Allan Pinkerton: America’s Most Famous Private Eye

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  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  2 роки тому +21

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    • @misscharmcarm
      @misscharmcarm 2 роки тому +2

      Do Nat Turner next please…

    • @teddyfartypants
      @teddyfartypants 2 роки тому

      Do one on Wesley Willis

    • @dannybaker9445
      @dannybaker9445 2 роки тому

      Hey Simon/Biographics team, could you please make a video on Kim Philby (the british cold War double agent who sold secrets to the KGB and defected to Russia)?? Please and thank you in advance

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      @whoarewe7515 2 роки тому

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    • @melasnexperience
      @melasnexperience 2 роки тому +1

      Hey FYI, some spam account is impersonating you in the comments. Been seeing those a lot lately.

  • @randomperson5846
    @randomperson5846 2 роки тому +244

    Seems ever since you started riding with us, the Pinkerton's seem to always know our moves Micah!!

  • @TheUltimateOpportunist
    @TheUltimateOpportunist 2 роки тому +537

    "I don't wanna kill all these folks, Dutch. Just YOU!"

    • @apprenticetomasterswithgeo1840
      @apprenticetomasterswithgeo1840 2 роки тому +42

      Say you like RDR2 without saying it

    • @angeltrinidad7855
      @angeltrinidad7855 2 роки тому +33

      Always nice finding random strangers who loves the same games as I do.

    • @c-secofficer123
      @c-secofficer123 2 роки тому +25

      “This place ain’t no such thing as “civilized”, it is man, so in love with Greed that he has forgotten himself and found only appetites”

    • @divanbuys1484
      @divanbuys1484 2 роки тому +14

      Came here for the RDR reference.

    • @Ben-rc9br
      @Ben-rc9br 2 роки тому +7

      this is what I came for

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 2 роки тому +71

    0:55 - Chapter 1 - Early years
    3:00 - Chapter 2 - Barrels ahead
    7:05 - Mid roll ads
    8:40 - Chapter 3 - Alan Pinkerton , PI
    13:10 - Chapter 4 - We never sleep
    17:05 - Chapter 5 - Post war proceedings

  • @Kaltagstar96
    @Kaltagstar96 2 роки тому +120

    My only exposure to the Pinkerton's has been in RDR2; so this is actually really interesting to find out about the person who started it all.

    • @HellsCowBoy666
      @HellsCowBoy666 2 роки тому +17

      RDR2 isn’t far off from how truly vile the pinkertons were

    • @zooweemama911
      @zooweemama911 2 роки тому +15

      In one instance, the Pinkertons were hired by Henry Frick, who oversaw a steel plant for Andrew Carnegie in Pennsylvania that had gone on strike due to bad hours, dangerous working conditions and poor pay. Carnegie seemed to be a decent fellow, Frick on the other hand wasn’t.
      Anyways, the Pinkerton detective agency was deployed to end the strike and it ended in a massacre after the workers started throwing rocks. The Pinkertons opened fire, and it ended with 7 dead and 11 injured for the strikers, 3-8 dead for the Pinkertons and many more injured. This is just one example of how the Pinkertons were used, not as much of a detective agency but more as a private army.
      Frick himself survived an attempted assassination by a disgruntled worker, he was shot twice in the neck by a .38 caliber revolver, and then stabbed a few times in the leg, he then rose and helped subdue his attacker with the help of an assistant or two. This was shortly after the strike.
      Frick also caused the flooding of a small town, Johnstown in Pennsylvania, that was settled under a dam where Frick and Carnegie had a hunting and fishing club. Which, at the time was the worlds largest dam. The road out went right over the dam and someone ordered it lowered by three feet. After a few days of heavy rain the dam failed and flooded Johnstown, the flood killed 2200 people and caused the equivalent of $450 million in damages.
      The guys who hired the Pinkertons weren’t great people themselves, many of them were greedy businessmen, this is reflected by the Pinkertons own attitude of bending the law to their will with almost no oversight.
      Fascinating stuff.

    • @HellsCowBoy666
      @HellsCowBoy666 2 роки тому

      @@zooweemama911 APAB, all pinkertons are bastards

    • @cfcblue8
      @cfcblue8 2 роки тому +2

      Try Bioshock Infinite. You play as an ex-Pinkerton who was kicked out of the agency cause his methods were considered too violent for them.

