A Historian Reacts - Failed Assassinations by Overly Sarcastic Productions

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[@jakitron890]

"He died as he lived, not dying of poison." Is one of my favorite jokes made by a history youtuber

[@tutoriaurus1115]

Qin Shi Huang, a chinese emperor who escaped his assassin by running around a pillar for 5 minutes until his soldiers arrived.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Ok that’s pretty awesome. I need to look into that.

[@superdude899]

Actually soldiers never arrived to save him. His medical advisor threw his bag at the would-be assassin and that stunned him and gave Qin enough time to draw his sword and slice n' dice him.

[@superdude899]

Then, a few years later, the friend of the assassin tried to "avenge" him, so he walked to the emperor, lute in hand, played a song and then attempted to beat the man's skull in.

[@operationstratos1013]

And let’s not forget the famous “误中副车”（direct translation: mistakenly hit the adjacent carriage) failed assassination.

[@jmontign1]

@@operationstratos1013 Ah yes, Wile E Coyote tactics thwarted by the old "The princess is in another castle" maneuver.

[@DanteGrey]

Overly sarcastic productions is comprised of two individuals, Blue is the guy in the video and there's a girl named Red as far as their caricatures go. The guy blew tends to do exclusively history videos while the girl does mythological and narrative videos. Both are absolutely great at what they do and the channel is pure gold dating back content as far as 7 years and I'm not sure how big of a myth fan You are but whether it's history or mythos this channel is honestly so worth it

[@moviefan005]

Basically Blue:history Red: English literature. Although two often overlap (which Red and Blue often admits to themselves).

[@yoda2495]

@@moviefan005 Red does myths more than English literature

[@ozzmen4494]

@@yoda2495 With the amounts of trope talks and classics summaraized one could argue for Literature but her structural analyses on Mythology and its infleunces on modern culture would also kind of count as literature. So see it how you would like it.

[@likmattress]

Sometimes Cyan Indigo or Yellow pops up

[@toxenzz]

what are their names tho? they’re people not characters

[@steveclarke6257]

The attempted kidnapping of Princess Anne by Ian Ball....when he pointed the gun at her and said get out of the car, she replied "not bloody likely". We Brits know which parent she takes after!

[@superdude899]

Someone tried to kidnap princess Anne?

[@johnpotts8308]

Similar to her mother (Queen Elizabeth II) when she had a man (Michael Fagan) break into her bedroom and (allegedly) the Queen chatted with him until a Maid arrived and said "Bloody hell ma'am, what's he doing here!?", after which he was arrested.

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

@@superdude899 yes. They tried to drag her out and she was having none of it. They'd already by this point shot her security officer once and in the process shot him 2 more times. He shot a police officer who came to investigate the noise and the driver. He was then challenged by a former heavyweight boxer who hit him, he was shot at but was missed before hitting him again at which point the would be kidnapper made a run for it before being brought down by a police detective and arrested. Apparently Ann said she got bloody angry that the kidnapper had torn her gown. The intervention by the boxer gave her and her then husband a chance of getting out the other side of the car, which caused the kidnapper to move away from the other door and they then got back in and secured the doors. The security officer was awarded the George Cross (the highest civilian bravery medal in the UK) for his actions and the others were awarded the George medal and one was awarded the queen's gallantry award. All those shot survived, including the security officer shot 3 times when he had put himself between the attack and Princess Ann.

[@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage]

OSP is undeniably fantastic. A grand mix of entertaining, passionate, and educational. The perfect channel for you to look into

[@windblade2595]

I remember Richard Hammond actually recreating the Gunpowder treason plot with the exact amount and kind of powder and building a replica of the parliament building at the time. When they blew it up, the gunpowder was enough to not only kill the king, but literally blow up the parliament building sky high.

[@richeybaumann1755]

With 3600 pounds of gunpowder, I would expect that most of the city block would be missing. I have no idea how "John Johnson" thought he was getting anywhere near out of the range of the near-nuclear blast.

