Someone mentioned it earlier and it got a lot of attention but I’ll mention it here again: Another very interesting topic would be the history of cigarettes and big tobacco. There really is no good video about that online and I think it might be something interesting for you to cover.
Hello from The Shire...My grandmother was born in 1891, and when she was about 9 she snuck into town and watched a hanging...Her father had forbidden her form attending, but she snuck into town and hid on the other side of the crowd behind a store sign. She was about 50 feet from the gallows and had a clear view. She was scared to death that her father would see her so she wore one of her stepmothers shawls and a floppy brimmed hat she had found in a ditch on her way into town. It was a dirty hanging and the guy danced for a bit, she thought it was about 5 minutes...She remembers him crapping and wetting himself, and a good deal of the front 2 rows as one of his pant legs came untied and he kicked...She watched until he was still and then turned her head, leaned forward and puked off the barrel she was standing on. She felt someone place a hand on her shoulder to keep her from falling. After throwing up she thanked the man that had helped her and was terrified to find it was her father and grandfather...They helped her down and her Pa handed her a Coca Cola and while she washed her mouth out she tried to apologize...Her father told her not to worry, he wasn't going to punish her as the good Lord already had...On the way home, he made her swear not to tell her brothers or step mother...Then they talked about what had happened during the hanging...She had uneasy dreams for a month afterward and NEVER tried to attend another one...I was in my 20's when we spoke of this and she said that she still had dreams where she would be back on the barrel, behind the store sign. waiting and watching...I never wanted to see one, but through her description, I feel I did...She spoke of what the guy was wearing and the smells of the crowd. Cigarette and cigar smoke, whiskey and beer and fried chicken. What the people in the crowd wore and the overall atmosphere of excitement and fear...For me, it was like a front row seat to the event...
@@spacecat3198 Blushing in The Shire...I am honored by your comment and thoughts...I loved that old woman and her stiff necked attitude...It may have been a façade, but it was grand in scope...The picture of her and my grandfather on their wedding day in 1914 told the story of EXACTLY how pissed off she was...Her family hadn't attended because they had not approved of the man she married...The term "stone face" was meant for my grandmother in that picture. She was full of love and hugs and always ready with a laugh or story. She would bake the best pies and meals. I've seen her nurse a baby sparrow to health and set it free and answer the door after dark with the family .44 held in one hand behind her back after the Tate - LaBianca murders...Yeah, I just might write it all down...My children should know her as well as I did...Thank you...
@A Hobbit I am from the shire and I think you write as marellous as Tolkien. I hope you do write that book. :) I would have loved it if someone had done that for me.
@@riverdeep399 Uber-blushing now in The Shire...Thanks you for the compliment and I have already started to write down some of my memories of my grandmother...Her given name was Mary Jane, (go ahead with the jokes, she almost had a sense of humor...lol...) but to us, she was Grannie...I am doing it because I loved that old woman and as I stated before, my children need to know her also...Thanks again and its always humbling to meet a fellow halfling, as humans refer to us...lol...
"Good morning, Mary, what do you plan on doing today?" "I'm putting together a picnic lunch for me and my family. There's going to be a hanging in town square today at noon, and John and I thought it would be a good idea to have a nice family outing." Lmao. 😂
i think death was a lot less hidden and taboo then. Now we are so removed from death, we never have to really be around our loved ones bodies or kill animals for food, but back then im sure death was just a fact of life that even kids were not shielded from. Its really interesting how that has changed over time with our technological advancements that allow most people to be so separate from anything death related.
@@CHLOCHLOLP For the most part yes, but there are still people that kill for food. I have plenty of family members that hunt for deer and wild boar for the sake of putting meat in the freezer.
@@briannaaaron6804 well yes but thats a such a small group of people thats its almost negligable, society in general never has to experience death first hand. its probably like less than 1% of people who are farmers or morticians that really do have to live around any form of death.
@@briannaaaron6804 and human death is something we really never get to be close with, probably especially because we live so much longer now than we did 200 years ago.
In Rome Look what they did and Greece put a slave or prisoner in the arena or coliseum let a few lions out and it was a fight with his sword until the lions are him alive
The outlaw Cherokee Bill Goldsby, had the best last words that i had ever heard. When he was asked if he had any last words, he said. "I came here to die, not to make a speech." Weird History should do a story on him.
I still remember to this day watching a western as a child with my grandfather on TV where they showed a public hanging. My grandfather said that's not how it is son. He went on to detail what happens, today I know he explained a dirty hanging. It was much later as an adult I realized he'd been to hangings. Because of that I researched hangings & lynchings & knew it was a spectator event. They would post it in the local newspapers, sell refreshments, make bets etc.
i'm a firefighter/paramedic and i have responded to a few suicide by hanging, and i can tell you that it is one of the most mind numbing, thought altering, and one of the most visually disturbing things you can see - especially if we get there after they have been hanging there for some time and have been dead for some time.
Wild West Suggestions: Education. What were school houses really like and what was it really like to be a School Marm? What was it like to be part of a posse? What was it like for Native Americans when settlers encroached on their territory? Also, regarding the South during slavery: What was it like growing up on a plantation for enslaved children versus children of the slave owners?
I can answer that, actually! My dad went to one. He's 62 and still alive. The one room school houses were full of kids in different ages. A first grader and an eighth grader would be in the same class, often learning the same things. They were usually run by a nun who often had switches, rulers or paddles to beat unruly kids with. They were around for quite a bit! Kids also really only went for a few hours, but they also only had the education of a fourth grader by the time they got into highschools.
