And thereby set the stage for WWII - the bloodiest war in human history. His action might have been the bloodiest in history; even surpassing the butcher's bill of Genghis Kahn.
Well if it's not obvious how the writers and Simon lean politically from their videos....but even this. Honestly no body cares about RFK. He was a crook before he became AG and was a crook since. Nixon may have been bad but America dodged a proverbial bullet with RFK took one.
Martin Luther King was not assassinated during a speech he was standing on the balcony of his Motel the Lorraine Motel when the sniper's bullet hit him
@@simplyramona8678 Two in one video, as Nixon wasn't impeached. Extremely surprising from them as I'm in the habit of looking up the more entertaining tidbits Simon drops and they always checked out.
At 12:57 they say Nixon resigned after his impeachment in 1974, Nixon wasn't impeached. That's why he resigned, to avoid becoming the second president in American history to be impeached and instead be the first (and currently only) president to resign from the office. Bill Clinton took his place 24 and earned the dubious distinction of being the second president ever impeached.
Adding on to some earlier comments I've seen on the feed here, I can't believe the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was overlooked, one of the major factors that led to the first World War.
That was a very ignorant perspective of the IRA and Northern Ireland. No reasonable person with even a passing interest in history would ever consider the British to be the victims in that conflict.
The IRA was carrying out attacks right up to the peace process. They bombed London's Docklands in 1996 causing £150 million worth of damage and were on the point of obtaining anti aircraft missiles which would have made South Armagh a complete no go area for the British Army. Even today, they haven't gone away you know.
Could be my American bias but I think John Wilkes Booth should have been on here. If Lincoln had been around to influence reconstruction after the Civil War the US would be a very different place now. I wish so much that he had been, even though I have no proof that his influence would have changed things for the better. I assume that it would have but there's just no way to know for sure.
@@tamedsonofthesea No, not at all usually.. This one yes.. I think he's great.. There just seems to be a few inaccuracies in his videos lately it seems.. Very unlike him.. 🤷♂️
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@@stiofanofirghil1916 It's an English guy talking about the IRA Of course its going to be inaccurate
I would have thought that Gavrilo Princip would be no 1 for his assignation of Franz Ferdinand. The world is still feeling the effects of the war it sparked.
Thank you for not just picking the usual ones like the guy that started WW1. I like the fact that you continue to bring lesser mention subjects to the forefront.
@@DRstylez1220 I get that and i completely agree with you but everybody has heard about him. I like that it was lesser known ppl means i'm learning something new
What about the British government having MI6 agents working with the UVF to target "The Miami Showband (massacre)" that contained North and South Ireland members, in an attempt to frame them as IRA terrorists by planting a bomb in their van at a checkpoint as they headed home from a show in northern Ireland, a plot which went bad when the UFV accidentally detonated the bomb while planting it and the surviving ufv members, supervised by a British soldier, opened fire on the band members as they obediently waited on the side of the road, killing all but two that where left for dead but managed to hang on to life. I think there is enough evidence at this point that the Miami Showband Massacre had been orchestrated by the British Government, to create an incident of such notoriety and outrage, by the framing innocent popular musicians, that people would demand the border be closed. This was spun off as a conspiracy theory for decades but I think it's crossed over to a fact the British Government tries to quietly avoid taking responsibility for. What about that assassination the killed my mothers first husband? They were obvious unarmed BTW
I can see it now. Planet-sized billboards with Simon's shiny pate plastered over them lining the interplanetary and intragalactic highways. AI teachers and professors using Simon's luxurious voice teaching every child in the galactic republic/empire. Simon Says is no longer a game but THE LAW. Yes. I can see it. And I can't wait!
Great video as always, thank you for still making quality content, but how did Gavrilo Princip not make the list? His killing of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand kick started world war 1, the deadliest war in history at the time(it was eclipsed 20 years later by the second world war)
Sorry "Crush the IRA"? I thought you were supposed to be a historian not a propagandist. The IRA forced the British to come to the negotiating table (blew up the centre of Manchester) and voluntarily stopped using violence when they entered power. Does their head of operations Martin McGuinness being the #2 in power in NI sound like a crushing to you?
Historian? He's a bloke that gets paid to read scripts that someone else writes, don't be upset its not his fault. Anyways " we haven't gone away ye know "
@@krlfc5869 Haha with Sinn Fein the biggest party in NI and calls for a United Ireland 20 years sooner than expected? A few more crushings like that please.
