Billy the Kid by Biographics - Historian Reaction

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[@tombreon]

As a hearing officer, I appreciate your use of the term "preponderance of the evidence."

[@stephenparker6362]

Chris, I remember your interest in Jack The Ripper and a Biographics you might be interested in is Bible John, Scotland's most notorious unidentified killer. It only lasts just over 19 minutes. You could try that.

[@robbiehadley]

It's great to see you doing some of Simon's videos! I'm one of his many freelance writers and he's great to work with.

[@derekhiemforth]

I also subscribe to several of Simon's channels. Be aware that butchering pronunciations is his thing. 🙂

[@orangegalen]

Always love when he gets to German ones, he's just like "Oh come on Germany..."

[@zizonesol]

As a Korean, I cringed so hard when he tried to pronounce the word "Chaebol" as "Kai ball" (it's actually pronounced jaebol)... I know it's kinda hard to pronounce Korean words but come on! He could've at least looked up the pronunciation in Google Translate lol

[@Xippone2093]

@@zizonesol i would’ve said chai ball

[@zizonesol]

@@Xippone2093 still better than Kai ball 😂

[@gentleken7864]

@@zizonesol Not Korean, but can speak Korean fairly well and posted on his videos about the Ryugyong Hotel and his Kim Jeong Eun video about some of his pronunciation. As you say, you could easily find out how to say this properly or better than he does, and it'd take a minute. Jeong 정 is one that is always pronounced Jong 종 and I understand how the difference between how North and South Korean is romanised. But still. Takes a minute. Your example of 'chaebol' speaks for itself.

[@scrub2789]

Nice to see your input on this topic. Here in New Mexico this is one of the few notable historic events/ people we have and a lot of people here are passionate about this time period and know a lot about it

[@Sprayber]

the John Wayne movie "Chisum" makes more sense now. This is one of the few historical events that I had very little knowledge of. great video.

[@ActuallyEric]

Biographics and Geographics are gonna make up a TON of content. Those channels are just...amazing and hearing your reactions to these channels gets me a front row center ticket.

[@scottlemire8522]

Im also a fan of Brain Blaze

[@younghustlegang]

I think he should dabble into more top tenz and also today i found out. Might take a little searching cause been years but there is high grade historical content, especially on “Today i found out”

[@me0101001000]

Highlight History and Megaprojects are also fun

[@dijonvon4378]

Those channels frustrate me to no end... Social media is full of misinformation :/

[@Chooopy]

Biographics/Geographics/Casual Criminalist is my go to "podcast" whenever I have somewhere to drive. Absolutely love it. Glad to see you've unlocked this treasure trove.

[@cyberus1438]

Same, I’m a trucker and love long winded details of interesting things

[@johnnygilner6926]

i’m from california, but my mom is from carlsbad new mexico, and growing up, her best friend was the ancestor of the man who killed billy the kid, Sherrif Pat Garrett. Great story

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

You mean the descendant?

[@snbks4ever]

Really happy you've started reviewing/providing insight to Simon's many channels. He does his best with the scripts provided to him by his staff. The content though is pretty good and there is so much of it. Would love to see more late 19th century stuff from the wild west.

[@TheMacJew]

I'm happy Simon kept Lew Wallace's role to a minimum. There are so many factors that went into the offered pardon that get lost that is easy to paint the Governor as a villain. Same with Shiloh, it's easy to paint Wallace as inept or derelict in his duty. Shiloh and the Kid are unfortunate stains on an otherwise brilliant life. His overseeing the Lincoln Conspirators trial, his paintings and drawings, his novels, and his diplomatic career are rarely talked about. Even in Indiana, where Wallace's Study is, few people know about him unless it's in relation to those two events--and if it's not those, it's because of Ben-Hur. Edit: also, must again recommend Cynical Historian's video on Lincoln County War.

[@cjbenavides4535]

Young Guns 1 & 2 are the most underrated western movies ever made!

[@xavierjc94]

Billy’s childhood home still stands in Silver City, New Mexico. Right outside of downtown

[@Matt-jp6if]

I’d love to see some stuff from you on the American frontier! I’ve recently been researching it for an art project and I love learning from you!

[@cb41503]

YES, FINALLY, HE'S REACTING TO BIOGRAPHICS, OUR PRAYERS ARE AWNSERED, LET GOOOOOOOO

[@itspandasman3040]

Biopgraphics has more than one channel

[@cb41503]

@@itspandasman3040 yeah, but it's easily Simon's most famous channel

[@panquake3217]

@@cb41503 his best channel

[@cb41503]

@@panquake3217 probably, but I love casual criminalist too

[@professorwhat2704]

Some questions in history leave me asking, "Can't it be both?" This is one example of that. You don't have to justify wrongs to acknowledge that they can be done with good intentions. Is a man who holds up a gas station because he's unemployed and broke and is desperate to feed his child a thief or a concerned father? Yes. What he did was very wrong, but his desire to take care of his child is admirable. There's room for both justice and compassion.