Tom Horn is buried in my favorite cemetery here in Boulder CO with an incorrect birth date on his tombstone. His brother, who is buried nearby, had him brought here after the hanging. I take care of his gravesite...found an un shot bullet from a .3o cal rifle, which is what he used to use, there a few months ago while weeding. re-buried it and left it for ol' Tom.
Having watched this video I was interested in how hangings in the US matched those in the UK. When, in 1845, a notorious killer was to be hanged in Manchester, England, excursion trains were run from various parts of the county. Some 250,000 people watched the execution. The condemned were also given the right to their last words. One highwayman, John Rann known as Sixteen String Jack because he had sixteen colour strings hanging from the bottom of his britches, went further then that. Known for his quick wit and kept the crowd entertained all the way to the gallows where he then danced a gig before being hung. At a hanging broadsides would be sold. This was a large sheet of paper which on one side would be printed such things like the last words or a final confession of the killer. Ballads about the killer would also be sold on broadsides and the seller would constantly sing the ballad so that people could learn the tune. So not so different from Britain.
Some of the condemned had such long careers and had become so famous as to be the movie stars of their day. There's a certain perverse pride in being able to attract such a crowd as to need special trains to be put on.
@@simonh6371absolutely not crap, it was still happening, as were public hangings. Besides, what's the difference between holding up a coach or horse rider and today's carjacking and mugging?
I live a short 10-minute drive from Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Fort Smith Gallows and Judge Parker’s courthouse are still standing today. The old jailhouse and railroad with an old locomotive are right next to them. They’re all in remarkably great condition. You can go inside and take a tour of them some weekends. We are also in the process of constructing a U.S. Marshals museum about a mile up the road from them. You can see all of these buildings from the bridge crossing the Arkansas River as you cross the border from Oklahoma to Arkansas. I see them every day on my way to work. The museum is HUGE and impressive. I had some of my high school senior pictures taken by Judge Parker’s courthouse. We call this part of town “The Old Fort City”. It’s so cool to live so close to a historic site.
Hey Weird History! I am new to this channel and I love it! I love learning about History and this channel definitely makes it more fun to learn. Hope all is well.
"Hey John, grab your snacks and make sure your sister has her blanket! We are going to a hanging today son! " 😳 Edit: JFC... That man struggled for 17 minutes before dying. Like bruh, they couldn't cut him down and try again at a later time? They really just watched him struggle for almost 20 minutes? 🤯
To try again later would be considered cruel and unusual punishment and against the US constitution forbidding it. One execution in Quebec, Canada was so botched. The hangman allowed too much rope and the condemned's feet just barely touched the floor. The hangman slid down the rope and stood on the person's shoulders. Took 20 minutes. In the US, a prisoner in recent times said, "I came here to die, not make a speech." For the morbidly curious, I think the Texas DOJ web site lists executions, last meal request and last words.
My great, great uncle by marriage was hung in Mississippi. The judge pardoned him because God decided he was innocent when the rope unraveled. If i remember correctly, he was innocent. He's even mentioned in several books about it. (Will Purvis)
God doesn't decide if people are innocent and guilty in trials and executions. That comment makes it sound like it's 1200. I think Trial by Ordeal was done by 1200, actually.
Hangman: any last words? Condemned: Y'all are some messed up people, coming out to see someone die. Ever thought of how messed up it is that you've come out to take pleasure in watching someone else die? EDIT: The number of people who take this seriously is too damn high.
When I was a young kid in the early 70's in Southeast Arizona, we had a nice little old lady that lived across the street from us. She said one local hanging had the victim's family sending out nice invitations. Another one had an obese woman that had poisoned her huband being decapitated by the drop (beats slow stragulation from a short drop, imo). I've also heard the those struggling from a short drop "Dancing the devil's jig".
I disagree. Multiple studies have been done showing that capital punishment does *not* serve as a deterrent, and is in fact much more expensive to carry out than simply sentencing someone to life in prison without possibility of parole (the long appeals process costs a lot of money). If public executions back then didn’t stop the gruesome crimes that led to them, bringing back public executions wouldn’t do jack, either. It’s not a deterrent, full stop.
Can you do history of autopsies &/or embalming? Like how autopsies came about, how people discovered seeing X thing present in a dead body = Y cause of death or what have you. When did they become common? Who performed them before coroners? Or for embalming, how they discovered what methods & chemicals work, how the processes for preservation change, why decode to embalm at all etc etc
You should make a video about old west currency. I'd be interested to know more about how much things cost, how much money people typically had and what form it took.
Black Jack Ketchum's last words on the gallow were "Let 'er rip!" He is quoted as saying a lot of crazy things before he hit the gallows. He's one of the interesting ones in the old west!
I recall hearing a macabre joke. When the condemned man climbed his gallows' first step, it broke under his feet and he asked his guard "I say ... is this thing safe?"
Pretty sure he was sentenced to die for robbing trains and leading a criminal gang. That and people knew how to handle his kind back then. Shame that people are too weak these days to demand that predators get their comeuppance.
@A. Double The Chef!! RE: "Dude was sentenced to die because Felonious assault. Now im not one to gloss over violence, but that's a bit much." He was convicted of felonious assault ON A RAILROAD TRAIN. That meant that he was messing with the property of the ruling class (i.e. railroad barons). That's why he had to go.
When Elizabeth Reed was hanged for Murder of her husband in Lawrenceville Illinois in 1845 there were several young boys perched on a tree limb to get a better view but at the moment before the gallows trap door was sprung, the limb broke making a loud cracking noise and the boys all screamed as they fell so many of the 5,000 spectators were distracted and missed seeing her make her plunge into eternity.