    • @jonhall2274
      @jonhall2274 2 роки тому +2

      @@zooweemama911 How was he responsible for the flooding of the town, when you say, "someone", instead of Frick, "ordered the road to be lowered by 3 feet".
      Especially since Frick himself had a investment into the Club that you mentioned.
      Just curious is all, because although I ultimately assume no one *intentionally* caused the wearing down of the Dam to cause the flooding, & to me anyway, it sounds like that "someone", along with the rain, caused the flood, & not Henry Frick.
      So since you have knowledge of it, & If you could elaborate I would appreciate it!🙃

  • @GenesisTheory23
    @GenesisTheory23 2 роки тому +25

    They are still very much alive today. They still operate privately out of Chicago but they are owned by a Swedish security firm called Securitas AB.

    • @Pistolita221
      @Pistolita221 Рік тому +1

      Their HQ is not in chicago, lol. Ann Arbor is a weird lil city.

  • @TheJayhawk79
    @TheJayhawk79 2 роки тому +62

    Despite what he did to the labor unions before his passing, Pinkerton was a man who lived an amazing life and fought like Hell for the enslaved. Thank you for the comprehensive insight that you always provide in every subject that cover on your show for your viewers.

  • @SEAZNDragon
    @SEAZNDragon 2 роки тому +43

    I maybe one of the few here who knew of Allen Pinkerton outside of Red Dead Redemption. Back in the 90s I picked up a 1960s era kids book about him and other media led me to want to be a detective. The knowledge of the labor stuff came much later and by that point I’ve learn every hero is going to have their dark spots.

    • @jonhall2274
      @jonhall2274 2 роки тому +13

      "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" 😉🙃

    • @zaco-km3su
      @zaco-km3su 2 роки тому +10

      That wasn't just a dark spot.

    • @justinweber4977
      @justinweber4977 2 роки тому +2

      I knew about him in a vague way when I did a school report on Alphonse Bertillon, another very interesting figure in detective history.

    • @ampersandmcvinegar5681
      @ampersandmcvinegar5681 Рік тому +1

      "dark spots" he says 😔

  • @BasementPepperoni
    @BasementPepperoni 2 роки тому +110

    I always thought it was so awesome that RDR2 used the Pinkerton Agency as the main law enforcement baddies.
    Basically the FBI before it was formed, and had no restraint.

    • @stephenlynch6389
      @stephenlynch6389 2 роки тому +14

      They tried to sue rockstar to take their likeness out the game and failed

    • @slapchawp3766
      @slapchawp3766 2 роки тому +11

      They had a license to kill, literally. lol

    • @BasementPepperoni
      @BasementPepperoni 2 роки тому

      @@slapchawp3766 Yea, pretty much. If you were being chased by these people back in the Wild West, chances were that you would end up dead before standing in front of a judge.....and then hanged, lol

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl 2 роки тому

      They had restraints. It's the FBI that's way more powerful. I don't think the Pinkertons ever spied on civil rights groups.

    • @thomasnieswandt8805
      @thomasnieswandt8805 2 роки тому

      @@stephenlynch6389 i was looking for this comment :)

  • @melasnexperience
    @melasnexperience 2 роки тому +45

    It's really interesting to learn that the guy who made his name with violent union-busting activities started out helping with the underground railroad & being a staunch abolitionist.

    • @DiscoDickJones
      @DiscoDickJones 2 роки тому +1

      Freed the slaves so they could be wage slaves to his capitalist friends in the north.

    • @AbnormalObs
      @AbnormalObs 2 роки тому +5

      It's strangely incongruent

  • @Dethflash
    @Dethflash 2 роки тому +27

    Great episode. I had no idea of Allan Pinkertons early history, or that he helped in the underground railroad.

  • @patrickkelly5004
    @patrickkelly5004 2 роки тому +6

    My great-great uncle, James McDonnell, was one of the last Molly Maguires hung in Mauch Chunk PA (today's Jim Thorpe PA) for his alleged participation in strike violence that left one law enforcement person dead in 1863. A stay of execution from Pennsylvania's governor was waiting outside the hanging room door, but could not be delivered in time to save uncle James' neck.
    Well done, Mr. Pinkerton!