@@user-yd4fu5mh7z Haha so then they put Martin McGuinness in power out of the kindness of their hearts afterwards? As I said, give us a few more crushings and victories for "british intelligence" like that please.
@@user-yd4fu5mh7z Wow such cowardice putting the political wing of the IRA in power like that. Cant wait for a United Ireland in a few years, we need a few more cowards like him in power.
you forgot Gavrilo Princip. he was a member of a Serbian terrorist group known as the Black Hand. they opposed the annexation of Bosnia by Austria-Hungary resulting in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand thus beginning the first world war. WW1 had caused the collapse of the empires of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia and even resulted in events leading up to WW2 had Princip not carry out the attack history would have been different.
I've been a subscriber for more than four years now, so I'm used to Simon screwing up pronunciations, but his butchery of Yitzhak Rabin's name had me cracking up hard lol
My husband home from serving in Vietnam was a dedicated supporter of Robert Kennedy who he believed would negotiate peace ending the war stopping American soldiers deaths and just as important stop the slaughter of the Vietnamese people as he personally had seen women and children killed. When Robert Kennedy was assassinated, I of course didn’t know him then, but his family told me there was a total change in him. His belief in America’s future was shaken to his core especially as he watched the Vietnam War continue and the soldiers, very young men from the inner city and equally young country boys, blamed for the war and disrespected when they managed to physically survive their tour and arrive home to be called baby killers and spit on.
Simon, cannot agree with your #1 selection of RFK. While his death was indeed a terrible loss, the impact was no less than that of MLK. Additionally how you could have ignored the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand that was the spark that led to the First World War and Abraham Lincoln, whose death deprived America of the calming and steady hand needed to deal with the post-Civil War reconstruction is puzzling.
Let's see...Gavrilo Princip is the obvious omission, but if Oswald (or whomever) hadn't shot JFK, we likely would never had civil rights passed. In fact, without Charles Guitea, we wouldn't have had the first president to actually fight institutionalized corruption with Chester A. Arthur, and without Leon Czolgosz we'd never have had all of the reformations of Teddy Roosevelt.
Simon is usually spot on with these, but his characterization of some of the events regarding the United States are not entirely correct. And you seriously put Sirhan Sirhan on here and left out Franz Ferninand's assassination? Okay.
Yeah but he didnt start ww1 ferdi was a laughing stock and an embarrassment to his family and the royalty, they wanted him gone and the wheels of ww1 were in motion long before gavrillo did the deed
@@kingjellybean9795 Wrong. Ferdinand was the Heir to the Throne, and supported more autonomy for the peoples of Austria Hungary, as well as more democratic reforms. He was very popular. WWI may have been inevitable, but it would have happened 5 years later, when Germany had built up their Navy to beat the British. They were close when WWI started. WWI's timing was all important. Give it 5 years, and you may not have a Hitler. 5 years and Germany may have won. 5 years and there may not have been a Bolshevik Revolution. We're talking about assassinations that changed the world, not whether things would have or could have been without them.
Im afraid you are wrong, the british did not crush The I.R.A . It was a peace agreement in which both sides did not win or lose the war. Pity you got your facts wrong, history is very important and to rewrite history is wrong in so many ways. So please do proper investigating in future.
ERRORS I enjoy watching the informative & interesting history videos by Simon Whistler. However, he or his writers seem to be slipping up a bit lately: The first name of Mohandas Gandhi’s assassin was “Nathuram” - not “Narutham” (4:47). The name of Tsar Nicholas’ wife was “Alexandra” - not “Alexandria” (7:13). When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, we was talking to his friends and colleagues on a balcony outside his motel room - and not “during one of his speeches” (6:21).
I'm surprised that Gavrilo Princip was not included. I would have thought that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, which catalyzed WW1 and can be said lead up to WW2, would have placed Princip at number one on this list.