The first woman to be hanged in AZ was decapitated by the rope in a gruesome scene. Everyone, including the warden had become very fond of her in her time on death row.
My ex wire's Great Grandmother was a youngster in Ft. Smith Ar. during the era of Judge Parker. She told that hangings were rather festive, with people coming from miles around. They would set up picnics and wait for the "main event." Kids were not kept away and watched same as the adults. Sadly she died before our marriage, I would have loved to talk to her about this.
I saw a thing on Netflix on the Circus, and people would come in the afternoon they arrived, because they would do a parade. There were huge crowds. We now think of the circus as pretty boring, at least I do. But they didn’t have good WiFi back then.
I grew up in Fort Smith AR. Besides being famous for being the setting for a lot of True Grit, we are also famous for Judge Isaac Parker, the hanging judge. He hung dozens of men. He said he was opposed to hanging, but it was the law. Today, an exact replica of the gallows is on the historic site.
We talk about how barbaric it is to have crowds come to watch someone hang, but these days when a convicted murderer has their execution day, thousands of people wait outside the prison, cheering and selling merch when they hear the person died. There’s also viewing rooms to watch. Same shit, different century
@David Erickson it depends, i've seen videos of both. There are some that literally cheer when they see/hear the person died. The best example I have is the Ted Bundy case, and that really wasn't that long ago
John Brown's a weird graphic for "frontier" hanging; he was executed at Charles Town, WV (then VA; not Charleston), about 60 miles northwest of Washington, DC. That was far from "frontier".
Rasheedah Richmond it seems odd now, but don’t forget culture changes over a long enough timeline. Debts and personal grievances were settled in public by gun duels; which only proved who was fast and accurate and had no relation to the fairness of the argument at hand. Roman gladiators would fight and kill each other in front of the masses for entertainment much like just watching a baseball game today.
Because there was a chance that the victim would die slowly. Because execution is more about human sacrifice than it is about "justice". The "justice" is the excuse.
The last public hanging in America was in Owensboro, Kentucky. Thousands attended to see a man die...the Sheriff was a woman and she refused to conduct the execution. So, her Chief Deputy ensured the sentence was carried out. I wasn’t there but my father watched, it was a spectacle.
Love the old west episodes. Could you guys do one on the Mountain Man/Mountain man Rendezvous? I think the failed Franklin Expedition would also be a cool non west topic as well
Really liked this on, thanks. Suggestions Box :- I'd like to see the story of glass and/or mirrors. Any theories as to how n when glass making started(after all, it's a bit weird that if you heat up sand enough you get glass) Then, who thought of putting a backing(made of what?) to get a reflection. Wouldn't it have seemed a instance of sorcery or witchcraft?
I heard that a hanging was like entertainment and people would actually bring picnic baskets and they acted like they were just having a picnic down by a river or next to a lake. Hard to imagine that and bringing their kids is really hard to imagine.
Mom- “Alright kids everybody into the carriage pronto let’s move it! Oh, and don’t forget to bring the snacks. The popcorn at this hanging is gonna be waaay over priced I just know it. Come on we don’t wanna be in the back hurry up!”
@@ARedMotorcycle What is it with you and quotation marks? First off, those are used in citation. Can provide the original authors name? And secondly, get a life and quit being such a pedantic Busy Buzzkill.
The "Jig" here in the UK is often refered to as dancing "the Tyburn Jig" as the condemned resorted to a painful and slow suffocation if they failed to die upon the drop. Tyburn is named after the river Tyburn that once ran above ground close to what is today as Marbel Arch in London....
Remember when hangings were called “necktie parties”? Would lethal injections then be called “cocktail parties” since the drugs are called a lethal cocktail.
Watching this video reminded me of hanging scene at the beginning of the True Grit remake. The movie seemed to have stressed on being an accurate representation of the period, clothing, speech and heavy guns. Before the hanging, there were picnics and the chatter of conversations. When the floor was released, the sudden stop, jerk of the rope, the scene went quiet. I would suppose the finality of death stunned the spectators.
Love how the men being hanged for good causes were tactful, composed & eloquent in their last words, accepting their fate, while the mobsters, actual criminals and "bad boys", cried and begged like a lil' bitches...😂😂 . I would being crying too but it's just a odd how someone who based the life on being the tough guy dropped the facade at the last minute.
Shel Silverstein wrote a song in the 1960s called “25 Minutes to Go”. It’s about a guy waiting to be hanged, and narrating the events of the last 25 minutes leading up to him being hanged
About 20 years ago my daughter and I was having dinner and we looked outside and we seen my neighbour hanging he try to kill himself! We was in shock we went and try to tell his wife but she didn’t hear us knocking on the door anyway I came back to my house and called the police it was very traumatic for us both the police and Ambulance came! he did live because the rope had fallen. For a very long time ever time I closed my eyes I would see him hanging 😢
@Blut und Boden well, forgive my gentle sarcasm, but it seems that any attempt at detterence had failed miserably; those who were determined to commit crimes deserving of death stayed on their chosen path.
I think you're vastly overestimating how little people have changed. We might be more tolerant, but society is still as vengeful and bloodthirsty as ever. If we were to bring back public hangings now, they'd be just as much of an event as they were in the old west. Have public executions ever, in the course of human history, actually deterred criminals? We've been executing each other for eons and there's still criminals running rampant. It doesn't work. You are right that better education and equal opportunities can lower the crime rates, but executing criminals does a fat lot of nothing. You're welcome to believe what you'd like, but that doesn't mean you're right.
