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@chronic_hip_and_back_pain4 жыл бұрын
@Jayden Emmanuel ?
@makeracistsafraidagain4 жыл бұрын
Please! It is called the "Medal of Honor". No "Congressional"! Thank you. I had the great honor of saluting TWO heroes wearing the award while I was in uniform.
@melissadwiggins4 жыл бұрын
@Jayden Emmanuel Tf?
@bicyclist24 жыл бұрын
FYI: There's two (ii) at the end of Hawaii. You misspelled the 50th state. Just thought you should know.
@KJ46634 жыл бұрын
Do Caravagiggio
@marinusvonzilio96284 жыл бұрын
Just a little correction, that quote at the start, about the "Byzantine layers of deception on the part of our shared father", that was not said by any of the illegitimate children, it is quote from Reeve Lindbergh, Charles' youngest child with his wife Anne.
@robdon34724 жыл бұрын
Albert Einstein wanting Linburgh to fly a message to FDR warning him about nuclear fision is the craziest sentence I've never heard before
@1158scott Жыл бұрын
This is absolute, laughable, garbage. As is most of this worthless, misinformation video.
@contentcop4 жыл бұрын
This channel has made me 5% smarter and 50% more full of useless info. I love it.
@lonegamer63324 жыл бұрын
I wish they would have talked about the controversy of the kidnapping before
@jackmason52784 жыл бұрын
It is said that Lindbergh kidnapped his own son to "prove a point", and accidentally killed him in the process. I believe it. He was known to have committed dangerous "practical jokes".
@lonegamer63324 жыл бұрын
Jack Mason it really feels that they glossed over some things in this one.
@DMS-pq84 жыл бұрын
@@jackmason5278 Also theory's that his son may have had developmental problems which a eugenicists like Lindbergh could not accept so he either had the boy purposely killed or arranged his kidnapping and the death was an accident
@drdre43974 жыл бұрын
@@lonegamer6332 Yeah like he didn't immediately want to be an advisor, he was denied the right to serve as a pilot under order of the whitehouse.
@SafetySpooon4 жыл бұрын
@@jackmason5278 I have read a believable theory that it was a family member who was jealous of his wife (her sister - I forget exactly who, but the details made sense)
@ghostofluck18114 жыл бұрын
Biographics idea: Whitey Bulger?
@cpegg58404 жыл бұрын
Whitey Bulger; the scumbag who was “Epstein’d” before Epstein 😂
@pamelamays41864 жыл бұрын
The Spirit Of St. Louis would make an interesting Megaprojects! I live in San Diego, where it was built. The plane itself is displayed in the Air And Space Museum here in Balboa Park.
@Louis_Davout4 жыл бұрын
The San Diego Air and Space museum is pretty cool, especially their static display of WWII naval fighters... Unfortunately, the "Spirit of St. Louis" on display there is a replica... The real aircraft is on display at the Smithsonian Institute...
@frankmoore9934 жыл бұрын
The work Lindbergh did allowed P38 Lighting pilots to take out the most important military leader Japan had. Yamamoto - who organised the attack on Pearl Harbor. The island hopping campaign was the chief strategy of war in the pacific. The longer the range of US planes the fewer islands had to be taken by American Ground Forces. Thousands of US soldiers owe their lives to Lindberg. 75% of Airmail Pilots Died. Surviving work as an airmail pilot was a Bid Deal. An Achievement in itself. With a fatality rate higher than ww1 combat. So Lindberg had more relevant experience than the air aces etc who died or were injured prior to Lindbergh's Attempt. He flew via dead reckoning and had the range to make landfall across a wide range of latitudes. Insofar as his anti semitism - there's no defence. There's no defence against racism expressed by anyone at any time. Today's leftists are casually and institutionally racist against Anglo Celtics. (Discuss) But Lindbergh strikes me as a pilot who could have and should have died a hundred times. What drives young males to take so many risks has been written about extensively. I see Lindbergh as a deeply traumatised pioneer pilot. Losing his son to a brutal murder, under the glare of international publicity must have reinforced his trauma. Not wanting his country tied up in a war is someone exercising their political rights. He had surveyed the developments in aviation in Japan and Germany and Britain. He reasoned that no one power could successfully mount a campaign to take US soil. So why should Americans die in another European War? That was his thinking. The activities of the Japanese Fascist Empire brought America into the war - so he made himself immediately available. Did Lindbergh deserve a Medal of Honor? I think so. He went after 6 others died and others were injured. I don't believe Lindbergh had any idea of the fame that awaited him. And fame is a double edged sword.
@stuart86633 жыл бұрын
Great response, Frank.
@frankmoore9933 жыл бұрын
Stu Art Thanks Stu!
@sherriexsal4 жыл бұрын
I've always found Charles Lindbergh fascinating. I did a book report when I was in elementary school on him because even back then I was captivated with stories of people like Alan Turing,Jack Parsons,etc;... So I love your videos!!
@aristaniara4 жыл бұрын
May I suggest that you consider going deeper into detail on the Lindbergh Trial? Saying that the handwriting matched is not completely true. That IS the abridged version, however, the handwriting did not actually match as shown in modern handwriting analysis (look at the G in the letter verses the handwriting sample and you'll see that they do not match at ALL). The trial took place in Flemington, NJ and all involved except poor Bruno, made it into a performance, not caring whether they did the trial correctly. The Union Hotel, across the street from the Courthouse in Flemington, was built solely for the purpose of housing the reporters for the trial. There's a lot more that I could potentially go into but I won't as this comment is already going long enough. I have lived in the area of the trial for my whole life and there are re-enactments of the trial today (due to COVID, I believe they have been put on hold.)
@Justatackit2 жыл бұрын
I thought something was wrong in this video because I remember way back in the 1970s or 80s hearing about the kidnapping and how suspicion still arises on who was actually responsible for the Lindbergh baby's death!
@ehrldawg3 жыл бұрын
Another reason it was called *Spirit Of St Louis* ; he invite the citizens of St Louis,his home town at the time,to pitch in money for the effort.
@michaeltnk11353 жыл бұрын
“After graduating high school” He was so close to mentioning my high school’s name
@rfitz17114 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Hermann Goring is the chief suspect for the allies mole in Hitler's inner circle.