I am a big fan of this, and your associated channels; but this is one piece I cannot help but call out as subpar. I believe You and your team have absolutely lost track of your premise, substituting the infamous (or famous) with the truly game-changing assassinations of important leaders through history (or at least as we know it). Certainly, this is a subjective list (especially as it is a prioritized ranking), however there are unmistakable absences from and inclusions within it. Not to be a Monday-morning quarterback, but where are the assassins of the following: - King Philip II (Macedonia), father of Alexander the Great...enough said; - King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette (House Bourbon, France)...simultaneously galvanizing the efforts of the *Ancien Regime* and the *Revolucion* that thrust the subcontinent into almost constant warfare, settled by a Congress of Vienna that played such a large part in the conflicts to follow; - President Abraham Lincoln (R-USA)...left an incompetent buffoon in charge of leading the rapprochement between the former hostiles, enforcing the legal and social implications of the XIII-XIV Amendments, and certainly to the overall failure of the Reconstruction Era. Do note, the potential absence of so many subsequent deaths...not just of leaders (only some of whom You've included), but amongst the common people...right up to the present day; - Archduke Ferdinand (Heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire)...really(!?!)...the spark that led to two world-wide wars, ETC(!) I believe You can do better than this.
To everyone complaining that the assassin of Franz Ferdinand wasn't #1, the channel has a habit of leaving things off of lists which have already had a video dedicated to them by a sister channel. A video was already done devoted to that assassination, so it's not on this list.
Honestly I kind of like the swerve, allows more to be learned as opposed, gavriel princip, Lee Harvey Oswald and john wilkes booth. Feel like those are the most commonly known assassins so it's nice to not hear about them
As a caveat to this video, I would love to see you do a video about the failed assassinations that could have affected history drastically. The example being the attempted assassination on FDR. Imagine how much different history would have turned out if he had been assassinated ie the book and TV show Man in the High Castle
Martin Luther King's assassination and the tension at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was in 1968, not 1969. I was one of the protesters in Grant Park at that convention and was tear-gassed by the Illinois National Guard. King was killed on the balcony of a motel, not at a speech.
The map you've posted of the Republic of the Congo was the French Congo. The Belgian Congo is what we know today as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger state to its South.
1969 was a tense year. I lived in Topeka, Kansas at the time, and there were riots, etc. over in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. Not much happened in Topeka that I remember, but I was 11 years old at the time and lived pretty far out of town.
I do, however, vividly remember when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. I also remember Watergate. Richard Nixon was never actually impeached; he resigned before charges could be brought.
Err no. What pushed Netanyahu to the premiership was NOT the assassination of Rabin. If fact, had Rabin's replacement "gone to the people" he would have won a massive victory. It was the terror attacks that did it.
PSS I absolutely love your videos and I'm sorry I haven't been around for a long time but I've been working hard to save my country from a dictatorship
I’m Sorry But Franz Ferdinands Assination led to 60+ Million Deaths
And thereby set the stage for WWII - the bloodiest war in human history. His action might have been the bloodiest in history; even surpassing the butcher's bill of Genghis Kahn.
Hundreds of millions.
It caused WWI and set the stage for WWII.
By the time the assassination took place war was virtually inevitable, it just provided a plausible and timely excuse to get to it.
It was going to happen anyway
Simon: "The British government crushed the IRA, even if it took them 2 decades to do it."
Me: Sure they did, Simon. Sure they did.
Not to belittle RFK, but...Gavrilo Princip should have been No. 1 on that list.
Yeah...there are very few assassinations that kick off a world war
@@foolishpity605 Every war since is technically his fault.
Well if it's not obvious how the writers and Simon lean politically from their videos....but even this. Honestly no body cares about RFK. He was a crook before he became AG and was a crook since. Nixon may have been bad but America dodged a proverbial bullet with RFK took one.
absolutely.
@@theroachden6195 im not getting into a debate about this but Nixon was no where near as bad as has been made out.
Martin Luther King was not assassinated during a speech he was standing on the balcony of his Motel the Lorraine Motel when the sniper's bullet hit him
I am surprised by this mistake! Usually Simon and his writers are meticulous in their research.
@@simplyramona8678 Two in one video, as Nixon wasn't impeached. Extremely surprising from them as I'm in the habit of looking up the more entertaining tidbits Simon drops and they always checked out.
I am pleased to see many others caught the error and are well versed in this so very very important part of American history.
Quantity over quality now unfortunately. Got greedy, got slack.
Thank you for adding this correction. I’m left wondering if they got MLK mixed up with Malcolm X.
The British didn’t crush the IRA though Simon...
Well said.
