John Wilkes Booth: America's Most Infamous Assassin

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

[@chriservin5975]

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

[@cryptofeen1438]

Think you should do a show on Michael Collins

[@S0P2024]

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[@henriquebraga5266]

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]

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

[@thx1138thecrane]

lmmfao

[@mikepatrick5909]

destiny...

[@AlcoholicBoredom]

And like Brutus he carried out one of the most cowardly assassinations that can be imagined. The irony must’ve been completely lost on him.

[@abrahamlincoln9160]

Ouch

[@rimfire8217]

Holy Crap. That is,

[@ignitionfrn2223]

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

[@kdryan21]

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]

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

[@katieholland4244]

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

[@Pepperminge_Mononoke]

@@katieholland4244 i vote we clone him from the DNA

[@Powerule23]

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

[@bobgunter9608]

Does the chair still have blood stains on it ?

[@JMac7395]

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]

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

[@mlee6050]

Always a night off or just quicker check something :(

[@InnerDness]

He must have felt like a real silly goose

[@finkaiser3994]

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]

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

[@SputnikKaiser]

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

[@GreatValueOprah]

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

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

Damn

[@shakiMiki]

No he wouldn't.

[@SputnikKaiser]

@@shakiMiki What makes you say that

[@Morbos1000]

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.

[@RankinMsP]

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

[@twocvbloke]

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]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@genuinehearts8247]

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.

[@jeffbuck2111]

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

[@theawesomeman9821]

How about Napoleon?

[@Din0rM22]

@@theawesomeman9821 Napoleon is too overlocked

[@Viroh]

@@theawesomeman9821 There is one already...

[@colbiashimaru]

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

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​@Diego Rodriguez what is overlocked?

[@SunnyNight]

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.

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

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

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

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@@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

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He was great as Darth Vader

[@THEtodd_83]

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

[@worstwaystodie5763]

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

[@abrahamlincoln4894]

I never asked

[@henrywebb4574]

“An absolute blast”

[@user-lx3tq2nf4i]

One could definitely say it ended with a bang

[@harryhampton1324]

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

[@jaytrace1006]

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.

[@kevinhensley4643]

Enjoyed listening again. Thank you for sharing

[@Venusupreme]

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]

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

[@bills6093]

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]

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

[@dynasty0019]

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

[@onyx7273]

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]

Im loving this document

[@austinwallett5140]

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.

[@franciscobuenrostro3891]

I can’t wait to see a video on Lincoln

[@truth5705]

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]

Also the obscure killer of James Garfield a failed Jesuit.

[@cooperwesley1536]

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]

Because SIMON, that's why. :-)

[@cooperwesley1536]

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

[@shadehunter]

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]

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

[@shadehunter]

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

[@iiseandigits7439]

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

[@solidalfie]

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

[@Dank-gb6jn]

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

[@savagedarksider5934]

How A video about John L Sullivan ?

[@Dank-gb6jn]

@@savagedarksider5934 who?

[@savagedarksider5934]

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

[@Dank-gb6jn]

@@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!

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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

[@JTwiss88]

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]

It also stars JENNY as Mary

[@cristobalvillarroel2618]

Failed artists have tendencies to change history for the worst

[@StegoAqua]

That and the son of ceos of successful construction CEOs

[@CrapImGud]

Excepted Booth wasn't failed in the slightest.

[@truth5705]

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]

@@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]

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

[@suzuyj]

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

[@truth5705]

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]

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

[@daygoncornhole2395]

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[@jurrepur1999]

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

[@sirproperlydecapitatedpodm8694]

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

[@gaylonjohnson904]

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

[@savagedarksider5934]

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

[@anthonybraceful1945]

SIMON, YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!

[@Digital_PeterGriffin]

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

[@alanshore17]

Very good video. Well done!

[@kozytime3232]

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]

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.

[@waynegoddard4065]

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.

[@evapunk333]

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

[@petermorgan6884]

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

[@bagsmohess]

Years of being a shill

[@barrydysert2974]

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]

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

[@AustriaGermany]

great video

[@ethanramos4441]

“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

[@theawesomeman9821]

Booth failed acting, Hitler failed art, and Stalin failed school, I feel like all the horrible killers in history have petty peeves.

[@jkreimborg]

Hitler didn’t “fail” art, Booth never “failed” acting, and Stalin never failed school...there is probably more to understand, before generalizations.

[@theawesomeman9821]

@@jkreimborg just repeating what my high school teacher taught

[@theawesomeman9821]

@@jkreimborg Booth was never as famous as his dad, Hitler got rejected at a prestigious art school and Stalin never graduated.

[@dena81]

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]

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]

My goodness

[@stevedietrich8936]

@@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.

[@ryanrizzo4869]

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

[@alexanderveritas]

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

[@CYCLONE4499]

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

[@ewestner]

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.)

[@rogerevans9666]

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.

[@CharizardMaster69]

8:47 The town is called Appomattox Court House

[@kathgibbs2881]

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

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Yes. Yes. Yes.

[@joeystrittmatter6890]

Love your work

[@yourstruly4817]

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

[@eldridgedavis]

😁

[@42Oregon]

Simon, could you do a bio on Jessie Owens?

[@imnotsuperstitiousbutiamal4186]

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

[@mandalor45]

they hardly existed at that time

[@imnotsuperstitiousbutiamal4186]

@@mandalor45 Sarcasm.

[@ThaFashionAssassin]

I’m pretty sure that’s from somewhere, maybe

[@shadehunter]

If it's any consolation, I lol'ed.

