I went to lunch with my Grandma in 2000 when she was 95, and asked her what it was like to see so many changes in the world. From horse and carriage to the space shuttle program, she saw so much. She looked around and said she didn't know why she was still here, as her husband, siblings, and friends had all passed, and she was losing her eyesight. I said "Grandma, you're alive today to buy my lunch!". She leaned across the booth and punched me in the arm and laughed. She lived to be 101, and I miss her.
Mine said the same thing when I asked her, didn't know why she was still here. She got to 97 and still lived on her own/ She used to say, 'you're going to have to shoot me', I responded, 'what out of a cannon?' If she had been cremated I would have but she is buried with my Grand father and their baby son.
That is something but, in fact, there are lots of people around today - baby boomers - who were alive when this show was broadcast. It was only 64 years ago.
@@brianmatthews4323 that's because you are old and that time-frame shows that. Not in the range of 70-80 years old but you are an older man Brian. Hope that's a good thing for you instead of bittersweet and melancholic like I hear it is for many.
My great grandma was born right at the turn of the century, died in 1993 when I was 20 years old. I knew her very well. She was the last child of a large family and some of her siblings were 20 years older than her. Her dad was born in 1850 and she had uncles who fought in the Civil War. She literally may have had a conversation with her dad that included the phrase, "when I was a teenager during the Civil War", blows my mind to know that I knew someone who knew people in the Civil War.
That's amazing. My great-grandmother was born the same year 1899. She lived a long life but not as long as yours. I often wondered what she was doing at various times during her life like ww1, Spanish flu, ww2 etc. Amazing yours lived every year of the 1900s as you said.
I am just approaching 70 and so much has changed in my lifetime 1. We had a party-line telephone with about a dozen other farmers when I grew up. You had to carefully lift the receiver and listen for the dial tone, if someone was talking then you hung up very quickly. 2. We got a TV when I was about 8 of 9 years old. Big black-white box TV. There were three television stations back then and they went off the air at midnight. 3. We used to sit out on the porch and listen to the radio in the evenings, Dick Tracey, The Shadow, Jackie Gleason and major league baseball games. Dad used to go up on the roof and adjust the antenna when the wind blew hard. 4. We got three pair of pants and three shirts for school every year from the Sears & Roebuck catalog, also six underwear and socks and immediately got out of your school clothes when you got home from school. Mom used to use iron on patches when we tore our pants at the knees. 5. I remember eating out at a restaurant twice before I got to High School age. 6. I had 55 cousins growing up. Farmers had lots of kids, and lots of kids passed away from accidents and ailments. My older brother drowned at 9 years old. There are five of us kids left, mom is now 89 and still active. 7. We were allowed one hour of TV a day and two on the weekend. Unless it was a sports game, then we could finish the show. 8. Dad and several uncles added a bathroom to my grandma's home when I was about six years old. Dad was so proud to help his mother. 9. One of my first memories was pulling weeds in our 1/2 acre garden. I was so proud when mom said I was big enough to snap green beans for canning. Mom canned most of our food for the winter. She made bread about every five days or so. 10. Mom used cloth diapers for all six kids. She used to originally wash them out in the toilet, then the washing machine, then hang them on the clothes line to dry. She had a washing machine with a ringer to get the moisture out of the clothes. 11. I remember opening sluice gates when we had irrigation water twice a week; sometimes at 2:30 AM in the morning. Irrigation water was vital to farming. The county had ditch riders and they carried pistols to enforce irrigation times between the farmers. 12. I remember pushing cow manure to the trough in grandpa's barn so it could be washed outside and digging the six inches of sand from ditches every year before I started school. School used to close for two weeks in the last of September for potato harvest, so that us farm kids could help with the harvest. So many memories of times gone by. A person's word meant everything back then. No one talked back to parents then, you would get knocked down and miss supper for that sort of thing.
As a farm kid, now 76, I share many of those same memories. Times were hard. For entertainment, the neighbors would come to the house and bring their instruments and have jam sessions. My dad was a drummer and fiddle player and my mom played the piano. Mom sewed clothes for my brothers out of my dad’s old suits and she sewed dresses for us girls out of feed sacks that were colorful at that time. Hard times but, looking back, good times, as well.
The fact that this man was born 14 years after the Civil War and to still have the razor sharp mental acuteness that he displayed at the age of 79 in this historic remastered footage was incredible to watch.
no BS food available then - which purpose is solely to keep you alive but sick, to sponsor big pharma.... no BS TV shows to make you dumb, just books of wise men, no BS biography of music stars, who at his times were there ONLY to keep you eintertained, and nowadays they claim to be better than you, know more than you do and show you the direction of your life... During his time honesty and honor were words which meant sth, now most of the young guys don't even know how to spell these, not mentioning to understand the meaning or comprehend the significancy of these virtues in the life.
Video games aren't bad, anything can be abused, but I get your point. You're spot on about the diet though. There was no bs when it came to food. Everything was organic, for better or sometimes worse
People of this mans era are noticeably different to people today. He appears very stoic and direct. No nonsense, someone that could be relied upon thoroughly and totally honest.
You have literally no idea what this man might have done and to whom in his life. You do know the sorts of things that were considered normal back then, right? Often involving kids too. Idealizing complete strangers after merely seeing them present themselves for a few minutes on a tv show 🙄
@@danontheair One wonders. But it could be real. The wife looks genuinely hopeful/surprised.. It looks real, it'd just hard to believe. But why not? He had years of experience as the sole sheriff, or whatever it was. Good question though. Who knows?
what is weird here is that people often uses the term wild west when they refer to violent crime mass shooting today when in reality today society is vastly more violent and uncivilized than those days it seems from what he said..... so the real wild west is today
Leland... allegedly, if the history is true. You know J James only targeted the criminal banksters etc. that funded the civil war, like a robin hood. But the spin is real and this shows exactly how the propaganda was perpetrated. thru a fancy new tech, the television.. Bells and whistles and you don't question the facts...easy digested propaganda
yeah, you have to answer the next question for the 32.000 $....Reads a bunch of completley different questions in a row. I This dude had to know more things just for one step up, than todays gameshow winners for an entire match.
I knew my great grandmother pretty well as a child, she was born in 1879, and died in 1979. I remember thinking, in her lifetime there was no refrigeration, cars, airplanes, electricity, antibiotics or even radios. But she got to witness all that and more. I asked her what was the strangest thing she’s ever seen in her lifetime, her reply was, “we landed a man on the moon.”
I still marvel at this digital device in my hand with a screen giving better and sharper picture than the old TVs . And it's also a calculator, language translator , camera, phone, navigator , torch .............
Oh man, you believe that fat lie? How did they get through the van allen belt? the moon landing is a grift, = theft of amercan's wealth by the military industrial complex. just like the coof wars.
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 its very telling that is what you got out of this. not how far we've come, not "wow look how long ago that was", not I wonder how many first nations he saw die during a genocide that by most estimates dwarfed the holocaust. that seems like a very self-centered viewpoint and you should think about that and what it says about you. Because if you scroll through the comments you wont see very many like yours.
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 While I sympathize with what blacks went through, it is now history and we progress from it. The man probably was a racist but he was born of innocence. We are merely beings of our surroundings and in no way are any of us perfect.
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 why would one WANT to continue to live in a slave mentality? Making oneself the victim of something they never lived through. I'm willing to bet if your ancestors could speak to you today, they'd say how disappointed they are in you coopting something THEY suffered through, while spitting on the ground we've made, which is exactly what they fought for.
I'd figure 32 grand back then to be like somewhere like 300 to 500 grand in terms of purchasing power today . It's another discussion but i can remember prices of a lot of things in 1960s compared to prices for today such as building materials , tools , fence posts , bail of wool n straw , fuel .......
Im sure he said the same thing about the old timers when he was young, and they in turn said the same thing about the generations before them. Humans are nostalgia riders. Truth is, there are good and bad men in every generations.
My super great grandpa was born in 1861 and died in 1958, nearly aged 100. To think that he was alive for the Civil War and both World Wars is astounding
My grandfather was born in the 1880's and passed in 1981, my dad was born in 1918 I wish I had paid closer attention to their stories. I am a Mennonite Canadian and one story that always got me was when my dad would tell the story of how his dad first lived in a "Soddy". For those who don't know a Soddy is a sod house, think of an Igloo but instead of blocks of snow it is blocks of dirt and sod and built part way under ground. They immigrated from Prussia, fleeing religious persecution at the time and moved to Manitoba, Canada...now imagine living in a Soddy with the temps at -40 in the winter!!! Oh and they had to make a soddy because there wasn't enough or any trees in the area at the time.
scary that all he knew during his life was war war war, whereas for our generation its all lgbt and racism, and only now we have war in ukraine thats super conserning
I love how Virgil immediately recognized the song and was basically singing along…he probably sang it more than a few times in front of a campfire in his youth..
I love how understated, and matter-of-fact people were in those days. Very dry, serious, and learned. We could still learn a lot of lessons from those earlier generations if we chose to.
As a boomer in WI we grew up learning with this character style in many (not all) of our classrooms. Strong, up front, wisdom telling, holding true to word, dedicated & focused. They did not mince words, they taught with clarity. Yes, it was somewhat dry and monotone but there was an undeniable forward momentum of learning. Today, it is as though we dance around the center point of truthfulness.
I believe this forwardness died with the WWII generation. This, to me, was the last of real men. Truthful, hard working, personable, knowledgeable, charming. I am ashamed to say I do not feel the same about my generation. Good men create good times, good times create weak men and women.
More like the guy went from riding a horse for a whole day just to visit a neighbor as a kid to being able to get on a plane and flying to NY in a few hours so he can appear on a game show that afternoon. That’s crazy
@@AnAdorableWombat Um, no, it completely ruined his reputation for the rest of his life, and it is utterly dishonest. Good job proving your complete lack of any ethics whatsoever. What are you, 12?
@@wiscgaloot no bunt. I'm not 12 and why are you so mad? Are you over 200 years old and bitter because my opinion differs from yours? Sir, seek help. I don't care about this mess. I just commented🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love how he said, The rancher went broke "as far as money". It reminds us that there are other things that speak to our true worth and value than money.
