sense of a goose, with the wealth of a god. It just went insane being a man, but the power of a god, without the sense to understand it all - well - because he had gone insane.
Howard Hughes wasn'tborn in Houston...he was born outside of Houston in Humble, Texas, where his father invented the best drill bit for drilling oil in the largest oil field in the world at the time. It became Humble Oil Company, now ExxonMobil. His mother was a clean freak and didn't like oil fields...it was a tough place to raise a child. She put him on a train headed to a Houston Hospital and got his birth certificate there. The place he was born in Humble is right next to the Houston Intercontinental Airport ironically, and also the headquarters of the DeLorean Motor Corporation. Governor Ross Sterling also was there and started Texaco Oil Company at the same time.
Very, very intetesting compilation and compendium on Hughes. Indeed some things were culturally and socially known, such as characters in movies based on him. However the fog of mystery and eccentricism amplified by the MSM of the day didn't bring out such details as his medical history (maybe it wasn't released to the journalists or general public arena or such details were pushed aside back then). But this video is really well done. Thank you.
At the time, narcotics such as codeine, was freely available, didn't require a prescription. In Canada, codeine was available in a regular pain medication was called Anacin 444?..,up until, at least the early 1990's. It was their version of Tylenol or Ibuprofen I had a coworker ask me to bring her back a bottle from my visit to Canada at the time. I was unaware of what it contained.
LOTS of inaccuracies in this clickbait video. The conclusion about Hughes’ mental state, presented as settled fact, is anything but. Hughes lived a long, illustrious life that defies summary in a 15 minute video. Read some books about him if you want the facts. This ain’t it.
I worked at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City and then El Segundo from No 1973 until I retired in Nov. 1999. Shortly thereafter it was taken apart piece by piece.
There’s still a lot of the Hughes, now Boeing, buildings left in El Segundo. I worked there until 2015. When they did a major remodel on the original Hughes Machine Tool headquarters you would have known as S50, I wandered up to Howard’s office for a quick look.
Do you know, at the time, I couldn't make heads or tails of the Watergate Scandal, and when you said what it was, it seems unbelievable that it brought down a President, and, to me it's totally hilarious. For all the wring reasons.
On a different note there is the book “Boxes- The Secret Life of Howard Hughes” that claims Hughes faked his own death. Here’s a quick excerpt from a review of the book co-written by a retired Major General Mark Musick. As they say, the truth can be stranger than fiction. “It actually makes more sense than the weird story that Hughes was really the emaciated, long-haired, drug-addicted man who resided for years on a floor of the Desert Inn Hotel in Nevada, and died in such a horribly emaciated condition on April 5, 1976. That man was apparently a double, which allowed Hughes to be free to live his life elsewhere with Eva, who knew him as Verner ‘Nik’ Nicely. He later died at the advanced age of 96 in 2001.”
Hughes has always been a fascinating person to learn about! Great Job making this about Howard Hughes! It's full of great information. HH definitely had the concept/ idea for On Demand Television! His mindset was the way the future... 😊
another 'crazy genius' apparently. If he had syphilis, there was treatment as early as 1910, and then penicillin in 1943. Sounds like he just didn't care, and nobody encouraged him to visit a doctor. Ultimately everyone is responsible for themselves, and his lack of self care, hygiene, binge watching movies for months (who ran the companies?) indicated an unstable mind. Dying at 70, and no doubt in serious decline years earlier is startling. Lots of enablers, no true friends ... or maybe he was the type of person nobody wanted to be around.
My grandpa was born the same year as Howard Hughes and he died at 73 and had been in poor health for years before that. Back then 70 was a lot older than it is now.
@@trevorn9381 good point, my grandparents (Italian immigrants) died in their early 70's. My dad however is still alive at 93. Took much better care, wealthier, and has used Medicare to the max. Certainly Hughes had no money issues, I can't recall if he had personal physician(s) - I seem to recall he did but all they 'contributed' to his healthcare was giving him all the drugs he wanted. Very similar to the Matthew Perry situation. Hughes was an eccentric genius and they don't tend to live long lives.
I actually saw the Spruce Goose when it was in Long Beach, CA with the Queen Mary. I just remember how unbelievably enormous it was as and I walked through the fuselage and the wings. I remember the guide saying you could fit 50-70 people in one of the wings alone.😳 Thanks for posting this info as I had no idea it had been moved to Oregon.😊
I find it incredible that the opening picture is of a younger Hughes and one of the last photos of Jason Robards. I know this because my dad was a friend of his, and would drag me along to visit.
Several thoughts. He was 70 when he died, not exactly like he was in the prime of his existence. Secondly, his 22 cousins no less must have been very happy to learn they were inheritors of his estate. Thirdly, when I die, I don't want a singular cousin of mine to inherit anything. Period.
Great video, concise and intriguing. I have read about Robert Mahue and his connections in attempts to kill Castro. Purportedly, a man looking like Hughes played the role but became a recluse. Mahue is also peripherally connected to the JFK assassination.
I worked at the Silver Slipper in 78-79 where I was a blackjack dealer. I am an artist. I had just left the Columbus College of Art&Design, With a $500 loan, my red volkswagon bug and I ventured west. In the basement of the Silver Slipper is a charcoal sketch, "The Sourcerers Apprentice". Much has taken lifes turn's in the past 42 year's. I 🤔is it still there? Let me know, Naomi Alexis Ulrich California Certified Interior Designer Emeritus
My grandparents and my dad worked for Hughes aircraft. My grandfather invented tools that were needed that didn't already exist. He was a tool and die maker/ machinist. He was self taught. When he retired Hughes had to hire him back for awhile because the college educated engineers couldn't figure out how to do the job. My grandpa's name appears on the patent paperwork for the tools that he invented. My grandmother did some of the wiring for the early NASA projects.
