My grandparents and my dad worked for Hughes aircraft. My grandfather invented tools that were needed that didn't already exist. He was a tool and die maker/ machinist. He was self taught. When he retired Hughes had to hire him back for awhile because the college educated engineers couldn't figure out how to do the job. My grandpa's name appears on the patent paperwork for the tools that he invented. My grandmother did some of the wiring for the early NASA projects.
In 1986 I took a job at Hughes Aircraft Company in Tucson Arizona, and the old guys there told me that every Christmas back in the old days, Howard Hughes would send a rail road train out to the tracks that cut through the Factory Area, and there they would unload free turkeys for all of the employees, so that they could all have sumptuous Christmas dinners. After Hughes died the new owners allowed that tradition to lapse. So, yeah, Howard Hughes had his problems, but where he was good, he was great. Thumbs up- for the good in him.
@@brigittebeltran6701 Yeah, I was in Tucson when Raytheon bought out General Dynamics from San Diego. F! Just a few years before Raytheon had bought out Hughes Aircraft and they had problems asserting their Corporate Culture over the Hughes Culture, and so being so unsure of itself, well, the General Dynamics Culture took over. Well, the Hughes and Raytheon Culture had been great for dedicated and competent workers, that is, you could extend your expertise outward into as many projects as you could handle, and your territory would be recognized and your contributions appreciated. But the General Dynamics California crowd, well, they needed to take their engineers to the men's room to show them how to wipe their asses. But their Engineers picked up the same vibe of being helpless as their men. Instead of asking us how our own lines worked, they'd try to find more senior engineers belonging to our venders or whatever. It turned into a crappy place to work, when before it had been a kind of Worker's Paradise... even the Hughes and Raytheon Engineers had like it, because once the Workers knew their lines and everything was going smooth, then it would be like a Perpetual Motion Machine, everything taking care of itself. But the General Dynamics Engineers crashed everything and then insisted on sifting the ashes with nobody's help.
@@JohnJohnson-pq4qz Well, Hughes might have been tight with a nickel but maybe that contributed to his being able to keep the factory doors open when other companies failed. When I was there I knew really old guys that had been working there over 30 years, and they weren't complaining. but I hated Union Contract time, where the Union Anarchists would be twisting our arms and threatening to burn our houses and trash our cars unless we screamed for Boss Blood loud enough. Really, you wonder where hate in our Society comes from, and the Unions are still legal to do what they do. You would think conspiracy to violence and extrortion and coercion would be indictable offenses., but apparently where Unions are concerned, it's all just written off as "Boys Being Boys".
Even though you show videos of it, no biography of Hughes is complete without mentioning the Spruce Goose. My mother met Hughes. For a time he lived in San Antonio, early 1950's. My mother was a cashier at the Piggly Wiggly on San Pedro Ave. He would come in and have his staff load multiple carts full of groceries. He would only let my mother ring up the purchases because she was the fastest cashier (and a good looking blonde). The groceries all went to a nearby orphanage.
The biggest plane in the world at the 👁️👀👁️ time Hughes was dragged into Congress to explain why it was costing so much money 🤑 as it probably wouldn't or couldn't fly Hughes SAID if it doesn't fly I'll leave the USA and never return 😊 he personally flew it two it A half a mile
Well done video, particularly the early biography information. However, you didn't mention the one key incident that led to Howard Hughes's physical and mental decline -- his near fatal plane crash in 1946. According to doctors, it was a miracle he survived, suffering numerous broken bones, a broken neck and severe burns all over his body. This is key to understanding his strange behavior he became known for. As a direct result of the accident, he became addicted to pain killers for the rest of his life. Side note: One of the best books I've read about Howard Hughes is "The Investigation" by Gary Magnesen about the famous "Mormon will" mentioned in this video.
@@tintindb He was such a great test pilot that the Army banned him from flying any prototypes of Army aircraft after the 1946 crash where he massively screwed up.
It lacks a lot of things: his deals with providing planes to the Air Force, the creation of TWA, his fundamental role in turning Las Vegas what it is today, the fake diaries of Howard Hugues that he debunked on press conference by phone with several journalists to recognize his voice. The video makes seem that he did no movie at all at RKO and that was a short affair: he owned RKO for 10 years: from the 40s to the 50s. It is a very incomplete biography.
You don't mention how he inherited so much in the first place. His father invented the rock crushing drill bit used for oil drilling and patented it, then refused to sell any, instead leasing them out for a fortune and retaining full control. As he put it "This does not give me a monopoly of the oil drilling business, people can always use a pick and shovel."
Baker-Hughes still leases drilling tools. Supplied with full factory and engineering support and a field crew to take over and operate them. It is a very good way to do business. As the inventor and manufacturer are involved with every use, and can ensure it is used as effectively as possible. While learning every thing that is known about the operation, making improvements based on this experience, and keeping it in-house. So anyone who wants to compete has to start where you started, from zero, without gaining the coveted 10:1 advantage that comes from copying. Brilliant.
A friend of mine was a LV PD Detective. He told me that Hughes' handlers never left his side, never, not for a moment. EMS had been called several times to the LV penthouse hotel Hughes called home, this went on for years before he died. The police became involved when they noted the broken off needles in his arms and the horrible state he was in. The handlers were quick to spread icing over this, as well as money. The detectives were told to back off. He told me that Hughes' business interests had been completely taken over by his handlers and that they kept him doped constantly, living in his own filth. Those handlers? I'll give you a clue... their HQ is Salt Lake City.
Thank you for sharing this information. This kind of explains the phony will that suddenly appeared on a desk in that church in Salt Lake City! Do you know how he got involved with people from there? Or maybe I should ask: How did they manage to latch onto him since he wasn't a religious man from what I've read about him
The "handlers" were long-time employees who had proved their trustworthiness, you miserable bastard. In this world there will always be one no-good prick like you who has a hate motive and will invent scandals where none exist. If your shitty theory were true it would have been broadcast world wide from that day til the present. Go to hell you miserable ass.
Hughes was also a pioneer in chronic pain management. He was nearly killed in a 1946 plane crash, and spent the rest of his life battling pain from it.
The "Mormon Mafia" basically took Hughes hostage in his own home and controlled every aspect of his life. They did everything he wanted and stayed in his good graces. They sometimes had to go to great lengths to do so, such as the following. Hughes was a creature of habit more like obsessive. Every day after dinner he would have a special banana ice cream for dessert. The stock of this ice cream ran out in his huge home freezer so the Mormon Mafia went to buy it and learned to their horror that Baskin Robbins discontinued that flavor. Such a shock might bring Howard to his senses and his handlers did not want that. So they asked BR if they could make a batch for them. BR said yes, but it would be very expensive to do so rendering the product extremely expensive. His handlers weren't daunted by having to spend a lot of money on some ice cream. Then Baskin-Robbins lowered the boom and told them the smallest batch they could make was 1,000 gallons! They told them to make it and that they needed it by that night! For a rush job, it will cost much more. Just do it, the handlers said. That night after eating his bowl of banana ice cream, that probably cost over $100, Howard surprised the Mormon Mafia by saying, "That was great boys! But I'm tired of banana, how about starting tomorrow we make it butter pecan?"
While he was in hospital after the plane crash he found the hospital bed so uncomfortable that he set about redesigning it, and the hospital beds we have today is the result? He was also very hard of hearing (something else we have in common ) I find him fascinating so thank you for sharing your video. 🙏🏻🇬🇧
@@glynisforbes-bloomfield3325 From personal experience I wouldn’t say hospital beds are comfortable. Facts are facts we don’t know the real truth only what we have been programmed to believe. Your social security number if proof your just a cow.
Wow!! Thanks for the info!! ❤ I’ve spent way too much time in hospital beds in my life & I can barely stand the “fancy” ones that some places have; I can’t even imagine what the hospital beds were like back then!!😢👎 Go Howard!!❤
I don't know how effective those leather helmets were in preventing brain damage in the early years of aviation, but being Howard Hughes, he didn't always wear one. Just like some people today who still don't wear a seatbelt when they drive, because they are "great drivers", he felt he was "invincible" in the air. He was a "daredevil" who took unnecessary chances when he flew, and ended up with plane crashes that could have been avoided.
Fools! Hughes became the enemy of the state when he healed himself of multiple broken bones with Florida oranges. This meant Calcium and Vitamin C were a miracle healer, making him the target of the Rockefellers. They in turn, made him insane with fear. He became paranoid, It destroyed him. destroyed h
I enjoyed the video. I remember reading that one theory about Hughes’ mental status was the many head injuries he had suffered in various plane crashes, hard landings, and other accidents may have caused him to have a form of CTE, the same type of neurodegenerative disease seen to cause altered mental states in athletes. Between that and the syphilis, his brain was definitely under siege.