@jasonanfinson93464 жыл бұрын
*goerring
@shebbs14 жыл бұрын
@@jasonanfinson9346 Göring is technicall correct.
@MetalboxwithKanon4 жыл бұрын
Lol then why would he be sentenced to death in the Nuremberg trials and would commit suicide the night before he was to be hanged?
@vanessathomas74374 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't be surprised..
@MrBobthebird4 жыл бұрын
Borman was the suspected Russian spy, as he recorded every word that was said in front of Hitler.
@handsomegeorgianbankrobber37794 жыл бұрын
American hero or Nazi sympathizer? Why not both? Same thing can kind of be said about Wernher von Braun (although he was probably a bit more than just a sympathizer bc he was an active collaborator).
@kenyattaclay76664 жыл бұрын
Nazi.
@kendn014 жыл бұрын
My entire knowledge of Lindbergh comes from various documentaries I have seen, but I think it's worth mentioning a few juicy details you left out: 1. The kidnapping of Lindbergh's baby was not as clear cut as you describe. There were, and had to have been, others involved, including Lindbergh himself- so the story goes. Lindbergh wanted the baby dead because the baby was born with some congenital flaw, and it would not do for such a stellar example of the master race (namely Lindbergh himself) to have sired an imperfect baby. 2. Roosevelt was so pissed at Lindbergh for his isolationist stance that when Pearl Harbor happened and Lindbergh wanted to rejoin the military to fight the Japanese, FDR wouldn't let him! and 3. Lindbergh made himself baby daddy to those kids in Germany to spread his superior seed throughout the land - thereby perfecting the white race - more eugenics nonsense.
@roguespearsf2 жыл бұрын
So Lindberg was based and got smeared for having "wrong opinions"? Sounds like things haven't changed a bit
@dfuher9682 жыл бұрын
Whether Lindbergh was involved in the kidnapping and murder of his son or not, Hauptmann provably wasnt. The experts had all been unable to connect him to the crime or ruled him out alltogether, until the police needed a scapegoat, and then suddenly every1 from the handwriting expert to the wood expert changed their tune. Oh, and then theres the little detail of Hauptmann not even being in New Jersey at the time of the kidnapping, but working in New York with several witnesses, who along with the alibi were excluded at the trial.
@zephyr80722 жыл бұрын
@Repent Sinner If you mean he got rightly put down for being a literal Nazi then yes. I’d hate to live in an era where Nazis aren’t treated like the rabid dogs you are.
@bethryan9077 Жыл бұрын
@@dfuher968 omg you people are so friggin Gullible. Next book of BS & you'll believe that too. Yawn.
@ML-ul2zq Жыл бұрын
@@roguespearsf Dangerous opinions, not just wrong or different.
@beagleissleeping53593 жыл бұрын
I don't know if it's truth or Hollywood: I remember a movie about him that had a scene where there was a fly inside his cockpit that kept buzzing around his face. It helped keep him from falling asleep during his long flight.
@Niinsa622 жыл бұрын
You mention very briefly that he flew air mail, and you mention it only in passing, about how he found financers for his Atlantic solo flight. But I think there is more to it, this air mail business. He gained experience in long range solo flying and solo navigation, this way. So he definitely knew one or two things about what he was getting into, when he took off from New York City.
@hellsidefamilia4 жыл бұрын
Hawaii or Hawai’i, Not spelled “Hawai”. Also, he is buried here on Maui. Out in Kipahulu, near(ish) Hana.
@domenicosaviano5924 Жыл бұрын
What is not mentioned, that fought against the Nazis as a civilian contractor. He taught allied pilots, flew 50 combat missions and even engaged in a dog fight.
@brendan50653 жыл бұрын
A lot of people confuse the two now a days
@MrDariolett4 жыл бұрын
It seems to me that this is a man with a huge ego and superiority complex. He might also have been a brave man but that doesn’t excuse his enormous personality weaknesses.
@johnk61234 жыл бұрын
Horray nice and early, thanks Simon et al!
@iatsechannel52554 жыл бұрын
A few points: ...Lindbergh's name for his plane was "Jenny"...Ummm...that's equal to:.. Douglas Bader's knickname to his plane was "Spitfire". Actually, the JN-4 was known to all as the "Jenny", a phonetic shortening of her type letters. Ah, yeah, ..."Lindbergh had a midair collision and managed to eject and parachute to safety...." Ejection seats were not a thing until late WWII. The accurate term for abandoning an aircraft other than explosively is .."Lindbergh was able to bale out..." Great job wedging this story into such a small time slot. I only correct errata to raise the standards of this excellent channel. You do a great job. Keep it up!
@nohabloemojislosiento49304 жыл бұрын
Being a Nazi sympathizer doesn't necessarily exclude you from hero status in a lot of North and South American and European countries.
@1158scott3 жыл бұрын
He wasn't a naxi sympathizer. This video is deceitful, shallow, distortion. thst has. nothing to claim directly he was one. I just wrote detailed comnent dedtroying this video. READ IT & then maybe I'll see if there's some name to call you- maybe racist or bigot.
@gomahklawm44462 жыл бұрын
@Chuck Keep crying about the truth.
@angelachouinard45812 жыл бұрын
Great job balancing the good and the bad on this complicated person Simon.
@aferalghoul4 жыл бұрын
American Hero and Nazi Sympathizer are totally compatible; we don’t have to choose. USA has a deeply fascist history, so it makes sense out heroes would be likewise
@Uthandol4 жыл бұрын
I know. Half of our government refuses to lambast ANTIFA. Scary that. Letting actual racists and fascists run rampant.
@RANDALLBRIGGS6 ай бұрын
Re "Charles was able to eject" at 4:00, that is not correct. He bailed out, but ejection seats were not perfected until WWII.
@stevecoleman2250 Жыл бұрын
The Americans make a big deal out of Lindberg's flight across the Atlantic but hardly mention the Aussie aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his flight across the Pacific, which was a lot longer and more dangerous .
@michaelphillips12674 жыл бұрын
Tiny correction. Lindbergh did not eject from his aircraft because pre-WWII aircraft did not have that technology.