@@DT-yt2zh You are allowed, you probably just don't have the money to afford to own enough land (or animals) to feed your whole family as you did back then. Most people living in the cities means the prices of land owning and live stock owning went up to compensate.
Did anybody else get straight played by this guy?! Like, he shuffled on out here all quiet and unassuming, softly mumbles a little bit of small talk with the host, and then when it came time to answer that 4000 part question, he snapped up sharp as a tack and answered every question as if he were a walking encyclopedia/history book! What a dude! 🤯😍🤩🥳👏
@@incitingariot9925 your sentence is nonsensical. You can’t enforce laws if there’s no laws to enforce. So by definition if you’re a law man there has to be laws to enforce.
The $64,000 dollar challenge was one of the game shows cancelled for being fraudulently run by the networks in the late 50's I believe. Possibly he was coached? The movie Quiz Show was based on one such show.
This is like someone born in 1979 answering questions in 2059. Just imagine how different the world got for this guy between his birth and 1959. Dang...
I agree, and not easy questions by any means. BTW, apparently, Buffalo Bill was awarded 2 Medals of Honor, because the first one, awarded in 1972, was rescinded in 1917 along w/ over 900 others. Then, it was restored, awarded to him again, obviously poshumously, in 1989, as well as to 4 other Indian scouts.
My great grand mother was born 1876, she use to tell me stories when I was a kid that kept me awake at nights and some that would make you crack a rib from laughter. I think of her often and loved her dearly
The same will be said of people born in 1980 one day, look at all the history they have witnessed. Cell phones, microwave ovens, stealth bomber, electric cars, the internet, HDTV, 9/11, Osama Bin Laden, Donald Trump
@@misguidedangel6550 yes, exactly! We tend to not view ourselves in the same historical light. It creates a disconnect, so-to-speak, from those folks of the past to ourselves within the present. We view them as being "different" in many ways, but in reality they weren't. Instead, we view ourselves as living in the new age. I'm sure folks from his generation probably thought the same about themselves. It's a good way for us to keep things in perspective. This is how people in the year 2122 will be viewing us. There will be people saying, "That dude on The Price Is Right was..." lol
@@frank6842 And this coming from a nobody on UA-cam don't say much either. If you weren't around him back then, then you have no clue how he was. You can believe what others said but again...
I wouldn't be too sure of that for this particular show it ended up being canceled over a scandal of it giving it to contestants the answers. They may have done so with him since he was a likeable entertaining guy and they wanted to keep him on. Fun fact it was also the basis of Jeopardy giving answers to the contestants and then they have to supply the question
Don't believe all you read in the tabloids. The actual attention span of an average adult is 36 - 54 minutes. Attention is not one measurement, it's divided into three. The sustained, selective, and divided attention. The problem with the fact that we have so many things competing to take our attention in the digital world, is that our brain struggles to decide what to give sustained and selective attention to. But in a setting like this, unless you have add, you'd have the same attention span as people before us.
Don't believe anything you read on the internet either. One's attention span is entirely and completely relative to how interesting he finds the subject. I can spend 3 hours reading a book on WW2 history and it feels as though only 5 seconds has passed. Try to get me to study the taxonomical classification of deciduous trees and I'm blanking out after 30 seconds.
This is amazing. The man lived from having little to no electricity, two world wars, radio, television, and left this world in an era of modern appliances and automobiles.
He was fortunate to live when Caucasian males were creating the greatest innovations in all of history. No other race or females could have ever achieved what the Caucasian male did in that time.
@@Knight_of_the_Old_Code Hopefully this doesn't start any sort of pointless argument, because I would tend to agree, but I'm of the opinion that this isn't the first time we have been through this. I believe this isn't even the second time that we by our misguided actions, cruelty, greed, ignorance of the divine reality of which we are very much a part along with everything else, but through our huberous and arrogance and following those who promote said vanity and selfish pride, come to believe we are separate not only from nature and creation but by this stage we not only believe that but also deny God or anything greater than ourselves, it isn't until a flood or some cataclysm or another comes along that people suddenly remember and for awhile live at first in proper reverence and respect to the order of things, then as direct memory is forgotten people live in fear of Gods wrath as remembered through the stories and writings of those who witnessed said end times, then ...... You see where I'm going with this? Virtually every person with an NDE to report or some other humbling experience like that will all tell you that the point in life is to learn to be truly good and loving and that it is only your deeds towards others and strength of character as well as your ability to live in a place of love that matter once you die...or we all do rather. So end times or not, I think what is important has never changed and no matter the circumstances if you strive to be truly good and live without doing others harm and without regrets then the worst that could happen is you live happily and loved by those around you and die comfortable in that knowledge and at best you will understabd the rest afterwards. It's not rocket surgery but we are so conditioned by this world especially in these days of only fans and Instagram fame that it can be easy to lose sight of what matters
What a great video. My grandfather was born in 1870, died in 1955. I'm so glad I got to know him before he passed away. He never owned a car and went everywhere either by bus, by train, by wagon, or on the back of a mule. Listening this this video makes me think of him and my other grandfather who was a lawman who once lived in Texas and traveled back to Alabama in a wagon.
I remember speaking with an old law man who was a sheriff in a Texas border town in the 1920’s. He said he rarely carried a gun back then. Was stowed in the car most of the time. Just a different time.
That "question" was an 8 part examination....who put this bizarre thing together????? they left out pt. 9 of the question: what caliber of pistol did Billy Clanton use when he shot a rabbit when he was 12 years old, and what kind of rabbit, and what type of tree was the rabbit sitting under when it was shot, and what color was it, and what spice did his mother use in the rabbit stew, and which of his 3 brothers got diarrhea after eating the stew, and what did they give him to drink to stop the diarrhea?
@@stuartredman1550 Well we certainly can't prove it. I can't prove that someone ever died, any more than I can prove that someone other than me had a thought. Solipsism all the way lol
Fantastic video to watch. Brings to mind my 103 year old aunt, born in 1919, who tells us of how it was back then with cars that had to be cranked etc. She's seen a lot in those years.
Compare the standard of questions and his knowledge to today’s quiz shows and contestants. Also note his restrained reaction upon winning, the smartness of the audience and their polite applause after he wins the $32k (a huge amount in the 1950s). No whooping and screaming. A different era.
These interviews of people who lived in thr 1800s are so amazing! I always end up watching the entire video amazed of the times they grew up in. The fact that there's video of them recounting their time is memorizing.
My grandmother was born in 1875 and died in 1976. She was born before sound recording, movies, light bulbs, electric motors, airplanes, cars, telephones, rockets, computers, and men on the moon. When she was 99, I asked her what invention made the greatest impression on her. She answered: hot water out of a tap in the home. When she was born, water (cold water) came from a pump outside the house. When you wanted it hot, you had to pump it, bring it into the house, light a fire in the wood stove, wait for an hour (at least) until it warmed up.
Somewhat like my father who, tho born in 1907. At one point, I realized that was not only before TV, but also before radio. I asked him what people did for entertainment. He said we read books. And, otherwise (then getting a sas look on his face), we were forced to talk to each other. LOL
These men would break us apart with 1 word, today's America has nothing on the wild west specially now that everyone has gone fr uity with their pride months.
@GreenGoSpanish It's possible to have both. I live a life that would be considered luxurious by many, but hunt and fish, and can handle myself in the woods. Your comment is very accurate, but there are exceptions.
@@betterthanyesterday3912 yeah that’s pretty true. Look at Joe Rogan, he’s extremely rich but he also bow hunts and is a rugged man that can handle himself in the woods and in physics combat. However, I do believe on average people these days are softer than they used to be. Sorry for getting political but especially people on the left.
Its great seeing someone out of our history books walking and talking. I would love to see a recoding like this where someone from the 1800s is just allowed to tell stories for a while - if such a thing exists.
There's quite a few if you search for them, you can hear from both slaves and slave owners, civil war veterans, etc. I even saw a very old man who as a child witnessed lincoln's assassination. It's all incredibly fascinating.
@@20alphabet that's like saying michelle obama (love her or hate her) isn't a historical figure because she wasn't the president. Such a close relative of one of the most famous figures of the wild west is of course a historical figure.
When I visited my cousin in Victoria BC Canada I unexpectedly had a chance to do some family history research which meant I spent some time at the library scrolling through the old newspapers on rattly old microfilm,it was years ago. In around 1900 to 1910 the Victoria newspaper did a regular feature of interviewing some local resident man or woman who was there,in the Old West. It was fascinating and I was very distracted from my main task(which I did acheive),it seems that every cowboy and gunslinger of the old West who didn't end up on Boot Hill and actually lived to get old,moved to lovely Victoria BC to end their days. It was better than any movie or story to read all these first hand memories and testimonies of life in the Wild West from actual people who were there.
This is such an amazing part of history. So much has been forgotten, and when we read history books, we forget that real men and women lived that history. Just brilliant! Thank you so much for sharing this!
Yes my mother would say a man's still a man if he has his testicles removed suppose the opposite sex female has the same principle applied but with vagina. Although Id rather say real men aren't just those with testicles a real man doesn't go around murdering other men you know? And a real woman doesn't go around sleeping with every man she sees. It's strange but true. Not everyone is true to their sex and how they should behave.
My grandad was born in 1907, he left us in 1996. His life saw such changes that he was always excited about the next new thing. His attitude was infectious. Miss that old fella, he had amazing stories.
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 probably his fair share. I don’t know which I find more peculiar: your implication that he was targeting black men, or that none of those hanged were deserving of their fate by virtue of their skin color. Black, white, brown…they all got hanged back then.
This guy made me remember my grandpa. He was born in 1912. Saw almost every major event in the 20th century. He also was a law man. Died at 95. Miss him and my dad greatly.
My grandfather was born 1915 and he always had stories. I was lucky enough to live with him and grandma for a short time. I wish it could have been longer. He passed in 2000.
I spoke with my great grandfather from Ireland in 1978. I was 10, he was 90. Loved the accent and he asked me What I go for Christmas. I tell people today that I spoke. With someone born in the 1800’s. Great and only memory I have of him
What an amazing piece of footage. Just to imagine how much he has seen and for us in 2022 to watch a man who was born in the 1800s with such sharp IQ, now that is mind boggling. RIP sir!
