John Wilkes Booth: America's Most Infamous Assassin

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

    • @jimmiedmc1
      @jimmiedmc1 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @chriservin5975
      @chriservin5975 3 роки тому +3

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

    • @cryptofeen1438
      @cryptofeen1438 3 роки тому +2

      Think you should do a show on Michael Collins

    • @S0P2024
      @S0P2024 3 роки тому +3

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  • @henriquebraga5266
    @henriquebraga5266 2 роки тому +83

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

  • @oscarengel7660
    @oscarengel7660 3 роки тому +375

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

  • @BlarggOMighty
    @BlarggOMighty 3 роки тому +387

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

    • @CherryVanityRawr
      @CherryVanityRawr 3 роки тому +82

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

    • @quanbrooklynkid7776
      @quanbrooklynkid7776 3 роки тому +5

      Damn

    • @shakiMiki
      @shakiMiki 3 роки тому +11

      No he wouldn't.

    • @BlarggOMighty
      @BlarggOMighty 3 роки тому +6

      @@shakiMiki What makes you say that

    • @Morbos1000
      @Morbos1000 3 роки тому +21

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

  • @JMac7395
    @JMac7395 3 роки тому +231

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

    • @shadowking1380
      @shadowking1380 3 роки тому +31

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

    • @mlee6050
      @mlee6050 3 роки тому +12

      Always a night off or just quicker check something :(

    • @InnerDness
      @InnerDness 3 роки тому +13

      He must have felt like a real silly goose

    • @finkaiser3994
      @finkaiser3994 3 роки тому +19

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

    • @theawesomeman9821
      @theawesomeman9821 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @kdryan21
    @kdryan21 3 роки тому +126

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

    • @shadowsnake8989
      @shadowsnake8989 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @katieholland4244
      @katieholland4244 3 роки тому +8

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

    • @Pepperminge_Mononoke
      @Pepperminge_Mononoke 3 роки тому +6

      @@katieholland4244 i vote we clone him from the DNA

    • @Powerule23
      @Powerule23 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @bobgunter9608
      @bobgunter9608 3 роки тому +6

      Does the chair still have blood stains on it ?

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 роки тому +13

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

  • @RankinMsP
    @RankinMsP 3 роки тому +63

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

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke 3 роки тому +39

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

    • @neilpemberton5523
      @neilpemberton5523 3 роки тому +7

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

    • @victorcarrillo1570
      @victorcarrillo1570 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @xCaptxCrunchx
      @xCaptxCrunchx 3 роки тому

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

    • @diypictures
      @diypictures 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @ballsonyourmomschin1781
      @ballsonyourmomschin1781 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @jeffbuck2111
    @jeffbuck2111 3 роки тому +70

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

    • @theawesomeman9821
      @theawesomeman9821 3 роки тому +2

      How about Napoleon?

    • @Din0rM22
      @Din0rM22 3 роки тому +3

      @@theawesomeman9821 Napoleon is too overlocked

    • @Viroh
      @Viroh 3 роки тому +5

      @@theawesomeman9821 There is one already...

    • @colbiashimaru
      @colbiashimaru 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @deandrenicholas2545
      @deandrenicholas2545 Рік тому

      ​@Diego Rodriguez what is overlocked?

  • @dandymc2458
    @dandymc2458 3 роки тому +98

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

    • @TheRealCaptainFreedom
      @TheRealCaptainFreedom 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @KD-kl4sx
      @KD-kl4sx 3 роки тому +2

      You have to email him with your suggestions on new videos

    • @daveyjones815
      @daveyjones815 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @KD-kl4sx
      @KD-kl4sx 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @samsamson391
      @samsamson391 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @harryhampton1324
    @harryhampton1324 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @genuinehearts8247
    @genuinehearts8247 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @SunnyNight
    @SunnyNight 3 роки тому +11

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

  • @worstwaystodie5763
    @worstwaystodie5763 3 роки тому +18

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

  • @THEtodd_83
    @THEtodd_83 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @kevinhensley4643
    @kevinhensley4643 9 днів тому

    Enjoyed listening again. Thank you for sharing

  • @shadehunter
    @shadehunter 3 роки тому +9

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

    • @atlasmasterdmind4070
      @atlasmasterdmind4070 2 роки тому

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

    • @shadehunter
      @shadehunter 2 роки тому

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

    • @iiseandigits7439
      @iiseandigits7439 Рік тому

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

    • @solidalfie
      @solidalfie Рік тому

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

  • @austinwallett5140
    @austinwallett5140 3 роки тому +21

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

  • @Dank-gb6jn
    @Dank-gb6jn 3 роки тому +14

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

    • @savagedarksider5934
      @savagedarksider5934 3 роки тому

      How A video about John L Sullivan ?