When I was doing my psychiatric nurse training. We still had a group of patients who had neurosyphilis. One we called The Sheriff, he had a toy sheriff's badge, and a very realistic cap gun. Lovely guy, he'd been the head window cleaner at Buckingham Palace. Mad as a box of frogs, but a lovely, gentle guy.
I despair of younger people these days to use not precautions (there IS still Chlamydia & HIV that show no symptoms!). These young people seem to think that it they get a STD then a course of antibiotics will be the end of it. That is not always the case with syphilis.
@@TheCloggydoggy Ikr! I feel like such an old lady but these kids make me crazy! As a GenXer: condoms condoms condoms PLUS birth control (whether barrier, pharma, or spermicide). Congratulations Millenials, you brought back SYPHILIS! Completely unheard of, except older cases, and almost eradicated when I was coming up. Can't even speak about Gen Z. Sad really but watcha gonna do. I'll pull up a rocking chair with ya Cloggydoggy and complain about kids today, smh. 😁❤️🍻
@@AndyYoung789 Trump’s has the symptoms of syphilis. That is why he uses orange makeup and dyes his hair. His rambling speeches and beliefs that Hannibal Lector was a great man are also the results of infection.
The most amazing thing about Howard Hughes is how much he was able to accomplish in spite of his many phobias, mental illnesses, and having to live in chronic pain. Most people would have killed themselves.
He was a genius...Except that he made that Spruce Goose plane that couldn't fly... For your information, lots of people who have mental illness are superior in intelligence.
He most likely lied about his birth date, I'm 100% sure of this. He said he was born December 24, 1905, which would have given him Mercury in Sag. He was most likely born September 24, 1905, with Mercury in Virgo. There is absolutely no way he had Mercury in Sag. Sag is too focused on the big picture to worry about details. Virgo specializes in small details. Hughes was obsessed with minor detail. When I contacted Astrotheme and pointed this out to them, they immediately agreed and changed his birth date on their website to the September 24 date. Check it out, Wikipedia differs to Astrotheme now. I am honored to have corrected this.
Handsome men stay handsome. I’m making an educated guess based on a lot of unknown facts about banking that that wasn’t the same Hughes. It was a carefully crafted double. All the drama on the front man and it makes great movies but It’s all about the foreign grantor trust protecting the private foundation that keeps assets protected otherwise the IRS would have had fun with him. foreign trusts house and protect all types of property . Nobody is looking at that or even asking the questions. Hughes was so handsome in his early days because it was NOT him after about 1945. Hughes didn’t leave a mess by having no will. There was a purpose in having no will …. for “Assets” in a foreign irrevocable grantor trust needs no will. All the assets convey privately and no taxable event has occurred. . . It’s hard to research that claim but if you are really interested research exactly what the Hughes Foundation is.
He can be credited for specialized cable television, as well. He had an affinity for old western shows and movies. He would continuously call the television stations and request old westerns to be broadcast. They advised him that if that is what he wanted, then he should buy a network. He DID and looped nothing but old westerns! Fun fact…although not for him, I’m sure.
This is apocryphal at best. He owned the television broadcaster in Las Vegas, and did make requests by telephone. Mostly, he endlessly watched films using a motion picture projector in his room..
@@MrShobar HH was an amazing man a real Genius but in viewing part of his film the outlaw His movie making was not up to the likes of John Houston imo who made great western films. Oh well guess you can't be good at everything This however does not in any way take away his genius HH was such a creative and energetic "go-getter" in his youth he was brave too and to top everything else very attractive So sad that his later life was spent mentally unhinged
@@MrShobarhe DID make requests..and he DID purchase NVs first broadcast station KLAS in the late 60s. He intended to air more westerns and aviation films.
I suffer OCD and anxiety and watching the Aviator I saw exactly my own condition. Particularly the inability to choose and make a decision along with the repeating of lines. Its living hell, it truly is
I discovered I'm autistic while having my 5-year old daughter diagnosed. I am 57, so in my day there was no chance to even get close to the source of my "odd" behaviour. Everyone around me assumed I was strongly eccentric at best, a candidate for the lunatic asylum at worst. The funny thing is that my 2-and-a-half-year old son is showing traits of autism: lining up of his toys following perfect geometric patterns, obsessions about topics which become all-consuming (it was trains, now it's planets), fixations, etc. And about our OCD, I don't wanna even go there. Besides, for me it's too late. If I'm lucky I have ten years left. What good would it do?
I understand his cleanliness OCD as I have it. I've always been a germaphobe but got worse after getting covid in 2020. I am always washing my hands especially after touching something someone else. Refuse to touch door handles unless I use part of my clothing as a barrier. It can be hell at times
I have OCD for a lifetime and panic attacks from anxiety, I joke that when I'm walking around with tissue boxes on my feet you'll know I lost it. I've broken my back 3 times, no doctor will give me pain meds since 2012 because they're afraid to lose their license, my spine is collapsing. Nothing will get to you more than constant, sometimes excruciating pain, and not being able to sleep.
I bought a micrometer on eBay, in the bottom of the box was a piece of cardboard, on the back side of the card was the printing of a Hughes Aircraft time card.
You are the proud owner of a micrometer that once belonged to a guy who bought a micrometer from a guy who worked for Hughes Aircraft. And you have a perfect name for for an defense contractor employee!
I'm from Houston. My uncle was his personal pilot. My aunt didn't like him flying Hughes around with all of the starlets. He said he was an odd duck but a good guy.
Once you said scandalous I knew it was Syphillis. That was rampant back in the day and without the knowledge we have today it was far worse. Thanks for clearing up how he died, I always did wonder that.
My aunt had that happen. Her husband gave it to her and she never knew until it had gone to her brain. She then began to drink beer day and night, stay up all night (she lived with us at that point) and would chainsmoke all night. She did get off the beer with some medical help but died at 63, such a shame, because she was the nicest person but her horrible husband gave that to her and destroyed her life.
That finally makes sense. Thank you for a logical conclusion to HH demise. (The "Carpetbaggers" - is still one of my favorite "based on" movies.) 😉🙏🏼 God bless Mr. Hughes.
@@hblee88 It doesn't make total sense as he was still able to make brilliant business decisions and even appeared in Vegas at least into the late 60s. A good story about Hughes was sometime in the sixties after his grooming and appearance had already deteriorated, he played some table game at a casino he'd bought, but one of the floor men had no idea who he was and just saw a guy in old clothes and wanted to throw him out. The manager had no idea who he was either, but said hey he's playing, spending money and isn't bothering anyone, leave him alone. Hughes purchased several other casinos and put the man in charge of running them as from the incident he figured he was competent.
I worked on a computer for Summa Corporation (Hughes' company) in Las Vegas in July of 1977 and it was as if Howard Hughes was still alive and everything was running accordingly. The TV stations only played the best movies and constantly. The class of his hotels is unmatched by the hotels today and they spoiled me forever.
Companies led by the a visionary (ie, Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, etc.) are like this. It's when bean counters take the lead when corporations implode. (i.e. Intel, HP, Kodak, and Starbucks?).
I worked at Hughes tools in the old industrial part of Houston, we were demolishing out but saving machines to send to another drill co. In Texas, well the weird thing i noticed was when we were able to go back into the mgmt area of the shop. It looked like you went back in time to 1940s, old typewriters, suits n hats hanging, couches that were leather from way back like you were in a museum, just bizzar , even smelled like old times. I didn't like going back in there it felt like you were being watched and weren't supposed to be in there ,we were told Not To Touch anything, that howard Hughes wanted it left like this .
@@evelynhyland I never saw Mr. Hughes so your dad was lucky. I worked for Hughes Radar Systems in the prototype shop. The place was excellent in every way possible. We didn't even have to clean our machines because there were other employees to do that. The older guys were eager to share tricks of the trade and the cafeteria was a restaurant. Armed guards worked the elevators to get down to the shop and it paid well. The only downfall was the drive to El Segundo, CA.
OCD is hell, it can destroy you like it did him. I suffer the cleanliness OCD, I'm a major germaphobe and get paranoid if I can't wash my hands after touching objects other people touch. I don't like being in places where there are a lot of people concentrated because of potential airborne diseases
I am the opposite, antibodies come from contact with germs. Get vaccinated against the dangerous ones and develop resistance to the others. Being clean is an offense to nature.
We learned about Hughes' OCD in psych class in the 70s; it was fairly well-known that Hughes didn't bathe, shave, or cut his nails and-apparently-shuffled around with Kleenex boxes on his feet.
That was directly before he died. His caregivers weren't doing their job. I feel sorry for the man, someone should have watched after him. I am well acquainted with mental illness and lots of times it is prevalent in the rich and in the poor. I admired him, Howard Hughes was a genius. Takes one to know one...
@@OpalAllen-j8r Yes, I agree. Why weren't the individuals responsible for his care investigated and charged with neglect/abuse? His 'Doctor' prescribing massive amounts of Codeine was also negligent, if not criminal. The neglect and abuse that HH was subjected to was astounding!! Then there is the matter of the dubious financial transactions, benefiting those 'caring' for him.