Oooo man how he behaves and holds eye contact. Calm, serious and to the point. You can feel confidence, seriosness, and wisdom in him. I would love to watch and listem the likes of him just to see and learn how to behave and think properly.
My grandmother born 1903 passed away at 103 Feb 2007 she was born in Guanajuato Mexico in a Military family serving Porfirio Diaz he father was a colonel with the Federalist . She saw, the Mexican Revolution , Influenza ( Correction : Spanish flu) World War I and WW II her both Sons and husband fought, she saw Vietnam and much more . In the early 60’s we slept with the doors unlocked , trusted everyone walked in the evenings without a care those days are missed . I must say, Mr. Earl is an intelligent man.
Amazing when you think of how many changes someone like him would have seen. When he was born and a little kid, modern transportation was a horse and wagon or if you were lucky a train. You used lamps and candles for lighting. Eventually he saw the invention of cars, electric lighting and airplanes. The invention of telephones, radio and TV. Wars - WW1, WW2 and Korea. The nuclear bomb. The beginnings of the space race. Imagine trying to explain those things to someone the year he was born.
Actually for someone who is his age today, they went through as many changes as he did, just different types. I mean imagine if you were born in the 1940s and what's that light compared to today; the exact same as what that guy went through. The only thing that makes him more fascinating is you can still talk to people who were born in the 1940s and some people can even speak to people who were born in the 1930s. So fascinating, yes, but different than anyone else, not really.
@@JohnJohn-qv4mg I kind of understand what you're saying but in a way you are also wrong. We are talking about who was then a living legend not only him but other members of his family. Definitely, Not like everyone else. That can never be replaced in history. Sure others lived through changes of technology but that was about all. This man literally has his place in American History books. Not just anyone can say that and he was not just anyone.
I can look at this man's face and read the hard lines embedded from years of being in the sun, late nights and hearing sad heavy news, seeing so many men lying there shot and killed. I picture a man who walked into any room and got respect. Can you imagine the crime scenes he has stood at? He stood among circles of law enforcement men on dusty trails and streets and was considered one of the best of men. I really like him. They don't make men like him any more.
The way Virgil talked crime (men shot and killed you mentioned) was more rare in those times so I doubt he witnessed a large amount of men being killed.
My granny was born in 1898 died in 1998 with all her faculty's. She could remember birthdates for great grand kids without a calendar. Her stories were amazing.
My great aunt was born around then and lived to 104. I had to interview her for a college history class. She was still sharp as a tack. My only regret is that when I got out of college and gained more experience in life I would've been able to ask her better questions. Still, it was a real education.
@@mscommerce nah mate. I’m speaking facts. Just because you got butt hurt about it doesn’t mean it’s not factual. It had nothing to do with this video. The Earp family goes hand in hand with ‘the wild west’ which is what this video is really about. Not people who also lived 100yrs ago lol
$32k was equivalent to over $300,000 today. Virgil Edwin Earp lived a wild life, born in a wagon train campground in Tombstone Arizona in 1879. Was sheriff of Paradise Valley Nevada at the age of 18. Killed 3 men by the age of 21, first one being a man that molested his sister. He saw the birth of the automobile, birth of aviation, birth of television and radio. Witnessed the conquering of the west and expansion of the railroad. He lived through two world wars. 13 years after the end of WW2 he appeared on this television show. The $64,000 question....a big deal. When it first aired in 1955 it held the #1 rating spot knocking out I Love Lucy, but it did not last very long and was cancelled just 3 years later in 1958. The same year Virgil appeared as a contestant. What happened you ask? Well just a little thing known as THE QUIZ SHOW SCANDAL! In the fall of 1958 other similar quiz shows were under federal investigation due to contestants coming forward saying they were "coached" or given answers before hand. This became known as the era of the "Quiz Show Scandal" and the $64,000 question was very much a part of it. America knew the dirty secret behind game shows, they were all rigged and game show ratings plummeted. Did Virgil ever get his money? Was he given these answers in advance? We may never know for sure. What we do know is all the television networks pulled their high stakes game shows off the air. Replaced them with westerns and detective shows....and the very next year in 1959 Virgil passed away.
Except the story pertaining to his life was all BS. He never killed anyone, never worked in law enforcement. He bounced around random jobs, like selling sewing machines door-to-door. He was a grifter that used his last name, and the lack of google, to fabricate lies for profit.
This is wonderful! I found myself rooting for Virgil all the way through those numerous questions, especially agonizingly as he pondered those brands. Whew! Wonderfully sharp minded, so humble and soft spoken. A great man. Thanks so much for posting! 🤓👍
The television year said 1958, at that time Virgil answering the questions must've seemed like an old man, being quizzed on history - already old to that audience. In 2022, it has been over another 60 years since Virgil Earp's death. This is a gem of a video indeed.
My God what a great video. My Grandmother helped raise me and she was such a Western fan. I remember playing a trivia game with her when it was asked " Who killed Billy the Kid" I was floored how easily she answered. Virgil made me smile so calm wide as he sand the song to hi.self in the booth. Its sad th had we don't see men of this caliber anymore. Thanks for turning a deal day into a better one.
What an amazing record. Virgil is sharp as hell on a midsummer's day. I had to laugh at one point when Jesse James came up. One of my relatives sewed him up after he was shot and Jesse wrote my family a very nice letter about his treatment and his recovery from the wounds. It always amazes me how history seems so far away till we connect the dots and realize it is just a spiral through space time.
So your family has a signed letter from Jesse James thanking them for sewing him up after he got shot? I call BS until you post a link. Bonhams Auction House sold a letter by Jesse in 2019 Signed ("Jesse W. James") denying accusations of being a horse thief. It Sold for US$ 212,575 inc. premium. Your family letter would be valued more than that.
@@sjagain You assume that we would want to sell it or have to do so. Call "BS" all you wish. It is the internet and you can claim anything you wish. I have nothing to prove to a rude stranger but why would I relinquish any personal details otherwise? Have a good day!
Great job in doing this. The crazy thing is there has now been enough time passed that the time between his days as a lawman and the time this show aired is equal to the show until now.
These questions are congruent. I was amazed of how he recalled the circumstances related to them. Virgil definitely is knowledgeable of the events during that era. He didn't need a book to give him these answers. Bravo
@@bendayho even if that's true all these questions were from virgils life time and had to do with his industry so its like asking a surgeon about surgery.
I got to talk to my Great Grandfather a lot when I was younger, who was born in 1880 and died in 1974. I have always thought that it was weird that he was born only 15 years after Lincoln was assassinated (15 years ago the iPhone was invented for perspective) which is now 157 years ago, cruised a horse and buggy on a dirt Woodward Avenue in Detroit, and watched a man land on the moon before he died. Simply awesome. When my father was born in 1934 (now 88), only 35% of houses had full plumbing, 70% had electricity, and 35% had phones!!! My father in law who just passed at 94 years of age just a couple of years back, was literally alive for 7 years when Wyatt Earp was alive!! It proves that life is short, our views are very short ... sighted too, and technology is moving really fast. Wonder what another 100 years will bring.
Well , I am 82 years old now and born in 1940.. I have seen so many changes it is unreal. I believe I have lived through the golden age of American and pray that it will continue for my grand children.. God Bless American, home of the FREE !!!
That's so weird that Wyatt Earp's nephew is on a TV game show. I am always awestruck by people in the distant past, as if they somehow think, look, or act differently from living folks. So strange to see such living history.
@@softan The thing W. Earp is famous for happened before the grandparents of my grandparents were born. That's not close history, the TV show Virgil is on is close history.
@@BlommaBaumbart - It depends on your perspective. My older grandfather was born in Feb. 1876, in the middle of those infamous events - fortunately on the opposite side of the world. I was alive when the TV show was recorded, and can remember staying with friends during the time my brother was born that year.
@Hannah Kirchner - We can easily get a distorted opinion of people from TV shows. Almost 60 years ago, I enjoyed watching shows like Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Tombstone Territory. Characters are whoever the script writers imagine. They contrasts with the brutally honest (warts & all) descriptions of the ancient "heroes" in The Bible, up to 3,500 years ago. Human nature hasn't changed a bit since then.
We usually only see non-movie footage of people born before 1900 in ww2 docos. You're rihht Hannah, this so rare, a live interview featuring a person born in 1879. Telling that he only lived another year; part of the reason is people had shorter life spans. This is the oldest person on live TV, as far as I know and it's fascinating.
They had too much money and were such nice people to give this poooor man some money because he is from old times... Rofl guys.. are we living in the same capitalistic world?
I should be in bed. have a 14 hour shift tomorrow and its damn near midnight. couldn't stop watching this. have always loved the earps stories. I wish we had more men like this in the world today. What a wonderful piece of history to watch.
The fact this was recorded is amazing. I wonder what he would think of today, knowing billions of people would watch this clip and leave a part of himself in this world
@@teekotrain6845 No. Science has very, very clearly shown that when the brain dies, consciousness dies with it. There is no afterlife, nor a return to this one. It is simply over and done. Forever. That is why people fear death, because deep down, we know it is...THE END.
the fact he aced the whole quiz show, im so mind blown that his memory is so crystal clear that he remembers every single detail of western history this is a rare gem of history never seen by today's generation until today
I went to a Toastmaster's meeting in Phoenix a number of years back and his son was the speaker. He told a fascinating tale about his family and their adventures.
@@rockandrollrabbit Hi. He did a 20 minute talk on Earp life after Tombstone. How they finally moved to California and how they built a real estate business. He did a great job telling about the family
My Great Great Aunt was born in 1895. She recalled homesteading with her grandmother, she was a teenager when the Titanic sinks. She remembered cars becoming more common, the wars, vaccines, going to a prairie one room school with a teacher who was 17 & let the kids play all day, (he was fired because of it!). She was an incredible woman. She passed in 1997. And the world seemed to dim when her light left us. I miss you aunty.
I just watched this video smiling the whole time! This gentleman is so smart he has probably forgotten more than any of us will ever even know! What I wouldn't give to spend the day with him and hear all of his stories! God bless him and keep him!
@@Eppu63 Don't you understand? Shall I elucidate? Ah your one of THOSE people who reads everyone's comments and just has to reply if you think there is anything grammarically incorrect.