    • @Dank-gb6jn
      @Dank-gb6jn 3 роки тому

      @@savagedarksider5934 who?

    • @savagedarksider5934
      @savagedarksider5934 3 роки тому

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

    • @Dank-gb6jn
      @Dank-gb6jn 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @franciscobuenrostro3891
    @franciscobuenrostro3891 3 роки тому +11

    I can’t wait to see a video on Lincoln

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 роки тому +3

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

    • @annescholey6546
      @annescholey6546 3 роки тому +2

      Also the obscure killer of James Garfield a failed Jesuit.

  • @JTwiss88
    @JTwiss88 3 роки тому +20

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

    • @gchong506
      @gchong506 2 роки тому +2

      It also stars JENNY as Mary

  • @Venusupreme
    @Venusupreme 3 роки тому +40

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

    • @disasterdisaster581
      @disasterdisaster581 3 роки тому +3

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

    • @bills6093
      @bills6093 3 роки тому +14

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

    • @mikepatrick5909
      @mikepatrick5909 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @dynasty0019
      @dynasty0019 3 роки тому +7

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

    • @onyx7273
      @onyx7273 Рік тому +2

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

  • @johnwilkesbooth1863
    @johnwilkesbooth1863 Рік тому +1

    Im loving this document

  • @joeystrittmatter6890
    @joeystrittmatter6890 3 роки тому

    Love your work

  • @suzuyj
    @suzuyj 3 роки тому +48

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

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @kerenbraddock3015
      @kerenbraddock3015 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @daygoncornhole2395
      @daygoncornhole2395 3 роки тому

      @@jasonwomack4064 hahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @jurrepur1999
      @jurrepur1999 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @sirproperlydecapitatedpodm8694
      @sirproperlydecapitatedpodm8694 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @cristobalvillarroel2618
    @cristobalvillarroel2618 3 роки тому +52

    Failed artists have tendencies to change history for the worst

    • @StegoAqua
      @StegoAqua 3 роки тому +8

      That and the son of ceos of successful construction CEOs

    • @CrapImGud
      @CrapImGud 3 роки тому +22

      Excepted Booth wasn't failed in the slightest.

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 роки тому +6

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

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 роки тому +7

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

    • @cristobalvillarroel2618
      @cristobalvillarroel2618 3 роки тому +7

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

  • @alanshore17
    @alanshore17 Місяць тому

    Very good video. Well done!

  • @MR.AYRAL9
    @MR.AYRAL9 3 роки тому

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

  • @cooperwesley1536
    @cooperwesley1536 3 роки тому +20

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

    • @ewestner
      @ewestner 3 роки тому +5

      Because SIMON, that's why. :-)

    • @cooperwesley1536
      @cooperwesley1536 3 роки тому +5

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

  • @kathgibbs2881
    @kathgibbs2881 3 роки тому +8

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

  • @alexanderveritas
    @alexanderveritas 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @gaylonjohnson904
    @gaylonjohnson904 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @Digital_PeterGriffin
    @Digital_PeterGriffin 3 роки тому +4

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

  • @savagedarksider5934
    @savagedarksider5934 3 роки тому +5

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

  • @jaytrace1006
    @jaytrace1006 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @kenyattaclay7666
    @kenyattaclay7666 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @Mulambdaline1
    @Mulambdaline1 3 роки тому +11

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

    • @Mulambdaline1
      @Mulambdaline1 3 роки тому +6

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

    • @lyndoraburroughs-robinson5663
      @lyndoraburroughs-robinson5663 3 роки тому +3

      @@Mulambdaline1 Thank you 😊

    • @setsuna9757
      @setsuna9757 2 роки тому

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

    • @iiseandigits7439
      @iiseandigits7439 Рік тому

      Eh

    • @onyx7273
      @onyx7273 Рік тому +1

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

  • @kozytime3232
    @kozytime3232 3 роки тому +21

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

    • @teajayeh169
      @teajayeh169 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @anthonybraceful1945
    @anthonybraceful1945 3 роки тому +1

    SIMON, YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!