[@theaces3697]

For examples like that I feel like the government is also the bad guy as why did the government not help a family in need meaning the man had to resort to a life of crime

[@tdring10681]

I 100% agree with this but I think it is one of those things that you learn over time. From what I remember in school many things were flossed over as black and white this or that but real life has shown that things are more grey

[@iCrapBubbles]

@@theaces3697 Because America

[@grumblesa10]

Interesting point about Billy the Kid/Kid Antrim (which is how most locals knew him BTW), and his weapons proficiency. Many neighbors and friends noted that while other guys his age were in the bar, or finding "sporting ladies" he would buy a couple boxes of ammunition and go off-and practice...Also, in the mid-19th Century a 17-18 year old was considered an adult and expected to act like it. What a concept....

[@jimharrison2513]

I learn a lot about Billy the Kid from Call of Juarez Gunslinger. Billy is in that game and it has a bio card about him which lined up with what ya'll said about him. It went further and said how Pat Garret got a lot of shit from people about how he killed Billy. So Pat wrote a book or something about how blood thirsty and ruthless Billy was.

[@beckynorris4366]

When I look at Billy's face I can see the hardship reflected there

[@mattcullers7406]

Always impressed with how much extra you can add to these videos. I learned quite a bit - I didn't really know much about Billy the Kid. Thank you!

[@JH-ii8xm]

Young Guns is one of my favorite movies. Hard not to love Billy the kid, when all I can picture is Emilio and Keifer. 😍

[@brandonm8901]

I've never actually heard of Billy the Kid, but it seems he has quite the legacy in his home country

[@Lakitu886]

he’s basically THE Wild West Gunslinger

[@mattmorgan000]

Im from New Mexico and I learned some cool stuff from this video I didn't even know. Great video and cant wait to see your New Mexico video!

[@Dragonstar6]

I'm so happy you found and reacted to this video. Between the Biographics, Geographics, and Warographics, there is a lot of great content that I hope you react to and provide your thoughtful commentary.

[@-XStream237-]

funny how life works, recently I played Call of Juarez Gunslinger and as a European guy I was fascinated about some of those names (Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid ,etc ) and the Wild West history just for this video to show up literally 2 days later

[@rossjohnstone4689]

Man you always react to stuff I love and Biographics is one of them. Plus I love you giving us extra information. I would also recommend geographics as its pretty decent to.

[@stephenparker6362]

Hi, Chris, I really enjoyed that, it was very interesting. The Biographcs channel has several interesting biographies perhaps you could do more. Your comments always add to the story as well.

[@DJ118USMC]

38:22 - Paulita and Jose Jaramillo, Family photo! Billy the kid is a very important part of my family's history. There is a rumor that their son (Jose and Paulita's) is actually Billy's. If you look at a picture of Telesfor Jaramillo he looks just like Billy the kid.

[@theantilifeequation8150]

Very good reaction, and great extra content by yourself. Biographics is a very good channel and has a great catalogue to react to. The one that sticks out to me is the grisly tale of Burke and Hare a little startling but worth a look, it's strange that people call JTR the first serial killer popularised by the press when he wasn't even the first in great Britain to do so.

[@louishardiman7749]

Would love to see more of your reactions to these biographies! There's so much content on KZbin, and I really appreciate having a channel like this to curate it all!

[@paulmarmolejo831]

I love listening to your channel, especially while I am working outside!

[@younghustlegang]

Simon Whistler is my favorite KZbinr and have been watching his channels for 5 years now and you do not know how excited i was to see you finally do one of his videos. You can find videos for DAYS to react to over history!

[@84tand]

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure taught me everything I need to know about Billy the Kid

[@retroarmyvet3636]

Loved this video. I would love if you do more old west history.

[@UnionGang1861]

I love your channel so much and i love the personality you bring to history. Id love to discuss more about history

[@michaelmarchiano328]

I love this reaction. Two of my favorite history channels on KZbin

[@cfnsRD]

When one has a family to support, one will do what they have to do

[@garlicisnice]

Nice to see you do Biographics. I've been a fan of them for some time now.

[@kevinmendoza3865]

I’ll be in Amsterdam in the end of May. I look forward to seeing your video before I go

[@doylesgirl73]

I have subscribed to a lot of Simon's channels. Glad you found him. I do enjoy his content. There are a couple of channels where he's doing cold reads so it makes it fun to see his reactions. Now, for Billy the Kid. When I went to Las Cruces many years ago, we were able to see some of the places Billy was at when he was on the run I think. I don't think Las Cruces is in Lincoln County but I can't remember and I haven't been there for over 20 years.