This is great! Virgil had a memory like a steel trap! (An old euphemism, thought it appropriate here) The things he saw and did I can only imagine. You can just tell he was a man of strong character and convictions. No doubt due to his genetics!
@@haydnrogan6789 We do but genetics plays a big part because not every man has equal parts ambition or risk appetite throughout life. Those two things alone make a man for better or worse regardless of environment or necessity.
Easy to have good memory when you are an actor with a script. Free energy and electric cars, the wild west never happened. Start checking your facts you will find problems. Staged and contrived history
@@WillandRambo Absolutely. People don't like to believe or admit but genetics plays a huge part in the way we are, and I'm not talking about obvious things like appearance.
i love these videos. they give us a window into the past that very few of us even care to see, let alone listen to. people today will probably never know what life was like back then unless they look at recordings like these. i hope we have a setup somewhere to record and catalog all these for history's sake.
While in the past, they were creating original innovations. In this day, during my lifetime, everything new is for entertainment or anything you can put on a screen. It is strange how our priorities shape our reality.
I’m 52 and actually knew my ggm who was born in 1884. She lived until 1977. I hope to live as long as she did. I love to hear people from back then talk about life. Thanks!
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I went to lunch with my Grandma in 2000 when she was 95, and asked her what it was like to see so many changes in the world.
From horse and carriage to the space shuttle program, she saw so much.
She looked around and said she didn't know why she was still here, as her husband, siblings, and friends had all passed, and she was losing her eyesight.
I said "Grandma, you're alive today to buy my lunch!".
She leaned across the booth and punched me in the arm and laughed.
She lived to be 101, and I miss her.
That's awesome
Sweet story
I can’t love this enough
You are a good grandson
Mine said the same thing when I asked her, didn't know why she was still here. She got to 97 and still lived on her own/ She used to say, 'you're going to have to shoot me', I responded, 'what out of a cannon?'
If she had been cremated I would have but she is buried with my Grand father and their baby son.
This guy was born almost 150 years ago and we get to watch video of him. What a time to be alive
The time would be more impressive 1000 years from now
That is something but, in fact, there are lots of people around today - baby boomers - who were alive when this show was broadcast. It was only 64 years ago.
@@michaelkelemenToronto When I think I was born just 100 years after the Civil War it just makes me feel old. And I'm only 57.
@@brianmatthews4323 that's because you are old and that time-frame shows that. Not in the range of 70-80 years old but you are an older man Brian. Hope that's a good thing for you instead of bittersweet and melancholic like I hear it is for many.
I think you'd have lived a richer life then, living life, rather than watching about lives lived.
My great grandmother was born 1899 and died 2000......she literally lived throughout the whole 1900's... amazing.
That’s fucking crazy and awesome
My great grandma was born right at the turn of the century, died in 1993 when I was 20 years old. I knew her very well. She was the last child of a large family and some of her siblings were 20 years older than her. Her dad was born in 1850 and she had uncles who fought in the Civil War. She literally may have had a conversation with her dad that included the phrase, "when I was a teenager during the Civil War", blows my mind to know that I knew someone who knew people in the Civil War.
@@chidoquest8759 it's insane. Crazy to think about...
There was a short story we read in middle school of a great grandma like that. It was called the three century woman.
That's amazing. My great-grandmother was born the same year 1899. She lived a long life but not as long as yours. I often wondered what she was doing at various times during her life like ww1, Spanish flu, ww2 etc. Amazing yours lived every year of the 1900s as you said.
I am just approaching 70 and so much has changed in my lifetime
1. We had a party-line telephone with about a dozen other farmers when I grew up. You had to carefully lift the receiver and listen for the dial tone, if someone was talking then you hung up very quickly.
2. We got a TV when I was about 8 of 9 years old. Big black-white box TV. There were three television stations back then and they went off the air at midnight.
3. We used to sit out on the porch and listen to the radio in the evenings, Dick Tracey, The Shadow, Jackie Gleason and major league baseball games. Dad used to go up on the roof and adjust the antenna when the wind blew hard.
4. We got three pair of pants and three shirts for school every year from the Sears & Roebuck catalog, also six underwear and socks and immediately got out of your school clothes when you got home from school. Mom used to use iron on patches when we tore our pants at the knees.
5. I remember eating out at a restaurant twice before I got to High School age.
6. I had 55 cousins growing up. Farmers had lots of kids, and lots of kids passed away from accidents and ailments. My older brother drowned at 9 years old. There are five of us kids left, mom is now 89 and still active.
7. We were allowed one hour of TV a day and two on the weekend. Unless it was a sports game, then we could finish the show.
8. Dad and several uncles added a bathroom to my grandma's home when I was about six years old. Dad was so proud to help his mother.
9. One of my first memories was pulling weeds in our 1/2 acre garden. I was so proud when mom said I was big enough to snap green beans for canning. Mom canned most of our food for the winter. She made bread about every five days or so.
10. Mom used cloth diapers for all six kids. She used to originally wash them out in the toilet, then the washing machine, then hang them on the clothes line to dry. She had a washing machine with a ringer to get the moisture out of the clothes.
11. I remember opening sluice gates when we had irrigation water twice a week; sometimes at 2:30 AM in the morning. Irrigation water was vital to farming. The county had ditch riders and they carried pistols to enforce irrigation times between the farmers.
12. I remember pushing cow manure to the trough in grandpa's barn so it could be washed outside and digging the six inches of sand from ditches every year before I started school. School used to close for two weeks in the last of September for potato harvest, so that us farm kids could help with the harvest.
So many memories of times gone by. A person's word meant everything back then. No one talked back to parents then, you would get knocked down and miss supper for that sort of thing.
That is fascinating. Thank you for sharing. That is real history.
There’s a book there. You should be a storyteller for us all.
@Kristen Kaz 100%! Definitely a good book in there!
As a farm kid, now 76, I share many of those same memories. Times were hard. For entertainment, the neighbors would come to the house and bring their instruments and have jam sessions. My dad was a drummer and fiddle player and my mom played the piano. Mom sewed clothes for my brothers out of my dad’s old suits and she sewed dresses for us girls out of feed sacks that were colorful at that time. Hard times but, looking back, good times, as well.
@@redssr1193 That was a very good way to grow up.
Lots of fun and responsibility
- The retire accountant
The fact that this man was born 14 years after the Civil War and to still have the razor sharp mental acuteness that he displayed at the age of 79 in this historic remastered footage was incredible to watch.
meanwhile I could name a certain 79 year old who can't stay on top a bike, let alone string together one coherent sentence....
It’s amazing what a lack of technology and synthetic chemicals in your body can do to keep you sane.
@@ChiralSpirals ooooh bazinga
@@ChiralSpirals Lmao 🤣
@@jjhack3r 💯
Around ~80 years old and his mind is still sharp as a tack and physically fit. Impressive.
Yes
Also Biden is 79
And trump is 76
The two oldest to be president after Ronald Reagan
no BS food available then - which purpose is solely to keep you alive but sick, to sponsor big pharma.... no BS TV shows to make you dumb, just books of wise men, no BS biography of music stars, who at his times were there ONLY to keep you eintertained, and nowadays they claim to be better than you, know more than you do and show you the direction of your life...
During his time honesty and honor were words which meant sth, now most of the young guys don't even know how to spell these, not mentioning to understand the meaning or comprehend the significancy of these virtues in the life.
He wasn't raised on processed foods, nor has he spent hours in front of a computer or playing video games
@@integrityminded1983nor was he fed pills by the pharmaceutical mafia
Video games aren't bad, anything can be abused, but I get your point.
You're spot on about the diet though.
There was no bs when it came to food.
Everything was organic, for better or sometimes worse
People of this mans era are noticeably different to people today. He appears very stoic and direct. No nonsense, someone that could be relied upon thoroughly and totally honest.
You probably didnt last long back then if you had a bad reputation
Not sure you can use an Earp as a reference point for the common man. Built different.
@@stevencoardvenice Most probably
You must be from California.
You have literally no idea what this man might have done and to whom in his life. You do know the sorts of things that were considered normal back then, right? Often involving kids too. Idealizing complete strangers after merely seeing them present themselves for a few minutes on a tv show 🙄
This guy answered way harder questions than any game show host of our day, well deserved money
Ah, spoiled the ending! I shouldn't look at comments b4 it's done.
I get the feeling it’s all rigged though
@@danontheair One wonders. But it could be real. The wife looks genuinely hopeful/surprised.. It looks real, it'd just hard to believe. But why not? He had years of experience as the sole sheriff, or whatever it was. Good question though. Who knows?
The question about the brands almost seemed unfair but he got them right. Who today would know the answers?
What is cool about this is that he didn't learn all that, he lived it.
Living it is apart of learning too. But yeah I get what you mean.
Some of it was from before he was born as well! 😊
what is weird here is that people often uses the term wild west when they refer to violent crime mass shooting today when in reality today society is vastly more violent and uncivilized than those days it seems from what he said..... so the real wild west is today
Oh, he learned it alright . On the job education.
Leland... allegedly, if the history is true. You know J James only targeted the criminal banksters etc. that funded the civil war, like a robin hood. But the spin is real and this shows exactly how the propaganda was perpetrated. thru a fancy new tech, the television.. Bells and whistles and you don't question the facts...easy digested propaganda
I've never heard a single question turn in to so many questions. I thought he'd never end. That's hilarious. 😂
yeah, you have to answer the next question for the 32.000 $....Reads a bunch of completley different questions in a row. I This dude had to know more things just for one step up, than todays gameshow winners for an entire match.
I was wondering about that as well. Would have been even more hilarious if he started every additional question with "But wait, there's more..."
Really, like... One question at a time, would make more sense...?
I was starting to think poor Virgil would die of old age before all the questions even got asked.
I got lost!
I knew my great grandmother pretty well as a child, she was born in 1879, and died in 1979. I remember thinking, in her lifetime there was no refrigeration, cars, airplanes, electricity, antibiotics or even radios. But she got to witness all that and more. I asked her what was the strangest thing she’s ever seen in her lifetime, her reply was, “we landed a man on the moon.”
I still marvel at this digital device in my hand with a screen giving better and sharper picture than the old TVs . And it's also a calculator, language translator , camera, phone, navigator , torch .............