Does the name Failkoff mean anything to you?
@@PeterAlanA1234567890 no,I don't recognize that name.
Waw, nice story!!
My grandfather was also a tool, dye and pattern maker/machinist for military aviation contractors.
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Even though you show videos of it, no biography of Hughes is complete without mentioning the Spruce Goose.
My mother met Hughes. For a time he lived in San Antonio, early 1950's. My mother was a cashier at the Piggly Wiggly on San Pedro Ave. He would come in and have his staff load multiple carts full of groceries. He would only let my mother ring up the purchases because she was the fastest cashier (and a good looking blonde). The groceries all went to a nearby orphanage.
The biggest plane in the world at the 👁️👀👁️ time Hughes was dragged into Congress to explain why it was costing so much money 🤑 as it probably wouldn't or couldn't fly Hughes SAID if it doesn't fly I'll leave the USA and never return 😊 he personally flew it two it A half a mile
Awesome. You don't have to be a Multi Millionaire. Do it too. In honor of your Mom. Start a tradition.
The newsreel clips in the video show it from many angles.
@kentkearney6623 I beg your pardon. You most certainly do need to be a millionaire to fill a bunch of grocery carts these days.
Went on the Spruce Goose when it was docked in Long Beach. How that thing ever got even a foot off of the water is astounding.
Well done video, particularly the early biography information. However, you didn't mention the one key incident that led to Howard Hughes's physical and mental decline -- his near fatal plane crash in 1946. According to doctors, it was a miracle he survived, suffering numerous broken bones, a broken neck and severe burns all over his body. This is key to understanding his strange behavior he became known for. As a direct result of the accident, he became addicted to pain killers for the rest of his life. Side note: One of the best books I've read about Howard Hughes is "The Investigation" by Gary Magnesen about the famous "Mormon will" mentioned in this video.
Hughes had a few nervous breakdowns during his lifetime. They were all untreated. One was following the TWA debacle.
Definitely had OCD behavior since childhood but that impact head injury absolutely disabled his ability to cope with the ocd.
Thanks for pointing this out. I thought that this should have come out - and the guy was an honest-to-goodness test pilot.....
@@tintindb He was such a great test pilot that the Army banned him from flying any prototypes of Army aircraft after the 1946 crash where he massively screwed up.
It lacks a lot of things: his deals with providing planes to the Air Force, the creation of TWA, his fundamental role in turning Las Vegas what it is today, the fake diaries of Howard Hugues that he debunked on press conference by phone with several journalists to recognize his voice. The video makes seem that he did no movie at all at RKO and that was a short affair: he owned RKO for 10 years: from the 40s to the 50s.
It is a very incomplete biography.
I bought a micrometer on eBay, in the bottom of the box was a piece of cardboard, on the back side of the card was the printing of a Hughes Aircraft time card.
Howard Hughes, had many plane crashes and head injuries, this no doubt this contributed to his 'strange behaviour...'
I don't know how effective those leather helmets were in preventing brain damage in the early years of aviation, but being Howard Hughes, he didn't always wear one. Just like some people today who still don't wear a seatbelt when they drive, because they are "great drivers", he felt he was "invincible" in the air. He was a "daredevil" who took unnecessary chances when he flew, and ended up with plane crashes that could have been avoided.
Do you have proof of that?
Fools! Hughes became the enemy of the state when he healed himself of multiple broken bones with Florida oranges. This meant Calcium and Vitamin C were a miracle healer, making him the target of the Rockefellers. They in turn, made him insane with fear. He became paranoid, It destroyed him. destroyed h
Having his life threatened daily didn't help his mental health much either.
More than 'contributed' they were the cause, secondary was pain killer addiction.
You don't mention how he inherited so much in the first place. His father invented the rock crushing drill bit used for oil drilling and patented it, then refused to sell any, instead leasing them out for a fortune and retaining full control. As he put it "This does not give me a monopoly of the oil drilling business, people can always use a pick and shovel."
ahhh, the "three cone rotary bit"....
Brilliant.
wow genius! how do these people think of these money making ideas. fascinating
Thank you for adding to the documentary!
This is pertinent information to add about Howard Hughes!
Baker-Hughes still leases drilling tools. Supplied with full factory and engineering support and a field crew to take over and operate them.
It is a very good way to do business. As the inventor and manufacturer are involved with every use, and can ensure it is used as effectively as possible. While learning every thing that is known about the operation, making improvements based on this experience, and keeping it in-house. So anyone who wants to compete has to start where you started, from zero, without gaining the coveted 10:1 advantage that comes from copying. Brilliant.
Hughes was also a pioneer in chronic pain management. He was nearly killed in a 1946 plane crash, and spent the rest of his life battling pain from it.
I’d hardly call injecting codeine for decades with no further therapy and a starvation diet to be pioneering in chronic pain management.
It must not have been important, or it would have been in this film.
@@Hellenback137 Next you'll fault the Spruce Goose because it wasn't an A380.
So he was the first ever opiate addict? Impressive. If he hedn't been as rich, he'd have been an homeless streetdrug overdose victim.
@@Bob.martens Exactly.