[@cheesemccheese5780]

@@mandalor45 R/Woosh.

[@MR.AYRAL9]

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

[@Mulambdaline1]

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]

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

[@lyndoraburroughs-robinson5663]

@@Mulambdaline1 Thank you 😊

[@setsuna9757]

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]

Eh

[@onyx7273]

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

[@Kombat_Wombat]

“They thought their right to own slaves would be infringed on” Hmmm that sounds familiar 🤔

[@guilhermesequeira9373]

Do Lincoln pleaseee

[@newvocabulary]

Wrestler turned Tyrant that caught a well deserved bullet?

[@guilhermesequeira9373]

@@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]

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

[@guilhermesequeira9373]

@@newvocabulary sure it is your opinion

[@kenyattaclay7666]

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

[@SpotTheDot]

I wish Lincoln lived through his second term cause he could’ve been another president who served more than 2 terms

[@ARIXANDRE]

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

[@nabilalhami1681]

Now that's a great suggestion!

[@BurrShotHam711Jenna]

yes Simon, you should do one on Alexander Hamilton

[@cthrew1603]

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

[@awzthemusicalreviews]

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!!!"

[@piggybackride89]

I miss Simon so flip snitzel much. Please bring back the greatest host on youtube to Biographics.

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@GothicQueen1]

You should do Leon Czolgosz. :)

[@ashcoates25]

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

[@RumbScroll101]

Soooooo???? Get ur own channel

[@MoBahar687]

Lol

[@pappagetti]

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]

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]

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).

[@shoogie1994]

yall should a video on the Balfour declaration.

[@truth5705]

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]

@@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.

[@justin.8777]

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

[@quinnzykir]

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

[@2584024]

Calm down John

[@frijoles8770]

Can you make a video on the Dakota 38?

[@truth5705]

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.

[@bellz222]

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

[@iiseandigits7439]

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

[@marcus._.2x]

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

[@marksprinkle]

They just took Lincoln's name off a high school in San Francisco. "Not worthy of the honor," they said.

[@hashtag415]

Bet they renamed it "Harvey Milk".

[@dylancooper787]

Really?? Did they go into more detail?

[@katieholland4244]

What did they rename it?

[@rolldogg01]

Bloopers reel!!! Please!!!

[@Samm815]

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

[@o-o2399]

This is going to get big .

[@mmilller452]

yoo should do a video on Andrew Johnson

[@hashtag415]

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

[@sayuncleordie]

I don’t get it.

[@Fun4luve]

I mean it is?

[@PumpkinBreath]

I love these videos

[@sofa_king_kool]

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!!!

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you

[@sararoberts2973]

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

[@newriver3913]

We need a new holiday, John Wilkes Booth Day.

[@sevenapollo6882]

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

[@bradhobbs6196]

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.

[@moebetta4224]

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

[@kc2110]

Stay mad bro

[@Ammeeeeeeer]

"Know Nothing Party" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Ishbikes]

Lmao 😂 the Harry Hawk line..

[@6aliph77]

Could you do an episode Lincoln??

[@sleepydoghistory9994]

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]

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]

@@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)

[@SamirSmith-n6w]

We've heard this story hundreds of times its still crazy to think lincoln dont even know his killer let alone hed been killed

[@thegunslinger1363]

Could you cover George Carlin? An incredible comedian. Who we wish was still around today.

[@thawzinnaing9773]

Yes please

[@truth5705]

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.

[@hashtag415]

Carlin would HATE that.

[@nayfepacewell8923]

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

[@Adelink_lol]

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

[@mikaelleonbriones6356]

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

[@tranphuongnam1860]

Stanton and Sherman when

[@deylinpillay5197]

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

[@seansolidworks4736]

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

[@KaladinVegapunk]

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]

@@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.

[@marlyonpope4302]

Can you do Henrietta Lacks

[@nicholaslewis8594]

I think he already did.

[@marlyonpope4302]

@@nicholaslewis8594 appreciate it... I just saw it

[@silence6605]

Maryland is in the South though? It’s south of the Mason-Dixon Line and there were a few pro-Confederate riots. It was also a slave state.

[@fredblonder7850]

Not only was Maryland a slave state, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation prohibited slavery only in those “states in rebellion”, that is, the Confederacy, so Maryland was the LAST slave state.

[@docvaliant721]

They tried to keep the states in the union by making a law to keep slavery and the states still broke off bc it wasnt about slavery. Lincoln wanted the blacks removed from the US. He didnt want slavery to spread bc he didnt want slaves in states like Missouri.

[@_Abjuranax_]

@@docvaliant721 One of the proposals was to send the freed Slaves to Texas, and upon hearing that, Texas overthrew the Unionist Governor Sam Houston. While a small contingent of Houstonites fought for the North, over 90% of all eligible Males joined the Confederacy, the highest enlistment rate of any State in the South.

[@cmbeadle2228]

@@docvaliant721 yeah, this isnt true. the ACS had their ideas, sure, but Lincoln's "support" was little more than lip service and a meetings at the White House (the first time any president had met with black people in the white house iirc). It wasn't something that was particularly feasible or likely, and even if it had been implemented it would have been based on voluntary repatriation rather than deportation.

[@obeidallabirair7644]

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

[@magnuskrogh2558]

Try 21) looking forward to a video about jesse james

[@truth5705]

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.

[@stuffnthingsb.c4043]

I think he did James already

[@gensaikawakami341]

Just glanced and I thought this comment said Jesus instead of Jesse

[@magnuskrogh2558]

@@stuffnthingsb.c4043 link pls?