NOBODY has EVER landed on the moon. It's impossible.
@@michaelcorbidge7914
It’s absolutely amazing isn’t it! I’m 70 years old and I can only imagine the wonder it is to 80 and 90 yr olds.
Oh man, you believe that fat lie? How did they get through the van allen belt? the moon landing is a grift, = theft of amercan's wealth by the military industrial complex. just like the coof wars.
OTOH, you’ve seen as much of a paradigm shift in your lifetime. Maybe more.
Could you IMAGINE going back in time and talking to that man, or Wyatt Earp? They were living story books. This is the next best thing. Amazing!!
Was he the guy who saw Lincoln get shot in 1865?
Could you imagine the Earps being here in today's America? I'm sure they'd say what happened to this country.
@@AceGoodheart They’d probably die again of a heart attack! With all this lawlessness going on.
Would be terrifying to see them react to the state of the world now
@@haunterdragon4580 The FBI would arrest them and call them extremist.
Legend has it, he's still reading the question today
lol very good
Good grief!! The QUESTION has a gazillion parts. That isn't a question, it's an essay test!!
OMG thats good, I liaghed so hard I hurt my rib LOL
and he is still more relevant than you will ever be 😂👊🏼
@@regisidec5478 Cringe reply bro
I would have loved to see a 60 minutes style interview of this man instead of a gameshow questionnaire, but to even have this is simply amazing
How many black people did you think he saw strung up by their necks?
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 its very telling that is what you got out of this. not how far we've come, not "wow look how long ago that was", not I wonder how many first nations he saw die during a genocide that by most estimates dwarfed the holocaust. that seems like a very self-centered viewpoint and you should think about that and what it says about you. Because if you scroll through the comments you wont see very many like yours.
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 While I sympathize with what blacks went through, it is now history and we progress from it. The man probably was a racist but he was born of innocence. We are merely beings of our surroundings and in no way are any of us perfect.
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 good question I wonder if the blacks back then made up over 60% of all violent crime and murder like they do today
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 why would one WANT to continue to live in a slave mentality? Making oneself the victim of something they never lived through.
I'm willing to bet if your ancestors could speak to you today, they'd say how disappointed they are in you coopting something THEY suffered through, while spitting on the ground we've made, which is exactly what they fought for.
Even though this video is over 60 years old, I was so happy when he got all the questions right and won the money! Well done Mr. Earp!
There was a moment , wasnt there? I was in suspense with the XIT question/answer lol 😆
after seeing movie Quiz Show about the game show scandal 21, I'm a little skeptical, can't help but think its all staged.
I'd figure 32 grand back then to be like somewhere like 300 to 500 grand in terms of purchasing power today . It's another discussion but i can remember prices of a lot of things in 1960s compared to prices for today such as building materials , tools , fence posts , bail of wool n straw , fuel .......
@@mickeymcmurphy3179 sure looks staged
sadly, it says this video is from 1958 and he died in 1959
He carried himself with more dignity over 10 minutes then most men have their entire life today. A different time, a different breed.
Im sure he said the same thing about the old timers when he was young, and they in turn said the same thing about the generations before them. Humans are nostalgia riders. Truth is, there are good and bad men in every generations.
My super great grandpa was born in 1861 and died in 1958, nearly aged 100. To think that he was alive for the Civil War and both World Wars is astounding
That's wild as hell to think about
Even more crazy is the fact he wouldn’t have had to fight in any of them due to age lol.
My grandfather was born in the 1880's and passed in 1981, my dad was born in 1918 I wish I had paid closer attention to their stories. I am a Mennonite Canadian and one story that always got me was when my dad would tell the story of how his dad first lived in a "Soddy". For those who don't know a Soddy is a sod house, think of an Igloo but instead of blocks of snow it is blocks of dirt and sod and built part way under ground. They immigrated from Prussia, fleeing religious persecution at the time and moved to Manitoba, Canada...now imagine living in a Soddy with the temps at -40 in the winter!!! Oh and they had to make a soddy because there wasn't enough or any trees in the area at the time.
@@maryjanedavidson2804 wow that's incredible!
scary that all he knew during his life was war war war, whereas for our generation its all lgbt and racism, and only now we have war in ukraine thats super conserning
How did one question turn into 100 questions?
…good catch
back then they were not going to give away 32 grand which was a lot of money just for answering 1 question
@@cwe1923 Yeah, $32K back then would probably be more like $320K today.
They had longer attention span than folks today…..
@@zyxwut321 That’s very accurate. But at the current inflation rate I think by next week it will be double that! lol
I love how Virgil immediately recognized the song and was basically singing along…he probably sang it more than a few times in front of a campfire in his youth..
It’s still popular in bluegrass and stringband music today
@@courtesyofdickboak Nick Cave gives a rendition in ‘The Assassination of Jesse James...'
This guy is a gem, his time came a long time ago but I feel like I got to meet him. Thanks UA-cam
I love how understated, and matter-of-fact people were in those days. Very dry, serious, and learned.
We could still learn a lot of lessons from those earlier generations if we chose to.
As a boomer in WI we grew up learning with this character style in many (not all) of our classrooms. Strong, up front, wisdom telling, holding true to word, dedicated & focused. They did not mince words, they taught with clarity. Yes, it was somewhat dry and monotone but there was an undeniable forward momentum of learning. Today, it is as though we dance around the center point of truthfulness.
The writing in books was often that way too. Great stuff.
I believe this forwardness died with the WWII generation. This, to me, was the last of real men. Truthful, hard working, personable, knowledgeable, charming. I am ashamed to say I do not feel the same about my generation. Good men create good times, good times create weak men and women.
AMEN TO THAT
All our current education is because the old generation ;).
I can't describe how watching this made me feel. It's a bit surreal. To go from horses and cowboys to game shows in a single life. Wow
He was a very diligent man!
To be fair he was born into the industrial revolution but he obviously spent a lot of time as his father did despite that
My G-pa was born before the wheel.
More like the guy went from riding a horse for a whole day just to visit a neighbor as a kid to being able to get on a plane and flying to NY in a few hours so he can appear on a game show that afternoon. That’s crazy
@@Noitisnt-ns7mo AHAHAHAH
Listening to him say "people were more honest then" hits home... Hard.
Wyatt was the opposite of honest. For $1k he threw a boxing match when acting as referee.
@@wiscgaloot that's just boxing politics. That doesn't mean he wasn't honest lmao
@@AnAdorableWombat Um, no, it completely ruined his reputation for the rest of his life, and it is utterly dishonest. Good job proving your complete lack of any ethics whatsoever. What are you, 12?
@@wiscgaloot no bunt. I'm not 12 and why are you so mad? Are you over 200 years old and bitter because my opinion differs from yours? Sir, seek help. I don't care about this mess. I just commented🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@AnAdorableWombat ah, if you aren't 12, then it is clear you rode the short bus.
I love how he said, The rancher went broke "as far as money". It reminds us that there are other things that speak to our true worth and value than money.
Land and cattle and probably other possessions
Things are different now....money plays a bigger role in our lives now. We depend on it way more to survive these days
Back when you were allowed to own land in the United States.
@@MysticAustin You'll have to explain for us uneducated how we are not allowed to own land today?
@@DT-yt2zh You are allowed, you probably just don't have the money to afford to own enough land (or animals) to feed your whole family as you did back then. Most people living in the cities means the prices of land owning and live stock owning went up to compensate.
Did anybody else get straight played by this guy?! Like, he shuffled on out here all quiet and unassuming, softly mumbles a little bit of small talk with the host, and then when it came time to answer that 4000 part question, he snapped up sharp as a tack and answered every question as if he were a walking encyclopedia/history book! What a dude!
🤯😍🤩🥳👏
I forgot the first question after the 4th!
I did for sure, I was super worried for him and then the cuts to his daughter being scared didn't help.
He was a law man in a lawless Era. He knows how to play people.
@@incitingariot9925 your sentence is nonsensical. You can’t enforce laws if there’s no laws to enforce. So by definition if you’re a law man there has to be laws to enforce.
The $64,000 dollar challenge was one of the game shows cancelled for being fraudulently run by the networks in the late 50's I believe. Possibly he was coached? The movie Quiz Show was based on one such show.
This is like someone born in 1979 answering questions in 2059. Just imagine how different the world got for this guy between his birth and 1959. Dang...
Went from horse and buggy to airplanes and space along with two world wars.
Hey I was born in 1968, and I could answer questions about the 1970’s, otherwise known as the “dark era of primordial internet-lessness”
@@nelsonvanvickle8862 Remember when you had to get up to change the channel?
wow - did you work that out all by yourself?
@@rizon72 How about fixing the horizontal hold & vertical hold on the TV?
Virgil deserved 64 million. He answered a lot more than one question!
I agree, and not easy questions by any means.
BTW, apparently, Buffalo Bill was awarded 2 Medals of Honor, because the first one, awarded in 1972, was rescinded in 1917 along w/ over 900 others. Then, it was restored, awarded to him again, obviously poshumously, in 1989, as well as to 4 other Indian scouts.
My great grand mother was born 1876, she use to tell me stories when I was a kid that kept me awake at nights and some that would make you crack a rib from laughter. I think of her often and loved her dearly
This Virgil Earp was 20 years old before the turn of the century. The people he met and history he saw unfold is mind boggling.
We’re living through the roaring 20s V2 although in reality it’s the Great Depression V2
The same will be said of people born in 1980 one day, look at all the history they have witnessed. Cell phones, microwave ovens, stealth bomber, electric cars, the internet, HDTV, 9/11, Osama Bin Laden, Donald Trump
@@misguidedangel6550 yes, exactly! We tend to not view ourselves in the same historical light. It creates a disconnect, so-to-speak, from those folks of the past to ourselves within the present. We view them as being "different" in many ways, but in reality they weren't. Instead, we view ourselves as living in the new age. I'm sure folks from his generation probably thought the same about themselves. It's a good way for us to keep things in perspective. This is how people in the year 2122 will be viewing us. There will be people saying, "That dude on The Price Is Right was..." lol
@@biggordo482 Damn...didn't even think of it like that...
@@biggordo482 I be thinking this when I’m alone in my thoughts 😂
Love watching the way that our predecessor carried themselves, w seemingly fewer words, yet a more profound sense of integrity.