  • @obscureorca
    @obscureorca 2 роки тому +96

    Simon, you should do a video on Milunka Savic, the most decorated female soldier in history. She was a fascinating character who had a pretty wild life with a bunch of interesting and crazy stories.

    • @nadiaandkofi
      @nadiaandkofi 2 роки тому

      Where she’s from?

    • @obscureorca
      @obscureorca 2 роки тому +2

      @@nadiaandkofi Serbia

    • @tridot3605
      @tridot3605 2 роки тому +1

      Did she fight in ww1?

    • @obscureorca
      @obscureorca 2 роки тому

      @@tridot3605 Among a few other wars, yeah she also fought in WW1

    • @netrioter
      @netrioter 2 роки тому

      shes boring

  • @cfcblue8
    @cfcblue8 2 роки тому +10

    Pinkerton Detective Agency: We do not sleep. And neither will you by the time we're done, union-man...

    • @thokim84
      @thokim84 2 роки тому +1

      @Gerald H Capitalism is a boon for murder for hire entrepreneurship. Just ask Blackwater.

  • @willebrordjohn9773
    @willebrordjohn9773 2 роки тому +15

    Here i am, playing rdr2 again and Now this! Well done i'd say. 👌

  • @trj1442
    @trj1442 2 роки тому +7

    I'm so glad you covered Allan Pinkerton. Thankyou.
    May I suggest you cover Admiral Richard E. Byrd. He was an interesting fellow that led an extraordinary life.

  • @danicalifornia505
    @danicalifornia505 2 роки тому +20

    Can you do the Pinkerton Agency itself?

  • @billtheslink4541
    @billtheslink4541 2 роки тому +5

    I am a security guard, albeit now I am at the top of my field doing aviation security at an airport. A large part of our work still is directed against organized labor. My last assignment with a company was Amazon. Part of my job, because I was a smoker, was to hang out in the smoking area with the employees and talk to them. Many thought I was their friend, and I really did care about many people there, but I was always on the job gathering intelligence about who was unhappy about what and if there was any talk of unionization. All was reported back to the company. It made me feel dirty and I left for my new job. Be careful what you tell a security guard, no matter how friendly they seem. Their main job is to spy on the employees. Think about it. No unarmed guard will ever defend you, or at least he isn't supposed to. He has no more legal authority than any other civilian. What is he there for?

  • @notaspy1227
    @notaspy1227 2 роки тому +28

    This is the guy every Mall Security Guard wants to be. Unions hate him.

  • @fourtyfivefudd
    @fourtyfivefudd 2 роки тому +24

    My dad was a Pinkerton. Of course he was just a security guard down town as they are no more than a security company now, but it’s still fun to say that my dad was a Pinkerton lol

    • @wes773105333
      @wes773105333 2 роки тому +4

      My mom is literally a Pinkerton. It's her maiden name, and we're decendents of Allan Pinkerton.

    • @fourtyfivefudd
      @fourtyfivefudd 2 роки тому +2

      @@wes773105333 I’m jealous lol

    • @wes773105333
      @wes773105333 2 роки тому +3

      @@fourtyfivefudd haha, most of the time when I mention Allan Pinkerton to people who are bragging about who they are related to, they have no idea who I'm talking about. Then I mention some of the history and they're just like "ok."
      If you go back far enough, everyone is related to somebody historic. You would have to be decended from a long line of isolated people to not be, but even then you'd likely be related to somebody who made an impact in that region.

    • @arkain1
      @arkain1 2 роки тому

      @@wes773105333 You should keep her surname instead of being yet another Smith 🤣

    • @wes773105333
      @wes773105333 2 роки тому

      @@arkain1 I have to bring glory to the surname I have. Can't do that if I'm living under the shadow cast by Allan Pinkerton.

  • @PrimarisBlackTemplaDraven
    @PrimarisBlackTemplaDraven 2 роки тому +16

    "We got Lawmen in 3 different states after us".