[@ScipioAfricanus_Chris]

Another great video Chris! I must say, while I love all of your videos, your reaction videos are the best.

[@tylerjohnson8598]

I am so happy your reacting to one of this channels videos, it's one of my favorite history channels If you want to react to more videos on that channel they did a videos on grant and lee

[@MackSmackDack458]

They did an incredibly interesting episode on Gregor MacGregor, the Scottish man, who briefly fought alongside Simon Bolivar. You actually paused the Extra Credit episode to remark on how fascinating it was that he fought alongside Bolivar. If that interested you, I promise that his whole Biographics video will leave you awe-struck that one person could do so much in one life. Would love to see a reaction after you learn more about the subject.

[@MzkZP]

Don’t think Billy survived , that’s just what some want to believe so as to continue the legend of Billy and his ability to escape from such situations.

[@Lasercopia]

Great video. Im glad i get to know your Chanel. The best that i follow on KZbin and one of my favourite KZbinrs. Thanks for your amazing work and i hope you continue for a long time. An hug from Portugal🇵🇹🇵🇹. Just asking: i can buy your merch and receive it here in Portugal, right?? Sry if my english isnt good

[@bigdog517]

okay now do all his videos loving this

[@chasekiddy8864]

I enjoy your content man. I work closely with Simon and love that you’re enjoying/reacting to our writers’ stuff - I think you’d get a lot of utility out of Warographics, which is one of the newer channels we’ve started. Keep up the great work.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Thanks Chase! Great work. I'll check that one out.

[@TheAchillesShield]

Random cool personal plug. I am New Mexican and my family immigrated from Italy back in the day to a small town called Cerillos to mine silver. They filmed Young Guns 2 there, and a bar my family owns is featured in it.

[@mohamedouagga4879]

Man i was so waiting for this Liked even before watching

[@1TakeDrake]

Let’s go biographics and history guy must be my birthday

[@zacharygrouwinkel1534]

I wish you were my history teacher back when I was in school

[@alexwest2573]

Emilio Estevez is who I picture when I hear billy the kid, young guns is also what got me interested in the Lincoln county war.

[@Awells89]

I stumbled across a treasure hunting show once where the guys in the show are trying to find an alleged treasure that Billy the Kid and his gang hid and even though they didn't find the treasure they still found some cool stuff like one of the gangs old hideouts and some bullets from that era.

[@brenangallagher6215]

This was an awesome video! I'd love to see a video on Nelson Mandela!

[@Decoil-gy9co]

I have been following his videos for a while now, I really like the casual criminalist ones

[@shawnnorton2218]

Heck yeah, this video looks super fun!!

[@williamavitt8264]

The Young Guns movies are the most historically accurate Billy the Kid movies out there. Where they aren't accurate to actual history, they're accurate to the widely accepted legends about The Kid. There's also a fair amount of dramatic license, like killing characters that didn't die, killing characters that did die but in the wrong spots and depicting accurate deaths but with different characters because you already killed them off

[@gabyilie8955]

I am excited to see another video of yours. But in the future could you react to History of Romania animated by juice glass?

[@tonylipsmire5918]

I feel your pain, was 5’10” at 14, still 5’10” at 26

[@CraigKostelecky]

I've lived over the last 30 years believing everything in the Young Guns movies was 100% factual.

[@tsrichards16]

Great video!

[@bertsteele139]

My grandmother was from Silver City and either her mother or grandmother ( either my great or great great grandmother) was “courted” by Billy and had letters from him to her. I used to (mid ‘60s-early ‘70s) spend my summers with my grandparents in Cliff NM.

[@rnklv8281]

Enjoyed your presentation. I had read that Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid had a amicable relationship at one time, "hanging" with a similar crowd ( the crowd calling Pat: "Big Casino" and Billy: " Little Casino"). I think Bob Dylan recorded the soundtrack for the movie "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid', and made a cameo appearance in the movie.

[@RainTheUpriser]

I’m so glad your reviewing Simons channels I love him

[@tedothon7792]

Heres some series/videos that I recommend: Lemino's DB Cooper WW2: The Resource War by Extra Credits

[@nataliatheweirdo]

ive been watching simons channels for agesss so its weird for me ur now reacting to them now too xD i'd love to watch you do more

[@HempandHide]

FactBoy has finally made an appearance! Been a loooooong time subscriber of all of his channels, you might also really like Geographics and would probably have some interesting insight to War-o-grapics. So many options from Simon.

[@OpticYami]

BIOGRAPHICS ON THIS CHANNEL IM SO READY FOR ALL THIS CONTEEEEENT

[@omarluna7068]

I’m not sure if this has been asked before but would you consider reacting to some prehistory related stuff? Or is that too far back in history? Love your content as always!