There's something impressive about the man, no doubt about it
Advice from John Wayne to a young Michael Caine on acting
"Talk low,talk slow and don't say too much"
@@biggchungus5512 John Wayne was also a closeted gay and coward so I wouldn't take much on his voice
@@frank6842 And this coming from a nobody on UA-cam don't say much either. If you weren't around him back then, then you have no clue how he was. You can believe what others said but again...
@@frank6842
I can't imagine with our 4 second attention spans these days any of us can retain information as well as this old man!
I wouldn't be too sure of that for this particular show it ended up being canceled over a scandal of it giving it to contestants the answers. They may have done so with him since he was a likeable entertaining guy and they wanted to keep him on.
Fun fact it was also the basis of Jeopardy giving answers to the contestants and then they have to supply the question
Don't believe all you read in the tabloids. The actual attention span of an average adult is 36 - 54 minutes. Attention is not one measurement, it's divided into three. The sustained, selective, and divided attention. The problem with the fact that we have so many things competing to take our attention in the digital world, is that our brain struggles to decide what to give sustained and selective attention to. But in a setting like this, unless you have add, you'd have the same attention span as people before us.
@@diceymaan exactly!!! Anyways what were we talking about
Don't believe anything you read on the internet either. One's attention span is entirely and completely relative to how interesting he finds the subject. I can spend 3 hours reading a book on WW2 history and it feels as though only 5 seconds has passed. Try to get me to study the taxonomical classification of deciduous trees and I'm blanking out after 30 seconds.
This is amazing.
The man lived from having little to no electricity, two world wars, radio, television, and left this world in an era of modern appliances and automobiles.
He was 23 years old when the wright brothers first flew an airplane and lived to see the first satellite launch into space
He was fortunate to live when Caucasian males were creating the greatest innovations in all of history. No other race or females could have ever achieved what the Caucasian male did in that time.
Makes Me wonder about the Bible verse that talks about end times. Things that have never been seen before, man rode a horse for thousands of years.
@@ronmexico8383 And just look at what's going on now. I truly believe we're living in the end of times.
@@Knight_of_the_Old_Code Hopefully this doesn't start any sort of pointless argument, because I would tend to agree, but I'm of the opinion that this isn't the first time we have been through this. I believe this isn't even the second time that we by our misguided actions, cruelty, greed, ignorance of the divine reality of which we are very much a part along with everything else, but through our huberous and arrogance and following those who promote said vanity and selfish pride, come to believe we are separate not only from nature and creation but by this stage we not only believe that but also deny God or anything greater than ourselves, it isn't until a flood or some cataclysm or another comes along that people suddenly remember and for awhile live at first in proper reverence and respect to the order of things, then as direct memory is forgotten people live in fear of Gods wrath as remembered through the stories and writings of those who witnessed said end times, then ...... You see where I'm going with this? Virtually every person with an NDE to report or some other humbling experience like that will all tell you that the point in life is to learn to be truly good and loving and that it is only your deeds towards others and strength of character as well as your ability to live in a place of love that matter once you die...or we all do rather. So end times or not, I think what is important has never changed and no matter the circumstances if you strive to be truly good and live without doing others harm and without regrets then the worst that could happen is you live happily and loved by those around you and die comfortable in that knowledge and at best you will understabd the rest afterwards. It's not rocket surgery but we are so conditioned by this world especially in these days of only fans and Instagram fame that it can be easy to lose sight of what matters
What a great video. My grandfather was born in 1870, died in 1955. I'm so glad I got to know him before he passed away. He never owned a car and went everywhere either by bus, by train, by wagon, or on the back of a mule. Listening this this video makes me think of him and my other grandfather who was a lawman who once lived in Texas and traveled back to Alabama in a wagon.
How many black people did you think he saw strung up by their necks?
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 not nearly enough.
I remember speaking with an old law man who was a sheriff in a Texas border town in the 1920’s. He said he rarely carried a gun back then. Was stowed in the car most of the time. Just a different time.
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 Dang I didn't know there were gamers back in those days.
That "question" was an 8 part examination....who put this bizarre thing together????? they left out pt. 9 of the question: what caliber of pistol did Billy Clanton use when he shot a rabbit when he was 12 years old, and what kind of rabbit, and what type of tree was the rabbit sitting under when it was shot, and what color was it, and what spice did his mother use in the rabbit stew, and which of his 3 brothers got diarrhea after eating the stew, and what did they give him to drink to stop the diarrhea?
Lololololol I agree !!!! I thought for the love of mercy ,you gonna have to repeat those questions again I done forgot the first question!!! 🤷🤦
I think people were smarter and more focused back then. They were used to using their memories.
Hahahahahah
Well it wasn't bugs bunny anyway .
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He speaks so much better than us modern "advanced" people. Much admiration for this man, and for America of the past!
Impressive. These legends are long gone but these videos are a testament to their legacy
Racist white people those days are gone now we got white people who not open minded and enjoy sharing their wife with brown people
No one has ever gone. Death is an Illusion.
@@High-Performance-IQ Death is real.
@@stuartredman1550 Well we certainly can't prove it. I can't prove that someone ever died, any more than I can prove that someone other than me had a thought. Solipsism all the way lol
Im so glad i found them. I’ve always been fascinated with how people from the 1800s lived
I remember being a young child and watching this for each week it was on - so glad someone posted it!
I remember actually seeing that particular show of the "$64,000 Question", back in the late fifties, when it was aired.
@@vincentperratore4395 who was watching it with you?
You must be 104 years old ! God bless you!
What happened next week?
@@nejmcabdudsalaam168 Virgil won the $64,000 top prize!
Fantastic video to watch. Brings to mind my 103 year old aunt, born in 1919, who tells us of how it was back then with cars that had to be cranked etc. She's seen a lot in those years.
She still alive?
Your aunt probably saw movies before they had sound
ah that why some say ' cRANK IT"
I have an aunt born then and still alive to boot! She lived quite a life so she always had a few stories to tell us kids.
Wow, Virgil Earp !! 😯
Despite the modern day chaos, we live in pretty amazing times to be able to watch this man on camera.
Wow, Virgil is a mine of information about the Wild West. What an amazing video and a fantastic piece of history.
I got every question right except the brands, and i'm an old Englishman. ;)
Compare the standard of questions and his knowledge to today’s quiz shows and contestants.
Also note his restrained reaction upon winning, the smartness of the audience and their polite applause after he wins the $32k (a huge amount in the 1950s). No whooping and screaming.
A different era.
I’ve just used a historical money converter to find out how much 32k in 1958 is today.
The answer is 321k.
Yet he doesn’t flinch when he wins.
@@sarahjackson1860 "No whooping and screaming. A different era." - you don't believe there was "whooping and screaming" in the 1950s?
@@TheDanEdwards What’s your point?
Just listening to someone's voice you quickly establish a sense of him being the real deal or not. He's definitely the real deal.
over a fucking voice? Wonder how many blacks did he see hung?
theres a reason people used to respect lawmen this man exudes that reason with every syllable
These interviews of people who lived in thr 1800s are so amazing! I always end up watching the entire video amazed of the times they grew up in. The fact that there's video of them recounting their time is memorizing.
*mesmerizing. After you edit it I'll delete my comment so it looks like you had it right from the start.
People will say the same about the kids from the 80s and 90s soon enough
@@productofapathy Grab some friends
@@productofapathy 😂
How is it mesmerising? A video is a video. What's mesmerising is how completely pathetic the world has become since this time...
My grandmother was born in 1875 and died in 1976. She was born before sound recording, movies, light bulbs, electric motors, airplanes, cars, telephones, rockets, computers, and men on the moon. When she was 99, I asked her what invention made the greatest impression on her. She answered: hot water out of a tap in the home. When she was born, water (cold water) came from a pump outside the house. When you wanted it hot, you had to pump it, bring it into the house, light a fire in the wood stove, wait for an hour (at least) until it warmed up.
I think your story will stick with me forever. Thank you so much for sharing it!
Somewhat like my father who, tho born in 1907. At one point, I realized that was not only before TV, but also before radio. I asked him what people did for entertainment. He said we read books. And, otherwise (then getting a sas look on his face), we were forced to talk to each other. LOL
He must have been 80 years old. And a very healthy and intelligent elderly gentleman.
Don't know how healthy he was. He died only a year later. Certainly very intelligent, though. What priceless footage. Truly a link to a lost world.
His grandpa lived till he was 97 years old.
79
If only Biden could be this lucid...
@@scottphipps3577 There's always one.....
Dude asked him about the history he was a part of. That's pretty cool. Different people, tougher than we are, by a mile.
These men would break us apart with 1 word, today's America has nothing on the wild west specially now that everyone has gone fr uity with their pride months.
@@ohhhyeahhh1174 Tell me about it. Back in my day, fruit loops was a cereal.
@GreenGoSpanish It's possible to have both. I live a life that would be considered luxurious by many, but hunt and fish, and can handle myself in the woods. Your comment is very accurate, but there are exceptions.
@@betterthanyesterday3912 yeah that’s pretty true. Look at Joe Rogan, he’s extremely rich but he also bow hunts and is a rugged man that can handle himself in the woods and in physics combat. However, I do believe on average people these days are softer than they used to be. Sorry for getting political but especially people on the left.
@@ohhhyeahhh1174 Many were trash, racist scumbags. Good riddance!
Its great seeing someone out of our history books walking and talking. I would love to see a recoding like this where someone from the 1800s is just allowed to tell stories for a while - if such a thing exists.
There's quite a few if you search for them, you can hear from both slaves and slave owners, civil war veterans, etc. I even saw a very old man who as a child witnessed lincoln's assassination. It's all incredibly fascinating.
@@arandom1024 I just wrote a comment talking about the kid who saw Lincoln get shot! Its absolutely amazing.
@@20alphabet that's like saying michelle obama (love her or hate her) isn't a historical figure because she wasn't the president. Such a close relative of one of the most famous figures of the wild west is of course a historical figure.