In 1986 I took a job at Hughes Aircraft Company in Tucson Arizona, and the old guys there told me that every Christmas back in the old days, Howard Hughes would send a rail road train out to the tracks that cut through the Factory Area, and there they would unload free turkeys for all of the employees, so that they could all have sumptuous Christmas dinners. After Hughes died the new owners allowed that tradition to lapse. So, yeah, Howard Hughes had his problems, but where he was good, he was great. Thumbs up- for the good in him.
Today's RAYTHEON....Definitely not like the kind hearted Howard Hugh's.😢
@@brigittebeltran6701 Yeah, I was in Tucson when Raytheon bought out General Dynamics from San Diego. F! Just a few years before Raytheon had bought out Hughes Aircraft and they had problems asserting their Corporate Culture over the Hughes Culture, and so being so unsure of itself, well, the General Dynamics Culture took over. Well, the Hughes and Raytheon Culture had been great for dedicated and competent workers, that is, you could extend your expertise outward into as many projects as you could handle, and your territory would be recognized and your contributions appreciated. But the General Dynamics California crowd, well, they needed to take their engineers to the men's room to show them how to wipe their asses. But their Engineers picked up the same vibe of being helpless as their men. Instead of asking us how our own lines worked, they'd try to find more senior engineers belonging to our venders or whatever. It turned into a crappy place to work, when before it had been a kind of Worker's Paradise... even the Hughes and Raytheon Engineers had like it, because once the Workers knew their lines and everything was going smooth, then it would be like a Perpetual Motion Machine, everything taking care of itself. But the General Dynamics Engineers crashed everything and then insisted on sifting the ashes with nobody's help.
I just read Robert Mahue's Book. Lots of BS im sure but lots of examples of Hughes being the cheapest CEO of the time...lol
@@JohnJohnson-pq4qz Well, Hughes might have been tight with a nickel but maybe that contributed to his being able to keep the factory doors open when other companies failed. When I was there I knew really old guys that had been working there over 30 years, and they weren't complaining. but I hated Union Contract time, where the Union Anarchists would be twisting our arms and threatening to burn our houses and trash our cars unless we screamed for Boss Blood loud enough. Really, you wonder where hate in our Society comes from, and the Unions are still legal to do what they do. You would think conspiracy to violence and extrortion and coercion would be indictable offenses., but apparently where Unions are concerned, it's all just written off as "Boys
Being Boys".
The most amazing thing about Howard Hughes is how much he was able to accomplish in spite of his many phobias, mental illnesses, and having to live in chronic pain.
Most people would have killed themselves.
He was a genius...Except that he made that Spruce Goose plane that couldn't fly...
For your information, lots of people who have mental illness are superior in intelligence.
Most people aren't squillionaires.
@@hoilst265most people couldn't even with a billion or I'll go further...Trillion.
He most likely lied about his birth date, I'm 100% sure of this. He said he was born December 24, 1905, which would have given him Mercury in Sag. He was most likely born September 24, 1905, with Mercury in Virgo. There is absolutely no way he had Mercury in Sag. Sag is too focused on the big picture to worry about details. Virgo specializes in small details. Hughes was obsessed with minor detail. When I contacted Astrotheme and pointed this out to them, they immediately agreed and changed his birth date on their website to the September 24 date. Check it out, Wikipedia differs to Astrotheme now. I am honored to have corrected this.
@@newtonbelieved astrology is bullshit artistry for bored housewives
When I was doing my psychiatric nurse training. We still had a group of patients who had neurosyphilis. One we called The Sheriff, he had a toy sheriff's badge, and a very realistic cap gun. Lovely guy, he'd been the head window cleaner at Buckingham Palace. Mad as a box of frogs, but a lovely, gentle guy.
I despair of younger people these days to use not precautions (there IS still Chlamydia & HIV that show no symptoms!). These young people seem to think that it they get a STD then a course of antibiotics will be the end of it. That is not always the case with syphilis.
Could’ve been an undiagnosed medical problem like dementia.
@@TheCloggydoggy Ikr! I feel like such an old lady but these kids make me crazy! As a GenXer: condoms condoms condoms PLUS birth control (whether barrier, pharma, or spermicide).
Congratulations Millenials, you brought back SYPHILIS! Completely unheard of, except older cases, and almost eradicated when I was coming up.
Can't even speak about Gen Z.
Sad really but watcha gonna do. I'll pull up a rocking chair with ya Cloggydoggy and complain about kids today, smh. 😁❤️🍻
@@AndyYoung789 Your comment was neither clever, insightful or funny.
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Trump’s has the symptoms of syphilis.
That is why he uses orange makeup and dyes his hair. His rambling speeches and beliefs that Hannibal Lector was a great man are also the results of infection.
While he was in hospital after the plane crash he found the hospital bed so uncomfortable that he set about redesigning it, and the hospital beds we have today is the result? He was also very hard of hearing (something else we have in common ) I find him fascinating so thank you for sharing your video. 🙏🏻🇬🇧
Very fascinating
@@glynisforbes-bloomfield3325 From personal experience I wouldn’t say hospital beds are comfortable. Facts are facts we don’t know the real truth only what we have been programmed to believe. Your social security number if proof your just a cow.
Hospital beds are still uncomfortable.
Wow!! Thanks for the info!! ❤
I’ve spent way too much time in hospital beds in my life & I can barely stand the “fancy” ones that some places have;
I can’t even imagine what the hospital beds were like back then!!😢👎
Go Howard!!❤
Just imagine how loud those planes were during flight and the length of his task. That man really stretched himself, way beyond human limits.
I'm from Houston. My uncle was his personal pilot. My aunt didn't like him flying Hughes around with all of the starlets. He said he was an odd duck but a good guy.