  • @camilohiche4475
    @camilohiche4475 2 роки тому +7

    Biographies that you have criminally overlooked so far:
    Classical composers:
    - Ludwig van Beethoven
    - J.S. Bach
    - Antonio Vivaldi
    Gods/iconic figures:
    - Michael Jackson
    - Babe Ruth
    Chess legends:
    - Gary Kasparov
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    Painters/artists:
    - Gustav Klimt
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    Architects/builders:
    - Gustav Eiffel
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    - Buckminster Fuller
    Writers:
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    - Homer
    - Sophocles
    - Victor Hugo
    - Jules Verne
    - Jorge Luis Borges
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    - John Steinbeck
    - Dante Alighieri
    Philosophers/theologists:
    - René Descartes
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    Scientists:
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    Explorers:
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    Other:
    - Anne Frank
    - Caterina de' Medici
    - Cesare Borgia

    • @thomassultana263
      @thomassultana263 2 роки тому

      Actors
      - Nicholas Cage
      - Chuck Norris
      How about some athletes?

  • @you900001
    @you900001 2 роки тому +8

    I want a part 2 of this. Go into detail of the strikes

  • @K._Oss
    @K._Oss 2 роки тому +2

    Simon, this was a brilliant one. I understand if you never see this, but if you do, I suggest a video more than anybody about Malcolm McLaren. A good biographics about the bastard, the wanker, the thief, and the very evil man that pretty much for almost his entire existence in main stream pop culture always found away to change it forever in the most ridiculous and outlandish ways possible, and then be able to find an artistic point to it all once the chaos was over… even if he most likely made up a few bits

  • @AppleTrujillo
    @AppleTrujillo Рік тому +1

    Thank you for making this. I’m a Pinkerton Myself. My grandfathers name is Allen Eugene Pinkerton. So for sure this man you are educating everyone about is my great great great great great grandfather hahah. My fathers dad however went by Eugene his middle name. He was a stunt man in movies. Died before I was born. Well thank you again. So insightful. I have been digging deep on my family.

  • @quinnedgar9356
    @quinnedgar9356 2 роки тому +2

    Brilliant job mate, so informative and a great watch. Know you’ve done a few on the Irish Rebellion in 1916 on your other channel, an insight into James Connolly would be a great watch👍

  • @MarloSoBalJr
    @MarloSoBalJr 2 роки тому +3

    Have you heard of one Leviticus Cornwall?... His train was robbed one evening but some gang called to the "Van der Linde"

  • @TrueRetroflection
    @TrueRetroflection 2 роки тому +36

    On April 1, you should cover one of the Pinkertons' most proficient agents, Edgar Ross

    • @oliverwelles5366
      @oliverwelles5366 2 роки тому

      NOWWW

    • @allanscott21
      @allanscott21 2 роки тому +3

      Nah do one of the real Pinkerton's agent Milton

    • @jonhall2274
      @jonhall2274 2 роки тому +3

      Can you, or anyone else, elaborate as to why it's best done in April Fool's Day, please?🧐 🙃

    • @shadowbanned1999
      @shadowbanned1999 2 роки тому +3

      @@jonhall2274 Agent Ross is a character in the red dead redemption videogames that feature the Pinkerton's in it

    • @allanscott21
      @allanscott21 2 роки тому +2

      @@jonhall2274 and so is agent Milton

  • @fja4301
    @fja4301 2 роки тому +22

    My question is how did they gather 3 million signatures at that time and place seems absolutely impossible.

    • @invaderj815
      @invaderj815 2 роки тому

      The same way corrupt officials do it now by collecting them from the graveyard

  • @oliverwelles5366
    @oliverwelles5366 2 роки тому +2

    Pinkertons seem to love express cartridges from Cattleman revolvers with sick engravings.

  • @woahhbro2906
    @woahhbro2906 2 роки тому +4

    The Pinkertons are still around. I worked for the company a few years ago

    • @zaco-km3su
      @zaco-km3su 2 роки тому +1

      They are Securitas now.

  • @Grant25
    @Grant25 2 роки тому +7

    God damn Pinkertons!

  • @blubberinweasel1772
    @blubberinweasel1772 2 роки тому +2

    The Pinkies were the security force of Belmont Park Racetrack at least up til the 70's.