He probably still thinks Britania rules the waves 😂
13 gone and not forgotten, we got 18 and Mountbatten. TAL.
At 12:57 they say Nixon resigned after his impeachment in 1974, Nixon wasn't impeached. That's why he resigned, to avoid becoming the second president in American history to be impeached and instead be the first (and currently only) president to resign from the office. Bill Clinton took his place 24 and earned the dubious distinction of being the second president ever impeached.
Adding on to some earlier comments I've seen on the feed here, I can't believe the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was overlooked, one of the major factors that led to the first World War.
Agreed.
Beware the Ides of March... Perfect timing on posting the video.
Stabby stabby ceasary
I almost commented the same thing!
Myles Kennedy?
Beware of the Risen People.
That was a very ignorant perspective of the IRA and Northern Ireland. No reasonable person with even a passing interest in history would ever consider the British to be the victims in that conflict.
The British never "crushed" the Irish Republican Army, they along with the British government signed the GFA.
...after crushing them completely
@@wagie95 Alternative facts seem to be the new norm. loool
If they crushed them then why did they have to negotiate? LoL
@@SomethingsoniQ Exactly. 🇮🇪
@@wagie95 Bollox Canary Wharf Bombing and the need for thousands of troops elsewhere for more butchery.
The IRA was carrying out attacks right up to the peace process. They bombed London's Docklands in 1996 causing £150 million worth of damage and were on the point of obtaining anti aircraft missiles which would have made South Armagh a complete no go area for the British Army. Even today, they haven't gone away you know.
Could be my American bias but I think John Wilkes Booth should have been on here. If Lincoln had been around to influence reconstruction after the Civil War the US would be a very different place now. I wish so much that he had been, even though I have no proof that his influence would have changed things for the better. I assume that it would have but there's just no way to know for sure.
I actually appreciate the fact you don’t hide your goal in this video.
Sorry! The IRA were crushed? by whom? genuine question.
Simon is allergic to telling the truth.
The IRA Are Literally Undeafeted😂
Where are the IRA now? A rare few 40 year olds who claim that they still have a mandate haha
@@user-yd4fu5mh7z If U Guys got brexit the way u wanted Ud know all about them
@@Shammm23 yeah I’m sure, IRA are dead and failed to achieve their goals. They failed, get over it
Crushed the IRA?! 🤣 Aye.. Even the Brits called it a ceasefire..
Simon is slightly biased with that comment. His views are not as strong regarding the atrocities caused by British colonialism.
@@tamedsonofthesea No, not at all usually.. This one yes.. I think he's great.. There just seems to be a few inaccuracies in his videos lately it seems.. Very unlike him.. 🤷♂️
@@stiofanofirghil1916 It's an English guy talking about the IRA
Of course its going to be inaccurate
I would have thought that Gavrilo Princip would be no 1 for his assignation of Franz Ferdinand. The world is still feeling the effects of the war it sparked.
I see anything Irish and my man you have me watching like a hawk
King was shot while he stood outside his second floor motel room door about 5:30 pm...just trying to help out
“Assassins who changed the world” or “Assassinations that changed the world”
Thank you for not just picking the usual ones like the guy that started WW1. I like the fact that you continue to bring lesser mention subjects to the forefront.
Not for nothing but the assassination of the arch duke is what in directly led to like 90% of list of this video
@@DRstylez1220 I get that and i completely agree with you but everybody has heard about him. I like that it was lesser known ppl means i'm learning something new
I am feeling addicted . Thanks you Simon
Thought number #1 would have been Franz Ferdinand not only did it lead to WW1 but whole Empires disintegrated.
What about the British government having MI6 agents working with the UVF to target "The Miami Showband (massacre)" that contained North and South Ireland members, in an attempt to frame them as IRA terrorists by planting a bomb in their van at a checkpoint as they headed home from a show in northern Ireland, a plot which went bad when the UFV accidentally detonated the bomb while planting it and the surviving ufv members, supervised by a British soldier, opened fire on the band members as they obediently waited on the side of the road, killing all but two that where left for dead but managed to hang on to life. I think there is enough evidence at this point that the Miami Showband Massacre had been orchestrated by the British Government, to create an incident of such notoriety and outrage, by the framing innocent popular musicians, that people would demand the border be closed. This was spun off as a conspiracy theory for decades but I think it's crossed over to a fact the British Government tries to quietly avoid taking responsibility for. What about that assassination the killed my mothers first husband? They were obvious unarmed BTW
I was just assuming that #1 would be Gavrilo Princip. Not even in the top ten? How is that possible?