@lewism19954 жыл бұрын
While I can see the nuance in Lindbergh's character, I think calling him an American hero is a stretch. He was a Nazi sympathizer who happened to have done good for the world.
@M.M07094 жыл бұрын
Could you guys do an episode on Thomas Sankara please?
@noneofyourbussiness27884 жыл бұрын
he should told all his children who he was. that just a holier than god thinking person. he was a creep in his personal life. he is was a hero. sad mixture
@kristoffer-26144 жыл бұрын
17:24 Hawai? Never heard of that place? Is it anywhere close to Hawaii?
@blah88ism4 жыл бұрын
Omg thank you. I kept wondering if someone else noticed it.
@12yearssober4 жыл бұрын
Damn limeys and their queens English
@shebbs14 жыл бұрын
Funny how Americans get pissy about alleged mispronunciations, yet stubbornly mispronounce foreign words and names all the time. Besides, the scriptwriters and owners of this channel are AMERICANS, so it is nothing to do with "limeys" or the "Queen's (sic) English"".
@AvB.834 жыл бұрын
People didn't have a whole lot of imagination for names back in the day it seems... Charles Lindbergh, son of Charles Lindbergh, father of Charles Lindbergh...
@gomahklawm44462 жыл бұрын
That, or narcissism isn't actually something new in society like boomers always cry about.
@InfamoussDBZ4 жыл бұрын
His super 'swimmers' were just as super as his accomplishments
@Nefariously_ignorant Жыл бұрын
It's definitely an interesting one, he did sympathise with the Nazis but he was a valuable and impressive individual I think we shouldn't assume that those who are great and those we like aren't susceptible to flawed extreme ideologies because time and time again we see that anyone can be vulnerable to them
@Black-Sun_Kaiser4 жыл бұрын
The answer is obviously both.
@cjthegood4 жыл бұрын
If you're going to make another bio video on World War 2 commanders, can you make it about Erich von Manstein?
@bigboy33324 жыл бұрын
😍😍😍😍yes von manstein
@cjthegood4 жыл бұрын
OMG! 69 likes! Epic! 😁
@chigwesibanyama11484 жыл бұрын
Yes please
@doocieonu4 жыл бұрын
Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck needs to take priority
@nickyork21374 жыл бұрын
Please do Manstein
@hectorsmommy17174 жыл бұрын
My Dad remembers playing outside as a small boy (would have been 7 or 8) and hearing a noise. Looking up, he saw the Spirit of St. Louis flying pretty low overhead. Lindbergh was on one of his barnstorming jaunts around the country and he always flew fairly low over populated areas as part of his publicity. Dad thinks he was heading to the state capital 30 miles away.
@RickRobinCagnaan4 жыл бұрын
One fun fact is that Lindbergh went to the Philippines, particularly Southern Mindanao, and specifically Davao. He led conservation efforts to save the Philippine eagle.
@densealloy4 жыл бұрын
He also helped the pjlots in the pacific theater extend their range on their F4U Corsairs and later the P-38 Lightings. He was able to actually double the range on the Corsair by adjusting the air fuel mixture all while carrying double the planes capacity. Edit...I made this comment at the beginning of video and Simon "sorta" covered this.....
@maxheadrom30884 жыл бұрын
People recently have found out that great historic figures were also humans and then got really surprised! For some reason I was not surprised by their surprise.
@frankreynolds94184 жыл бұрын
If he spent time in the Philippines then there are probably a few half Filipino half Lindbergh people running around. This guy laid it down everywhere he went.
@maxheadrom30884 жыл бұрын
@@frankreynolds9418 Thank God for condoms! God won't mind the joke, don't worry.
@ferociousgumby4 жыл бұрын
@@frankreynolds9418 I was just thinking that. He could repopulate half the island.
@fiveninecummins77683 жыл бұрын
Henry Ford is also fascinating when it comes to this. If I'm not mistaken, Hitler adored him and he even had a portrait of him in his office. I believe he was one of the ONLY Americans that he actually liked, let alone adored.
@tomflendodo72972 жыл бұрын
Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and Walt Disney were ALL NAZI'S !!!!!!!!!
@notastone4832 Жыл бұрын
nah.. edward bernays. hitler tried to hire him to do propaganda for germany. he was the guy who basically came up with modern propaganda (during the first world war, hitler found it so impressive he wanted to just hire him lol)
@bezllama3325 Жыл бұрын
Henry Ford was a Nazi through and through he ran the Dearborn Independent
@HairHoFla Жыл бұрын
Many Republicans and Industrialists were...the common denominator was anti-communism....read about "The Businessman's Plot" attempted coup against FDR 1934
@railrodemike Жыл бұрын
Yes the 45th Division found a picture of Ford in Adolf Hitlers office.
@j1st6334 жыл бұрын
Interesting to note. The court house that the trial of the accused killer of the Lindbergh baby still exists in Flemington, NJ. Every year in October, up until recently, a production company of volunteers act out the major evidence of the trial. Upon conclusion, the actors leave it up to the audience to decide whether he was guilty. It is a nice piece of history to be able to sit in the very seats that was used during the tiial.
@vanessathomas74374 жыл бұрын
Interesting..
@PoeticProphetic3 жыл бұрын
I attended this a while back. It’s silly fun, but interesting
@flightofthebumblebee95292 жыл бұрын
Hauptmann was innocent. He knew he was about to be executed anyway and the scumbaggish powers that be told him his wife would receive 50k if he admitted he did it and named his coconspirators and he still maintained his innocence.