I was living in the Bahamas and spent most days doing Dolphin Shows with my Boyfriend at the time. It was at Brittania Beach Resort, where Howard Hughes spent the last years of his life holed up. He had the ENTIRE TOP FLOOR. Everybody knew that he was nuts and many rumors circulated among the Staff.
I believe he lived the last year of his life at the Princess Hotel in Acapulco. He was carried out as he was dying and put on a plane to Houston where he died en route.
There's a 1980 movie called "Melvin and Howard" about Melvin Dumar's claim. Like most "based on a true story" movies, it's mostly BS. Jason Robards as Howard Hughes is worth the watch alone.
I was honored to him in person . He stopped by my DaDs house to meet us thank my DaD for all the drawings he had done for him. My didn’t one cent for all those drawings. Very nice and kind man!
During the 70s, we lived in the Hotel Intercontinental in Managua, Nicaragua. Howard Hughes spent a good amount of his late years living in the same hotel and same rooms. We loved hearing about his weird habits from the staff.
Howard Hughes is a hero to me, a mentor. Talk about guts, as a pilot, a genuis, over the edge. Losing both his parents at an early age would have been traumatising. I have ocd and I didn't realise until I had purchased over 6 Harley Davidson motorcycles, and I had no home, living in a caravan, over 60nyears old still driving milk tankers to survive, and bought more. Until my body gave up, osteo in the hip, so bought small Sportster, can't get on it, so bought a scooter. I have an aircraft for 18 months and can not get in it. Howard Hughes was a great man and loved aviation, an inspiration and sorry to see his ill health and destruction.
@@schrisdellopoulos9244 Actually a Kiwi like Shane Van Gisbergen, living in Australia. I survived an aircraft crash, cropdusting in a Piper PA 25 235 Pawnee. They usually explode on impact, fuel tank behind engine. Mine didn't, and I went in nose first after hitting power wires, and my crash helmet had damage from hitting the internal cockpit crash cage; so I Praise God regularly.
I always remember reading that after his security guys accidentally lost his wife's cat he made them all write letters to the cat, asking how it was. A very eccentric genius.
Some genius types never fit in. They are true aliens on this planet and see through all the games people play. If at age 11 invented his autobicycle, he was advanced beyond most.
@@Blackbird_Singing_in_the-Night His family wasn't rich until his dad invented the rock crushing drill bit in the Humble Texas oilfields outside of Houston.
The saying: Money does not bring happiness! It pisses me off because I would make good use of that much money and certainly not waste my life away! Money brings happiness in the right hands!!
@@beatricerigaud8942 What does money have anything to do with happiness? I can be blessed and happy with money. Which one would you pick poor and happy or rich and happy. I’ll take the rich and happy personally.
I learned to fly helicopters in the Hughes TH-55 Osage in Texas. They were internal combustion engines and 6 fan belts drove the main rotor. We called them "Mattel Messerschmidts" due to their relatively small size. The fun started after I soloed and we got to tear ass around the Mineral Wells area. Thank you Howard. BTW, the basic model was updated and nowadays known as the Schweizer S300.
In his youth, Hughes attended Prosso School in Houston, under the tutelage of James Richardson, second husband of Ethel Sloan Park Smith (my grandmother). My father Wilbur, uncle Ralph, and aunt Lucille all attended Prosso and knew Hughes well, especially since Hughes was a bully who picked on Ralph until Lucille, with flailing arms, beat the hell out of Howie. Later, Dad drew on his acquaintance for a job and wound up working on the “Spruce Goose.” I remember asking Dad what Hughes was like. He answered, tersely (as was his wont), “Son of a bitch.”
I worked for Hughes GSG in Fullerton in the early 80's then went to Corp Telecom in Long Beach for a few years. They put be through school and I will be forever grateful for that. But by then Hughes had got completely batshit crazy. I did get to walk thru some offices that he maintained and also through the Spruce Goose. Never got on the Glomar Explorer but went dockside to see it in LB. Since I was a corporate guy I did get to see pretty much all the Hughes facilities including Culver City and Missile Systems Group manufacturing in Tucson.
Who does? Most of us, successful or not, feel age ripping bits and pieces out of us. While many leave this world lucid and with a sense of accomplishment, satisfaction or gratitude, the majority feel a longing for what might have been, trails left untrodden.
Hughes inherited enough to buy out all his relative's interests in the Hughes Tool Company. Smart move for a young man. But you missed this point. Also, Hughes discovered his father's body on the lawn of their home. He'd died of a heart attack.
He is a true American hero. The man hated communists and communism, he was a natural born aviation and defense genius. Contributing much to the field. Companies and products still exist to this day thanks to him. When singled out among everyone else for doing what he did for the country during war by asswipe, jealous politicians and rivals, he clowned on them all with great results. Was he odd? Yes, but so what. He is one of the greatest humans, and there will never be anyone like him ever again.
Very, very intetesting compilation and compendium on Hughes. Indeed some things were culturally and socially known, such as characters in movies based on him. However the fog of mystery and eccentricism amplified by the MSM of the day didn't bring out such details as his medical history (maybe it wasn't released to the journalists or general public arena or such details were pushed aside back then). But this video is really well done. Thank you.
At the time, narcotics such as codeine, was freely available, didn't require a prescription. In Canada, codeine was available in a regular pain medication was called Anacin 444?..,up until, at least the early 1990's. It was their version of Tylenol or Ibuprofen I had a coworker ask me to bring her back a bottle from my visit to Canada at the time. I was unaware of what it contained.
Neurosyphilis and mercury poisoning are a hell of a combination....... It's amazing he lived as many years as he did through that horrific condition. He lives no doubt bi-polar as well, but had the money and genius to turn that into an amazing career, although he was no doubt miserable for much of it. I think there are certain heights of achievement, especially in the arts less so in business, that can only be reached by the truly maniacal
Hughes has always been a fascinating person to learn about! Great Job making this about Howard Hughes! It's full of great information. HH definitely had the concept/ idea for On Demand Television! His mindset was the way the future... 😊
Hughes was really fortunate that the doctors prevented his syphilis from advancing to the "Gummitis" stage. That's where the cartilage & soft tissues of your body begin to dissolve, and if you live long enough, you could literally watch your nose, ears, fingers or toes painlessly fall off.
He also suffered from oxygen deprivation during a long record-setting flight in the Arctic. His oxygen tube froze up and he got frostbite in his mouth and throat and had low oxygen for some hours. That would explain some mental oddities.
I worked at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City and then El Segundo from No 1973 until I retired in Nov. 1999. Shortly thereafter it was taken apart piece by piece.
There’s still a lot of the Hughes, now Boeing, buildings left in El Segundo. I worked there until 2015. When they did a major remodel on the original Hughes Machine Tool headquarters you would have known as S50, I wandered up to Howard’s office for a quick look.
Great video, concise and intriguing. I have read about Robert Mahue and his connections in attempts to kill Castro. Purportedly, a man looking like Hughes played the role but became a recluse. Mahue is also peripherally connected to the JFK assassination.
I can't "like" this video because it completely overlooks his relationship with the CIA. The Russian Submarine alone was an amazing feat and reveals just how much he and the CIA worked together. This part of his life needs to be explored and/or exposed.
Part of his property, we called the beanfield, was right down the street bordered by Sepulveda Blvd. Played there all the time as a kid. I remember the old Hughes Tool Company on Jefferson Blvd not far from there. Had the opportunity to make deliveries to a very large 1940s metal building with lots of windows and nearby runway where people designed things. It's all gone. I think Dreamworks is now located there.
One of the invention we see every day that Howard designed was for his movie starring Jane Russell called the Outlaw and knowing that sex sells wanted her large bust shown in the very best way and also to satisfy the movie censors. He, therefore, personally designed the uplift bra with wire support that all of us men today enjoy. Thanks Howard RIP
I find it incredible that the opening picture is of a younger Hughes and one of the last photos of Jason Robards. I know this because my dad was a friend of his, and would drag me along to visit.
At 10:20 you say that Nixon ordered the Watergate break-in. Actually, Nixon was unaware beforehand of the break-in. Also, the main source of income for Hughes was his patented invention of a special kind of drill bit used for hard rock oil drilling. Hughes also founded TWA airlines.
Yep. He inherited Hughes tool but built TWA and fought the government corruption with Pan AM non stop. They hated his competition that was hurting them.
When Nixon found out about the break-in he participated in a cover-up. That's all he did but there were many in Media who hated him at least as bad as Trump. Their hate was boundless, and they got him to resign. Fact is Nixon was indeed not a crook--he was steadfast, a good man generally but he really had super enemies in the Media.