Wrong. Howard Hughes didn't need a pilot, he was one.
@@243wayne1 No, you’re wrong. You need to do some reading. You think that because a person CAN fly that person never GETS flown?
@@243wayne1 Youve never been a passenger?
@@243wayne1 How's he gonna bang movie stars and drink while flying mostly 2nd/3rd gen planes. Think about it, man.
Not such an odd duck since March 2020.
He can be credited for specialized cable television, as well. He had an affinity for old western shows and movies. He would continuously call the television stations and request old westerns to be broadcast. They advised him that if that is what he wanted, then he should buy a network. He DID and looped nothing but old westerns! Fun fact…although not for him, I’m sure.
This is apocryphal at best. He owned the television broadcaster in Las Vegas, and did make requests by telephone. Mostly, he endlessly watched films using a motion picture projector in his room..
@@MrShobar HH was an amazing man a real Genius but in viewing part of his film the outlaw His movie making was not up to the likes of John Houston imo who made great western films. Oh well guess you can't be good at everything
This however does not in any way take away his genius HH was such a creative and energetic "go-getter" in his youth he was brave too and to top everything else very attractive
So sad that his later life was spent mentally unhinged
I heard he watched “Dr. Zhivago” over and over on film in his hotel suite before dying.
@@MrShobarhe DID make requests..and he DID purchase NVs first broadcast station KLAS in the late 60s. He intended to air more westerns and aviation films.
@@aalihte3378 Thats what I said. Learn to read more carefully.
Once you said scandalous I knew it was Syphillis. That was rampant back in the day and without the knowledge we have today it was far worse. Thanks for clearing up how he died, I always did wonder that.
My aunt had that happen. Her husband gave it to her and she never knew until it had gone to her brain. She then began to drink beer day and night, stay up all night (she lived with us at that point) and would chainsmoke all night. She did get off the beer with some medical help but died at 63, such a shame, because she was the nicest person but her horrible husband gave that to her and destroyed her life.
He took financial care of Gene Tierney`s disabled daughter. A very thoughtful, caring man.
And poor Gene had her own demons to fight.
@@JuhiSRK She did that. I`m so glad her last years were happy ones.
I find her most beautiful of all the old starlets. She just had classic features.
Gene Tierney never betrayed HH by writing book Classy lady
@@mumbles215 Agreed; I watched The Ghost and Mrs Muir last week: there were moments when
Gene`s beauty could literally take your breath away.
I was honored to him in person . He stopped by my DaDs house to meet us thank my DaD for all the drawings he had done for him. My didn’t one cent for all those drawings. Very nice and kind man!
I always remember reading that after his security guys accidentally lost his wife's cat he made them all write letters to the cat, asking how it was. A very eccentric genius.
Awwww!🥰 Did they find the kitty 🐱????
I learned to fly helicopters in the Hughes TH-55 Osage in Texas. They were internal combustion engines and 6 fan belts drove the main rotor. We called them "Mattel Messerschmidts" due to their relatively small size. The fun started after I soloed and we got to tear ass around the Mineral Wells area. Thank you Howard. BTW, the basic model was updated and nowadays known as the Schweizer S300.
I worked on a computer for Summa Corporation (Hughes' company) in Las Vegas in July of 1977 and it was as if Howard Hughes was still alive and everything was running accordingly. The TV stations only played the best movies and constantly. The class of his hotels is unmatched by the hotels today and they spoiled me forever.
One of the invention we see every day that Howard designed was for his movie starring Jane Russell called the Outlaw and knowing that sex sells wanted her large bust shown in the very best way and also to satisfy the movie censors. He, therefore, personally designed the uplift bra with wire support that all of us men today enjoy. Thanks Howard RIP
I was living in the Bahamas and spent most days doing Dolphin Shows with my Boyfriend at the time. It was at Brittania Beach Resort, where Howard Hughes spent the last years of his life holed up. He had the ENTIRE TOP FLOOR. Everybody knew that he was nuts and many rumors circulated among the Staff.
I believe he lived the last year of his life at the Princess Hotel in Acapulco. He was carried out as he was dying and put on a plane to Houston where he died en route.
@randyrice1429 nice touch! That's an interesting note! Knowing things like that is more humanity than most are willing believe!
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You are 100% correct!
@@randyrice1429I believe this is correct. He moved from the Xanadu Hotel Bahamas to the Acapulco Princess. But had also lived at the Brittania.
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I suffer OCD and anxiety and watching the Aviator I saw exactly my own condition. Particularly the inability to choose and make a decision along with the repeating of lines. Its living hell, it truly is
@@DCAllen-ht5ikSleep well tonight, DC.👍
Are you a multimillionaire though? 😂
I discovered I'm autistic while having my 5-year old daughter diagnosed. I am 57, so in my day there was no chance to even get close to the source of my "odd" behaviour. Everyone around me assumed I was strongly eccentric at best, a candidate for the lunatic asylum at worst. The funny thing is that my 2-and-a-half-year old son is showing traits of autism: lining up of his toys following perfect geometric patterns, obsessions about topics which become all-consuming (it was trains, now it's planets), fixations, etc. And about our OCD, I don't wanna even go there. Besides, for me it's too late. If I'm lucky I have ten years left. What good would it do?