@maryannemelenka92502 жыл бұрын
What I can’t figure out, who would go to trouble with a big ladder like that climb I , grab a baby, going to be awkward carrying unless 2. Baby was probably smothered to keep from crying. I think someone from inside. I’m not sure of Lindbergh nazi thing. But there always something odd about this man. But
@dfuher9682 жыл бұрын
@@maryannemelenka9250 The ladder couldnt even hold Hauptmann's weight without the child, let alone with the child. He was a carpenter, he had access to tools and could easily make a proper ladder, yet they claimed, he made the rickety ladder, that wouldve broken under the weight of any adult, and used it to carry his own weight, much larger than the ladder could hold, and a 27 pound child down to the ground. And thats just 1 of the lies, they presented as "evidence" at the trial. I dont know, who really killed the Lindbergh baby, if Lindbergh himself had anything to do with it or not, but Hauptmann was innocent. He wasnt even in New Jersey, when the kidnapping happened, he was working in New York with plenty of witnesses, which the police discounted and hid at trial along with all the other exculpatory evidence they hid, while presenting manipulated or outright false "evidence", as has been confirmed by modern experts. Lets not forget, that all their expert witnesses from the handwriting expert to the wood expert had at first been either unable to connect Hauptmann to the crime or ruled him out alltogether, until the police needed a scapegoat, then they all suddenly changed their tune.
@kimjongun67464 жыл бұрын
He was a good aviator, but not a good personality. He shouldn't have left his children searching for his identity. I was forced to live under a pseudonym in Switzerland during my childhood.
@towermoss4 жыл бұрын
Sure, whatever you say Kim.
@deedee45314 жыл бұрын
What was your pseudonym . Sum ting wong
@cattibingo4 жыл бұрын
@@deedee4531 either that or Ho Lee Fuk
@Three_Random_Words4 жыл бұрын
They say you dead, sister /scary Dragon Lady now in charge.
@kimjongun67464 жыл бұрын
@@Three_Random_Words I'm alive
@jimklein54914 жыл бұрын
The man who lead the NJ State Police investigation was Howard Norman Schwarzkopf. His son would lead the Coalition forces in Operation Desert Shield/Storm.
@vanessathomas74374 жыл бұрын
Talk about 6 Degrees of Separation...
@cpegg58404 жыл бұрын
Gen. Schwarzkopf was one of the finest American generals of all time
@kimmedavid4 жыл бұрын
@@cpegg5840 lol schwarzkopf is a Shampoo Brand in germany or an insult for Muslims 😂
@billdehappy14 жыл бұрын
@@kimmedavid or in native swede for any and earlist my kind...romani than next next next but oh well..
@weebay61664 жыл бұрын
PellzoPiri151 you wrote like 10 paragraphs and i didnt comprehend a single sentence. Bravo
@E2O103 жыл бұрын
Hm. I'll probably never know but i wonder why they would leave out a lot of the circumstances surrounding the kidnapping. I mean there were like 13 different ransom notes; The way he met his wife was through the wife's sister who he was initially visiting but who herself was away when he arrived and Charles fell in love with his future wife. This caused the mental breakdown of the sister who subsequently killed the Lindbergh family dog and once threw out charles jr with the trash - stated by the Lindbergh family nurse; Charles was also supposedly in the study right underneath junior's nursery during the night of the kidnapping. The study window faced the same way as the nursery window which the kidnapper used to enter/exit. There was evidence that the ladder broke during the descent and yet charles heard nothing - some believe that this was the moment that the baby died, accidentally during the fall. There are many more really shady facets of this story. This video made it seem like the person who was tried and executed for the crime was actually guilty of it. That's not at all a fact
@liamboyle91994 жыл бұрын
He may have told P-38 pilots how to extend their combat range but in the book 'Race of Aces' they quoted that some pilots already knew of this tactic. Speaking of his time in the P-38, his eagerness to fly combat missions would end up derailing the career of Colonel MacDonald as he got in trouble for allowing Charles to get tangled in combat. (Hopefully I've remembered the book correctly)
@shebbs14 жыл бұрын
Most pilots did know the best way to extend range already, but there is a tendency to credit CL with creating and implementing the techniques, not just broadening that knowledge.
@Redemptorchapter4 жыл бұрын
Eject without rockets isn't an ejection..before the seat..it was called "Bailing out"
@toddlerj1024 жыл бұрын
Picky. Lol
@xys75364 жыл бұрын
@@toddlerj102 no correct 🤪
@Redemptorchapter4 жыл бұрын
And it killed as much as it saved..alot got killed striking the vertical stabilizer
@fchanMSI4 жыл бұрын
Correct, there was no such a thing as an ejection seat until WWII & they used compressed air, gun powder or springs push the seat out of the aircraft. The modern ejection seats with rockets came after WWII.
@xys75364 жыл бұрын
@frank hargreaves my statement was addressed to DEAN KING
@Lucixir4 жыл бұрын
My mother married "Charles Lindbergh the 3rd" who was my stepdad for about a year. He was a dickhead and the family constantly talked about Charles Lindbergh and tried living off his coattails but never amounted to much. I recall the family get together. Weird times....
@mikshinee873 жыл бұрын
Not surprising. Very rarely do children of famous people amount to much. Why should they if they have more money than they could reasonably spend. Perhaps that's why Mark Zuckerberg makes his children do chores like in a normal family.
@evaharvey8403 жыл бұрын
Yeah, people suck.
@21stcenturyfossil73 жыл бұрын
At least Chuck the 3rd had eugenics on his side, didn't he?
@eshim39612 жыл бұрын
I'm assuming that there was no relation between your stepfather and The aviator Charles Lindbergh, because Charles Lindbergh III was murdered at the age of two.
@edmundblackaddercoc85222 жыл бұрын
@@eshim3961 lol
@samlbrown66654 жыл бұрын
His career as an aviator was stellar ( excuse the pun ). However I will be overly generous when I say that he was a horribly misguided soul when it came to his personal views. Like the rest of us there is a Jeckyll / Hyde element in his make up.
@jefflewis43 жыл бұрын
Lindbergh became something some very intelligent or successful people become. The start to think they are better/superior and thus need to validate it by claiming they came from a superior race or class.
@beaconite42494 жыл бұрын
Corrections. B-24 was a bomber, not a fighter. I assume that’s why it starts with “B”. Spelled Hawaii wrong too.
@shebbs14 жыл бұрын
The Hawaii mis-spelling and the refeference to the B-24 would have come from the scriptwriters, who are Americans and should know better
@@shebbs1 You been able to get braces for your teeth yet mate?