I actually saw the Spruce Goose when it was in Long Beach, CA with the Queen Mary. I just remember how unbelievably enormous it was as and I walked through the fuselage and the wings. I remember the guide saying you could fit 50-70 people in one of the wings alone.😳 Thanks for posting this info as I had no idea it had been moved to Oregon.😊
Syphilis. Makes sense. It is strange how he wasn't prescribed penicillin after is was discovered in 1930. He had the money and connections. By 1941 it was purified for mass use. He still would've suffered ill effects, but at least it wouldn't have gotten worse.
It was already too late and rain its course if you have syphilis in the brain and only can take up to 12 months if not treated after that penicillin won't work
Yes this isn't a good representation of Howard Hughes Shame people drag his life through the muck..he was brilliant. I enjoyed watching Leonardo C in the Aviator.
Well done info. My Dad worked for Hughes Tool Company in Texas as a Master Machinist. Also later worked for Hughes at his Culver City and Santa Monica locations. I even eventually worked for Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton, CA as a Tech for a few years along with my brother. I have to think after surviving his crash in the XF-11 into Beverley Hills, he became sort of a pain-cripple, only moderated by pain killing drugs.
Excellent video. Loved the details. 😔 sad and tragic life. Wish he had medicine and help. Loved the movie the aviator. Leonardo di caprio was fantastic in the movie portraying Hughes. A genius who suffered and died a tragic death. 😢😢😢😢
Do you know, at the time, I couldn't make heads or tails of the Watergate Scandal, and when you said what it was, it seems unbelievable that it brought down a President, and, to me it's totally hilarious. For all the wring reasons.
He is an example of why you might consider using experts. It is true that his father invented a drilling device was used in the oil industry. In the early 1930s, it was clear that tax laws would be changed and probably tax rates go up. His attorney had a Medical Foundation created and the patent transferred to the Foundation. Whenever Mr. Hughes needed a loan for business reasons, the Foundation would make the loan. The Foundation also did not fund medical programs for many years. So, it was a legitimate tax minimization. As a result, a tax law was passed that required I believe like 2% of a Foundation's assets to be distributed for Foundation purposes, thus assuring that a Foundation would not continue in perpituity.
My grandparents and my dad worked for Hughes aircraft. My grandfather invented tools that were needed that didn't already exist. He was a tool and die maker/ machinist. He was self taught. When he retired Hughes had to hire him back for awhile because the college educated engineers couldn't figure out how to do the job. My grandpa's name appears on the patent paperwork for the tools that he invented. My grandmother did some of the wiring for the early NASA projects.
Does the name Failkoff mean anything to you?
@@PeterAlanA1234567890 no,I don't recognize that name.
Waw, nice story!!
My grandfather was also a tool, dye and pattern maker/machinist for military aviation contractors.
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In 1986 I took a job at Hughes Aircraft Company in Tucson Arizona, and the old guys there told me that every Christmas back in the old days, Howard Hughes would send a rail road train out to the tracks that cut through the Factory Area, and there they would unload free turkeys for all of the employees, so that they could all have sumptuous Christmas dinners. After Hughes died the new owners allowed that tradition to lapse. So, yeah, Howard Hughes had his problems, but where he was good, he was great. Thumbs up- for the good in him.
Today's RAYTHEON....Definitely not like the kind hearted Howard Hugh's.😢
@@brigittebeltran6701 Yeah, I was in Tucson when Raytheon bought out General Dynamics from San Diego. F! Just a few years before Raytheon had bought out Hughes Aircraft and they had problems asserting their Corporate Culture over the Hughes Culture, and so being so unsure of itself, well, the General Dynamics Culture took over. Well, the Hughes and Raytheon Culture had been great for dedicated and competent workers, that is, you could extend your expertise outward into as many projects as you could handle, and your territory would be recognized and your contributions appreciated. But the General Dynamics California crowd, well, they needed to take their engineers to the men's room to show them how to wipe their asses. But their Engineers picked up the same vibe of being helpless as their men. Instead of asking us how our own lines worked, they'd try to find more senior engineers belonging to our venders or whatever. It turned into a crappy place to work, when before it had been a kind of Worker's Paradise... even the Hughes and Raytheon Engineers had like it, because once the Workers knew their lines and everything was going smooth, then it would be like a Perpetual Motion Machine, everything taking care of itself. But the General Dynamics Engineers crashed everything and then insisted on sifting the ashes with nobody's help.
I just read Robert Mahue's Book. Lots of BS im sure but lots of examples of Hughes being the cheapest CEO of the time...lol
@@JohnJohnson-pq4qz Well, Hughes might have been tight with a nickel but maybe that contributed to his being able to keep the factory doors open when other companies failed. When I was there I knew really old guys that had been working there over 30 years, and they weren't complaining. but I hated Union Contract time, where the Union Anarchists would be twisting our arms and threatening to burn our houses and trash our cars unless we screamed for Boss Blood loud enough. Really, you wonder where hate in our Society comes from, and the Unions are still legal to do what they do. You would think conspiracy to violence and extrortion and coercion would be indictable offenses., but apparently where Unions are concerned, it's all just written off as "Boys
Being Boys".
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Even though you show videos of it, no biography of Hughes is complete without mentioning the Spruce Goose.
My mother met Hughes. For a time he lived in San Antonio, early 1950's. My mother was a cashier at the Piggly Wiggly on San Pedro Ave. He would come in and have his staff load multiple carts full of groceries. He would only let my mother ring up the purchases because she was the fastest cashier (and a good looking blonde). The groceries all went to a nearby orphanage.
The biggest plane in the world at the 👁️👀👁️ time Hughes was dragged into Congress to explain why it was costing so much money 🤑 as it probably wouldn't or couldn't fly Hughes SAID if it doesn't fly I'll leave the USA and never return 😊 he personally flew it two it A half a mile
Awesome. You don't have to be a Multi Millionaire. Do it too. In honor of your Mom. Start a tradition.
The newsreel clips in the video show it from many angles.
@kentkearney6623 I beg your pardon. You most certainly do need to be a millionaire to fill a bunch of grocery carts these days.
Went on the Spruce Goose when it was docked in Long Beach. How that thing ever got even a foot off of the water is astounding.
I had no inkling that Hughes and the Wright brothers were cousins - so gave a like on that alone.
That's crazy, greatness was in the bloodline.
@mark “greatness” sure, follow enough bloodlines it stops becoming a coincidence and the “greatness” wears off.
@@bb5979 can you expand on that?
@@pcmasterfilms
Most US presidents are related and or descrndants of royalty, for example.
why would you have an inkling at all about an otherwise astoundingly minute probabilty like that
Well done video, particularly the early biography information. However, you didn't mention the one key incident that led to Howard Hughes's physical and mental decline -- his near fatal plane crash in 1946. According to doctors, it was a miracle he survived, suffering numerous broken bones, a broken neck and severe burns all over his body. This is key to understanding his strange behavior he became known for. As a direct result of the accident, he became addicted to pain killers for the rest of his life. Side note: One of the best books I've read about Howard Hughes is "The Investigation" by Gary Magnesen about the famous "Mormon will" mentioned in this video.
Hughes had a few nervous breakdowns during his lifetime. They were all untreated. One was following the TWA debacle.
Definitely had OCD behavior since childhood but that impact head injury absolutely disabled his ability to cope with the ocd.
Thanks for pointing this out. I thought that this should have come out - and the guy was an honest-to-goodness test pilot.....
@@tintindb He was such a great test pilot that the Army banned him from flying any prototypes of Army aircraft after the 1946 crash where he massively screwed up.
It lacks a lot of things: his deals with providing planes to the Air Force, the creation of TWA, his fundamental role in turning Las Vegas what it is today, the fake diaries of Howard Hugues that he debunked on press conference by phone with several journalists to recognize his voice. The video makes seem that he did no movie at all at RKO and that was a short affair: he owned RKO for 10 years: from the 40s to the 50s.
It is a very incomplete biography.
You don't mention how he inherited so much in the first place. His father invented the rock crushing drill bit used for oil drilling and patented it, then refused to sell any, instead leasing them out for a fortune and retaining full control. As he put it "This does not give me a monopoly of the oil drilling business, people can always use a pick and shovel."
ahhh, the "three cone rotary bit"....
Brilliant.
wow genius! how do these people think of these money making ideas. fascinating
Thank you for adding to the documentary!
This is pertinent information to add about Howard Hughes!
Baker-Hughes still leases drilling tools. Supplied with full factory and engineering support and a field crew to take over and operate them.
It is a very good way to do business. As the inventor and manufacturer are involved with every use, and can ensure it is used as effectively as possible. While learning every thing that is known about the operation, making improvements based on this experience, and keeping it in-house. So anyone who wants to compete has to start where you started, from zero, without gaining the coveted 10:1 advantage that comes from copying. Brilliant.