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The IRA wasn’t crushed. They were brought to the negotiating table by the weary British who knew they couldn’t beat them. Erin Go Bragh !
Funny i was just about to make a comment like this, but you beat me to it
@@sean51697 As you’re Irish, I graciously give you half mo chara. 🇮🇪
The army's hands in Northern Ireland were tied behind their backs thanks to stupid politicians who did not know how to handle the problem.
@@patricklamshear6662 Really ? Their hands weren’t tied when they opened fire on civilians on Bloody Sunday .
@@patricklamshear6662 Captain Nairac's hands were tied behind his back when he was fed to the little piggies in Co Monaghan.🐷🐷🐷
WRONG ,,,,YOU NEED TO CHECK THE HISTORY, OF IRELAND AN THE IRA ,AN YOUR TIME LINE
Great video as always, thank you for still making quality content, but how did Gavrilo Princip not make the list? His killing of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand kick started world war 1, the deadliest war in history at the time(it was eclipsed 20 years later by the second world war)
Gavrilo Princip started a war that killed millions and ended 4 empires
Sorry "Crush the IRA"? I thought you were supposed to be a historian not a propagandist. The IRA forced the British to come to the negotiating table (blew up the centre of Manchester) and voluntarily stopped using violence when they entered power. Does their head of operations Martin McGuinness being the #2 in power in NI sound like a crushing to you?
Historian? He's a bloke that gets paid to read scripts that someone else writes, don't be upset its not his fault.
Anyways " we haven't gone away ye know "
We did crush yous 👊🇬🇧👊🇬🇧👊🇬🇧
@@krlfc5869 Haha with Sinn Fein the biggest party in NI and calls for a United Ireland 20 years sooner than expected? A few more crushings like that please.
@@user-yd4fu5mh7z Haha so then they put Martin McGuinness in power out of the kindness of their hearts afterwards? As I said, give us a few more crushings and victories for "british intelligence" like that please.
@@user-yd4fu5mh7z Wow such cowardice putting the political wing of the IRA in power like that. Cant wait for a United Ireland in a few years, we need a few more cowards like him in power.
Sirhan Sirhan was standing directly in front of Bobby Kennedy about 4 - 6 feet away, so how did he shoot him behind his right ear within 1 inch?
*ghost of franz ferndinand has entered the chat*
you forgot Gavrilo Princip. he was a member of a Serbian terrorist group known as the Black Hand. they opposed the annexation of Bosnia by Austria-Hungary resulting in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand thus beginning the first world war. WW1 had caused the collapse of the empires of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia and even resulted in events leading up to WW2 had Princip not carry out the attack history would have been different.
I'm absolutely amazed gavrilo princep isn't on this list.
King wasn't actually assassinated during a speech. He was standing on a balcony outside his hotel room.
I would like to hear a business blaze about the IRA. Just imagining the ranting from that would be awesome haha.
Nah, I like Simon but he’d probably make it about how the British “ crushed” the IRA and call them a group of disorganized terrorists.
I cannot believe that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Philip of Macedonia didn't make the list.
I've been a subscriber for more than four years now, so I'm used to Simon screwing up pronunciations, but his butchery of Yitzhak Rabin's name had me cracking up hard lol
Yes yes Simon I did because I freaking love you and all your channels!!
My husband home from serving in Vietnam was a dedicated supporter of Robert Kennedy who he believed would negotiate peace ending the war stopping American soldiers deaths and just as important stop the slaughter of the Vietnamese people as he personally had seen women and children killed. When Robert Kennedy was assassinated, I of course didn’t know him then, but his family told me there was a total change in him. His belief in America’s future was shaken to his core especially as he watched the Vietnam War continue and the soldiers, very young men from the inner city and equally young country boys, blamed for the war and disrespected when they managed to physically survive their tour and arrive home to be called baby killers and spit on.
Excellent overview, I learned a lot!
Simon Whistler is the only TH-camr where I can find genuine and knock off merch.
That is success.
Interesting and worthwhile video.