@ignitionfrn22233 жыл бұрын
2:00 - Chapter 1 - Childhood & early aviation 4:45 - Chapter 2 - Spirit of st louis & famous flight 8:30 - Chapter 3 - Using fame for good 10:25 - Mid roll ads 11:55 - Chapter 4 - Kidnapping & murder 13:50 - Chapter 5 - Private life & political controversy 17:10 - Chapter 6 - WWII 18:40 - Chapter 7 - Double life & final years
@louisrockefeller91523 жыл бұрын
Nice of you to do. Thanks man
@johnnyknight6142 жыл бұрын
Lol I literally read this and immediately closed the video but had to come back and say thanks wasn’t the video i was looking for
@pagangoddess58532 жыл бұрын
Did you consider using the book, "The Lindbergh Kidnapping, Suspect #1: the man that got away" in your research? I believe the author posits a credible theory that Lindbergh himself was involved in the baby's Kidnapping and murder.
@roguespearsf2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely garbage, anytime someone espouses "wrong opinions", aka supporting the Germans in this case, these virtue signaling people really go out of their way to smear people. Did you ever stop to think that they may have been the good guys?
@robertn8002 жыл бұрын
Most recent book & shows Lindbergh’s cruelty, his dislike of his deformed son & was probably the one responsible for the toddler’s death.
@samtrujillojr2 жыл бұрын
Dr Mark Felton has a really good piece on Lindbergh. In there he discusses the very real possibility that Lindbergh was indeed behind the murder of his own son. With his views on eugenics and having to be seen as the absolute perfect person, it would have been devastating to his ego if his child was anything but perfect and that became apparent as he grew up. He has done a great deal of research and he's a noted historian.
@leonieromanes72652 жыл бұрын
@@roguespearsf who the Nazi's? No, they weren't the good guys.
@marcleblanc36022 жыл бұрын
@@robertn800 It doesnt show, no visual or footage, yes he was oldfashion hardknox father style, not delighted with a weak child but he was also tuff on the others as he had been. Not a fashionable modern day daddy but far cry to make him a childkiller. Not the only Celebrity to have affairs by FAR nor the last.
@TrojanJustin3 жыл бұрын
This video leaves out a lot of facts about the kidnapping which make Lindbergh an even more unsavory character, from running the investigation in such a way to completely stymie police, to playing practical jokes while supposedly searching for his son to his son's medical conditions which likely was the real reason he was "kidnapped."
@SafetySpooon2 жыл бұрын
I also read one theory that says his own sister-in-law murdered the child out of an unstable jealousy, which was also explained/bolstered by his behavior.
@dfuher9682 жыл бұрын
Not to mention, that Hauptmann had several alibi witnesses to him working in New York at the time of the kidnapping, so couldnt have done it, along with all the expert witnesses suddenly changing their opinions from "not him" to "definitely him", once police needed to close the case, and Lindbergh had decreed, that Hauptmann was guilty. As well as the trial being a kangaroo court with a case based on flimsy circumstancial and in many cases false "evidence".
@Theanimeisforme Жыл бұрын
@@dfuher968 read somewhere that ultimately it was due to being in possession of the ransom money that undid him.
@IrishMike22 Жыл бұрын
@@Theanimeisforme yeah kinda hard to deny that...and the ladder built from his own supplies...Lindy was effin dirty and in bed with Hitler which is enough for me 👎
@Leviackerman-bj1my2 жыл бұрын
Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic began on May 20th, 1927, when he left New York aboard his airplane 'The Spirit of St. Louis' and headed for Paris In October, 1923 Charles Lindbergh sold his first airplane to an aviation student. The plane was discovered almost 50 years later in a barn and now sits on display at Garden City, NY's Cradle of Aviation Museum
@Lanwarder4 жыл бұрын
I strongly recommend to watch "The Plot Against America". It's a 6 episode miniseries about a fictional alternate timeline in which Lindbergh would have become president instead of FDR and kept America from entering the war. It's in no way a documentary, but there are quite a few important factual elements and it's a good reflexion about what could have happened and what could easily happen.
@livethefuture24924 жыл бұрын
watched it, and i actually really enjoyed it! it reminds of "the Man in the High Castle". though i wish they would actually show what happened in the election and whether America did actually join war. i recall they ended it just as the result was being announced.
@DahliaRich4 жыл бұрын
I agree. Great mini series. Well worth it. I purchased it after watching. Even though set in the 40s, there is so much that is relevant to today's politics.
@tomfrazier11034 жыл бұрын
A popular play of the time was "It Can Happen Here", at least it was performed by some Hawaii High Schools in the immediate prewar.
@allhope_lost64484 жыл бұрын
The real plot against America Charles A. Lindbergh SR literally tried to stop. As a prominent congressman during the inception of the Federal Reserve, private central banking scheme, he spoke vigorously about the dangers of what a central bank would bring.
@Lanwarder4 жыл бұрын
DahliaRich I couldn't agree more
@Nym1464 жыл бұрын
"Time Magazines man of the year" Oh, just like Hitler! 😂
@fredschnerbert12383 жыл бұрын
AND Greta Thunberg ALL with world domination on their minds... You Vil live as we say!
@ismth3 жыл бұрын
@@fredschnerbert1238 get a grip
@pyromania10183 жыл бұрын
The magazine actually mocked Hitler, predicting that he could raise hell in about a year if he wasn't stopped soon, while also condemning his persecution of the Jews. This was one year before the war kicked off.
@Nym1463 жыл бұрын
@@pyromania1018 irrelevant to my point.
@dyveira4 жыл бұрын
"American hero who became a Nazi sympathizer" is probably more accurate.
@ugrena74194 жыл бұрын
@SLCPunked You seem to have skimmed the video, or are just cherry picking points. The dude was a real scumbag, but he did some genuinely important things, multiple of which could have easily ended in his death.
@American-Orthodox-Christian4 жыл бұрын
@SLCPunked While I do agree with the USA being in ww2, ww1 was mainly stupid monarchs trying to see who was better and the US had no reason being in it. WHAT IS SO HEROIC ABOUT AN AMERICAN FIGHTING IN AN EUROPEAN CONLFICT.
@natel90194 жыл бұрын
They kidnapped his baby and murdered it ritualistically because he spoke the truth about which side we should have been on in WW2. America had far more German ancestry then English and we had millions of Irish and American Germans had millions of parents and grandparents who lived in Germany.