A friend of mine was a LV PD Detective. He told me that Hughes' handlers never left his side, never, not for a moment. EMS had been called several times to the LV penthouse hotel Hughes called home, this went on for years before he died. The police became involved when they noted the broken off needles in his arms and the horrible state he was in. The handlers were quick to spread icing over this, as well as money. The detectives were told to back off. He told me that Hughes' business interests had been completely taken over by his handlers and that they kept him doped constantly, living in his own filth. Those handlers? I'll give you a clue... their HQ is Salt Lake City.
Thank you for sharing this information. This kind of explains the phony will that suddenly appeared on a desk in that church in Salt Lake City! Do you know how he got involved with people from there? Or maybe I should ask: How did they manage to latch onto him since he wasn't a religious man from what I've read about him
The "handlers" were long-time employees who had proved their trustworthiness, you miserable bastard. In this world there will always be one no-good prick like you who has a hate motive and will invent scandals where none exist. If your shitty theory were true it would have been broadcast world wide from that day til the present. Go to hell you miserable ass.
Why am I not surprised?
@@dwhitman3092 You are a hate-filled Jackass.
True, his handlers were Mormons
Incredible to read the comments and see people stories that were only 1 or 2 degrees of separation from Hughes!
Hughes was also a pioneer in chronic pain management. He was nearly killed in a 1946 plane crash, and spent the rest of his life battling pain from it.
It must not have been important, or it would have been in this film.
@@Hellenback137 Next you'll fault the Spruce Goose because it wasn't an A380.
So he was the first ever opiate addict? Impressive. If he hedn't been as rich, he'd have been an homeless streetdrug overdose victim.
@@Bob.martens Exactly.
@@Bob.martens No way dude. I think the Chinese were the first addicts centuries ago. Look it up then give us a report. Thanks!
The "Mormon Mafia" basically took Hughes hostage in his own home and controlled every aspect of his life.
They did everything he wanted and stayed in his good graces. They sometimes had to go to great lengths to do so, such as the following.
Hughes was a creature of habit more like obsessive. Every day after dinner he would have a special banana ice cream for dessert.
The stock of this ice cream ran out in his huge home freezer so the Mormon Mafia went to buy it and learned to their horror that Baskin Robbins discontinued that flavor. Such a shock might bring Howard to his senses and his handlers did not want that. So they asked BR
if they could make a batch for them. BR said yes, but it would be very expensive to do so rendering the product extremely expensive.
His handlers weren't daunted by having to spend a lot of money on some ice cream. Then Baskin-Robbins lowered the boom and told them the smallest batch they could make was 1,000 gallons!
They told them to make it and that they needed it by that night! For a rush job, it will cost much more. Just do it, the handlers said.
That night after eating his bowl of banana ice cream, that probably cost over $100, Howard surprised the Mormon
Mafia by saying, "That was great boys! But I'm tired of banana, how about starting tomorrow we make it
butter pecan?"
While he was in hospital after the plane crash he found the hospital bed so uncomfortable that he set about redesigning it, and the hospital beds we have today is the result? He was also very hard of hearing (something else we have in common ) I find him fascinating so thank you for sharing your video. 🙏🏻🇬🇧
Very fascinating
@@glynisforbes-bloomfield3325 From personal experience I wouldn’t say hospital beds are comfortable. Facts are facts we don’t know the real truth only what we have been programmed to believe. Your social security number if proof your just a cow.
Hospital beds are still uncomfortable.
Wow!! Thanks for the info!! ❤
I’ve spent way too much time in hospital beds in my life & I can barely stand the “fancy” ones that some places have;
I can’t even imagine what the hospital beds were like back then!!😢👎
Go Howard!!❤
Just imagine how loud those planes were during flight and the length of his task. That man really stretched himself, way beyond human limits.
Howard Hughes, had many plane crashes and head injuries, this no doubt this contributed to his 'strange behaviour...'
I don't know how effective those leather helmets were in preventing brain damage in the early years of aviation, but being Howard Hughes, he didn't always wear one. Just like some people today who still don't wear a seatbelt when they drive, because they are "great drivers", he felt he was "invincible" in the air. He was a "daredevil" who took unnecessary chances when he flew, and ended up with plane crashes that could have been avoided.
Do you have proof of that?
Fools! Hughes became the enemy of the state when he healed himself of multiple broken bones with Florida oranges. This meant Calcium and Vitamin C were a miracle healer, making him the target of the Rockefellers. They in turn, made him insane with fear. He became paranoid, It destroyed him. destroyed h
Having his life threatened daily didn't help his mental health much either.
More than 'contributed' they were the cause, secondary was pain killer addiction.
Thank you for this, a clear account of a man's life no hint of sensationalism.
I enjoyed the video. I remember reading that one theory about Hughes’ mental status was the many head injuries he had suffered in various plane crashes, hard landings, and other accidents may have caused him to have a form of CTE, the same type of neurodegenerative disease seen to cause altered mental states in athletes. Between that and the syphilis, his brain was definitely under siege.
When I was doing my psychiatric nurse training. We still had a group of patients who had neurosyphilis. One we called The Sheriff, he had a toy sheriff's badge, and a very realistic cap gun. Lovely guy, he'd been the head window cleaner at Buckingham Palace. Mad as a box of frogs, but a lovely, gentle guy.
I despair of younger people these days to use not precautions (there IS still Chlamydia & HIV that show no symptoms!). These young people seem to think that it they get a STD then a course of antibiotics will be the end of it. That is not always the case with syphilis.
Could’ve been an undiagnosed medical problem like dementia.
@@TheCloggydoggy Ikr! I feel like such an old lady but these kids make me crazy! As a GenXer: condoms condoms condoms PLUS birth control (whether barrier, pharma, or spermicide).
Congratulations Millenials, you brought back SYPHILIS! Completely unheard of, except older cases, and almost eradicated when I was coming up.
Can't even speak about Gen Z.
Sad really but watcha gonna do. I'll pull up a rocking chair with ya Cloggydoggy and complain about kids today, smh. 😁❤️🍻
@@AndyYoung789 Your comment was neither clever, insightful or funny.
@@AndyYoung789
Trump’s has the symptoms of syphilis.
That is why he uses orange makeup and dyes his hair. His rambling speeches and beliefs that Hannibal Lector was a great man are also the results of infection.
And this video only scratched the surface of his life.
The most amazing thing about Howard Hughes is how much he was able to accomplish in spite of his many phobias, mental illnesses, and having to live in chronic pain.
Most people would have killed themselves.
He was a genius...Except that he made that Spruce Goose plane that couldn't fly...
For your information, lots of people who have mental illness are superior in intelligence.
Most people aren't squillionaires.
@@hoilst265most people couldn't even with a billion or I'll go further...Trillion.
He most likely lied about his birth date, I'm 100% sure of this. He said he was born December 24, 1905, which would have given him Mercury in Sag. He was most likely born September 24, 1905, with Mercury in Virgo. There is absolutely no way he had Mercury in Sag. Sag is too focused on the big picture to worry about details. Virgo specializes in small details. Hughes was obsessed with minor detail. When I contacted Astrotheme and pointed this out to them, they immediately agreed and changed his birth date on their website to the September 24 date. Check it out, Wikipedia differs to Astrotheme now. I am honored to have corrected this.
@@newtonbelieved astrology is bullshit artistry for bored housewives
When Howard was younger he was an exceptionally handsome man. His life was a real life movie 🎥 tragedy😮💨
Handsome men stay handsome. I’m making an educated guess based on a lot of unknown facts about banking that that wasn’t the same Hughes. It was a carefully crafted double.
All the drama on the front man and it makes great movies but It’s all about the foreign grantor trust protecting the private foundation that keeps assets protected otherwise the IRS would have had fun with him. foreign trusts house and protect all types of property . Nobody is looking at that or even asking the questions.
Hughes was so handsome in his early days because it was NOT him after about 1945.
Hughes didn’t leave a mess by having no will. There was a purpose in having no will …. for “Assets” in a foreign irrevocable grantor trust needs no will. All the assets convey privately and no taxable event has occurred. . . It’s hard to research that claim but if you are really interested research exactly what the Hughes Foundation is.
He can be credited for specialized cable television, as well. He had an affinity for old western shows and movies. He would continuously call the television stations and request old westerns to be broadcast. They advised him that if that is what he wanted, then he should buy a network. He DID and looped nothing but old westerns! Fun fact…although not for him, I’m sure.
This is apocryphal at best. He owned the television broadcaster in Las Vegas, and did make requests by telephone. Mostly, he endlessly watched films using a motion picture projector in his room..
@@MrShobar HH was an amazing man a real Genius but in viewing part of his film the outlaw His movie making was not up to the likes of John Houston imo who made great western films. Oh well guess you can't be good at everything
This however does not in any way take away his genius HH was such a creative and energetic "go-getter" in his youth he was brave too and to top everything else very attractive
So sad that his later life was spent mentally unhinged
I heard he watched “Dr. Zhivago” over and over on film in his hotel suite before dying.