When I visited my cousin in Victoria BC Canada I unexpectedly had a chance to do some family history research which meant I spent some time at the library scrolling through the old newspapers on rattly old microfilm,it was years ago. In around 1900 to 1910 the Victoria newspaper did a regular feature of interviewing some local resident man or woman who was there,in the Old West. It was fascinating and I was very distracted from my main task(which I did acheive),it seems that every cowboy and gunslinger of the old West who didn't end up on Boot Hill and actually lived to get old,moved to lovely Victoria BC to end their days. It was better than any movie or story to read all these first hand memories and testimonies of life in the Wild West from actual people who were there.
Yes, this channel features just that. Happy browsing. I love this channel!
What a class man. He definitely has the presence of a sheriff.
This is such an amazing part of history. So much has been forgotten, and when we read history books, we forget that real men and women lived that history. Just brilliant! Thank you so much for sharing this!
Yes my mother would say a man's still a man if he has his testicles removed suppose the opposite sex female has the same principle applied but with vagina. Although Id rather say real men aren't just those with testicles a real man doesn't go around murdering other men you know? And a real woman doesn't go around sleeping with every man she sees. It's strange but true. Not everyone is true to their sex and how they should behave.
My grandad was born in 1907, he left us in 1996. His life saw such changes that he was always excited about the next new thing.
His attitude was infectious. Miss that old fella, he had amazing stories.
I remember my g grandparents born in 1872. They died in 1964. I feel like I lived back in those days with all their stories. I was 17 when they died.
This is incredibly impressive. Such a sharp man. The Earp family is quite a family.
How many black people did you think he saw strung up by their necks?
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 probably his fair share.
I don’t know which I find more peculiar: your implication that he was targeting black men, or that none of those hanged were deserving of their fate by virtue of their skin color.
Black, white, brown…they all got hanged back then.
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143Why did you comment that under so many people? To get a rise?
Unbelievable gentleman with an valuable experience and information.
He is humble and I could listen to his stories forever without getting bored.
This man is a great comedian. I’ve started to watch him wherever he comes. A very, very intelligent man. X
This guy made me remember my grandpa. He was born in 1912. Saw almost every major event in the 20th century. He also was a law man. Died at 95. Miss him and my dad greatly.
As my grand pa here in 🇧🇷👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
My grandfather was born 1915 and he always had stories. I was lucky enough to live with him and grandma for a short time. I wish it could have been longer. He passed in 2000.
I spoke with my great grandfather from Ireland in 1978.
I was 10, he was 90. Loved the accent and he asked me
What I go for Christmas.
I tell people today that I spoke. With someone born in the
1800’s. Great and only memory I have of him
What an amazing piece of footage. Just to imagine how much he has seen and for us in 2022 to watch a man who was born in the 1800s with such sharp IQ, now that is mind boggling. RIP sir!
You an adult?
@@khshkhshkhsh I identify as one.
People back then didn't have distractions like today I assume most would have been more intelligent then today's average person
@@jacobb4357 I agree!
Today they are full of useless knowledge but have no wisdom!👍
People was way smarter then today
Oooo man how he behaves and holds eye contact. Calm, serious and to the point.
You can feel confidence, seriosness, and wisdom in him.
I would love to watch and listem the likes of him just to see and learn how to behave and think properly.
This is one of the most amazing pieces of film I have ever seen.
I did not know that this was even out there. Excellent.
My grandmother born 1903 passed away at 103 Feb 2007 she was born in Guanajuato Mexico in a Military family serving Porfirio Diaz he father was a colonel with the Federalist . She saw, the Mexican Revolution , Influenza ( Correction : Spanish flu) World War I and WW II her both Sons and husband fought, she saw Vietnam and much more . In the early 60’s we slept with the doors unlocked , trusted everyone walked in the evenings without a care those days are missed . I must say, Mr. Earl is an intelligent man.
Very, very cool, DTdL!!!
I’m assuming by Black Plague you mean Spanish influenza?
@@neapanther497 thought the same thing lol, that's not the black plague XD
Titanic
Wow thank you for you sharing
Amazing when you think of how many changes someone like him would have seen. When he was born and a little kid, modern transportation was a horse and wagon or if you were lucky a train. You used lamps and candles for lighting. Eventually he saw the invention of cars, electric lighting and airplanes. The invention of telephones, radio and TV. Wars - WW1, WW2 and Korea. The nuclear bomb. The beginnings of the space race. Imagine trying to explain those things to someone the year he was born.
You want to see him go crazy? Put him in a room alone with an iphone
@@jsflm drives me crazy too 😂
Actually for someone who is his age today, they went through as many changes as he did, just different types. I mean imagine if you were born in the 1940s and what's that light compared to today; the exact same as what that guy went through. The only thing that makes him more fascinating is you can still talk to people who were born in the 1940s and some people can even speak to people who were born in the 1930s. So fascinating, yes, but different than anyone else, not really.
Same idiots, different century.
@@JohnJohn-qv4mg I kind of understand what you're saying but in a way you are also wrong. We are talking about who was then a living legend not only him but other members of his family. Definitely, Not like everyone else. That can never be replaced in history. Sure others lived through changes of technology but that was about all. This man literally has his place in American History books. Not just anyone can say that and he was not just anyone.
This was great! I couldn’t even imagine everything this man has gone through. All the history and changes in technology and society.
Guy nailed those questions like a carpenter.
I can look at this man's face and read the hard lines embedded from years of being in the sun, late nights and hearing sad heavy news, seeing so many men lying there shot and killed. I picture a man who walked into any room and got respect. Can you imagine the crime scenes he has stood at? He stood among circles of law enforcement men on dusty trails and streets and was considered one of the best of men. I really like him. They don't make men like him any more.
The way Virgil talked crime (men shot and killed you mentioned) was more rare in those times so I doubt he witnessed a large amount of men being killed.
Well said, we need Man like him in society now. He knew exactly what his gender was.
They certainly don't.
@@daniellebcooper7160 Exactly 💯 🤣👍
@@daniellebcooper7160 Yep, one big heap of testosterone. lol
My granny was born in 1898 died in 1998 with all her faculty's. She could remember birthdates for great grand kids without a calendar. Her stories were amazing.
You’ve totally missed the point of the entire video. Clearly you didn’t know anything about the Earps before clicking on the video.
@@AshtrayAnnie As you have. The clip prompted J_Rains GOAT to share some personal family history with us all. What a rude reply!
My great aunt was born around then and lived to 104. I had to interview her for a college history class. She was still sharp as a tack. My only regret is that when I got out of college and gained more experience in life I would've been able to ask her better questions. Still, it was a real education.
@@mscommerce nah mate. I’m speaking facts. Just because you got butt hurt about it doesn’t mean it’s not factual. It had nothing to do with this video. The Earp family goes hand in hand with ‘the wild west’ which is what this video is really about. Not people who also lived 100yrs ago lol
Ok? Why are you posting this story lol its unrelated to the video
My Gosh, I smiled the whole time listening to him answer the most complicated questions I've heard.
This history is fascinating! I hope you can find so much more like this. Thank you for uploading.
$32k was equivalent to over $300,000 today. Virgil Edwin Earp lived a wild life, born in a wagon train campground in Tombstone Arizona in 1879. Was sheriff of Paradise Valley Nevada at the age of 18. Killed 3 men by the age of 21, first one being a man that molested his sister.
He saw the birth of the automobile, birth of aviation, birth of television and radio. Witnessed the conquering of the west and expansion of the railroad. He
lived through two world wars. 13 years after the end of WW2 he appeared on this television show. The $64,000 question....a big deal. When it first aired in 1955 it held the #1 rating spot knocking out I Love Lucy, but it did not last very long and was cancelled just 3 years later in 1958. The same year Virgil appeared as a contestant. What happened you ask? Well just a little thing known as THE QUIZ SHOW SCANDAL!
In the fall of 1958 other similar quiz shows were under federal investigation due to contestants coming forward saying they were "coached" or given answers before hand. This became known as the era of the "Quiz Show Scandal" and the $64,000 question was very much a part of it. America knew the dirty secret behind game shows, they were all rigged and game show ratings plummeted. Did Virgil ever get his money? Was he given these answers in advance? We may never know for sure. What we do know is all the television networks pulled their high stakes game shows off the air. Replaced them with westerns and detective shows....and the very next year in 1959 Virgil passed away.
Great comment - thanks for the info
wow, great info!
Now we just have beta bun boys
Except the story pertaining to his life was all BS.
He never killed anyone, never worked in law enforcement. He bounced around random jobs, like selling sewing machines door-to-door.
He was a grifter that used his last name, and the lack of google, to fabricate lies for profit.
Appreciate the info.. great history knowledge...
This is wonderful!
I found myself rooting for Virgil all the way through those numerous questions, especially agonizingly as he pondered those brands. Whew!
Wonderfully sharp minded, so humble and soft spoken. A great man.
Thanks so much for posting! 🤓👍
The television year said 1958, at that time Virgil answering the questions must've seemed like an old man, being quizzed on history - already old to that audience. In 2022, it has been over another 60 years since Virgil Earp's death. This is a gem of a video indeed.
My God what a great video. My Grandmother helped raise me and she was such a Western fan. I remember playing a trivia game with her when it was asked " Who killed Billy the Kid" I was floored how easily she answered. Virgil made me smile so calm wide as he sand the song to hi.self in the booth. Its sad th had we don't see men of this caliber anymore. Thanks for turning a deal day into a better one.
I never comment on videos, but as a history buff, I just had to admit how cool this really is 💯
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I find it very funny when people feel the need to point out they never make comments on video🤣.
Why you gotta say that? Just make ya damn Comment! 🤣🤣😂
What an amazing record. Virgil is sharp as hell on a midsummer's day. I had to laugh at one point when Jesse James came up. One of my relatives sewed him up after he was shot and Jesse wrote my family a very nice letter about his treatment and his recovery from the wounds. It always amazes me how history seems so far away till we connect the dots and realize it is just a spiral through space time.
Just fyi... many people on this show later admitted to have been given the answers.
JJ was a POS. 😊
So your family has a signed letter from Jesse James thanking them for sewing him up after he got shot? I call BS until you post a link. Bonhams Auction House sold a letter by Jesse in 2019 Signed ("Jesse W. James") denying accusations of being a horse thief. It
Sold for US$ 212,575 inc. premium. Your family letter would be valued more than that.