I understand his cleanliness OCD as I have it. I've always been a germaphobe but got worse after getting covid in 2020. I am always washing my hands especially after touching something someone else. Refuse to touch door handles unless I use part of my clothing as a barrier. It can be hell at times
I have OCD for a lifetime and panic attacks from anxiety, I joke that when I'm walking around with tissue boxes on my feet you'll know I lost it. I've broken my back 3 times, no doctor will give me pain meds since 2012 because they're afraid to lose their license, my spine is collapsing. Nothing will get to you more than constant, sometimes excruciating pain, and not being able to sleep.
the irony of that newspaper advertising weight loss next to a portrait of an emaciated man...
There's a 1980 movie called "Melvin and Howard" about Melvin Dumar's claim. Like most "based on a true story" movies, it's mostly BS. Jason Robards as Howard Hughes is worth the watch alone.
I think the clip maker used Jason Robards picture for this clip .
@@user-tw6wb2if8dI'm sure about it
Thank you for this, a clear account of a man's life no hint of sensationalism.
Some genius types never fit in. They are true aliens on this planet and see through all the games people play. If at age 11 invented his autobicycle, he was advanced beyond most.
That’s an interesting point. Perhaps, it’s less about the genius and more about wealth? I have always thought that being born into a family with a history of greatness puts a lot of pressure on you to do something great rather than seek personal fulfillment. I also believe being born into so much wealth that you will never need to work at anything denies the sense of accomplishment that comes from applying yourself to a task and succeeding. Instead of feeling like a capable adult, they feel unaccomplished and like they have to do something amazing to ‘earn’ their good fortune, at least in the eyes of the world. So, the try-fail-try again cycle the rest of are in is suddenly terrifying because people are watching and they don’t want to embarrass themselves. Obviously not all wealthy people are bothered by forming an identity apart from just being rich. Certainly fewer and fewer as the wealth gap divides us. Invariably wealthy people seem to have access to more vices than others, but it’s their unformed personal identity that leads them down the destructive path. Just a thought.
@@Blackbird_Singing_in_the-Night His family wasn't rich until his dad invented the rock crushing drill bit in the Humble Texas oilfields outside of Houston.
I worked at Hughes tools in the old industrial part of Houston, we were demolishing out but saving machines to send to another drill co. In Texas, well the weird thing i noticed was when we were able to go back into the mgmt area of the shop. It looked like you went back in time to 1940s, old typewriters, suits n hats hanging, couches that were leather from way back like you were in a museum, just bizzar , even smelled like old times. I didn't like going back in there it felt like you were being watched and weren't supposed to be in there ,we were told Not To Touch anything, that howard Hughes wanted it left like this .
Very interesting...Thank you.
Howard Hughes is a hero to me, a mentor. Talk about guts, as a pilot, a genuis, over the edge. Losing both his parents at an early age would have been traumatising. I have ocd and I didn't realise until I had purchased over 6 Harley Davidson motorcycles, and I had no home, living in a caravan, over 60nyears old still driving milk tankers to survive, and bought more. Until my body gave up, osteo in the hip, so bought small Sportster, can't get on it, so bought a scooter. I have an aircraft for 18 months and can not get in it. Howard Hughes was a great man and loved aviation, an inspiration and sorry to see his ill health and destruction.
So you're one of millions of old American bikers. Big deal.
hokey smokes
@@schrisdellopoulos9244 hahaha!
@@schrisdellopoulos9244 Actually a Kiwi like Shane Van Gisbergen, living in Australia. I survived an aircraft crash, cropdusting in a Piper PA 25 235 Pawnee. They usually explode on impact, fuel tank behind engine. Mine didn't, and I went in nose first after hitting power wires, and my crash helmet had damage from hitting the internal cockpit crash cage; so I Praise God regularly.
I'm pretty sure he couldn't tell who his real friends were so preferred none. This is every billionaires problem.
Depression makes you isolate yourself from people. You just don't want to deal with people anymore.
@@wingnut71 So it's obviously true, money can't buy happiness..
@@wingnut71
High level intelligence also makes you not want to deal with people anymore!
As well as mercury affected brain, as well as syphilis.
I agree, if you are a real down to earth person all the falsities of others would be enough to drive you mad
@@fraserthomson5766 if you spend it wisely it can. Also giving back prevents depression.
During the 70s, we lived in the Hotel Intercontinental in Managua, Nicaragua.
Howard Hughes spent a good amount of his late years living in the same hotel and same rooms.
We loved hearing about his weird habits from the staff.
He is a true American hero. The man hated communists and communism, he was a natural born aviation and defense genius. Contributing much to the field. Companies and products still exist to this day thanks to him. When singled out among everyone else for doing what he did for the country during war by asswipe, jealous politicians and rivals, he clowned on them all with great results. Was he odd? Yes, but so what. He is one of the greatest humans, and there will never be anyone like him ever again.
Hughes suffered from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) which went undiagnosed by a medical community that had not yet formally identified the disorder as a recognized mental illness. His extroverted type A high achiever personality made this illness worse but it was his pain killer drug addiction, (the result of chronic unbearable pain following his plane crash,) that exacerbated the OCD symptoms even more. Had he access to modern treatment for OCD and pursued drug addiction treatment he would not have fell victim to the combination of their effects. What happened to Hughes could have happened to anyone. He was a great visionary whose contributions to aviation and space technology are still in use today. Lastly, unlike what the title of this video suggests , Hughes never lost his mind, his OCD did play out with some pretty strange behavior, but he knew it was strange, which is why he stayed away from people, that , and germs, but truly crazy people don't try to hide their behavior like Hughes did, he knew it was strange, crazy people don't have that wherewithal !
Incredible to read the comments and see people stories that were only 1 or 2 degrees of separation from Hughes!