[@vincegalila7211]

@@richeybaumann1755 they were not particularly smart

[@johanrunfeldt7174]

@@richeybaumann1755 It's the mindset of religiously inspired terrorists, whether Catholics in post-Elizabethan England or Islamists today, the individual life is of no significance, and if you'd die, there's the best part of Heaven waiting for you as a reward for your martyrdom. The most dangerous of all the lies Religion tells us, is the lie that Death is not the End.

[@richeybaumann1755]

A note about Mithridates: Venom is not poisonous. You can drink snake venom without harm as long as it doesn't reach your bloodstream. But you wouldn't expect people from his time to know that, so for them it was a big thing.

[@maximilianolimamoreira5002]

yeah, but when it hits the bloodstream, you are in huge trouble, unless someone hurries with the antidote

[@richeybaumann1755]

@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 if, not when. Things you swallow do not reach the bloodstream unless you have an open wound in your throat.

[@090giver090]

@@richeybaumann1755 Or gastric ulcer ;)

[@Skelli2]

i get the point but i feel i must ask out of sheer curiosity: Not even a very upset stomach after that?

[@richeybaumann1755]

@@Skelli2 venom is just spicy saliva. When snakes produce venom, it is actually just their saliva which contains some added chemicals. So technically, you'd just be drinking snake spit, which, like human spit, is made up of mostly proteins and enzymes, which the stomach acid easily breaks down. Human stomach acid can dissolve steel when concentrated; a few extra proteins and enzymes won't really do much at all.

[@10Tabris01]

Two words: Iron. Chancellor. The failed attempt on Bismarck

[@ct7567CaptRex]

The Stauffenberg assasination attempt of Hitler comes to mind as a german when I think about impactful assasinations that almost succeded.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Ohhh good example.

[@przemekkozlowski7835]

There were many other failed attempts on Hitler before that. Some were orchestrated by Stauffenberg and his fellow conspirators int eh German resistance while others were just "lone wolves". They failed or were aborted because Hitler kept changing his plans. I believe one plan involved a bomb hidden in a wine bottle.

[@daddymatty5869]

My daughters & I love all their videos. Red does literature & mythology. She also does all the artwork but is a math major. Go figure. Blue does all the history stuff. I really recommend his Alexander the Great, Scotland, Ireland & Colonialism videos...actually they're all pretty fun

[@johanrunfeldt7174]

You mean Alexander the Not so Mediocre.

[@daddymatty5869]

@@johanrunfeldt7174 Alexander the Alright alright alright

[@ms_scribbles]

Oooh! You've gotten into OSP! I'd recommend the "Pope Fights" series, plus his Alexander the Great and "Greek Wise Guys" videos.

[@ms_scribbles]

It wasn't so much a movie as a mini-series. And yes, Kit Harington is a direct descendent of Robert Catesby. His full name is Christopher "Kit" Catesby Harington. His mother is a Catesby.

[@richeybaumann1755]

Two channels I love- I am so very, very glad to see you reacting to OSP. I slammed "watch" so fast when I saw the note, because I recog ized their video and was like "let's do this."

[@kereminde]

Oh hey, you're into Blue's history videos... if you do more, be aware he does sneak quick "jabs" in there like he did with 'Pompey the Headless'. The good news is how most of his stuff is basically in the spirit of what my parents would call 'Western Civ material', and it's one of his passions. He has done other stuff too, and there's a lot of research and effort gone into it. (When you get to them, check out some of the maps he sets up... some are simply insane.) ... and he's not been perfect, sometimes putting the wrong flags up for instance, but usually a top comment is him admitting the mistake or he mentions it in the description.

[@Crazael]

Other things to look out for from Blue are "Alexander the Not-so-Great" and how awesome and amazing Venice is. Luckily, he isn't at all shy about admitting his bias towards Venice and Classical Greece.