  • @TihetrisWeathersby
    @TihetrisWeathersby 2 роки тому +3

    The Original Bureau of Investigation would make a nice video

  • @darkchocolate1083
    @darkchocolate1083 2 роки тому +19

    You should do one on General Norman Schwarzkopf(man who led collation forces during the Gulf War)

  • @findsharon
    @findsharon 2 роки тому +55

    I like that his wife considered it the best time of their lives when her husband was working 7 days a week.

    • @MarloSoBalJr
      @MarloSoBalJr 2 роки тому +8

      "I love my husband when he's asleep."
      -Most housewives

    • @jonhall2274
      @jonhall2274 2 роки тому

      @@MarloSoBalJr Lol!😂🤣

  • @cursedapostate3705
    @cursedapostate3705 2 роки тому +2

    "Pinkerton?! More like Finkerton!"-Dutch Van Der Lin, 1899 (probably)

  • @hkschubert9938
    @hkschubert9938 2 роки тому +1

    What a great history of Pinkerton!
    Thank you!

  • @ehrldawg
    @ehrldawg Рік тому +1

    Supposedely,he had a home in Onarga,Illinois with a wooded lot that he opened to the public for Sunday drives and picnics. That home is being renovated for a museum.

  • @duncancurtis5971
    @duncancurtis5971 2 роки тому +6

    Spicer Lovejoy in Titanic 1997, played by legendary David Warner is an ex Pinkerton cop.

  • @GeoffryGifari
    @GeoffryGifari 2 роки тому +3

    can you do one for linus pauling, twice nobel winning chemist who became controversial late in life?

  • @Clipgatherer
    @Clipgatherer 2 роки тому +11

    Pinkerton’s is now owned by Securitas, a Swedish-based security company.

    • @DiscoDickJones
      @DiscoDickJones 2 роки тому

      And they're still spies and union busters. It's just called mail services and security now.

    • @carloszapata847
      @carloszapata847 2 роки тому +2

      That sounds like the name in the Spanish dub of the company Mr. Incredible worked on before getting fired.

    • @thokim84
      @thokim84 2 роки тому

      Murder for hire Capitalists exist everywhere.

  • @mandalor45
    @mandalor45 2 роки тому +11

    Aurthor Morgan disliked this video

  • @josephkahre9088
    @josephkahre9088 2 роки тому +1

    Is there a video on any of your channels about D.B. Cooper seems like it would be up ur alley

  • @robertbollard5475
    @robertbollard5475 2 роки тому +3

    If anyone was ever wondering about a definition of the term "class traitor" this biography pretty much fits the bill.

    • @ethandemille2585
      @ethandemille2585 2 місяці тому

      Pretty much… Pro labor abolitionist turned union buster lmao

  • @RatherUnique101
    @RatherUnique101 2 роки тому +2

    The Pinkerton treated Author Morgan very badly

  • @rogersledz6793
    @rogersledz6793 2 роки тому

    Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

  • @ripdippy6964
    @ripdippy6964 2 роки тому +2

    “You better back off my land Agent Milton”

  • @jwall1646
    @jwall1646 2 роки тому +2

    Next you should do a video on Rip Van Winkle

  • @mktf5582
    @mktf5582 2 роки тому +2

    Please do Jerome Caminada, Mancunian Detective and inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, and also Barney Ruditsky.

  • @maryscott9430
    @maryscott9430 2 роки тому +2

    The vidoqc society in pennsylvania is amazing!! They help cold cases so much.

  • @TheColonelKlink
    @TheColonelKlink 2 роки тому +2

    Working dawn to dusk as a 19th century cooper was no barrel of laughs.

  • @TheEvilCommenter
    @TheEvilCommenter 2 роки тому +3

    Good video 👍

  • @tomegert8857
    @tomegert8857 2 роки тому +2

    You should do video on Shinzo Abe

  • @premiumg3789
    @premiumg3789 2 роки тому +1

    I now see how he took down the INFAMOUS Vanderlinde gang

  • @ethanramos4441
    @ethanramos4441 2 роки тому +12

    “Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin”
    Alan Pinkerton

    • @Stellar-Cowboy
      @Stellar-Cowboy 2 роки тому +3

      Ah but see, that’s where his faulty judgement of society starts. The man was too bogged down in law and right-doing that he forgot the bad guy always wins.
      You either let the bad guy triumph or you become one yourself, and beat him with his own tactics

    • @ethanramos4441
      @ethanramos4441 2 роки тому +2

      @@Stellar-Cowboy Yeah and obviously we know what side he chose

    • @justinweber4977
      @justinweber4977 2 роки тому

      @@Stellar-Cowboy "The bad guy always wins"? That's an extremely pessimistic sort of view.