@@MrShobarhe DID make requests..and he DID purchase NVs first broadcast station KLAS in the late 60s. He intended to air more westerns and aviation films.
@@aalihte3378 Thats what I said. Learn to read more carefully.
I suffer OCD and anxiety and watching the Aviator I saw exactly my own condition. Particularly the inability to choose and make a decision along with the repeating of lines. Its living hell, it truly is
@@DCAllen-ht5ikSleep well tonight, DC.👍
Are you a multimillionaire though? 😂
I discovered I'm autistic while having my 5-year old daughter diagnosed. I am 57, so in my day there was no chance to even get close to the source of my "odd" behaviour. Everyone around me assumed I was strongly eccentric at best, a candidate for the lunatic asylum at worst. The funny thing is that my 2-and-a-half-year old son is showing traits of autism: lining up of his toys following perfect geometric patterns, obsessions about topics which become all-consuming (it was trains, now it's planets), fixations, etc. And about our OCD, I don't wanna even go there. Besides, for me it's too late. If I'm lucky I have ten years left. What good would it do?
I understand his cleanliness OCD as I have it. I've always been a germaphobe but got worse after getting covid in 2020. I am always washing my hands especially after touching something someone else. Refuse to touch door handles unless I use part of my clothing as a barrier. It can be hell at times
I have OCD for a lifetime and panic attacks from anxiety, I joke that when I'm walking around with tissue boxes on my feet you'll know I lost it. I've broken my back 3 times, no doctor will give me pain meds since 2012 because they're afraid to lose their license, my spine is collapsing. Nothing will get to you more than constant, sometimes excruciating pain, and not being able to sleep.
Good for Jean! Good for Howard! Just, I don't want to be married anymore. No trashing of each other. Respect.
I bought a micrometer on eBay, in the bottom of the box was a piece of cardboard, on the back side of the card was the printing of a Hughes Aircraft time card.
You are the proud owner of a micrometer that once belonged to a guy who bought a micrometer from a guy who worked for Hughes Aircraft.
And you have a perfect name for for an defense contractor employee!
nice find .
@@brubeck1 I always wanted a C. E. Johanssen mic. It’s a history piece, for work I use my mitutoyo stuff..
That's cool
WOW...
I'm from Houston. My uncle was his personal pilot. My aunt didn't like him flying Hughes around with all of the starlets. He said he was an odd duck but a good guy.
Wrong. Howard Hughes didn't need a pilot, he was one.
@@243wayne1 No, you’re wrong. You need to do some reading. You think that because a person CAN fly that person never GETS flown?
@@243wayne1 Youve never been a passenger?
@@243wayne1 How's he gonna bang movie stars and drink while flying mostly 2nd/3rd gen planes. Think about it, man.
Not such an odd duck since March 2020.
Once you said scandalous I knew it was Syphillis. That was rampant back in the day and without the knowledge we have today it was far worse. Thanks for clearing up how he died, I always did wonder that.
My aunt had that happen. Her husband gave it to her and she never knew until it had gone to her brain. She then began to drink beer day and night, stay up all night (she lived with us at that point) and would chainsmoke all night. She did get off the beer with some medical help but died at 63, such a shame, because she was the nicest person but her horrible husband gave that to her and destroyed her life.
That finally makes sense. Thank you for a logical conclusion to HH demise. (The "Carpetbaggers" - is still one of my favorite "based on" movies.) 😉🙏🏼 God bless Mr. Hughes.
@@hblee88 It doesn't make total sense as he was still able to make brilliant business decisions and even appeared in Vegas at least into the late 60s. A good story about Hughes was sometime in the sixties after his grooming and appearance had already deteriorated, he played some table game at a casino he'd bought, but one of the floor men had no idea who he was and just saw a guy in old clothes and wanted to throw him out. The manager had no idea who he was either, but said hey he's playing, spending money and isn't bothering anyone, leave him alone. Hughes purchased several other casinos and put the man in charge of running them as from the incident he figured he was competent.
Very clear narration filled with just enough information for one sitting. Thank you!
I worked on a computer for Summa Corporation (Hughes' company) in Las Vegas in July of 1977 and it was as if Howard Hughes was still alive and everything was running accordingly. The TV stations only played the best movies and constantly. The class of his hotels is unmatched by the hotels today and they spoiled me forever.
Companies led by the a visionary (ie, Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, etc.) are like this. It's when bean counters take the lead when corporations implode. (i.e. Intel, HP, Kodak, and Starbucks?).
Nothing about the jars of urine?
I worked at Hughes tools in the old industrial part of Houston, we were demolishing out but saving machines to send to another drill co. In Texas, well the weird thing i noticed was when we were able to go back into the mgmt area of the shop. It looked like you went back in time to 1940s, old typewriters, suits n hats hanging, couches that were leather from way back like you were in a museum, just bizzar , even smelled like old times. I didn't like going back in there it felt like you were being watched and weren't supposed to be in there ,we were told Not To Touch anything, that howard Hughes wanted it left like this .
Very interesting...Thank you.
Thank you for sharing ❤
Not my intention to offend anyone, I absolutely love the narrator.
James I believe. Awesome voice and diction.
Thank you 😊
Thank you Mr. Hughes for providing my most professional workplace experience.
My dad worked at Hughes Tool for 30 yrs. He said he saw Hughes only one time
@@evelynhyland I never saw Mr. Hughes so your dad was lucky. I worked for Hughes Radar Systems in the prototype shop. The place was excellent in every way possible. We didn't even have to clean our machines because there were other employees to do that. The older guys were eager to share tricks of the trade and the cafeteria was a restaurant. Armed guards worked the elevators to get down to the shop and it paid well. The only downfall was the drive to El Segundo, CA.
Hughes was one of my Dads biggest accounts in the 70s and 80s.
My Dad sold little electric parts for aerospace.
OCD is hell, it can destroy you like it did him. I suffer the cleanliness OCD, I'm a major germaphobe and get paranoid if I can't wash my hands after touching objects other people touch. I don't like being in places where there are a lot of people concentrated because of potential airborne diseases
I am the opposite, antibodies come from contact with germs. Get vaccinated against the dangerous ones and develop resistance to the others. Being clean is an offense to nature.
I'm pretty sure he couldn't tell who his real friends were so preferred none. This is every billionaires problem.
Depression makes you isolate yourself from people. You just don't want to deal with people anymore.
@@wingnut71 So it's obviously true, money can't buy happiness..
@@wingnut71
High level intelligence also makes you not want to deal with people anymore!
As well as mercury affected brain, as well as syphilis.
I agree, if you are a real down to earth person all the falsities of others would be enough to drive you mad
@@fraserthomson5766 if you spend it wisely it can. Also giving back prevents depression.
Howard was a real genius...
The real ones live difficult lives
Because their creativity runs 24/7.
They are ahead of everyone else...
Borderline insanity.
Thank you for describing my condition so succinctly.
Thank you for describing my condition so succinctly.
We learned about Hughes' OCD in psych class in the 70s; it was fairly well-known that Hughes didn't bathe, shave, or cut his nails and-apparently-shuffled around with Kleenex boxes on his feet.
That was directly before he died. His caregivers weren't doing their job. I feel sorry for the man, someone should have watched after him. I am well acquainted with mental illness and lots of times it is prevalent in the rich and in the poor. I admired him, Howard Hughes was a genius. Takes one to know one...
@@OpalAllen-j8r Yes, I agree. Why weren't the individuals responsible for his care investigated and charged with neglect/abuse? His 'Doctor' prescribing massive amounts of Codeine was also negligent, if not criminal.
The neglect and abuse that HH was subjected to was astounding!!
Then there is the matter of the dubious financial transactions, benefiting those 'caring' for him.
@opal
At the time im sure medical professionals opted to study his condition rather than fix it
Crazy image.
Didn't know about addiction. How sad. I've always been enthralled about him!
I was living in the Bahamas and spent most days doing Dolphin Shows with my Boyfriend at the time. It was at Brittania Beach Resort, where Howard Hughes spent the last years of his life holed up. He had the ENTIRE TOP FLOOR. Everybody knew that he was nuts and many rumors circulated among the Staff.
I believe he lived the last year of his life at the Princess Hotel in Acapulco. He was carried out as he was dying and put on a plane to Houston where he died en route.
@randyrice1429 nice touch! That's an interesting note! Knowing things like that is more humanity than most are willing believe!
@@randyrice1429
You are 100% correct!
@@randyrice1429I believe this is correct. He moved from the Xanadu Hotel Bahamas to the Acapulco Princess. But had also lived at the Brittania.
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People are shallow and focus too much on his final days I have great respect for Hughes because of his tenacity and all that he accomplished
So do I
There's a 1980 movie called "Melvin and Howard" about Melvin Dumar's claim. Like most "based on a true story" movies, it's mostly BS. Jason Robards as Howard Hughes is worth the watch alone.