[@P__Huginn]

In high school (or Austrian equivalent) history class I picked "Assassination Attempts on Adolf Hitler" as presentation topic (thinking of the few more famous ones) only to learn that there are 42 known and documented attempts with some sources saying a number of 100+ could be feasible. I decided to only do a best off, because there are just way too many to present to class in 20 minutes some of the ways in which they failed were almost comical. Some of them included: - 1934 Van Pappen's speechwriter wanted to shoot him, but didn't because he feared it might make him a martyr - 1937 A bomb is planted, but not primed because the assassin is locked in a bathroom stall by accident - Nov 1939 Hitler leaves 10 minutes earlier than planned and is not hit by the bomb in the "Bürgerbräukeller" - 3 days later Erich Kordt planned to blow up the "Reichskanzlei" and is only unsuccessful because due to the attempt 3 days earlier security is tightened - 1943 a planned bombing attempt at a presentation of new Wehrmachtuniforms fails, because a british bombing run destroyed the uniforms - 1944 Eddie Chapman offers to suicide bomb Hitler, but MI5 declines, because he had a criminal past, also british leadership would rather capture Hitler alive (Source: Will Berthold - Die 42 Attentate auf Adolf Hitler (translates to: The 42 Assassination Attempts on Adolf Hitler) - ISBN 978-3-928127-70-7)

[@jameswhite153]

there was also an attempt to bomb hitler during a parade using the de haviland comet racing plane but the pilot turned them down fearing for his own safety, the plan would have apparently involved ascetically modifying the plane to resemble a soviet or polish bomber and taking off from a covert airfield near the polish border.

[@dtlwheels1153]

I've also heard of one where a sniper was supposed to hike up to his Eagles Nest and take him out, but by then, he had made so many blunders that hurt his own war efforts more than anything else, the Allies decided to scrap it fearing that if they took out Hitler, he would just be replaced by someone who actually knew what they were doing

[@RDA000]

The attempt to assassinate George Bush via shoe is my personal favorite

[@coyote47713]

OSP is an amazing channel for those wanting some quickfire summaries of mythology, history, and a lot of other stuff. I highly recommend their videos on The Illiad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid if you're interested in the mythology of the Trojan War

[@jordangalvis9695]

Honestly, any video from this channel is Gold! From Blue (the historical one), his Pope fight videos are great. From Red (the literature and mythological one and personally my fav), her vid on the zodiac is one of my favorites as are her videos on specific gods and tracing how they came to be all the way to modern days.

[@Crazael]

Red's mythology deep dives are absolutely amazing.

[@reaperking2121]

Their channel is one of the few I constantly recommend to people. Their content is just pure gold. Reds art at this point is simply stunning, both have a great sense of humor and include some excellent sight gags and they are extremely informative. I always look forward to their uploads on Friday as I know it always mean I’m in for some fun learning.

[@ubiergo1978]

The one in my head, as a catholic of course: John Paul II, the bullet went its way SO CLOSE to any critical point that it was said: "one hand pulled the trigger, but another guided the bullet"

[@ubiergo1978]

@@untruelie2640 He DID thanked. In fact the main surgeon become his personal one from that day on. And when he died, he did went to his house to present the condolences to his widow and he did say, in fact: "he saved my life"... so... yes, what you said is basically an untrue lie, to make justice to your username. His name was Francesco Crucitti, you can google him.

[@superdude899]

@@untruelie2640 Why do you have to lie?

[@superdude899]

@@untruelie2640 and I just realized the name

[@untruelie2640]

@@ubiergo1978 Sorry, I was apparently wrong. I stand corrected. And my username is an Oxymoron, so no, what I said wasn't an untrue lie, because a lie is untrue in itself. An "untrue lie" is the truth. But that's not the point here, I was simply wrong.

[@karl796]

If you don’t already know “History Matters” is a Chanel that looks at a historic topic an answers a question about that topic you never knew you had. Now a days he only makes these short but high quality videos. Maybe there is a topic you could tell your opinion, since a lot of videos are about: - how bad was… -how important was this event -why did they do …. And because he tries to explain a big topic in under 5 min you could add a lot I think.