We learned about Hughes' OCD in psych class in the 70s; it was fairly well-known that Hughes didn't bathe, shave, or cut his nails and-apparently-shuffled around with Kleenex boxes on his feet.
That was directly before he died. His caregivers weren't doing their job. I feel sorry for the man, someone should have watched after him. I am well acquainted with mental illness and lots of times it is prevalent in the rich and in the poor. I admired him, Howard Hughes was a genius. Takes one to know one...
@@user-rk4jx4zc5d Yes, I agree. Why weren't the individuals responsible for his care investigated and charged with neglect/abuse? His 'Doctor' prescribing massive amounts of Codeine was also negligent, if not criminal.
The neglect and abuse that HH was subjected to was astounding!!
Then there is the matter of the dubious financial transactions, benefiting those 'caring' for him.
You can’t kill someone (whilst driving a car when drunk ) and get away with it mentally, even if you escape a prison sentence.
You can if you are a psychopath!
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In his youth, Hughes attended Prosso School in Houston, under the tutelage of James Richardson, second husband of Ethel Sloan Park Smith (my grandmother). My father Wilbur, uncle Ralph, and aunt Lucille all attended Prosso and knew Hughes well, especially since Hughes was a bully who picked on Ralph until Lucille, with flailing arms, beat the hell out of Howie. Later, Dad drew on his acquaintance for a job and wound up working on the “Spruce Goose.” I remember asking Dad what Hughes was like. He answered, tersely (as was his wont), “Son of a bitch.”
BEST NARRATOR. This guy is golden.
really good
Wow! Never knew about the syphilis, that pretty much explains it. Very good video, short and to the point. I learned something new today, thanks.
Of course! We got you.
@@Factinate you certainly did! ❤
I didn't know about the syphilis either. I thought it was the OCD and multiple head traumas that made him so odd. Good video!
@@rossbabcock3790 How did we not know about this? I've watched a lot of documentaries and videos about him and this was never mentioned. Weird.
That was my first thought
The saying: Money does not bring happiness! It pisses me off because I would make good use of that much money and certainly not waste my life away! Money brings happiness in the right hands!!
Money may not buy happiness, but I'm more than willing to settle for a reasonable facsimile thereof.
@@beatricerigaud8942 What does money have anything to do with happiness? I can be blessed and happy with money. Which one would you pick poor and happy or rich and happy. I’ll take the rich and happy personally.
Many people talk about all the good they would do if they were only rich . . .
Hail! Hail!
How can you know it? Money has the power to change people.
It is very sad what happened to Hughes life. He was truly brilliant. People with money and power seldom have happy healthy lives...😢
I can't "like" this video because it completely overlooks his relationship with the CIA. The Russian Submarine alone was an amazing feat and reveals just how much he and the CIA worked together. This part of his life needs to be explored and/or exposed.
I was dissapointed also, his life was full of mysteries.
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Very clear narration filled with just enough information for one sitting. Thank you!
OCD is a monster that, left untreated, destroys lives & families.
No peace or comfort I can imagine it's a terrible illness.
a mate had the most severe form, CDO
The same should be said of syphilis.
Question: Would Hughes have been so eccentric had so much wealth not been left to him at the exclusion of others?
@@joeysplats3209 Yes. Mental illness, unlike people, doesn't discriminate.
The syphilis possible prognosis. Wouldn’t he have infected basically every actress and actor in Hollywood. Just wondering. 😵💫🥴😳
yes, and he did.
Do tell!!
Who got syphilis from Howard?
Al C. @@darlenejoy2400
Or rather who gave him syphilis?
Thank you Mr. Hughes for providing my most professional workplace experience.
My dad worked at Hughes Tool for 30 yrs. He said he saw Hughes only one time
@@evelynhyland I never saw Mr. Hughes so your dad was lucky. I worked for Hughes Radar Systems in the prototype shop. The place was excellent in every way possible. We didn't even have to clean our machines because there were other employees to do that. The older guys were eager to share tricks of the trade and the cafeteria was a restaurant. Armed guards worked the elevators to get down to the shop and it paid well. The only downfall was the drive to El Segundo, CA.
Hughes was one of my Dads biggest accounts in the 70s and 80s.
My Dad sold little electric parts for aerospace.
That doesn't really explain his post 1950s weirdness. Antibiotics were commonplace after 1945 and he could easily have received treatment. He was still quite sane as late as the mid 1950s. So the cause was probably entirely psychological.
Antibiotics can't get rid of mercury.
No, my aunt got it from her husband in the 60s, she never knew until it went to her brain. If you don't know or get a blood test it could happen today.
The damage also might have already been done
@@mrgod679 If it had already been done in the 1930s, he wouldn't have been normal in the 1940s and '50s, as I stated.
@@GLC2013 who said he was was “normal” in the 40s and 50s???
Didn't know about addiction. How sad. I've always been enthralled about him!
didn't know about killing a pedestrian, Scorsese let me down!!! Great vid!!
Scorsese is never interested in the truth, only his vision. Look what he did to Christ.
Don't even try pretending that's Howard in photo with the long scraggly hair next to a young Howard. It's Jason Robards as Howard in his OSCAR winning performance.
An extremely sad story of having a huge fortune but also nothing.
He was in a plane crash too. And may have had a brain injury as a result.
He had been in several air crashes. The 1946 crash was the most serious, and nearly killed him.
@@MrShobar I thought so; I just remembered that one.
YES IT WAS VERY BAD HEAD INJURY - HE HAD A METAL PLATE HOLDING IT TOGETHER!!! + ALL THE OTHER INJURIES!!!