@American-Orthodox-Christian4 жыл бұрын
Nate L If your talking about ww2 Im glad we fought against the Germans. I am of German ancestry too. But ww1like I said the American deaths were pointless. We got rid of the idea of fat kings and queens in America so why fight for them in Europe. GOD DAMN THE QUEEN.
@American-Orthodox-Christian4 жыл бұрын
Nate L So you are a Fascist?
@jaredwilliams1124 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this one. A lot of people need to see this. It seems to shine a light on how famous people are, versus how they want us to view them.
@kronosomni28054 жыл бұрын
Not all famous people let it go to their heads. To be fair, many do, but not all of them end up leaving scandals behind or getting into petty feuds with their celebrity counterparts.
@Stonecutter3344 жыл бұрын
Next up Henry Ford. Another racist bastard. Sent ball bearings for Nazi planes.
@jasonwrenn82094 жыл бұрын
@@Stonecutter334 still a great man
@beno11294 жыл бұрын
@@jasonwrenn8209 Right? Charles Lindbergh's overall impact on human civilisation was positive and exceptional, in spite of his ethical failings. From the advances in aviation and medical technology to his international conservation work.
@cristineconnell7803 Жыл бұрын
@@beno1129 I admire those that do great things for humanity while not trying to kill off half of it! He was a eugenist & supported the nazis!
@QuietFury94 жыл бұрын
Anyone else rediscover their love for history and then binged watched all videos after finding this channel?
@natematthews20893 жыл бұрын
You’ve taken a very “neutral” “you decide” tone here, which I don’t think is okay when talking about someone who was a Nazi sympathizer and dangerous one at that: He was a eugenicist, a movement leader, and a famous political candidate who had a good chance of gaining power. All communication has perspective and bias, and trying to be in “the middle” of two perspectives is just another way to pick another perspective, and in this case I don’t like how close you sound to saying it’s okay to think Kristellnacht wasn’t that bad if you’re a skilled and charismatic pilot.
@TrojanJustin3 жыл бұрын
Yep and the eugenics likely were the cause of his son's "kidnapping," as all evidence suggests he had several birth defects, which Lindbergh could not tolerate.
@michaelsmyth39352 жыл бұрын
Simon is the ultimate establishment hack, did you expect less?
@timbarnett67813 жыл бұрын
Simon. I came upon your biographics videos a few months ago. I just wanted you to know that I think these mini lectures on famous or infamous people are fantastic. I can't stop watching them....they're so interesting. I hope you keep producing them. Thank you for all of the research and information.
@rigaudmackson4167 Жыл бұрын
After seeing this comment I became Ur first ever subscriber
@cland49lsu14 жыл бұрын
America: Where we will idolize you as a super hero if you are born rich, given literally everything, suffered absolutely zero consequences for your wrongs, and sympathized with fascist. Yeah, that's totally the only time this has happened.
@jenniferspencer5874 жыл бұрын
Wait! You never said how he died. If you're going to explain his entire life, why not finish with his death?
@YearsOfLeadPoisoning4 жыл бұрын
He died a humble labourer working at an Omaha cherry farm in 1911, but will always be remembered for his contributions to mountain folklore and famous desert recipes.
@archstanton61024 жыл бұрын
@Dani Mendoza Your hate and fear is showing
@markgarin63554 жыл бұрын
If his nickname was 'Daredevil Charles' why show a photo that clearly says 'Daredevil Lindbergh'???
@pgwchaos4 жыл бұрын
Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) had a large number of political cartoons, denouncing the Axis powers as well as isolationists like Lindbergh. Who is shown as ostriches with their heads in the ground. All of the political cartoons are in the art style of Dr. Seuss so it can be a bit weird, yet kind of awesome.
@WyattRyeSway4 жыл бұрын
PGW Chaos .....I have that book
@krazykkarl4 жыл бұрын
Dr. Seuss also was cheating on his ailing wife with her best friend which drove her to suicide.
@Gfgttgfdthhhdd3 жыл бұрын
@lanner95 oh he was Juish?
@Gfgttgfdthhhdd3 жыл бұрын
@LofiGooba it's like rolling snake eyes 100 times in a row 😆
@dirtcache61283 жыл бұрын
But dr suess is racist
@edwardhaynes67284 жыл бұрын
I always watch your videos I even have the other parents letting their kids these videos. Very educational. Thank you.
@roguespearsf2 жыл бұрын
You let your kids watch anti white propaganda?
@johnstevenson99564 жыл бұрын
William Shirer attended a Charles Lindbergh lecture in Berlin before the war, in which he talked about what wonderful things the Nazis were doing. Shirer was disgusted that a man who was led around by the nose for a few days on a guided tour, should be lecturing journalists who had lived there for years and telling them "how it really was".
@Vercingetorix.Fantasia2 жыл бұрын
Bruno was 100% innocent of the kidnapping, potentially the ransom as well.
@bethryan9077 Жыл бұрын
Don't be soo Ridiculous.
@jjc54754 жыл бұрын
that facebook pop up was hilarious. GG lol.
@forbesy334 жыл бұрын
Ha yes clever
@hunter_lite Жыл бұрын
Balanced review of Lindbergh. Some still persist in branding him a Nazi racist, in spite of his work with the Maasai tribe in East Africa and other indigenous groups. (In 1961 Lindbergh met Jilin ole “John” Konchellah, a warrior of the Maasai tribe in Africa. Konchellah described his way of life to a fascinated Lindbergh, who made several visits to Africa over the years.) Lindbergh also worked extensively with the Agta and Tasaday tribes in the Philippines. Prior to the second world war Lindbergh was fooled by the Germans into overestimating their aerial prowess. Isolationism was (and is) a dead end but at the time it was understandable given our WWI experience. Lindbergh was aghast when reports of the death camps came in during WWII. (Eugenics would make an excellent podcast. Most non-political adherents advocate producing healthy offspring of all ethnicities, not race purification as the Nazis claimed and promoted.) The multiple family thing is certainly over the top but essentially reinforces that he was a multi-layered very complex guy. I think the largest lesson from the Lindbergh phenomenon is the pernicious impact of celebrity. Given our celebrity saturated culture and times Charles Lindbergh's story is as cogent as ever.