I think the clip maker used Jason Robards picture for this clip .
@@AbeStephanI'm sure about it
Fascinating video packed with details I'd never heard before
didn't know about killing a pedestrian, Scorsese let me down!!! Great vid!!
Scorsese is never interested in the truth, only his vision. Look what he did to Christ.
I was honored to him in person . He stopped by my DaDs house to meet us thank my DaD for all the drawings he had done for him. My didn’t one cent for all those drawings. Very nice and kind man!
You were honored TO him what does that mean? Like you were offered up to him in honor?
Oh, and see here! My didnt one cent either! How special!
the irony of that newspaper advertising weight loss next to a portrait of an emaciated man...
Well spotted. Had to go back and see it for myself. Missed it the first time.
During the 70s, we lived in the Hotel Intercontinental in Managua, Nicaragua.
Howard Hughes spent a good amount of his late years living in the same hotel and same rooms.
We loved hearing about his weird habits from the staff.
Wow! Never knew about the syphilis, that pretty much explains it. Very good video, short and to the point. I learned something new today, thanks.
Of course! We got you.
@@Factinate you certainly did! ❤
I didn't know about the syphilis either. I thought it was the OCD and multiple head traumas that made him so odd. Good video!
@@rossbabcock3790 How did we not know about this? I've watched a lot of documentaries and videos about him and this was never mentioned. Weird.
That was my first thought
Howard Hughes is a hero to me, a mentor. Talk about guts, as a pilot, a genuis, over the edge. Losing both his parents at an early age would have been traumatising. I have ocd and I didn't realise until I had purchased over 6 Harley Davidson motorcycles, and I had no home, living in a caravan, over 60nyears old still driving milk tankers to survive, and bought more. Until my body gave up, osteo in the hip, so bought small Sportster, can't get on it, so bought a scooter. I have an aircraft for 18 months and can not get in it. Howard Hughes was a great man and loved aviation, an inspiration and sorry to see his ill health and destruction.
So you're one of millions of old American bikers. Big deal.
hokey smokes
@@schrisdellopoulos9244 hahaha!
@@schrisdellopoulos9244 Actually a Kiwi like Shane Van Gisbergen, living in Australia. I survived an aircraft crash, cropdusting in a Piper PA 25 235 Pawnee. They usually explode on impact, fuel tank behind engine. Mine didn't, and I went in nose first after hitting power wires, and my crash helmet had damage from hitting the internal cockpit crash cage; so I Praise God regularly.
Wow Iwen Allen that's alot of bikes and stuff 😅
OCD is a monster that, left untreated, destroys lives & families.
No peace or comfort I can imagine it's a terrible illness.
a mate had the most severe form, CDO
The same should be said of syphilis.
Question: Would Hughes have been so eccentric had so much wealth not been left to him at the exclusion of others?
@@joeysplats3209 Yes. Mental illness, unlike people, doesn't discriminate.
I always remember reading that after his security guys accidentally lost his wife's cat he made them all write letters to the cat, asking how it was. A very eccentric genius.
Awwww!🥰 Did they find the kitty 🐱????
Syphilis. It's amazing he was able to function as long as he did.
I wonder how many of his lovers were infected.
Phyllis Diller
He took financial care of Gene Tierney`s disabled daughter. A very thoughtful, caring man.
And poor Gene had her own demons to fight.
@@JuhiSRK She did that. I`m so glad her last years were happy ones.
I find her most beautiful of all the old starlets. She just had classic features.
Gene Tierney never betrayed HH by writing book Classy lady
@@mumbles215 Agreed; I watched The Ghost and Mrs Muir last week: there were moments when
Gene`s beauty could literally take your breath away.
Thanks for this. I'd read and heard bits and parts, and it was nice to have it all wrapped together.
Never knew Hughs was cousins with the Wright brothers. Great doc vid👌🏻👍🏻thanks
Some genius types never fit in. They are true aliens on this planet and see through all the games people play. If at age 11 invented his autobicycle, he was advanced beyond most.
@@Blackbird_Singing_in_the-Night His family wasn't rich until his dad invented the rock crushing drill bit in the Humble Texas oilfields outside of Houston.
@@Blackbird_Singing_in_the-NightCuriosity. That's his chief asset, and is for a great number of high-achievers. Like Elon Musk.
What's he's genius of? Being rich?
@@jimmcfarland9318 An absolute creep, just like Musk.
The saying: Money does not bring happiness! It pisses me off because I would make good use of that much money and certainly not waste my life away! Money brings happiness in the right hands!!
Money may not buy happiness, but I'm more than willing to settle for a reasonable facsimile thereof.
@@beatricerigaud8942 What does money have anything to do with happiness? I can be blessed and happy with money. Which one would you pick poor and happy or rich and happy. I’ll take the rich and happy personally.
Many people talk about all the good they would do if they were only rich . . .
Hail! Hail!
How can you know it? Money has the power to change people.
No mention of the spruce goose and his oil and airline ventures 😮
ITS THE GODDAMN HERCULES!!!!!!
The ID Name Is H4 Hercules There Is No (NONE) Spruce Wood In The Aircraft You Hear!!!!!! T38 Bill
BEST NARRATOR. This guy is golden.
really good
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I learned to fly helicopters in the Hughes TH-55 Osage in Texas. They were internal combustion engines and 6 fan belts drove the main rotor. We called them "Mattel Messerschmidts" due to their relatively small size. The fun started after I soloed and we got to tear ass around the Mineral Wells area. Thank you Howard. BTW, the basic model was updated and nowadays known as the Schweizer S300.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
In his youth, Hughes attended Prosso School in Houston, under the tutelage of James Richardson, second husband of Ethel Sloan Park Smith (my grandmother). My father Wilbur, uncle Ralph, and aunt Lucille all attended Prosso and knew Hughes well, especially since Hughes was a bully who picked on Ralph until Lucille, with flailing arms, beat the hell out of Howie. Later, Dad drew on his acquaintance for a job and wound up working on the “Spruce Goose.” I remember asking Dad what Hughes was like. He answered, tersely (as was his wont), “Son of a bitch.”
I worked for Hughes GSG in Fullerton in the early 80's then went to Corp Telecom in Long Beach for a few years. They put be through school and I will be forever grateful for that. But by then Hughes had got completely batshit crazy. I did get to walk thru some offices that he maintained and also through the Spruce Goose. Never got on the Glomar Explorer but went dockside to see it in LB. Since I was a corporate guy I did get to see pretty much all the Hughes facilities including Culver City and Missile Systems Group manufacturing in Tucson.
It’s mind boggling to me all of the things that the Hugh’s owned companies designed, invented, manufactured and how many companies he owned.
Subscribed....after a sudden need to trim my nails and have quick shave!
My dad was hired by HH personally when he went to work at TWA.
It is very sad what happened to Hughes life. He was truly brilliant. People with money and power seldom have happy healthy lives...😢
Who does? Most of us, successful or not, feel age ripping bits and pieces out of us. While many leave this world lucid and with a sense of accomplishment, satisfaction or gratitude, the majority feel a longing for what might have been, trails left untrodden.
There's a fine line between Genius and Madman.
In this case, it was a spiral helix
Yeah, a madman is Obama, Soros, and Chuck Schumer.
Most madmen are geniuses!
Hughes inherited enough to buy out all his relative's interests in the Hughes Tool Company. Smart move for a young man. But you missed this point. Also, Hughes discovered his father's body on the lawn of their home. He'd died of a heart attack.
He is a true American hero. The man hated communists and communism, he was a natural born aviation and defense genius. Contributing much to the field. Companies and products still exist to this day thanks to him. When singled out among everyone else for doing what he did for the country during war by asswipe, jealous politicians and rivals, he clowned on them all with great results. Was he odd? Yes, but so what. He is one of the greatest humans, and there will never be anyone like him ever again.
Very, very intetesting compilation and compendium on Hughes. Indeed some things were culturally and socially known, such as characters in movies based on him. However the fog of mystery and eccentricism amplified by the MSM of the day didn't bring out such details as his medical history (maybe it wasn't released to the journalists or general public arena or such details were pushed aside back then).
But this video is really well done.
Thank you.
At the time, narcotics such as codeine, was freely available, didn't require a prescription. In Canada, codeine was available in a regular pain medication was called Anacin 444?..,up until, at least the early 1990's. It was their version of Tylenol or Ibuprofen
I had a coworker ask me to bring her back a bottle from my visit to Canada at the time. I was unaware of what it contained.
Neurosyphilis and mercury poisoning are a hell of a combination....... It's amazing he lived as many years as he did through that horrific condition. He lives no doubt bi-polar as well, but had the money and genius to turn that into an amazing career, although he was no doubt miserable for much of it. I think there are certain heights of achievement, especially in the arts less so in business, that can only be reached by the truly maniacal
Hughes has always been a fascinating person to learn about! Great Job making this about Howard Hughes! It's full of great information.