[@HarrisonCoe]

No. 5?

[@angusyang5917]

Problem might be that his episodes are too short.

[@edwardblair4096]

You have to watch a few videos, and read the comments, to understand his style. You would think that just watching one would tell you everything you need to know "but, fun fact! No". He throws in a lot of social commentary slyly on the side usually in the form of visuals.

[@karl796]

@@angusyang5917 this is why I think he could add some stuff

[@pumaconcolor2855]

Well, he has a whole series on british history.

[@cameronyates3744]

This guys content is top tier. Great to see someone on this platform with brains doing well!

[@shawnnorton2218]

New to the channel, but really dig it man~ love your enthusiasm and love for history!

[@TheDeathNote91]

If you do plan on making a video about how failed assassination attempts could've changed history please make sure to include the one from Stauffenberg.

[@highlordtamashii1791]

There was a story about King Kamehameha the First. Where a man threw a spear at him. Kamehameha caught the spear and threw it back at the would be assassin, killing him.

[@judahkaresh2429]

5:35 He was a CONSUL of ROME!!!

[@notzaran5977]

So so happy you are covering OSP. Two of the best creators on the platform

[@Iris_1217]

The Teddy Roosevelt one is amazing for a couple of reasons. First, the bullet was actually slowed down by his metal glasses case and speech notes, which were in his breast pocket. They're actually in the Smithsonian, I believe. Second, the fact that he was able to essentially perform his own assessment of his injuries because of just how active he was both as an outdoorsman and in the military, and ruled "Yeah, I'm good for another forty minutes." Probably the most wild story I've heard about a failed assassination was Samuel Byck, the man who tried to assassinate Nixon by hijacking a plane and flying it into the White House. The Ford attempts were also wild because they happened within three weeks of each other and were VERY near misses. Squeaky Fromme was less than two feet away from Ford, but she forgot to load the chamber in her gun so it didn't fire. Sarah Jane Moore had her gun confiscated shortly before, purchased another one that had dodgy sights, and fired a shot that missed Ford by a few feet. It's speculated that if she had had the gun she was familiar with, she very well could have killed him.

[@shadecynical1918]

And so it begins, the rabbit hole of Overly Sarcastic Productions.

[@richeybaumann1755]

Right? It's seriously a trap. I found them by accident and spent 5 days watching all their videos.

[@LauchlinM.]

@@richeybaumann1755 Same here.

[@blitzen435]

I can’t believe in one of the biggest assassination attempts of all time this dude couldn’t think of a better fake name than “John Johnson” like come on bro 😂

[@7Seraphem7]

I am so glad you started looking at OSP, they have some amazingly fun yet informative and well done history videos. The best thing about,well one of the best about, the TR attempt, is one of the things that supposedly saved him was the bullet passing through the folded speech he had in his jacket pocket. Thing was think enough to slow a bullet and he still gave it after getting shot.

[@PatrickStarfishman]

You would love the Alxander the great video. As well as being exceptionally interesting g and educational it is also hysterical thanks to Blue deciding not to use the same epithet twice for the main man. Alexander the swell....Alexander the rakishly handsome!

[@mindsword2]

Red's parts are more mythology, but if you check out any of the Diety ones, Red does their best to chart out the history of the God as well.

[@ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian]

Wow, i didnt realize you started watching these guys! i hope you keep watching them, theyre awesome

[@saevusbrutum2796]

Awesome I love this channel you should definitely do more.

[@cinco_de_la_tarde]

I love this channel. They are not overly sarcastic in the least but just extremely informative. Obviously not stuff to react to on this channel but if you enjoy writing tropes and mythis, their videos on those are top notch.

[@StarrySkies80]

Queen Victoria survived multiple assassination attempts. The first was just four months after her marriage to Prince Albert, while riding in an open carriage outside Buckingham Palace. She was pregnant at the time. The first shot missed and she ducked to avoid another. Victoria and Albert continued on their ride through Hyde Park. (Powerful people and their open-top vehicles...Victoria was lucky. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and JFK, not so much.)