    • @Stellar-Cowboy
      @Stellar-Cowboy 2 роки тому

      @@justinweber4977 it may seem so but the “bad guy” will do anything in its power to win. The good guy will follow his morals and be bound to them.
      I’m saying this about war. I’m not talking about your issue with a bully. Bullies lose, they’re dumb.
      For instance, the US bombed Japan in WW2. They killed tens of thousands and affected millions. They didn’t care about morals. They were “bad guys”. And they won.

  • @sebastianduran2022
    @sebastianduran2022 2 роки тому +2

    If anyone else is interested, he was buried at the Graceland cemetery. Pissing on his grave is definitely going on my bucket list

  • @annaschwirian7548
    @annaschwirian7548 2 роки тому +1

    So interesting would live to see you do a video on Mary pickersgill or Elizabeth Paterson Bonaparte

  • @rory4016
    @rory4016 2 роки тому

    Really fascinating episode

  • @LordFrieza_NA_Server
    @LordFrieza_NA_Server 2 роки тому +1

    Simon can you please do one on "Ragnar Lodbrok". Thanks for all you and your team do love the channels

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 2 роки тому +1

    Will check out the videos for John Brown and Eugene Vidocq.
    Great video, A+
    The crew at biographics, including The Whistler, know how to tell a great history.
    Thank you for the video.

  • @TheArmanibuie
    @TheArmanibuie 2 роки тому

    i like how Red Dead uses the Pinkertons accurately

  • @WaldoBagelTopper
    @WaldoBagelTopper 2 роки тому

    I learned about Pinkerton detectives from American Outlaws, a 2001 Colin Farrell cowboy movie where he plays Jessie James.

  • @elMaxx5
    @elMaxx5 2 роки тому

    Big ups Pinkerton for the work done on the underground railroad. Riding shotgun with Bro John Brown....real thing them.

  • @bobbymay8618
    @bobbymay8618 2 роки тому +1

    I'm related to James b hume. My dad used to tell me stories of him and read from his book.

  • @KarenRose70
    @KarenRose70 2 роки тому

    I just saw Pinkertons and Warnes graves this month

  • @Name1person
    @Name1person 2 роки тому +2

    “Your a wanted man Arthur Morgan five thousand dollars for you head alone”

  • @leondillon8723
    @leondillon8723 Рік тому

    6:19)Slavery was legal in almost every state.Rhode Island outlawed it when still a colony.Freed had to carry papers.Freeborn, US or from elsewhere, also had to carry papers.A Canadian was lynched during a slave revolt.Up to 1863, slave catchers could cross the lines and to bring back alleged slaves.
    9:22)The Chicago PD was organized 10 April,1855. How did he become a city detective in 1849?

  • @kattekaren
    @kattekaren 2 роки тому

    "All barrels all the time" - what a crazy guy xD

  • @MrPrussianjester
    @MrPrussianjester 2 роки тому +1

    Man caught a bullet.

  • @meshachperera7081
    @meshachperera7081 2 роки тому

    Please make a biographical on Seretse khama

  • @gabbiehepworthh
    @gabbiehepworthh 2 роки тому

    6:42 the cobbler? I thought he was a cooper!

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke 2 роки тому +4

    I'd heard of them being an PI firm, but didn't really know much about them, certainly seemed to e quite the transition from barrel maker to criminal defeater...

  • @jordanroberts3007
    @jordanroberts3007 2 роки тому

    Wouldn't mind seeing something on James FitzGibbon, though maybe there's not enough detail, maybe a video on multiple small but important officers and soldiers like him from the same era...

  • @giasifman9050
    @giasifman9050 2 роки тому

    Hey biographic I would love to see a video about rokossovsky

  • @peter-radiantpipes2800
    @peter-radiantpipes2800 2 роки тому +3

    Man, disguising Lincoln.. must have been tough with his height for that time. Lol. Or this time.