  • @PumpkinBreath
    @PumpkinBreath 3 роки тому

    I love these videos

  • @rogerevans9666
    @rogerevans9666 3 роки тому +5

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

  • @dena81
    @dena81 3 роки тому +8

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

  • @stevedietrich8936
    @stevedietrich8936 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @eldridgedavis
      @eldridgedavis 3 роки тому

      My goodness

    • @stevedietrich8936
      @stevedietrich8936 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @sethmathews8081
    @sethmathews8081 3 роки тому

    Yes!!! Do more

  • @ryanrizzo4869
    @ryanrizzo4869 3 роки тому +12

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

  • @imnotsuperstitiousbutiamal4186
    @imnotsuperstitiousbutiamal4186 3 роки тому +36

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

  • @ewestner
    @ewestner 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @BurrShotHam711
    @BurrShotHam711 3 роки тому +1

    yes Simon, you should do one on Alexander Hamilton

  • @cthrew1603
    @cthrew1603 3 роки тому +8

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

    • @awzthemusicalreviews
      @awzthemusicalreviews 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @evapunk333
    @evapunk333 3 роки тому +21

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

    • @petermorgan6884
      @petermorgan6884 3 роки тому +8

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

    • @bagsmohess
      @bagsmohess 3 роки тому +5

      Years of being a shill

    • @barrydysert2974
      @barrydysert2974 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @skillganon606
      @skillganon606 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @waynegoddard4065
    @waynegoddard4065 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @42Oregon
    @42Oregon 3 роки тому +2

    Simon, could you do a bio on Jessie Owens?

  • @ethanramos4441
    @ethanramos4441 3 роки тому +10

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

  • @ashcoates25
    @ashcoates25 3 роки тому +7

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

    • @RumbScroll101
      @RumbScroll101 3 роки тому +1

      Soooooo???? Get ur own channel

    • @silentkilla14
      @silentkilla14 3 роки тому

      Lol

    • @pappagetti
      @pappagetti 2 роки тому

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

  • @tHEdANKcRUSADER
    @tHEdANKcRUSADER 3 роки тому +2

    Actually!!! John Wilkes Booth was a southerner from Maryland. Maryland is a southern state. “The South” in American is anything south of the Mason Dixson Line. The South goes pretty far north, Maryland and Delaware were both put in check fairly early into the Civil War because of their proximity to DC, which is considered “in the south” because it was a deal to put the capital in “the south” so The Commonwealth of Virginia(where the confederate capital was) and Maryland gave up a small portion of their land for a federal capital city

    • @TheStapleGunKid
      @TheStapleGunKid 3 роки тому +2

      Maryland, like many border slave states, basically had their own civil war within the civil war. So much partisan activity between sympathizers of both the North and South. The state actually had a very large pro-Confederate faction, but that took a hit when the CSA invaded Maryland in 1862. Also interesting to note that Maryland was one of three Union slave states that abolished slavery before the end of the war. They abolished slavery on October 12, 1864, incidentally the same day as the death of Supreme Court Chief justice Roger Taney (a Maryland native).

  • @blakefrancis6635
    @blakefrancis6635 2 роки тому

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

  • @sevenapollo6882
    @sevenapollo6882 3 роки тому +4

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

  • @bellz222
    @bellz222 3 роки тому +4

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

    • @iiseandigits7439
      @iiseandigits7439 Рік тому

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

  • @iwatchDVDsonXbox360
    @iwatchDVDsonXbox360 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @AustriaGermany
    @AustriaGermany Рік тому

    great video

  • @yourstruly4817
    @yourstruly4817 3 роки тому +12

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

  • @TheEvilCommenter
    @TheEvilCommenter 3 роки тому +5

    Good video 👍

  • @deylinpillay5197
    @deylinpillay5197 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @blackcreeper_3426
    @blackcreeper_3426 3 роки тому

    Nice Video 😀👍

  • @shoogie1994
    @shoogie1994 3 роки тому +7

    yall should a video on the Balfour declaration.

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 роки тому +4

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

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 3 роки тому

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

  • @seansolidworks4736
    @seansolidworks4736 3 роки тому +17

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

    • @KaladinVegapunk
      @KaladinVegapunk 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @bolt7047
      @bolt7047 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @justina7300
    @justina7300 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @brentvenneman6710
    @brentvenneman6710 3 роки тому

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

  • @sofa_king_kool
    @sofa_king_kool 3 роки тому +13

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

  • @quinnzyker6521
    @quinnzyker6521 3 роки тому +17

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

    • @2584024
      @2584024 3 роки тому +3

      Calm down John

  • @CharizardMaster69
    @CharizardMaster69 3 роки тому +1

    8:47 The town is called Appomattox Court House

  • @nayfepacewell8923
    @nayfepacewell8923 3 роки тому

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

  • @Ishbikes
    @Ishbikes 3 роки тому +4

    Lmao 😂 the Harry Hawk line..