[@andromeda331]

i love Overly Sarcastic Productions! All their videos are so informative and so funny. You'll love all the nicknames for Alexander in that video.

[@danielrichwine2268]

Mithridates the poison king was a theme of one of the subplots of one of my favorite books, the count of Monte Cristo.

[@nickshaffer9961]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention when Reagan getting shot. Great content as always

[@DakotaKid95]

I think my favorite part of that whole incident has to be the speech he was giving in Moscow -I think?- and a balloon pops. He glances up, goes ”ha, missed me” and returns to his speech.

[@superdude899]

John Hinckley has KZbin channel now....

[@MovieFan1912]

“There you go again.”

[@marcelostalker]

OSP does great videos, they manage a good balance between being fun and purely educational, I highly recommend doing more reactions to their videos. Usually Blue (the guy in this video) focuses on history while Red (the other host of the channel) goes from mythology to literature, narrative tropes and things in between, I'm sure some of the your patreons would like to throw some love their way if given the chance.

[@pyrrhusofepirus8491]

14:18 reminds me of when in Argos in 272BC, Pyrrhus of Epirus had attacked the city and during a street battle, he started fighting this young Hoplite one on one, and then the Hoplite’s mom looked down to see her son fighting Pyrrhus of Epirus, a man a never lost a fight, bested Spartans in groups, and if Plutarch is to be believed chopped a man in half. Said “Oh Shit!”, picked up a tile and threw it at Pyrrhus, breaking his neck and paralysing him from the neck down. Before shortly being ineptly decapitated, by a guy who pissed himself when Pyrrhus woke up and shot him a horrible glare.

[@abdullahahmad2012]

I've watched this vid before. There are some pretty astonishing ones in there.

[@Zatoz22]

love your work!

[@candaceparker7283]

Thank you for introducing me/us to Overly Sarcastic Productions

[@Charles-js3ri]

Hmm, okay, I've got a few off the top of my head. The attempt on president Reagan was nuts. Both for how close it was to succeding and for how bizare the shooters motivation was. There was an attempt on the German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck. An anarchiet shot him several times on a sidewalk while he was out for a stroll. But he survived. Vladimir Lenin may or may not count. He was shot in the head while inspecting a factory. The shooting didn't kill him but it did cause his later series of strokes that did. Sticking with Russia, the last Tzar was nearly killed by a sword wielding policeman while visiting Japan

[@charliemills6955]

I love how far back ur history knowledge goes cause not many people like ancient history anymore

[@TerminalSports45]

You should see the one they did of El Dorado, it is super funny and also informative about the Spanish hunt for the lost city.

[@friendlywallflower7521]

YAAAY. Osp is one of my favorite history channels. I think you'll love their content.

[@rebekahalston6927]

You have got to see the rest of there stuff!

[@MrAvs-fk6in]

Nice your work is very appreciated

[@clarenceonyekwere5428]

“Hey don’t go to work tomorrow” isn’t so rare during revolutions and coups

[@TheNeonParadox]

3:24 The Princess Bride was literally the first thing I thought of as well.

[@Thraim.]

I've seen a video or two from Overly Sarcastic Productions and the channel is in my recommendations all the time.

[@andreasallesch2340]

Mentioning the Princes Bride just earned you a sub😂!

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

A classic! One of those movies I have to watch anytime it’s on.

[@andreasallesch2340]

@@VloggingThroughHistory Very true! There was a time I nearly watched it daily😂. Back then I memorized every line in the German and English version😂. But now the DvD got stuck in my broken DvD-Player. Have to find a way to get it out soon.

[@barkingmad50]

Best movie...Evaaa.

[@Kingfisher-]

I can’t recommend Overly Sarcastic Productions enough! Blue is fantastic with his history videos. You should definitely subscribe to their channel!