  • @danicalifornia505
    @danicalifornia505 2 роки тому +1

    Warographics on the Battle of Blair Mountain

  • @jrueger1327
    @jrueger1327 2 роки тому +1

    Actually Simon, the Van Der Linde gang was the Pinkertons downfall

  • @michaelgreen1515
    @michaelgreen1515 2 роки тому

    Never expected Pinkerton to be a Chartist!

  • @Seouldrift7
    @Seouldrift7 Рік тому

    The Agency is still around but I think only does government contracts after an act that was passed in the late 19th century.

  • @fluffyfeetbmf
    @fluffyfeetbmf 2 роки тому +1

    Agent Milton, now there’s a real nasty Pinkerton.

  • @erikk4555
    @erikk4555 2 роки тому

    Simon and Team.. I'm dying for an episode about Robert L. Howard or Hans-Ulrich Rudel👀🔥❤

  • @franciscojose6496
    @franciscojose6496 2 роки тому +1

    Good job teacher

  • @Jakal_205
    @Jakal_205 2 роки тому +1

    Arthur Morgan: Damn Pinkertons

  • @mmak81
    @mmak81 2 роки тому +1

    Can you make a video on Andrew jackson

  • @theawesomeman9821
    @theawesomeman9821 2 роки тому

    This dude deserves his own TV show!

  • @michaelbatts7149
    @michaelbatts7149 2 роки тому

    Why does Allan Pinkerton sound like Steve Vail, the Bricklayer? Look out, Jack Reacher. Here comes the Barrel Maker!

  • @ZanzatheDivine
    @ZanzatheDivine 2 роки тому +2

    A good thing that island he frequented wasn't Tahiti

  • @jajatisinha3579
    @jajatisinha3579 6 місяців тому

    The valley of fear
    ..Arthur Conan Doyle...the story when I came to know about Pinkerton detective agency...Sherlock Holmes

  • @testshietchannel
    @testshietchannel 2 роки тому +3

    "Bring us the girl, wipe the debt away..."

    • @cfcblue8
      @cfcblue8 2 роки тому +2

      You know it’s bad when the Pinkerton Detective Agency did a lot of bad things, but they kicked out Booker because he was too violent for them.

    • @testshietchannel
      @testshietchannel 2 роки тому

      @@cfcblue8 Well, de Witt sure was an a-hole at times 🤷‍♀️

  • @manormachine100
    @manormachine100 2 роки тому +2

    I think you'll find Magnum is more famous.

  • @jamesmartin6050
    @jamesmartin6050 2 роки тому +3

    Future Video suggestion -
    Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent figure in Irish history.

    • @kraanz
      @kraanz 2 роки тому

      We don't need a video after this.

    • @jamesmartin6050
      @jamesmartin6050 2 роки тому

      @@kraanz ?

    • @SEAZNDragon
      @SEAZNDragon 2 роки тому

      Probably in the works given the Irish Independence series on Warographics.

  • @peachydls341
    @peachydls341 Рік тому +3

    Magic the gathering brought me here

  • @Ian.420
    @Ian.420 2 роки тому

    TIN MAN! TIIIN MAAAN! I first heard the name Pinkerton in Bioshock Infinite. There's actually a lot of real world references in that game like the battle of wounded knee and the boxer rebellion.

  • @BiggsTheOwl
    @BiggsTheOwl 2 роки тому +1

    Allan pinkerton be like
    America America I have a plan America, I just need money and bad peoole

  • @Blackwater313
    @Blackwater313 2 роки тому +1

    *Dutch Van Dir Linde has entered the chat*

  • @adamlane6453
    @adamlane6453 2 роки тому +2

    Do an episode on Errol Flynn!

  • @Matatabi6
    @Matatabi6 2 роки тому

    One of the great unsung villains of American history

  • @jeremyhennessee6604
    @jeremyhennessee6604 2 роки тому

    Please do an episode on JAMES TILLEY MATTHEWS and the air loom machine. No good biography exists on UA-cam.
    It'll be a good character study .

  • @torchedmonkee
    @torchedmonkee 2 роки тому +1

    I wonder if Craig (The second counterfeiter) used counterfeit money to bribe the policeman who let him escape