@sarasweightlossjourney14323 жыл бұрын
This was an incredible video. I got to be honest I don't normally watch things like this all the way through but you kept me engaged the entire time. Bravo definitely a new subscriber
@donniedowner16867 ай бұрын
Hero. Stop lying about who really started WW2.
@orcasea594 жыл бұрын
Lindberg's son, Charles, had a congenital birth defect that mortified senior, especially since their suitability as parents was a major aspect of his marriage to Ann. There are convincing arguments regarding Linberg's possible involvement in removing this painful embarrassment from his life and how his fame protected him from question. Given his professed values later in late none of the claims would have been surprising...
@TrojanJustin3 жыл бұрын
Yep ironically the defect was likely caused by him forcing Anne to take an unpressurized cross-country flight inhaling gas fumes with little oxygen. She begged to land but he pressed on and, upon landing, Anne was hospitalized for 6 days.
@marcleblanc36022 жыл бұрын
@@TrojanJustin dam that was nasty, he was there too right? Man was wreckless and tuffguy, not so gentleman indeed, much is possible but farcry of him being the killer, but the Culprit was no saint either.
@TransRoofKorean2 жыл бұрын
great men rarely are good men
@marcleblanc36022 жыл бұрын
@@TransRoofKorean kind of, not Saints thats for sure, but he was not a Conqueror.
@marcleblanc36022 жыл бұрын
@Jay Landau stupid this and nothing more
@Sandy.J.Lloyd.Sr.4 жыл бұрын
I have an idea for a new show, it’s based on Biographics but it covers fictional characters like Sherlock Homes, Bruce Wayne ie Batman, Huckleberry Finn, Dracula, Dr. Frankenstein, and thousands of others. The characters are endless and many are mistaken to be true people, you could do multiple characters or a single character in a show. The idea came to me when I saw the episode you did on Sherlock Holmes, it was great and left me wanting more. If you (the fans) agree click the like button so Simon knows we like this idea.
@ianr4 жыл бұрын
This is a great idea, totally agree. 👍
@gubbie2u Жыл бұрын
He was a traitor, pure and simple.
@CptCudlScoops4 жыл бұрын
Both
@kenyattaclay76664 жыл бұрын
Nazi.
@lauriehepinstall26364 жыл бұрын
This is a well done coverage of a complex man. I have appreciated your evenhanded portrayal
@jamesmcguire53124 жыл бұрын
I very rarely add a comment to a video. But I have some thoughts that some might find interesting. First of all I do not excuse Lindburg for attitude toward the Jewish people or his moral stance. But something to think about that most people don’t understand is that the starting of World War II was a calculated effort. The British and the Americans and the Russians helped supply materials to the empires of Japan and Germany. You might want to check it out but the first German Messerschmitt Bf-109 flew with the British Rolls Royce Kestrel engine. The treaty that ended world war one prohibited Germany from having powered aircraft. Nevertheless the Americans and British encouraged them to manufacture aircraft in violation of the treaty. The Russians trained German fighter pilots at Fili Russia. Also a violation of the treaty. By the late 1930s the German war machine was cranking up. The military industrial complex in Britain and America started ramping up production for the upcoming war. in spite of being a neutral nation the United States gave war materials to Britain. The US gave them ships called destroyers and called it lend lease. And in the Pacific the United States was giving war materials-petroleum, steel and rubber-to the Japanese up to three months before the attack on Pearl Harbor in spite of their aggressive behavior in attacking China, Manchuria and other lands in the Pacific theater. Furthermore transferring the US Pacific Fleet to Pearl Harbor from the safe harbor at San Diego was a fools maneuver. It would be like leaving a brand new sports car in downtown New York City with the keys in it. The United States was selling war materials to China to protect them from the aggression of the Japanese. Again funding both sides in a war. Probably by now anyone reading this is calling me a conspiracy theorist. But the data is accurate. The British gave their jet engine technology to both Russians and the United States after World War II. Saber Jets and Mig-15’s fought in the skies over Korea due to British technology. Wars do not start themselves. Tanks and war planes and warships do not grow up like weeds in the yard. They have to be funded, designed and equipped with warriors. Even today we are selling war technology to both sides in the Middle East conflict.
@ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff4 жыл бұрын
This is a website for entertainment only. It isn't for anyone looking for anything academic. Historical accuracy is not a priority.
@kattsforeveryone Жыл бұрын
My Grammer called him a nazi murder. She always said he killed his son Lil Charlie
@nancyvillines45525 ай бұрын
I agree with her. Always have.
@cheapscifi4 жыл бұрын
Roosevelt was right to denounce Lindberg.
@jandammrasmussen36994 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile in hoi4: Charles Lindbergh announced president of the Confederated States of America!
@Bahns0074 жыл бұрын
A man of culture I see
@sagathespeedster70044 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@myrpok4 жыл бұрын
The Plot Against America is a great alternate history miniseries about Lindbergh's run for presidency.
@or_gluzman561Peace_IL_PS4 жыл бұрын
@@myrpok and book too
@sakkra934 ай бұрын
Like Henry Ford, Lindbergh was deeply impressed at how Germany had gone from a broken, despondent, economically ruined nation in the 1920s to a vibrant, proud and economically powerful one in the 1930s. Lindbergh's wife was deeply impressed by the energy and the spirit of the German youth.
@andrewswift27274 жыл бұрын
He was BOTH. People are complicated.
@drdre43974 жыл бұрын
exactly.
@drax58722 жыл бұрын
"American Hero or Nazi Sympathiser?" Why not both?
@sketchstevens58594 жыл бұрын
Definitely, a Nazi sympathizer, and also an American hero. He was right to not want to jump into war, but he was wrong for the reasons
@robertn8002 жыл бұрын
Even after the War was over Lindbergh kept the Swastika covered medal given to him by Himmler & he never apologized for his Nazi sympathies.
@hectorsmommy17174 жыл бұрын
Lindberg is a good reminder of how we need to separate the achievements from the person. We can celebrate one without celebrating the other. Just because someone does an incredible or heroic thing does not make them someone to emulate.