[@hyperion9911]

Ooooh OSP! They're absolutely amazing

[@Dawid23_Gamer]

1:17 I love the driver's face expression, it's just funny

[@grantdowling8550]

When he said "there was a movie that just came out about this not too long ago," I was so excited to hear him talk about V for Vendetta LOL

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Yeah that wasn't ABOUT the gunpowder plot though.

[@samuelbarfield6254]

idk if you have played civ v at all, but it would be cool to see you on twitch doing a conversation type stream and civ would be a good background game : ) enjoying the content !

[@Angrenost02]

Interesting coincidence, one of my favorite history channels just made a video about the gunpowder plot. Sadly it'a french channel but for those who speak it, it's called Questions d'Histoire

[@LomidzeDavid]

17:15 it was here in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2005

[@malachitehawk6337]

Speaking of Teddy Roosevelt, there’s a story that a couple of guys stole his boat and the man BUILT a new boat, chased them down, and got his boat back. Honestly I need a reaction video of either crazy Roosevelt stories or Castro assassinations

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Indeed he did.

[@kiloty7591]

nice video, great stuff

[@Histography1453]

Almost 200k subscribers!!!!

[@corinna007]

OSP is great. You should react to Red's (the other half of the channel) summary of the Dracula novel, since you just did the Extra History series. Or Blue's summary of the Ptolemy family tree. That one is hilarious.

[@saber1epee0]

OMG I'm thrilled for you to find OSP! It's one of the only channels where my wife and I overlap because it's SO GOOD. I Assume you'll spend more time reacting to Blue's history series', but Red's trope and mythology/storytelling videos are also incredibly thoughtful and valuable in a historical context. (And awesome)

[@cobracommander8133]

I can't unsee the 4 fingers and it's freaking me out now too

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Sorry!

[@sarahellie4113]

I love Osp I hope you do more. There Pope fights series is great

[@NoBody-lj5xh]

MORE!

[@NoBody-lj5xh]

Also, if you're at all interested, they also have a mythology series.

[@Franchise1107]

I know this is an older video but the comment early on about the assassination that started WWI being the most influential brought an idea. What were the most influential assassinations and/or individual historical evens (not entire wars or monarch's/dynasty's rules but a single event on its own). Could be divided by era or region but even on just assassinations alone some that come to mind are obvious, JFK, Julius Caesar, Trotsky, or similarly if you want to count in executions too then stuff like King James II of England. A similar vein could be "what if" moments, either events that almost happened but would have changed a lot if they did or events that were almost stopped that changed the course of history (the car making a wrong turn right before the archduke got shot comes to mind). (Editing because I forgot Lincoln and feel stupid.)

[@MizzMDN11]

Oh wow, I just discovered OSP a few days ago myself! Really funny and educational, I'd suggest watching their videos on the Crusades, or the Mongols. I discovered their channel because of a Japanese History Channel called Linfamy; they're kinda like OSP or Oversimplified since they use animation and witty banter to make history more engaging. If you're interested I hope you check him out!

[@hitomisalazar4073]

Funny history tidbit about the "Dry gunpowder in front of a fire". Most people paint that as massively stupid for obvious end result reasons. But the Gunpowder Treason did include an army officer. And here's the funny thing about the British military. Drying powder in front of a fire like that? That was Standard Practice up to the 1960s. Where even on naval warships they would do that. Which probably helps explain getting Jutland'd quite a bit.

[@noble_hermit2133]

Not quiet an assassination attempt but the USS William D. Porter did shoot a torpedo at the USS Iowa carrying FDR on Nov. 14th, 1943, when during an exercise they forgot to remove the primer for one of their torpedo tubes and so when the practice started they actually fired a torpedo at the USS Iowa.

[@010Jordi]

Guido is a Dutch name guy used when he fought for the spanish against the Dutch republic

[@RoyFizzle]

Omg I love this channel!!!!!

[@mania_nanor]

OSP has a playlist of European and American history, which I think would be the best match to your area of expertise.