HH definitely had the concept/ idea for On Demand Television! His mindset was the way the future... 😊
He was in a plane crash too. And may have had a brain injury as a result.
He had been in several air crashes. The 1946 crash was the most serious, and nearly killed him.
@@MrShobar I thought so; I just remembered that one.
YES IT WAS VERY BAD HEAD INJURY - HE HAD A METAL PLATE HOLDING IT TOGETHER!!! + ALL THE OTHER INJURIES!!!
Hughes was really fortunate that the doctors prevented his syphilis from advancing to the "Gummitis" stage. That's where the cartilage & soft tissues of your body begin to dissolve, and if you live long enough, you could literally watch your nose, ears, fingers or toes painlessly fall off.
Now there's a movie to watch.
You can’t kill someone (whilst driving a car when drunk ) and get away with it mentally, even if you escape a prison sentence.
You can if you are a psychopath!
Ted Kennedy has entered the chat.
@@BrettTate-k5mI was thinking about Kennedy too!
An extremely sad story of having a huge fortune but also nothing.
He also suffered from oxygen deprivation during a long record-setting flight in the Arctic. His oxygen tube froze up and he got frostbite in his mouth and throat and had low oxygen for some hours. That would explain some mental oddities.
Thank you for doing this video on HH very good
Poor HH, Money does not buy you everything especially a healthy body and mind
Love your narration voice. Thank-you for the clear explanation of Howard Hughes's demise and what happened to him. Makes a lot of sense.
The Howard Highes Medical Institute is still going strong and goon* good work. (one of my clients during my fund amangement career).
I worked at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City and then El Segundo from No 1973 until I retired in Nov. 1999. Shortly thereafter it was taken apart piece by piece.
There’s still a lot of the Hughes, now Boeing, buildings left in El Segundo. I worked there until 2015. When they did a major remodel on the original Hughes Machine Tool headquarters you would have known as S50, I wandered up to Howard’s office for a quick look.
Did you work with Patrick Kearney?
@@barneyronnie that name is not familiar. I started in the airport site, then went to S12, then S25.
Great video, concise and intriguing. I have read about Robert Mahue and his connections in attempts to kill Castro. Purportedly, a man looking like Hughes played the role but became a recluse. Mahue is also peripherally connected to the JFK assassination.
Fascinating thankyou .
Sad brilliant man. Well read James
I can't "like" this video because it completely overlooks his relationship with the CIA. The Russian Submarine alone was an amazing feat and reveals just how much he and the CIA worked together. This part of his life needs to be explored and/or exposed.
I was dissapointed also, his life was full of mysteries.
Glomar Explorer
May your life be measured by your own standards.
I will put a thumbs down then on your comment jeffmilum
Part of his property, we called the beanfield, was right down the street bordered by Sepulveda Blvd. Played there all the time as a kid. I remember the old Hughes Tool Company on Jefferson Blvd not far from there. Had the opportunity to make deliveries to a very large 1940s metal building with lots of windows and nearby runway where people designed things. It's all gone. I think Dreamworks is now located there.
One of the invention we see every day that Howard designed was for his movie starring Jane Russell called the Outlaw and knowing that sex sells wanted her large bust shown in the very best way and also to satisfy the movie censors. He, therefore, personally designed the uplift bra with wire support that all of us men today enjoy. Thanks Howard RIP
lol
Jane Russell was quoted as saying that she never put on that bra. Unbeknownst to Howard.
I have seen that movie a couple of times, but never again--its truly rotten. Rotten acting, script, there's really nothing of value in it.
@@gymshoe8862 except for Jane's bosom.
I find it incredible that the opening picture is of a younger Hughes and one of the last photos of Jason Robards. I know this because my dad was a friend of his, and would drag me along to visit.
I totally agree.
At 10:20 you say that Nixon ordered the Watergate break-in. Actually, Nixon was unaware beforehand of the break-in. Also, the main source of income for Hughes was his patented invention of a special kind of drill bit used for hard rock oil drilling. Hughes also founded TWA airlines.
Yep. He inherited Hughes tool but built TWA and fought the government corruption with Pan AM non stop. They hated his competition that was hurting them.
He also said Nixon "lost" the presidency. He resigned it in order to escape impeachment.
When Nixon found out about the break-in he participated in a cover-up. That's all he did but there were many in Media who hated him at least as bad as Trump. Their hate was boundless, and they got him to resign. Fact is Nixon was indeed not a crook--he was steadfast, a good man generally but he really had super enemies in the Media.
Really interesting. The Spruce Goose is now located at the Evergreen Air and Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, and one can tour it.
I actually saw the Spruce Goose when it was in Long Beach, CA with the Queen Mary. I just remember how unbelievably enormous it was as and I walked through the fuselage and the wings. I remember the guide saying you could fit 50-70 people in one of the wings alone.😳
Thanks for posting this info as I had no idea it had been moved to Oregon.😊
So sad...wonder if he ever had a real friend. I don't guess he let anyone that close
He was married a few times.
Who were his wives?
@@darlenejoy2400 Ella Rice (scion of the Rice family of Houston TX) and Jean Peters, actress.
Cary Grant was a good friend of his. Hughes helped him out many times with advice and counsel.
My great aunt went on a date with him when he was very young. He insisted they each paid their own way. Pretty savvy with money right away!
Tom Cruise knows where Shelly Miscavige is.
Did he off her?
I post that on every clip I see about him or scamentology! 😂 Keep pushing, they can't keep that secret forever! Eventually, someone is gonna talk.
@@bipolarbear7325 I've probably posted it about 500 times haha. Or "Leslye Headland and Kathleen Kennedy ruined Star Wars."
Yep.
@@bipolarbear7325
I wonder if she's even alive? Did David murder her? I wouldn't be surprised.
Love the content. Well done.❤
Syphilis. Makes sense. It is strange how he wasn't prescribed penicillin after is was discovered in 1930. He had the money and connections. By 1941 it was purified for mass use. He still would've suffered ill effects, but at least it wouldn't have gotten worse.
It was already too late and rain its course if you have syphilis in the brain and only can take up to 12 months if not treated after that penicillin won't work
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One of the best short documentaries on TH-cam. KUDOS to you and your channel. Very interesting and I enjoyed this quite a bit. Thank You.
Wow, thank you!
Your Welcome.
You left out the plane crash and when Howard Hughes lived in Vancouver, British Columbia in a hotel in 1976 near the end of his life.
Yes this isn't a good representation of Howard Hughes
Shame people drag his life through the muck..he was brilliant.
I enjoyed watching Leonardo C in the Aviator.
Bayshore Hotel .I had my grad party there1976
My Grad party was at Bayshore too in 1975.
Handsworth.
Thanks for the factual and level-headed presentation. It's pretty ironic, given the subject.
His last phase of his life fits perfectly with severe “psychotic” OCD
Exactly. I suffer from this disease. I lost a son to this illness as well. OCD is so severe in some people
Well done info. My Dad worked for Hughes Tool Company in Texas as a Master Machinist. Also later worked for Hughes at his Culver City and Santa Monica locations. I even eventually worked for Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton, CA as a Tech for a few years along with my brother. I have to think after surviving his crash in the XF-11 into Beverley Hills, he became sort of a pain-cripple, only moderated by pain killing drugs.
The syphilis possible prognosis. Wouldn’t he have infected basically every actress and actor in Hollywood. Just wondering. 😵💫🥴😳
yes, and he did.
Do tell!!
Who got syphilis from Howard?
Al C. @@darlenejoy2400
Or rather who gave him syphilis?
Excellent video. Loved the details. 😔 sad and tragic life. Wish he had medicine and help. Loved the movie the aviator. Leonardo di caprio was fantastic in the movie portraying Hughes. A genius who suffered and died a tragic death. 😢😢😢😢
Do you know, at the time, I couldn't make heads or tails of the Watergate Scandal, and when you said what it was, it seems unbelievable that it brought down a President, and, to me it's totally hilarious. For all the wring reasons.
He is an example of why you might consider using experts.
It is true that his father invented a drilling device was used in the oil industry. In the early 1930s, it was clear that tax laws would be changed and probably tax rates go up. His attorney had a Medical Foundation created and the patent transferred to the Foundation.
Whenever Mr. Hughes needed a loan for business reasons, the Foundation would make the loan. The Foundation also did not fund medical programs for many years. So, it was a legitimate tax minimization.
As a result, a tax law was passed that required I believe like 2% of a Foundation's assets to be distributed for Foundation purposes, thus assuring that a Foundation would not continue in perpituity.
Still remember a calendar from Hughes Helicopters, inc with sketches of his air planes,helicopters, etc.
I liked when Rick Nelson mentioned "Mr. Hughes wearing his disguise" in his song "Garder Party".