@@sjagain You assume that we would want to sell it or have to do so. Call "BS" all you wish. It is the internet and you can claim anything you wish. I have nothing to prove to a rude stranger but why would I relinquish any personal details otherwise? Have a good day!
@@VitaKet Ah. that would be a shame. Still, it's amazing to see people who were privy to that era.
Great job in doing this. The crazy thing is there has now been enough time passed that the time between his days as a lawman and the time this show aired is equal to the show until now.
I wasn't going to click on this. Now, I'm sure glad I did. Virgil was the 'real deal' as my generation used to say.
These questions are congruent. I was amazed of how he recalled the circumstances related to them. Virgil definitely is knowledgeable of the events during that era. He didn't need a book to give him these answers. Bravo
Isnt this the era when shows were rigged. Answers were given to contestan...hence the booth.
@@bendayho even if that's true all these questions were from virgils life time and had to do with his industry so its like asking a surgeon about surgery.
I got to talk to my Great Grandfather a lot when I was younger, who was born in 1880 and died in 1974. I have always thought that it was weird that he was born only 15 years after Lincoln was assassinated (15 years ago the iPhone was invented for perspective) which is now 157 years ago, cruised a horse and buggy on a dirt Woodward Avenue in Detroit, and watched a man land on the moon before he died. Simply awesome. When my father was born in 1934 (now 88), only 35% of houses had full plumbing, 70% had electricity, and 35% had phones!!! My father in law who just passed at 94 years of age just a couple of years back, was literally alive for 7 years when Wyatt Earp was alive!! It proves that life is short, our views are very short ... sighted too, and technology is moving really fast. Wonder what another 100 years will bring.
well spoken
Well , I am 82 years old now and born in 1940.. I have seen so many changes it is unreal. I believe I have lived through the golden age of American and pray that it will continue for my grand children.. God Bless American, home of the FREE !!!
That's so weird that Wyatt Earp's nephew is on a TV game show.
I am always awestruck by people in the distant past, as if they somehow think, look, or act differently from living folks. So strange to see such living history.
@@softan The thing W. Earp is famous for happened before the grandparents of my grandparents were born. That's not close history, the TV show Virgil is on is close history.
@@BlommaBaumbart - It depends on your perspective. My older grandfather was born in Feb. 1876, in the middle of those infamous events - fortunately on the opposite side of the world. I was alive when the TV show was recorded, and can remember staying with friends during the time my brother was born that year.
@Hannah Kirchner - We can easily get a distorted opinion of people from TV shows. Almost 60 years ago, I enjoyed watching shows like Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Tombstone Territory. Characters are whoever the script writers imagine. They contrasts with the brutally honest (warts & all) descriptions of the ancient "heroes" in The Bible, up to 3,500 years ago. Human nature hasn't changed a bit since then.
It s not strange he do a tv game because all american west story create big history and business around that....
Between myth, reality and lies.
We usually only see non-movie footage of people born before 1900 in ww2 docos. You're rihht Hannah, this so rare, a live interview featuring a person born in 1879. Telling that he only lived another year; part of the reason is people had shorter life spans. This is the oldest person on live TV, as far as I know and it's fascinating.
The fact that they asked him that many questions in his "one" question really shows how much they didn't want him to get it right.
Yea and how dumb we have become. Our shows are just stupid one liner questions :D
Sorry I disagree. They only asked him questions he knew the answers to. They wouldn’t bring this guy on to embarrass him. They wanted him to win.
they asked every question first to get him thinking, and then asked them one at a time later while he held visual aides. you are a simpleton.
@@voiceofraisin241 Yes, I agree. I truly believe they wanted him to win because this guy is living history!
They had too much money and were such nice people to give this poooor man some money because he is from old times... Rofl guys.. are we living in the same capitalistic world?
Quite amazing how the question he was asked was very complex but at the same time he was able to answer everything without being flustered
People weren’t so distracted at the time, they allowed their brain to keep thinking without swiping to the next video.
Too many questions.
Because he lived it, he was alive during all the history in these questions.
That's because it all made sense and was related to what he knew for real
How many black people did you think he saw strung up by their necks?
UA-cam is a time machine. All of these wonders would have been lost to the public without the brilliance of the younger generation.
I should be in bed. have a 14 hour shift tomorrow and its damn near midnight. couldn't stop watching this. have always loved the earps stories. I wish we had more men like this in the world today. What a wonderful piece of history to watch.
Funny how we come across the most interesting stuff at 2am when we have stuff to do the next day. 😂
@@yopappy6599 Isn't it, though? haha
Fifteen minutes to midnight and a long shift tomorrow too. 😂 couldn’t stop watching.
The fact this was recorded is amazing. I wonder what he would think of today, knowing billions of people would watch this clip and leave a part of himself in this world
The beautiful thing is, he does know. Once you exit the meat suit, possibilities expand greater than the imagination.
Well, not billions.
@@Idontwannahandl Give it like 50 years.
@@teekotrain6845 No. Science has very, very clearly shown that when the brain dies, consciousness dies with it.
There is no afterlife, nor a return to this one. It is simply over and done. Forever. That is why people fear death, because deep down, we know it is...THE END.
@@Idontwannahandl so the views just stop after today? Or do they keep going forever?
the fact he aced the whole quiz show, im so mind blown that his memory is so crystal clear that he remembers every single detail of western history
this is a rare gem of history never seen by today's generation until today
most quiz games were rigged back then
well I want to say I remember seeing that show as a kid. I am 71 this year (2022) TV was kind of new at the time.
@@NeuralEngin33r this one was obviously rigged as well. All those questions thrown on you at once was geared to get a person nervous and lose.
He didn't win the $64,000
@@mr.upcycle9589 I think this was done even in the old radio $64 Question
There’s something I really like about the way people looked and acted. They looked older but seemed very mature and respectable.
I went to a Toastmaster's meeting in Phoenix a number of years back and his son was the speaker. He told a fascinating tale about his family and their adventures.
What did he talk about?
@@rockandrollrabbit Hi. He did a 20 minute talk on Earp life after Tombstone. How they finally moved to California and how they built a real estate business. He did a great job telling about the family
My dad went to school with one of Wyatt Earps older brothers grand kids. (They lived in central Kentucky for a while and some stayed behind)
This was certainly a real treat to watch. History come alive.
We are blessed to have this on video.
What an amazing gentleman! Glad he won and able to live out his life in a little comfort. I bet he had a million and one stories.
He got to live a year of comfort with the winnings then died
@@windwarattack2300 but died with the knowledge that he left something for his children. That's something all parents appreciate
My Great Great Aunt was born in 1895. She recalled homesteading with her grandmother, she was a teenager when the Titanic sinks. She remembered cars becoming more common, the wars, vaccines, going to a prairie one room school with a teacher who was 17 & let the kids play all day, (he was fired because of it!). She was an incredible woman. She passed in 1997. And the world seemed to dim when her light left us. I miss you aunty.
What an honor to be able to be in the same room with this man. Wish I could have met him but I wasn't born yet. 🤠
i was born ...in 1958,,and i was quite likely in my basinet listening to this man,,,but my memories of it are weak
He was a liar, and a grifter. An honor? What a joke.
@@FuhqEwe why do you say this? Do you have any proof of your claim?
This was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen on UA-cam! Made even better by the fact that Virgil knew all the answers and won the money!
Spoiler alert 😄
@@watchthesuit1683 Lol sorry!
@@chasegreen6685 🤣
I just watched this video smiling the whole time! This gentleman is so smart he has probably forgotten more than any of us will ever even know! What I wouldn't give to spend the day with him and hear all of his stories! God bless him and keep him!
What you wouldn't give to spend the day with him and hear all of his stories??
@@Eppu63 Don't you understand? Shall I elucidate? Ah your one of THOSE people who reads everyone's comments and just has to reply if you think there is anything grammarically incorrect.
Exceptional job on putting this piece of history back together. Thanks for the finely tuned editing, makes a big difference in the final product.
This is great! Virgil had a memory like a steel trap! (An old euphemism, thought it appropriate here) The things he saw and did I can only imagine. You can just tell he was a man of strong character and convictions. No doubt due to his genetics!
its in the breeding you reckon? we aren't dogs lol environment and necessity made him who he is. we all have that potential.
@@haydnrogan6789 We do but genetics plays a big part because not every man has equal parts ambition or risk appetite throughout life. Those two things alone make a man for better or worse regardless of environment or necessity.
Easy to have good memory when you are an actor with a script. Free energy and electric cars, the wild west never happened. Start checking your facts you will find problems. Staged and contrived history
@@WillandRambo Absolutely. People don't like to believe or admit but genetics plays a huge part in the way we are, and I'm not talking about obvious things like appearance.
Lol what made him the way he was was being a Marshal in the west and being 30 when WW1 kicked off it says he was in the draft. Not genetics.
So awesome to see how clean and respectful the crowd was and host etc.
i love these videos. they give us a window into the past that very few of us even care to see, let alone listen to. people today will probably never know what life was like back then unless they look at recordings like these. i hope we have a setup somewhere to record and catalog all these for history's sake.
100% agree.
While in the past, they were creating original innovations. In this day, during my lifetime, everything new is for entertainment or anything you can put on a screen. It is strange how our priorities shape our reality.
It's called the National Archives. Check it out, lots of free and fascinating artifacts in all forms of media
Wow, $32,000 smackeroos back then is worth approximately $328,000 in 2022 !! 😮
@@sgtjohnson49 And The Museum of American History at the Smithsonian.
Amazing how someone would have seen so much change in the world. I wish we had more people like this today.
You do...
This is amazing. This man had seen more & done more in his lifetime than most of us will ever do. 👍🇬🇧
Doing more than most of us will ever do is kind of a low bar though.
why? did more happen in the olden days? what a dumb comment.
WOW the only Earp to be on early TV show from the 1950's, He sure knows his history
He lived it
Born in 1879 in tomstone he was 21 in 1900 old west ended about 1910 hes a plethora of information
He answered those questions like it was everyday common knowledge and earned himself over 300k in today's dollar amount. So cool to watch
I’m 52 and actually knew my ggm who was born in 1884. She lived until 1977. I hope to live as long as she did. I love to hear people from back then talk about life. Thanks!