Unpopular opinion but if public hangings came back, but only for the VERY evil, like child killers, then I'd have a very hard time not supporting it! There are a lot of child killers who deserve this type of punishment.
I had a friend who lived in Jackson Georgia. I called a local florist on a Tuesday, if I remember correctly, to send her flowers? The person that answered said that they were closed, it was noon their time. She said that it was tradition for all of the businesses in town to close at noon on Tuesday because back when they had public hangings the whole town was suppose to attend. I thought it was a strange, but interesting tradition.
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Someone mentioned it earlier and it got a lot of attention but I’ll mention it here again: Another very interesting topic would be the history of cigarettes and big tobacco. There really is no good video about that online and I think it might be something interesting for you to cover.
Foundation of the US, economy built by black people...ppl don’t want to hear about that lol
Check out 'Early History of Oneida Silverware".....
Steve McDavin they get removed as they 🚬 pay yt to remove them.
That's not really "weird" though
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Hello from The Shire...My grandmother was born in 1891, and when she was about 9 she snuck into town and watched a hanging...Her father had forbidden her form attending, but she snuck into town and hid on the other side of the crowd behind a store sign. She was about 50 feet from the gallows and had a clear view. She was scared to death that her father would see her so she wore one of her stepmothers shawls and a floppy brimmed hat she had found in a ditch on her way into town. It was a dirty hanging and the guy danced for a bit, she thought it was about 5 minutes...She remembers him crapping and wetting himself, and a good deal of the front 2 rows as one of his pant legs came untied and he kicked...She watched until he was still and then turned her head, leaned forward and puked off the barrel she was standing on. She felt someone place a hand on her shoulder to keep her from falling. After throwing up she thanked the man that had helped her and was terrified to find it was her father and grandfather...They helped her down and her Pa handed her a Coca Cola and while she washed her mouth out she tried to apologize...Her father told her not to worry, he wasn't going to punish her as the good Lord already had...On the way home, he made her swear not to tell her brothers or step mother...Then they talked about what had happened during the hanging...She had uneasy dreams for a month afterward and NEVER tried to attend another one...I was in my 20's when we spoke of this and she said that she still had dreams where she would be back on the barrel, behind the store sign. waiting and watching...I never wanted to see one, but through her description, I feel I did...She spoke of what the guy was wearing and the smells of the crowd. Cigarette and cigar smoke, whiskey and beer and fried chicken. What the people in the crowd wore and the overall atmosphere of excitement and fear...For me, it was like a front row seat to the event...
For real? Woah. I know it's written here but maybe you should write it in the book. A victorian grandma's memories. Fascinating.
@@spacecat3198 Blushing in The Shire...I am honored by your comment and thoughts...I loved that old woman and her stiff necked attitude...It may have been a façade, but it was grand in scope...The picture of her and my grandfather on their wedding day in 1914 told the story of EXACTLY how pissed off she was...Her family hadn't attended because they had not approved of the man she married...The term "stone face" was meant for my grandmother in that picture. She was full of love and hugs and always ready with a laugh or story. She would bake the best pies and meals. I've seen her nurse a baby sparrow to health and set it free and answer the door after dark with the family .44 held in one hand behind her back after the Tate - LaBianca murders...Yeah, I just might write it all down...My children should know her as well as I did...Thank you...
@A Hobbit I am from the shire and I think you write as marellous as Tolkien. I hope you do write that book. :) I would have loved it if someone had done that for me.
@@riverdeep399 Uber-blushing now in The Shire...Thanks you for the compliment and I have already started to write down some of my memories of my grandmother...Her given name was Mary Jane, (go ahead with the jokes, she almost had a sense of humor...lol...) but to us, she was Grannie...I am doing it because I loved that old woman and as I stated before, my children need to know her also...Thanks again and its always humbling to meet a fellow halfling, as humans refer to us...lol...
@@spacecat3198 Same thing I thought of. Or at least an article that could be pedaled to history magazines and such. Really, you should consider it.
"Good morning, Mary, what do you plan on doing today?"
"I'm putting together a picnic lunch for me and my family. There's going to be a hanging in town square today at noon, and John and I thought it would be a good idea to have a nice family outing."
Lmao. 😂
"that sounds like a wonderful idea Marry, I think I might take Cletus and do the same."
i think death was a lot less hidden and taboo then. Now we are so removed from death, we never have to really be around our loved ones bodies or kill animals for food, but back then im sure death was just a fact of life that even kids were not shielded from. Its really interesting how that has changed over time with our technological advancements that allow most people to be so separate from anything death related.
@@CHLOCHLOLP For the most part yes, but there are still people that kill for food.
I have plenty of family members that hunt for deer and wild boar for the sake of putting meat in the freezer.
@@briannaaaron6804 well yes but thats a such a small group of people thats its almost negligable, society in general never has to experience death first hand. its probably like less than 1% of people who are farmers or morticians that really do have to live around any form of death.
@@briannaaaron6804 and human death is something we really never get to be close with, probably especially because we live so much longer now than we did 200 years ago.
Man, that's something. Public hangings were like sporting events.
In Rome Look what they did and Greece put a slave or prisoner in the arena or coliseum let a few lions out and it was a fight with his sword until the lions are him alive
now people just go to MAGA rallies
@Blut und Boden maybe the first time...but I doubt going to a hanging was a one time thing for a lot of people
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@Blut und Boden lynching of African Americans especially after ww1 tell another tale!
The outlaw Cherokee Bill Goldsby, had the best last words that i had ever heard. When he was asked if he had any last words, he said. "I came here to die, not to make a speech." Weird History should do a story on him.