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Prehistory, by definition, is not history. So no, I would not do that.

[@omarluna7068]

@@VloggingThroughHistory understandable, I’m very glad you decided to check out more of Simons content tho!

[@revan631]

His Biographic on Grant was great. I highly recommend it.

[@xTheGamingGhostx]

Tunstall has been played by older actors in every major movie about Billy the Kid and Lincoln County, going all the way back to “The Left Handed Gun” in 1958’ where a 60 year old actor played him. I think the movies do this to make it clear he is a father figure to Billy; it might have confused viewers to see 2 actors around the same age with that dynamic. That, or it’s just tradition at this point.

[@thepeacefulbuddah]

I recommend you check out their video on Woodrow Wilson. I'm not sure what your gonna think of that one though...

[@dennypetrosian8589]

YES!! More Simon Whistler videos. This is a collaboration I have dreamt for for a very long time. Thank you, brother. If you ever have the time, check out his Warographics, Megaprojects and Into The Shadows channels.

[@sikksotoo]

8:38 We moved to AZ for similar reasons, my great grandfather was diagnosed with black lung and we moved from PA when I was 4. Ironically, I'm Irish and named Bill 😅

[@zaffarismail1508]

you should also check out his warographics channel. Simon has some really cool stuff their including a civil war video about Sherman's march to the sea.

[@bobburris4445]

Anyone else here at the very beginning expecting Chris to say that his interest in Billy the Kid came from him finding out he had an ancestor involved?

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Haha no I didn’t say that. No ancestors in the west.

[@BackWhereYouStarted]

Every react youtuber should have to watch a handful of VTH vids, including this one, to see how reacting is properly done. This channel adds sooo much to the videos he covers and it blows every other 'reacter' out of the water in my opinion

[@nubking3814]

Half of youtube is Simon channels i really have absolutely no idea how he can keep up with soo many, but i do appreciate his content a lot

[@akiva2112]

Simon has like I swear 25 channels, you will have lots of content to choose from. Try Warographics at some point

[@toriamansfield2999]

The movie "Chisum" (1970) with John Wayne is also based on the Lincoln County War/Billy the Kid.

[@chancellor1055]

I’m so happy

[@chairmanmeow958]

I would love to see you go over some SW Native American history such as the Apaches or the Navajo. They have a very interesting history in the SW and I think that video would be amazing!

[@alexanderandrew6535]

You might take a look at history buffs channel aswell ,he corects or compare historic movies with the real event

[@EthanBSide]

When you hear of people like Chisholm, the Chisholm Trail, it's real. I knew the Goodnights of the Goodnight Trail fame in Austin. Interesting stuff.

[@unforgottenhistory6376]

I love your attitude and nonbias you bring into all your videos. Also what is Eli's channel?

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Vlogs & Fun with Eli

[@ivanomanojlovic3386]

Great reaction, can you please react to biographics' video on Franz Joseph?

[@iwatchDVDsonXbox360]

I think it will be very interesting to see your reaction to his Benjamin Franklin video.

[@darrellmarcks6304]

Oooooo Chris is covering Simon Whistler! One step closer to him covering Karl over at Fact Feind and a hope for a crossover!

[@kineuhansen8629]

i love western like young guns and dollers trilogy

[@rodrigosanchez2537]

I believe if you do come back to New mexico, they have a reenactment of Billy's trial in Mesilla, New mexico at the old courthouse (now a gift shop) near NMSU in Las cruces. That's where the trial actually occurred. Thats where he was sent after Santa fe and from mesilla he was sent to the jailhouse he escaped from. You should check that out

[@kendallcribbins415]

Yes!!!

[@gamelandmaster3680]

Can I just say that Billy the kid is the Ned Kelly of the US?

[@k.w.2275]

Sounds like "The House" shpuld be the next hbo historical crime drama

[@batmanfan5966]

@Vlogging through history you should watch glorieta pass battle by warhawk.

[@GDLean12]

Simon's Decoding the Unknown and his Casual Criminalist channels are amazing because they are cold reads. Quite long but he reacts to the content just like the viewers.

[@phantomtitan9792]

This was definitely very interesting

[@mattbriggs6404]

He has a new channel called Warographics which would be amazing for this channel to react to!

[@TheButterflyChaos]

Chris reacting to Fact boy👍 My favorite of his channels are Biographics and Causual Criminalist and Decoding the unknown. He has a warographic channel too

[@Ray-tu4rw]

American Experience on PBS had a good good documentary on Billy the Kid.

[@jasonrobbins6944]

PLEASE REVIEW HIS WOODROW WILSON VIDEO!!!

[@crusader2112]

I second this suggestion.

[@stephenparker6362]

I was watching some videos on the negotiation and signing of the various treaties that ended WW1 and Woodrow Wilson featured very much in them.