[@jean-francoispirenne6518]

Entertaining!

[@ronstoppable5198]

8:05. I read on Wikipedia, it said he claims descent from Robert Catesby through his mother. 16:46. I also read that the would-be assassin John Schrank would have been lynched save for the fact Theodore shouted for him to remain unharmed. 17:21. I looked it up, it was actually in Tbilisi, Georgia.

[@bristolmadepunk]

Yay I'm so glad you reacting to osp blue and red are great

[@diamondunicorn1983]

The Blair House attack on Harry Truman

[@juckoosaurus]

Imagine being so bad at an assassination you get foiled by an Italian Granny

[@heartoftherepresentativere6101]

They have a great mythology series

[@Gaaxure]

Bush grenade thing happened in Georgia back in 2005. Moron lobbed a grenade at the stage from a crowd (stage was reportedly protected by a bullet-proof glass). It missed its mark and landed among the people. Luckily grenade turned out to be a dud. There was a huge manhunt for the guy and they put out a literal bounty on him. Two security officers got the tip, and probably motivated by the bounty attempted to capture him, without calling in the backup. Which resulted in the death of one of them.

[@jasonh1662]

I hope you do weird history too.

[@greenearth975]

The gunpowder plot warning is like when you are friends with the quiet kid and he says dont show up to school tommorow.

[@neiltobey1746]

OSP is a great channel, you will love them!

[@theveryworstluck1894]

He had me at "Funny haha poison man."

[@snackreaper]

Finally an osp video! Hurrayyy

[@jakebaca264]

The Mithradaties wars from kings and generals was pretty good

[@vlaf9]

When you mentionned GW Bush, I thought you were going to tell the shoe throwing incident XD

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I actually was talking about that with my wife this morning!

[@vlaf9]

Haha rad. Wasn't Reagan shot at in the 80s?

[@loufancelli1330]

@@vlaf9 March, 1981 just 2 months after taking office.

[@loufancelli1330]

I thought about the shoe throwing incident too! And there was a plot to kill George HW Bush during his visit to Kuwait after he had left office. If I recall, the would be assassins were discovered and detained before they could put their plan into action.

[@CodyChepa88]

When i see a new video has been posted by Vlogging Through History i simply like and comment and then enjoy 👍 keep up the good work . hope you come to the SouthWest someday so we can hang out.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Would love to get back down there. My mom lives in Tucson.

[@CodyChepa88]

@@VloggingThroughHistory Im in Southern Nevada so if you ever do any videos out west defiantly would be cool to meet. But keep up the good work and im looking forward to the next Vicksburg video.👍

[@cameronwhite9579]

I'm amazed that you tried to tell people who Kit Harrington was and didn't say Jon Snow

[@mangarslittlehelper8931]

On this topic: I would be interested in some commentary on Sondheim/Weidmans 1990 Musical "Assassins" from you.

[@leeshajoi]

Okay, everything about the Gunpowder Plot was a disaster, but "Guido Fawkes"? Holy hell. Suddenly I'm picturing him as a guy from The Jersey Shore.

[@YlO414]

You should check out the series of what if United States join the axis

[@Thisandthat8908]

Well there was this germna guy who escaped a assassination. That would have been a very interesting effect on history.

[@tonyg9775]

9:48 "dont go to school tomorrow" vibes

[@johnveneron6049]

btb my daughter graduated from Youngstown State in the early 2000s. "Go Penguins !" (knowing that team nickname helped me in a bar trivia contest)

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Nice. My wife and sister are both YSU grads as well.

[@trevorcalloway4276]

Sam'o'Nella has a video on lesser known American presidential assassination's, also would like to see more OSP.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I did the one on Garfield's assassin by Sam O'Nella

[@socio-historian7337]

If i remember right, king Zog of Albania survived over 50 atempts on his life and i think he even fired back at one of his assassins.

[@jdpandaknight8886]

Speaking of Teddy Roosevelt, you should check out Jack Ratham's video on him