What was it like to be at a frontier hanging? I'm sure it was a pain in the neck.
Ba-dum-tiss!
This. This is gold. Thank you sir.
@@YaePublishing o99
@Claire Koenig yeah too bad it's mostly right-wingers instigating the violence. Then hiding in the crowd.
@Claire Koenig don't you have a crying session to go to since your dear orange leader didn't get reelected.
I still remember to this day watching a western as a child with my grandfather on TV where they showed a public hanging. My grandfather said that's not how it is son. He went on to detail what happens, today I know he explained a dirty hanging. It was much later as an adult I realized he'd been to hangings. Because of that I researched hangings & lynchings & knew it was a spectator event. They would post it in the local newspapers, sell refreshments, make bets etc.
i'm a firefighter/paramedic and i have responded to a few suicide by hanging, and i can tell you that it is one of the most mind numbing, thought altering, and one of the most visually disturbing things you can see - especially if we get there after they have been hanging there for some time and have been dead for some time.
Wild West Suggestions:
Education. What were school houses really like and what was it really like to be a School Marm?
What was it like to be part of a posse?
What was it like for Native Americans when settlers encroached on their territory?
Also, regarding the South during slavery: What was it like growing up on a plantation for enslaved children versus children of the slave owners?
I can answer that, actually! My dad went to one. He's 62 and still alive. The one room school houses were full of kids in different ages. A first grader and an eighth grader would be in the same class, often learning the same things. They were usually run by a nun who often had switches, rulers or paddles to beat unruly kids with. They were around for quite a bit! Kids also really only went for a few hours, but they also only had the education of a fourth grader by the time they got into highschools.
Pamela what about the numerous slaves who fought FOR the South in the Civil War?
Not a small number either....
Sometimes the enslaved children were the children of the slave owners.
Tom Horn is buried in my favorite cemetery here in Boulder CO with an incorrect birth date on his tombstone. His brother, who is buried nearby, had him brought here after the hanging. I take care of his gravesite...found an un shot bullet from a .3o cal rifle, which is what he used to use, there a few months ago while weeding. re-buried it and left it for ol' Tom.
Imagine having Pepsi Half-Time Break Performance between the Hanging Events
Their slogan last year was "Live for Now!"
Or having to presentors to give their analysis before and after the show 🤔😂
If we’re hanging celebrities it might be pretty entertaining.
I'd want Joe Rogan to do commentary while watching hangings.
@@timwodzynski7234 and interview the hangee
Imagine hearing people talking about the blast they will have at your hanging this saturday
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Bruh imagine taking out a girl to a date and its the gallows 👁️👄👁️
And trying to resell the post card
I don't know much about it, but I do know the greeting "How's it hanging?" was severely frowned upon.
Low and to the left.
'How's it hanging?' has nothing to do with hanging people. It's a crude reference to something else entirely 😂
K L what is it about then?
@@callizto1964 Please refer to @Hunter Jenkins reply lol
Only my tailor gets away with it.
wow. Lincoln really was a man of morals. much respect.
"They're selling post cards of the hanging..."
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I think he was talking about the Duluth lynching there
Nice. Also I personally preferred the MCR cover.
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Having watched this video I was interested in how hangings in the US matched those in the UK. When, in 1845, a notorious killer was to be hanged in Manchester, England, excursion trains were run from various parts of the county. Some 250,000 people watched the execution.
The condemned were also given the right to their last words. One highwayman, John Rann known as Sixteen String Jack because he had sixteen colour strings hanging from the bottom of his britches, went further then that. Known for his quick wit and kept the crowd entertained all the way to the gallows where he then danced a gig before being hung.
At a hanging broadsides would be sold. This was a large sheet of paper which on one side would be printed such things like the last words or a final confession of the killer. Ballads about the killer would also be sold on broadsides and the seller would constantly sing the ballad so that people could learn the tune.
So not so different from Britain.
Some of the condemned had such long careers and had become so famous as to be the movie stars of their day. There's a certain perverse pride in being able to attract such a crowd as to need special trains to be put on.
This is a quality comment ! Fascinating stuff ! Cheers !
Highwayman in 1845 lol what a load of crap
@@simonh6371absolutely not crap, it was still happening, as were public hangings. Besides, what's the difference between holding up a coach or horse rider and today's carjacking and mugging?
Bruh imagine being about to die and some random dudes just cheering as if there is a sports match.
"Hang his ass, sea bass!"
That's what it would be like if they started to string up all of our rotten political figures. Past and present. 🤭🤭🤭
Today they take cell phone pictures while you dying instead, LOL!
A fascinating and disturbing video. Great research and sensitively handled.
This narrators voice gotta be The best ever
I live a short 10-minute drive from Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Fort Smith Gallows and Judge Parker’s courthouse are still standing today. The old jailhouse and railroad with an old locomotive are right next to them. They’re all in remarkably great condition. You can go inside and take a tour of them some weekends. We are also in the process of constructing a U.S. Marshals museum about a mile up the road from them. You can see all of these buildings from the bridge crossing the Arkansas River as you cross the border from Oklahoma to Arkansas. I see them every day on my way to work. The museum is HUGE and impressive. I had some of my high school senior pictures taken by Judge Parker’s courthouse. We call this part of town “The Old Fort City”. It’s so cool to live so close to a historic site.
Damn the fort Smith trippin.