Go on the lads in Mullaghmore
Wrong about the IRA
RFK was shot in the back of the head. Sirhan was in front of him.
Surely the guy that murdered Ferdinand and caused WW1 was the most infamous??
Simon, cannot agree with your #1 selection of RFK. While his death was indeed a terrible loss, the impact was no less than that of MLK. Additionally how you could have ignored the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand that was the spark that led to the First World War and Abraham Lincoln, whose death deprived America of the calming and steady hand needed to deal with the post-Civil War reconstruction is puzzling.
Let's see...Gavrilo Princip is the obvious omission, but if Oswald (or whomever) hadn't shot JFK, we likely would never had civil rights passed. In fact, without Charles Guitea, we wouldn't have had the first president to actually fight institutionalized corruption with Chester A. Arthur, and without Leon Czolgosz we'd never have had all of the reformations of Teddy Roosevelt.
11: The person who assassinated Business Blaze Simon's sanity.
Nah, I like goofy simon
@@truhhhhhhhokIII3 I never said the change was for the worse :)
@@giantred fair point
So much fun hearing your Serious Simon voice on these
He should’ve included Gavrilo Princip
Up Da Ra 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Simon is usually spot on with these, but his characterization of some of the events regarding the United States are not entirely correct.
And you seriously put Sirhan Sirhan on here and left out Franz Ferninand's assassination? Okay.
Apparently the Brits crushed the IRA too?! 🤷♂️
SIMON- Beware the ides of March!
Who is the man on the image of the video?
That was Louis Mountbatten as a younger man. See #9.
You covered Chicago PD, but not Princip? The guy who pretty much single handedly started WWI? Missed mark.
Yeah but he didnt start ww1 ferdi was a laughing stock and an embarrassment to his family and the royalty, they wanted him gone and the wheels of ww1 were in motion long before gavrillo did the deed
@@kingjellybean9795 Wrong. Ferdinand was the Heir to the Throne, and supported more autonomy for the peoples of Austria Hungary, as well as more democratic reforms. He was very popular. WWI may have been inevitable, but it would have happened 5 years later, when Germany had built up their Navy to beat the British. They were close when WWI started. WWI's timing was all important. Give it 5 years, and you may not have a Hitler. 5 years and Germany may have won. 5 years and there may not have been a Bolshevik Revolution. We're talking about assassinations that changed the world, not whether things would have or could have been without them.
Two things in life are guaranteed; death and taxes, and one usually causes the other...
Okay okay Simon I subscribed to BioGraphics. Let it go now
Im afraid you are wrong, the british did not crush The I.R.A . It was a peace agreement in which both sides did not win or lose the war. Pity you got your facts wrong, history is very important and to rewrite history is wrong in so many ways. So please do proper investigating in future.
And follow the money Michael Canary Wharf was a great mind changer.
Crushed the IRA? LOL! TAL!!
TAL
Drunk History. Simon, my mission is to get you on.
ERRORS
I enjoy watching the informative & interesting history videos by Simon Whistler. However, he or his writers seem to be slipping up a bit lately:
The first name of Mohandas Gandhi’s assassin was “Nathuram” - not “Narutham” (4:47).
The name of Tsar Nicholas’ wife was “Alexandra” - not “Alexandria” (7:13).
When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, we was talking to his friends and colleagues on a balcony outside his motel room - and not “during one of his speeches” (6:21).
Hey Simon I'd like you to do your top ten favorite famous people, musicians, themes, etc.
How is Franz Ferdinand's killer not on this list?
I'm surprised that Gavrilo Princip was not included. I would have thought that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, which catalyzed WW1 and can be said lead up to WW2, would have placed Princip at number one on this list.
Today is the 2055th anniversary of Julius Caesars death. Coulda been a video of his top 10 achievements.
Hes covered julius ceasar exstensivly on mutliple channels we dont need another video lol go watch an old one
It's the 2054th anniversary. Since there was no year 0, and 1 a.d. followed 1 b.c., his death year 44 b.c. is equal to -43.
This guy’s research is as thin as his remaining hair.
😂😂
i feel that simon is one of many clones each running a youtube channel
Dr. King was not killed during a speech . He was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine hotel outside of his room.
I am a big fan of this, and your associated channels; but this is one piece I cannot help but call out as subpar. I believe You and your team have absolutely lost track of your premise, substituting the infamous (or famous) with the truly game-changing assassinations of important leaders through history (or at least as we know it).