Syphilis. Makes sense. It is strange how he wasn't prescribed penicillin after is was discovered in 1930. He had the money and connections. By 1941 it was purified for mass use. He still would've suffered ill effects, but at least it wouldn't have gotten worse.
Hughes inherited enough to buy out all his relative's interests in the Hughes Tool Company. Smart move for a young man. But you missed this point. Also, Hughes discovered his father's body on the lawn of their home. He'd died of a heart attack.
Tom Cruise knows where Shelly Miscavige is.
Did he off her?
I post that on every clip I see about him or scamentology! 😂 Keep pushing, they can't keep that secret forever! Eventually, someone is gonna talk.
@@bipolarbear7325 I've probably posted it about 500 times haha. Or "Leslye Headland and Kathleen Kennedy ruined Star Wars."
Yep.
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I wonder if she's even alive? Did David murder her? I wouldn't be surprised.
No mention of the spruce goose and his oil and airline ventures 😮
ITS THE GODDAMN HERCULES!!!!!!
The ID Name Is H4 Hercules There Is No (NONE) Spruce Wood In The Aircraft You Hear!!!!!! T38 Bill
At 10:20 you say that Nixon ordered the Watergate break-in. Actually, Nixon was unaware beforehand of the break-in. Also, the main source of income for Hughes was his patented invention of a special kind of drill bit used for hard rock oil drilling. Hughes also founded TWA airlines.
Yep. He inherited Hughes tool but built TWA and fought the government corruption with Pan AM non stop. They hated his competition that was hurting them.
You left out the plane crash and when Howard Hughes lived in Vancouver, British Columbia in a hotel in 1976 near the end of his life.
Yes this isn't a good representation of Howard Hughes
Shame people drag his life through the muck..he was brilliant.
I enjoyed watching Leonardo C in the Aviator.
Howard Hughes is the perfect example of "Money can't buy happiness".
Who said he wasn’t happy? “Money can’t buy happiness “ . Thats ok, I’d rather cry in my Ferrari 😂
Subscribed....after a sudden need to trim my nails and have quick shave!
Thanks for this. I'd read and heard bits and parts, and it was nice to have it all wrapped together.
How do you go from watergate in the 70's back to the 60's. This is exactly the type of stuff that would have driven Hughes crazy.
Fascinating video packed with details I'd never heard before
44 years ago, I read the book, Empire by Barlett and Steele. His father invented the Hughes Drill Bit for oilfield drilling, before that the industry used a drill collar that pounded a hole in the ground, the Hughes bit was rotary, cutting a hole with liquids to enhance the process. It was seminal and revolutionary, and a good manager would have owned the world with ownership of that technology. Mr. Hughes was high IQ smart, but the common sense of a goose, with the wealth of a god. It just went insane being a man, but the power of a god, without the sense to understand it all - well - because he had gone insane.
Thanks for mentioning Wiley Post. I did a report on him in middle school 45 years ago. He often goes over looked in aviation history.
Howard Hughes was the Elon Musk of his time.
Not my intention to offend anyone, I absolutely love the narrator.
James I believe. Awesome voice and diction.
Thank you 😊
A tragic life played out tragically. I wonder how many people he infected with syphilis? Irresponsible man with money is a dangerous thing.
Tienes pruebas, evidencia, aseguraciones etc. If not entonces te van a demandar porvhueveta.
It was rampant in Hollywood.
@@Curlyblonde still is. And other powerful people outside Hollywood are testament as well.
So is an irresponsible man without money
@@RalphIrvine he was an amazing man and perhaps the only one to retrieve a literal piece of the earth's foundation, which is what "drove him mad."
Howard Hughes wasn'tborn in Houston...he was born outside of Houston in Humble, Texas, where his father invented the best drill bit for drilling oil in the largest oil field in the world at the time. It became Humble Oil Company, now ExxonMobil. His mother was a clean freak and didn't like oil fields...it was a tough place to raise a child. She put him on a train headed to a Houston Hospital and got his birth certificate there. The place he was born in Humble is right next to the Houston Intercontinental Airport ironically, and also the headquarters of the DeLorean Motor Corporation. Governor Ross Sterling also was there and started Texaco Oil Company at the same time.
There's a fine line between Genius and Madman.
In this case, it was a spiral helix
Yeah, a madman is Obama, Soros, and Chuck Schumer.
I'd guess Hughes had dementia, from multiple TBI's, heavy metals, and
FBI gaslighting.
Very, very intetesting compilation and compendium on Hughes. Indeed some things were culturally and socially known, such as characters in movies based on him. However the fog of mystery and eccentricism amplified by the MSM of the day didn't bring out such details as his medical history (maybe it wasn't released to the journalists or general public arena or such details were pushed aside back then).
But this video is really well done.
Thank you.
At the time, narcotics such as codeine, was freely available, didn't require a prescription. In Canada, codeine was available in a regular pain medication was called Anacin 444?..,up until, at least the early 1990's. It was their version of Tylenol or Ibuprofen
I had a coworker ask me to bring her back a bottle from my visit to Canada at the time. I was unaware of what it contained.
Thank you for doing this video on HH very good
Poor HH, Money does not buy you everything especially a healthy body and mind
LOTS of inaccuracies in this clickbait video. The conclusion about Hughes’ mental state, presented as settled fact, is anything but. Hughes lived a long, illustrious life that defies summary in a 15 minute video. Read some books about him if you want the facts. This ain’t it.
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I worked at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City and then El Segundo from No 1973 until I retired in Nov. 1999. Shortly thereafter it was taken apart piece by piece.