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Do one on Yankee Jim Robinson you know at the Walley House 🏘️
"Hey John, grab your snacks and make sure your sister has her blanket! We are going to a hanging today son! " 😳
Edit: JFC... That man struggled for 17 minutes before dying. Like bruh, they couldn't cut him down and try again at a later time? They really just watched him struggle for almost 20 minutes? 🤯
Or they could have shot him or something. They shouldn't have left him there to suffocate like that, it's a horrible way to go.
@@4erographer Probably just as bad as the first failed electric chair executions, like the one in The Green Mile. Keep that sponge wet.
@@4erographer agreed. Even drowning or strangulation is quicker than that. I can't imagine how much he suffered.
@@ARedMotorcycle 😭 I cried at that part.
To try again later would be considered cruel and unusual punishment and against the US constitution forbidding it. One execution in Quebec, Canada was so botched. The hangman allowed too much rope and the condemned's feet just barely touched the floor. The hangman slid down the rope and stood on the person's shoulders. Took 20 minutes.
In the US, a prisoner in recent times said, "I came here to die, not make a speech."
For the morbidly curious, I think the Texas DOJ web site lists executions, last meal request and last words.
I so love this channel. Hours of entertainment for me. Also, I can't wait for Timeline to return. That will be a happy day
My great, great uncle by marriage was hung in Mississippi. The judge pardoned him because God decided he was innocent when the rope unraveled. If i remember correctly, he was innocent. He's even mentioned in several books about it. (Will Purvis)
God doesn't decide if people are innocent and guilty in trials and executions. That comment makes it sound like it's 1200. I think Trial by Ordeal was done by 1200, actually.
@@SStupendous athiest
@@Anonymous-xq5cs I'm not an atheist, I'm a Christian theist. So no.
@@SStupendous I think they saw the failed hanging as a sign from God though. Not really the same as an inquisition style Trial by Ordeal.
@@SStupendous dude what are you talking about?
Hangman: any last words?
Condemned: Y'all are some messed up people, coming out to see someone die. Ever thought of how messed up it is that you've come out to take pleasure in watching someone else die?
EDIT: The number of people who take this seriously is too damn high.
Well guess i would go whiteout Internet.
Ha! 😆
How about the body count on the average prime-time cop show, or the grisly dissection scenes in the CSI shows? We're not all that different really.
If the person being hung is scum then yes, its a good thing.
@Blut und Boden not everyone hung was a murderer lol
I was raised 20 miles from Judge Parkers. My Mom said my Grandpa used to pack a lunch & ride his horse to hangings. Pretty Strange.
Any last words?
Nah.... I'll just be hanging around for a while today!
When I was a young kid in the early 70's in Southeast Arizona, we had a nice little old lady that lived across the street from us. She said one local hanging had the victim's family sending out nice invitations. Another one had an obese woman that had poisoned her huband being decapitated by the drop (beats slow stragulation from a short drop, imo). I've also heard the those struggling from a short drop "Dancing the devil's jig".
I think I would have said no thanks, to the invitation...
I'll never understand the culture of, "kids, get in the car! There's a hanging at noon! Yeehaw!"
Id be this excited if they were hanging rioters.
Castle 🤢
Might be a double feature though!
@@Black-Sun_Kaiser dude wtf
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff it's okay for them to destroy lives but not have their lives destroyed? Typical leftist
If public hangings were done now and I mean a lot crime might be reduced drastically
Nah it would increase drastically. Could you imagine the outcry?
I disagree. Multiple studies have been done showing that capital punishment does *not* serve as a deterrent, and is in fact much more expensive to carry out than simply sentencing someone to life in prison without possibility of parole (the long appeals process costs a lot of money).
If public executions back then didn’t stop the gruesome crimes that led to them, bringing back public executions wouldn’t do jack, either. It’s not a deterrent, full stop.
i guess all onlookers would prefer it "dirty"
More to talk about I guess
I forgot what we were referred to momentarily so I was ... very ... confused
Can you do history of autopsies &/or embalming? Like how autopsies came about, how people discovered seeing X thing present in a dead body = Y cause of death or what have you. When did they become common? Who performed them before coroners?
Or for embalming, how they discovered what methods & chemicals work, how the processes for preservation change, why decode to embalm at all etc etc
You should make a video about old west currency. I'd be interested to know more about how much things cost, how much money people typically had and what form it took.
The expression to pull someone's leg comes from medieval hangings where people would pull the leg of a hanged person to take them out of their misery
it actually has to do with poor people tugging on trousers and lying to get money
What?? No, it doesn't. LOL
Means joking or not being serious I thought
Black Jack Ketchum's last words on the gallow were "Let 'er rip!" He is quoted as saying a lot of crazy things before he hit the gallows. He's one of the interesting ones in the old west!
A+ video!
Awesome video! Really helpful for seeing a clear picture of the event!
Well, y'know what they say.. 'No noose, is good noose.'
Haw haw
Edit: I love that movie.
I recall hearing a macabre joke. When the condemned man climbed his gallows' first step, it broke under his feet and he asked his guard "I say ... is this thing safe?"
can't stop laughing at the dancing skeleton... 8:40 .... Texas cakewalk .... 😁🤣🤣
I love you're wildwest videos!!
Dude was sentenced to die because Felonious assault. Now im not one to gloss over violence, but that's a bit much. 😬
Pretty sure he was sentenced to die for robbing trains and leading a criminal gang.
That and people knew how to handle his kind back then. Shame that people are too weak these days to demand that predators get their comeuppance.
@@bon7029 Those are the words of a meter maid.
@@bon7029 And they didn't wait years to carry the sentence out. Even a serial killer like Bundy: how many years before they finally fried him?
@A. Double The Chef!!