Certainly, this is a subjective list (especially as it is a prioritized ranking), however there are unmistakable absences from and inclusions within it. Not to be a Monday-morning quarterback, but where are the assassins of the following:
- King Philip II (Macedonia), father of Alexander the Great...enough said;
- King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette (House Bourbon, France)...simultaneously galvanizing the efforts of the *Ancien Regime* and the *Revolucion* that thrust the subcontinent into almost constant warfare, settled by a Congress of Vienna that played such a large part in the conflicts to follow;
- President Abraham Lincoln (R-USA)...left an incompetent buffoon in charge of leading the rapprochement between the former hostiles, enforcing the legal and social implications of the XIII-XIV Amendments, and certainly to the overall failure of the Reconstruction Era. Do note, the potential absence of so many subsequent deaths...not just of leaders (only some of whom You've included), but amongst the common people...right up to the present day;
- Archduke Ferdinand (Heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire)...really(!?!)...the spark that led to two world-wide wars, ETC(!)
I believe You can do better than this.
Wow... no Princip? I was sure he would be on this list
Im assuming Princip being number 1 was too obvious
I love this channel. But this video Simon you need to get it right. There was so many errors
To everyone complaining that the assassin of Franz Ferdinand wasn't #1, the channel has a habit of leaving things off of lists which have already had a video dedicated to them by a sister channel. A video was already done devoted to that assassination, so it's not on this list.
Honestly I kind of like the swerve, allows more to be learned as opposed, gavriel princip, Lee Harvey Oswald and john wilkes booth. Feel like those are the most commonly known assassins so it's nice to not hear about them
Nixon was never impeached. How could you screw that one up?
He also did not support free market policies.
I disagree with leaving Princip off the list. I agree that RFK's assassination had more far reaching political consequences than JFK's
As a caveat to this video, I would love to see you do a video about the failed assassinations that could have affected history drastically. The example being the attempted assassination on FDR. Imagine how much different history would have turned out if he had been assassinated ie the book and TV show Man in the High Castle
Check his previous videos. He has already done one
Martin Luther King's assassination and the tension at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was in 1968, not 1969. I was one of the protesters in Grant Park at that convention and was tear-gassed by the Illinois National Guard. King was killed on the balcony of a motel, not at a speech.
The map you've posted of the Republic of the Congo was the French Congo. The Belgian Congo is what we know today as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger state to its South.
You posted this 3 days before the anniversary of Sirhan Sirhan's birthday.
1969 was a tense year. I lived in Topeka, Kansas at the time, and there were riots, etc. over in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. Not much happened in Topeka that I remember, but I was 11 years old at the time and lived pretty far out of town.
I do, however, vividly remember when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. I also remember Watergate. Richard Nixon was never actually impeached; he resigned before charges could be brought.
Err no.
What pushed Netanyahu to the premiership was NOT the assassination of Rabin.
If fact, had Rabin's replacement "gone to the people" he would have won a massive victory.
It was the terror attacks that did it.
Aware that you have biographics. Please post that daily
PSS I absolutely love your videos and I'm sorry I haven't been around for a long time but I've been working hard to save my country from a dictatorship
The murder of Julius Caesar only got the number 2 spot, even when the video was released on the Ides of March? Travesty!
Sure he has lots of channels, but only OG Blazers will be allowed to build the Simonic Temples.
Thank you my bald British brotha 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Man, had no idea that Chicago police department would be on the list. This is something.
MLK assassination not during speech!! He was outside his motel room which is now a museum. Well known fact, Simon and Danny really dropped the ball.
Why isnt franz ferdinand on here???
Sirhan was about 10 feet in front of Robert. The bullet that killed Robert was 3 inches from the back of his head.
The world's most premier agency dreaded by one and all.
WHAT?!
You're saying that riots have a NEGATIVE effect on the communities where they occur?
The IRA haven’t been crushed, they’re still around you know.
The IRA wasn’t crushed, If so they wouldn’t have been at the negotiating table
The way he says Barack Obama is hilarious
The (arguably) most important assassin of all time isn't on this list?
gavrilo princip is spinning in his grave.
Murderers are not heroes. We should dismiss them as the vicious thugs they are.