There’s still a lot of the Hughes, now Boeing, buildings left in El Segundo. I worked there until 2015. When they did a major remodel on the original Hughes Machine Tool headquarters you would have known as S50, I wandered up to Howard’s office for a quick look.
Did you work with Patrick Kearney?
@@barneyronnie that name is not familiar. I started in the airport site, then went to S12, then S25.
Do you know, at the time, I couldn't make heads or tails of the Watergate Scandal, and when you said what it was, it seems unbelievable that it brought down a President, and, to me it's totally hilarious. For all the wring reasons.
On a different note there is the book “Boxes- The Secret Life of Howard Hughes” that claims Hughes faked his own death. Here’s a quick excerpt from a review of the book co-written by a retired Major General Mark Musick. As they say, the truth can be stranger than fiction.
“It actually makes more sense than the weird story that Hughes was really the emaciated, long-haired, drug-addicted man who resided for years on a floor of the Desert Inn Hotel in Nevada, and died in such a horribly emaciated condition on April 5, 1976. That man was apparently a double, which allowed Hughes to be free to live his life elsewhere with Eva, who knew him as Verner ‘Nik’ Nicely. He later died at the advanced age of 96 in 2001.”
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@@janejones8672 read the book: Boxes: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes at Amazon Books
So sad...wonder if he ever had a real friend. I don't guess he let anyone that close
He was married a few times.
Who were his wives?
@@darlenejoy2400 Ella Rice (scion of the Rice family of Houston TX) and Jean Peters, actress.
Hughes has always been a fascinating person to learn about! Great Job making this about Howard Hughes! It's full of great information.
HH definitely had the concept/ idea for On Demand Television! His mindset was the way the future... 😊
Killing a pedestrian was no doubt very traumatic too
Especially for the pedestrian. Hughes never cared about people.
another 'crazy genius' apparently. If he had syphilis, there was treatment as early as 1910, and then penicillin in 1943. Sounds like he just didn't care, and nobody encouraged him to visit a doctor. Ultimately everyone is responsible for themselves, and his lack of self care, hygiene, binge watching movies for months (who ran the companies?) indicated an unstable mind. Dying at 70, and no doubt in serious decline years earlier is startling. Lots of enablers, no true friends ... or maybe he was the type of person nobody wanted to be around.
My grandpa was born the same year as Howard Hughes and he died at 73 and had been in poor health for years before that. Back then 70 was a lot older than it is now.
@@trevorn9381 good point, my grandparents (Italian immigrants) died in their early 70's. My dad however is still alive at 93. Took much better care, wealthier, and has used Medicare to the max. Certainly Hughes had no money issues, I can't recall if he had personal physician(s) - I seem to recall he did but all they 'contributed' to his healthcare was giving him all the drugs he wanted. Very similar to the Matthew Perry situation. Hughes was an eccentric genius and they don't tend to live long lives.
Fascinating thankyou .
My dad was hired by HH personally when he went to work at TWA.
The thumbnail photo of an old man looks like a touched up pic of Jason Robards….nothing like Hughes!
Don't forget the infamous brassiere he engineered for Jane Russel.
Really interesting. The Spruce Goose is now located at the Evergreen Air and Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, and one can tour it.
I actually saw the Spruce Goose when it was in Long Beach, CA with the Queen Mary. I just remember how unbelievably enormous it was as and I walked through the fuselage and the wings. I remember the guide saying you could fit 50-70 people in one of the wings alone.😳
Thanks for posting this info as I had no idea it had been moved to Oregon.😊
I find it incredible that the opening picture is of a younger Hughes and one of the last photos of Jason Robards. I know this because my dad was a friend of his, and would drag me along to visit.
Mad as a bucket of frogs.
What does that make you?
@@cynthismanning6397 errrr........not mad as a bucket of frogs?
Several thoughts. He was 70 when he died, not exactly like he was in the prime of his existence. Secondly, his 22 cousins no less must have been very happy to learn they were inheritors of his estate. Thirdly, when I die, I don't want a singular cousin of mine to inherit anything. Period.
Sad brilliant man. Well read James
Great video, concise and intriguing. I have read about Robert Mahue and his connections in attempts to kill Castro. Purportedly, a man looking like Hughes played the role but became a recluse. Mahue is also peripherally connected to the JFK assassination.
You never talked about his famous WW1 air battle movie.
The difference between an eccentric person and a crazy person is money.
I have heard many times over the years he died from STD.
That is what I am thinking. It could have affected his brain.
Yes, Neurosyphilis is an STD.
A superb bio of Howard Hughes. Highly recommended.
I lived in Vegas and remember Ice Station Zebra being on a lot on KLAS usually in the middle of the night
One of the best short documentaries on UA-cam. KUDOS to you and your channel. Very interesting and I enjoyed this quite a bit. Thank You.
Wow, thank you!
Your Welcome.
I wish he could have has the medical help widely availbale now.! RIP Howard
I worked at the Silver Slipper in 78-79 where I was a blackjack dealer.
I am an artist. I had just left the Columbus College of Art&Design,
With a $500 loan, my red volkswagon bug and I ventured west.
In the basement of the Silver Slipper is a charcoal sketch,
"The Sourcerers Apprentice".
Much has taken lifes turn's in the past 42 year's.
I 🤔is it still there?
Let me know,
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No mention of the plane crash & head injury?
or the fact that the reason his father was so rich was because he invented the drilling technology his father patended himself
just clicking on here real quick, I believe the Older Version of Hughes in the Thumbnail pic is actiually Actor/Director John Huston