RE: "Dude was sentenced to die because Felonious assault. Now im not one to gloss over violence, but that's a bit much."
He was convicted of felonious assault ON A RAILROAD TRAIN. That meant that he was messing with the property of the ruling class (i.e. railroad barons). That's why he had to go.
@@Cissy2cute and no repeat offenders.
When Elizabeth Reed was hanged for Murder of her husband in Lawrenceville Illinois in 1845 there were several young boys perched on a tree limb to get a better view but at the moment before the gallows trap door was sprung, the limb broke making a loud cracking noise and the boys all screamed as they fell so many of the 5,000 spectators were distracted and missed seeing her make her plunge into eternity.
The first woman to be hanged in AZ was decapitated by the rope in a gruesome scene. Everyone, including the warden had become very fond of her in her time on death row.
The hanging provided an escape from every day life, except one guy it was an escape from life period
@Hamid Hussein: Except, back then, the death penalty was used for a lot more things than just murder.
My ex wire's Great Grandmother was a youngster in Ft. Smith Ar. during the era of Judge Parker. She told that hangings were rather festive, with people coming from miles around. They would set up picnics and wait for the "main event." Kids were not kept away and watched same as the adults. Sadly she died before our marriage, I would have loved to talk to her about this.
I saw a thing on Netflix on the Circus, and people would come in the afternoon they arrived, because they would do a parade. There were huge crowds. We now think of the circus as pretty boring, at least I do. But they didn’t have good WiFi back then.
The phrase "Let's hang" had an entirely different meaning back then.
"Are you, are you coming to the tree?..."
”They strung up a man... They say who murdered three...”
I’m typing here so that if someone answers I’ll be able to come back after I finish the prequel
Crazy how the only thing that stopped was the hanging. People still get happy for killing and violence.
Yeah but there usually criminals
@@thatonetroll1059 to kill a mockingbird wants to know your location
Life before WiFi was... interesting...
Thank Australia for WiFi
I grew up in Fort Smith AR. Besides being famous for being the setting for a lot of True Grit, we are also famous for Judge Isaac Parker, the hanging judge. He hung dozens of men. He said he was opposed to hanging, but it was the law. Today, an exact replica of the gallows is on the historic site.
We talk about how barbaric it is to have crowds come to watch someone hang, but these days when a convicted murderer has their execution day, thousands of people wait outside the prison, cheering and selling merch when they hear the person died. There’s also viewing rooms to watch.
Same shit, different century
@David Erickson it depends, i've seen videos of both. There are some that literally cheer when they see/hear the person died. The best example I have is the Ted Bundy case, and that really wasn't that long ago
There I was - just hangin' around - and I found your video. Loved it - thanks!
John Brown's a weird graphic for "frontier" hanging; he was executed at Charles Town, WV (then VA; not Charleston), about 60 miles northwest of Washington, DC. That was far from "frontier".
I wish I'd found this channel years ago. Your videos are brilliant. Your voice is wonderful to listen to. Thank you
I loved the hanging scene in blazing saddles trying to hang a man still riding his horse
Why would anyone want to willingly watch some get there neck broken 😭😂
Nothing to do in 1867 but theres no difference between u slowing by a car crash on the opposite side of the highway
Cause they deserve it.
Rasheedah Richmond it seems odd now, but don’t forget culture changes over a long enough timeline. Debts and personal grievances were settled in public by gun duels; which only proved who was fast and accurate and had no relation to the fairness of the argument at hand. Roman gladiators would fight and kill each other in front of the masses for entertainment much like just watching a baseball game today.
Because there was a chance that the victim would die slowly.
Because execution is more about human sacrifice than it is about "justice". The "justice" is the excuse.
They watch public beheadings in iran still today
From Blazing Saddles:
"Bart, they said you was hung!"
"They was right!"
The last public hanging in America was in Owensboro, Kentucky. Thousands attended to see a man die...the Sheriff was a woman and she refused to conduct the execution. So, her Chief Deputy ensured the sentence was carried out. I wasn’t there but my father watched, it was a spectacle.
"There's no justice, like angry mob justice." -Rev Lovejoy
John Brown is such a badass and should be celebrated as the hero he was. Long live John Brown’s ghost.
love your history telling 😃😃
Love the old west episodes. Could you guys do one on the Mountain Man/Mountain man Rendezvous?
I think the failed Franklin Expedition would also be a cool non west topic as well
A child who saw a hanging, especially a “dirty hanging” would hopefully be convinced to live a life inside the law!
That Native American was a total badass. I’ve got so much respect for him
The one who spoke about forgiveness
@@williamrobinson6457 yes
Really liked this on, thanks.
Suggestions Box :- I'd like to see the story of glass and/or mirrors. Any theories as to how n when glass making started(after all, it's a bit weird that if you heat up sand enough you get glass)
Then, who thought of putting a backing(made of what?) to get a reflection. Wouldn't it have seemed a instance of sorcery or witchcraft?
I heard that a hanging was like entertainment and people would actually bring picnic baskets and they acted like they were just having a picnic down by a river or next to a lake. Hard to imagine that and bringing their kids is really hard to imagine.
I heard they also brought their kids to see this is what happens to criminals.
He was named The Hanging judge because he was into divorces.
That dancing skeleton was hilarious xD
Mom- “Alright kids everybody into the carriage pronto let’s move it! Oh, and don’t forget to bring the snacks. The popcorn at this hanging is gonna be waaay over priced I just know it. Come on we don’t wanna be in the back hurry up!”
They'd have big LED screens nowadays, so nobody missed a thing.