@roguespearsf2 жыл бұрын
Or maybe some of us aren't blinded by 80+year old Soviet propaganda
@gomahklawm44462 жыл бұрын
@Repent Keep crying about the truth. PATHETIC.
@ethanweeter2732 Жыл бұрын
Thank-you! Too many people put men on a pedestal without vetting them.
@fulltimerver23553 жыл бұрын
No mention of the information and theory that baby Lindbergh was born with a medical condition and Lindbergh may not have been willing to have a less than perfect name sake.
@aregularperson75734 жыл бұрын
In my opinion history is more complex that it seams at the surface and there if you look deeper you can get a better picture of the resining of the historical figure and there actions there is many cases of that the figures actions might have been done in good intent but they turn into disasters.
@UnchainedAmerica4 жыл бұрын
Charles wanted to keep his illegimiate children quiet so he avoid child support. The guy is pretty irresponsible.
@stuart86633 жыл бұрын
You dont know that. You have no idea what support he gave or withheld.
@judochopmaster82334 жыл бұрын
I will not stop asking. Please make more videos covering the people in the American Civil War, for example; Thomas Jackson, better known as Stonewall General William T. Sherman, who I really couldnt say anything about without someone getting pissed Confederate President Jefferson Davies Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the first African-American Regiment in the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant, who needs no introduction Etc. I just wish there were more videos that tackled the people in the Civil War on your channel
@hellsing5074 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget Vincent “claw hammer” Witcher the insane confederate paramilitary who would bash people’s brains out on suspicion of union sympathy’s
@judochopmaster82334 жыл бұрын
@@hellsing507 a fellow Atun Shei Films fan?
@Jiff3212 жыл бұрын
There is a difference between being a great man and being a good man.
@houstonhelicoptertours10062 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. A good man upholds the status quo, does not question state nor elites and dies for Israel in some far-off desert. 👍
@alexanderveritas3 жыл бұрын
I think that indeed nothing else could’ve better described _Lindberg_ than the very words of _FDR._
@mikmik9034 Жыл бұрын
Using the term 'ejecting' is a disservice to early pilots. They had to Get Out and Jump. Too many children/adults today think of 'ejecting' as being propelled out of the pilots seat by mechanical means. Jumping involved intricaste daring in the early days. Being hit by the tail section was likely if a mistake was made. "$25,000 in 1924 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $439,824.56 today".
@VaxtorT4 жыл бұрын
Lindbergh was only lauded by his own generation , it seems to me. He was lauded to my generation by the previous; but my generation never really seemed to understand truly what was so fucking great about him. He flew planes.....Wow. nothing exemplary by my generations standards of a hero.
@DogsReignSupreme Жыл бұрын
I understand Charles had the type of humour as many sociopaths and psychopaths seem to have. This is humiliating, cold hearted jokes, where he would be the only one laughing. For example, faking that the babe was abducted. Most of Hitler's inner circle, including the SS were psychopaths or sociopaths. The brown shirts primarily sociopaths. I believe Lindbergh, was a psychopath. I believe he was responsible for his son's death either deliberate, or by accident. His son was not perfect, and would have been an issue. I am inclined to think was accident, and this was the reason for the extended stay. Poor fellow who paid the price.
@robertestes58874 жыл бұрын
I guess the Charles Lindbergh found out that flirting leads to squirting
@dreamlookautodetailingauto33532 жыл бұрын
I thought Charles Lindberg a great man for what he accomplished. But seeing a PBS history special called "The US and the Holocaust" changed everything... I never knew & never learned in school history the other bad things that went on during World War ll & the Holocaust & probably more we wish not to know happened. Charles Lindberg and his wife thought Hitler a great man for some of what he was doing. Especially on Segregation of the Jewish people. The poor Jewish people that suffered so much through that war were trying to get out of the country as fast as they could and we're trying to get Visas to other countries which a lot of countries did not want them in, including the United States. Learned that Lindberg did not like the Jewish people & did not want them coming to the USA. He had spoke on a radio show & said things that were awful. Roosevelt didn't like him & was afraid he might be a Nazi. Also learned the hatred & bigotry for the Jewish people in our own country?! Nazism & gatherers of 20 thousand or more American Nazis having a rally in Madison Square Garden! All So very sad! Jewish or any other race or color are all people that feel, love, feel happiness & sadness as any other human being... Could you just imagine the hatred and bigotry towards you and not being wanted and losing loved ones and seeing your own mother, father, brother or sister being beaten or murdered?!...God made us all in his Image and we all should be and act as his son our Savior Jesus wants us to be. God bless all man kind because it still goes on today...
@Kethambelle4 жыл бұрын
I haven't been this early since my mother went into premature labour.
@judochopmaster82334 жыл бұрын
Ok thats a good "Last time I was this early" joke
@IntrepidFraidyCat4 жыл бұрын
😆
@daygoncornhole23954 жыл бұрын
@@judochopmaster8233 I thought that I have heard everything but this is a new one and a good one
@diarradunlap93374 жыл бұрын
YOU! win the Comments page for today.
@redmanoutdoors96324 жыл бұрын
Just saying it’s spelt “Hawaii” not “hawai”
@shebbs14 жыл бұрын
Poor editing?
@slcfutbolfan4 жыл бұрын
Hawai'i
@redmanoutdoors96324 жыл бұрын
slcfutbolfan does it really have an apostrophe? I never knew that
@slcfutbolfan4 жыл бұрын
@@redmanoutdoors9632 yes and no .its actually not an apostrophe it's a 'okina. it occurs 99% of the time when you back2back vowels like Hawai'i, O'ahu ,Ho'okipa, Ka'anapali (resort area in Maui near Lahaina), Pu'unen, Pa'ia ,a'ole (no,not). also most words starting with a bowel has an Okinawa (even if you see it on road signs etc) like 'ohana (family), "olelo (language). It's to indicate a "glottal" stop between the two like when you say "uh-oh". the meaning of the word could altered with and without. if you to your significant other"ko'u ipo" you're saying my special/fav/beloved sweetheat. but if you said you ipo you're downgrading to "my sweeheart".
@brianlevine48024 жыл бұрын
Was he a member of the SS?.Sounds like he enjoyed the Leibinsborn program.