  • @CYCLONE4499
    @CYCLONE4499 3 роки тому +8

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

  • @rolldogg01
    @rolldogg01 3 роки тому +1

    Bloopers reel!!! Please!!!

  • @loupiscanis9449
    @loupiscanis9449 3 роки тому

    Thank you

  • @guilhermesequeira9373
    @guilhermesequeira9373 3 роки тому +3

    Do Lincoln pleaseee

    • @newvocabulary
      @newvocabulary 3 роки тому

      Wrestler turned Tyrant that caught a well deserved bullet?

    • @guilhermesequeira9373
      @guilhermesequeira9373 3 роки тому

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

    • @newvocabulary
      @newvocabulary 3 роки тому

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

    • @guilhermesequeira9373
      @guilhermesequeira9373 3 роки тому

      @@newvocabulary sure it is your opinion

  • @ARIXANDRE
    @ARIXANDRE 3 роки тому +7

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

  • @marcus._.2x
    @marcus._.2x 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @danthegamechanger3855
    @danthegamechanger3855 3 роки тому +1

    Great video 🔥👍 keep up they amazing work 👍🔥

  • @sleepydoghistory9994
    @sleepydoghistory9994 3 роки тому +6

    You should do one on Black George of Serbia, or maybe George I of Greece both of them lived very interesting and very consequential lives

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @sleepydoghistory9994
      @sleepydoghistory9994 3 роки тому +3

      @@truth5705 Although indeed Genrikh Yagoda was important there are very few fist hand accounts of him (because he killed everyone who looked at him funny)

  • @sararoberts2973
    @sararoberts2973 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @GothicQueen1
    @GothicQueen1 Рік тому +1

    You should do Leon Czolgosz. :)

  • @DixieHomestead
    @DixieHomestead 3 роки тому

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

  • @hashtag415
    @hashtag415 3 роки тому +5

    Until recently I thought that Facebook was a three stooges slapstick routine.

  • @huwguyver4208
    @huwguyver4208 3 роки тому +7

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

  • @obeidallabirair7644
    @obeidallabirair7644 3 роки тому

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

  • @mmilller452
    @mmilller452 3 роки тому +1

    yoo should do a video on Andrew Johnson

  • @Samm815
    @Samm815 3 роки тому +10

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

    • @o-o2399
      @o-o2399 3 роки тому +1

      This is going to get big .

  • @o-o2399
    @o-o2399 3 роки тому +6

    Rip Lincoln

  • @FortyWink
    @FortyWink 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @chriservin5975
    @chriservin5975 3 роки тому

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

  • @moebetta4224
    @moebetta4224 3 роки тому +4

    "Sic semper tyrannis" never seemed more needed than now.

    • @kc2110
      @kc2110 3 роки тому

      Stay mad bro

  • @tristanreiley8263
    @tristanreiley8263 3 роки тому +4

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

  • @bradhobbs6196
    @bradhobbs6196 3 роки тому +2

    Reductionism of the Politics of the Civil war to the simplistic talking points of 'Slavery' and 'States Rights' certainly is a convenient way to avoid fully exploring the dynamics of the disagreements that grew out of the different interpretations of the original Federal structure and interactions of the antebellum Nation. In a sense, automatically popping up with 'slavery' pr 'States Rights!' as the only issues and rationale kinda comes off as 'Brawndo, it's got what plants crave!". The Union reaction to succession is also eerily reminiscent of a primitve and extreme form of 'cancel culture' carried to the ultimate end.
    Just as current politics is considered either simple or complex, the parallels of the lead up to that conflict and many things we see around us today are uncomfortably familiar, in a way.

  • @frijoles8770
    @frijoles8770 3 роки тому +2

    Can you make a video on the Dakota 38?

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @lukematney7062
    @lukematney7062 3 роки тому +3

    What I think is interesting is that he was smoked out and shot in my hometown of King George and then died in Port Royal, just across the Rappahannock. Popular piece of history in my town.

  • @Adelink_lol
    @Adelink_lol 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @mikaelleonbriones6356
      @mikaelleonbriones6356 3 роки тому +3

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

    • @tranphuongnam1860
      @tranphuongnam1860 3 роки тому +1

      Stanton and Sherman when

  • @matthewwilliams6611
    @matthewwilliams6611 3 роки тому +1

    Next time do a video on Ben Gourion, Golda Meir, or Moshe Dayan.