I wanna die peacefully in my sleep like my grandma. Not like the other people in her car that night.
Very original. Should be in quotation marks.
@@ARedMotorcycle
What is it with you and quotation marks? First off, those are used in citation. Can provide the original authors name? And secondly, get a life and quit being such a pedantic Busy Buzzkill.
We need to bring them back.
The "Jig" here in the UK is often refered to as dancing "the Tyburn Jig" as the condemned resorted to a painful and slow suffocation if they failed to die upon the drop. Tyburn is named after the river Tyburn that once ran above ground close to what is today as Marbel Arch in London....
I wonder if they needed a subscription to watch.
Note: comment was made before watching.
Did it say that they needed one? I’m very curious now lol
John Brown is my man. He helped me hunt vampires.
This is interesting, but i'd like to see one of these showing how evidence was collected during the "frontier" times.
Remember when hangings were called “necktie parties”? Would lethal injections then be called “cocktail parties” since the drugs are called a lethal cocktail.
Weird English: You hung a picture, but you hanged a man.
Thats incorrect. It's hung
@@jaybird1150 no Jason it's you who is incorrect,
It's hanged.
As in hanged by their neck until dead.
Watching this video reminded me of hanging scene at the beginning of the True Grit remake. The movie seemed to have stressed on being an accurate representation of the period, clothing, speech and heavy guns.
Before the hanging, there were picnics and the chatter of conversations. When the floor was released, the sudden stop, jerk of the rope, the scene went quiet. I would suppose the finality of death stunned the spectators.
Love how the men being hanged for good causes were tactful, composed & eloquent in their last words, accepting their fate, while the mobsters, actual criminals and "bad boys", cried and begged like a lil' bitches...😂😂
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I would being crying too but it's just a odd how someone who based the life on being the tough guy dropped the facade at the last minute.
😂 lol
Shel Silverstein wrote a song in the 1960s called “25 Minutes to Go”. It’s about a guy waiting to be hanged, and narrating the events of the last 25 minutes leading up to him being hanged
Johnny cash did that song also
that native american guys quote gave me chills. Its so sad what has been done to them, and that no one really even cares.
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About 20 years ago my daughter and I was having dinner and we looked outside and we seen my neighbour hanging he try to kill himself! We was in shock we went and try to tell his wife but she didn’t hear us knocking on the door anyway I came back to my house and called the police it was very traumatic for us both the police and Ambulance came! he did live because the rope had fallen.
For a very long time ever time I closed my eyes I would see him hanging 😢
@Stella Cahill Yeah, nowadays people would just whip out their cell phones and start recording while making stupid commentary.
@@ARedMotorcycle
"Stupid commentary"
Notice I used quotation marks.😂
Lol alrighty
My mom always said, "YOUR DAD WOULD COMPLAIN EVEN IF HE WERE HUNG WITH A NEW ROPE"
I’d like a video on Edith Wilson
Wish they'd bring this back.
Can we start doing this again? A lot of people walking around who deserve this fate!!
"You can see all the beauty in the world in the way a hanged man swings!"
-Crommock-I-Phail
I would like a video on what it was like to be a shop keeper in the wild west.
John Brown, in the pic on your page, wasn't hung on the frontier.
He was hung 66 miles from Washington, D.C. (Harper's Ferry, Virginia) in 1859.
This all begs the question: who had the first thought that death by hanging was a good idea?
@Blut und Boden i'm just wondering where and how hangings began. And how it became an accepted form of legal punishment
@Blut und Boden well, forgive my gentle sarcasm, but it seems that any attempt at detterence had failed miserably; those who were determined to commit crimes deserving of death stayed on their chosen path.
@Blut und Boden i hope that even one person changed their mind after seeing a public hanging.
Lyne Benard Executing criminals doesn't prevent future criminals. It's really dumb logic that clearly doesn't work.
I think you're vastly overestimating how little people have changed. We might be more tolerant, but society is still as vengeful and bloodthirsty as ever. If we were to bring back public hangings now, they'd be just as much of an event as they were in the old west.
Have public executions ever, in the course of human history, actually deterred criminals? We've been executing each other for eons and there's still criminals running rampant. It doesn't work.
You are right that better education and equal opportunities can lower the crime rates, but executing criminals does a fat lot of nothing.
You're welcome to believe what you'd like, but that doesn't mean you're right.
The best Weird History narrator. Even something grim is accessible
Bring this event back and there wouldn't be 1 corrupt politrickan left
In Minecraft
Of course, there were NO corrupt "politrickans" back then ... nope ......
they only hung poor people
Irish Tyrant, you're wrong. The corrupt politicians would be hanging the honest ones ... and the news media would approve.
@@josephcope7637 ohh you might be right. Because we as Americans lost our balls decades ago. Proof? Current fuckery
What about:
"John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave
But his soul goes marching on
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah"
When are we gonna get to the 90's series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Adds new meaning to hanging around
Unpopular opinion but if public hangings came back, but only for the VERY evil, like child killers, then I'd have a very hard time not supporting it! There are a lot of child killers who deserve this type of punishment.
Good point. Hard not to agree with that.
I had a friend who lived in Jackson Georgia. I called a local florist on a Tuesday, if I remember correctly, to send her flowers? The person that answered said that they were closed, it was noon their time. She said that it was tradition for all of the businesses in town to close at noon on Tuesday because back when they had public hangings the whole town was suppose to attend. I thought it was a strange, but interesting tradition.
It’d be cool if we brought this back today. We have a hard time keeping it under control right now
Hi, I’m from Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Hangin Judge is very much a thing here. Check out the museum if you ever stop by