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- Was James Dean Driving the car? Exclusive interview with last living witness to James Dean's infamous, fatal car crash. Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder crashed on route 466 near Cholame, California. The following interview is from an eye witness present at the scene, and suggests Dean was not behind the wheel at the time of the crash.
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The classic charm this man possesses is what makes him irreplaceable.
Dean had a way of letting his body droop, like "I don't give a shit". He slouched way down in chairs. It was very different from other actors. It was a weird attitude, reflected in his body language. He even spoke lethargically. I bet if you met him, you might think he was happily drunk with his slouching posture and his sardonic smile. That's how he looked to me. Of course, he had great hair and features.
James Dean was definitely driving. If not he would have lived and the other guy would've been killed case closed
@@davidhunt8456 Correct, the report states his foot was stuck between the brake and clutch.
@@The22on People that worked on the set of his movies and around him said he was strange, weird, impossible to work with and insecure as hell. Actors that worked with him like Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and Jack Warner never liked him.
James Dean was the driver. At point of the impact with the Ford Tudor, his left foot was crushed between the clutch and brake pedal. James Dean was held captive in the cockpit as his body was thrown to the right side passenger door. The Witness Don Dooley got mixed up as the Spyder's lifted off the ground and spiraled counter-clock-wise. Rolf Wutherich, the passenger was thrown out causing Dooley to get confused in the micro-second of the accident. Lee Raskin, James Dean At Speed Author
That Turnupseed guy must have had a horrible life. He was forever seen as the man that killed James Dean.
It was Dean who was driving recklessly and injured the oncoming driver unnecessarily
Turnipseed made an illegal left turn at a stop sign- without stopping- until he spotted Deans car. By then- it was too late -& the rest is history-
He was never charged for his illegal left turn,& ignoring the stop sign.
@@dianecollison9081sorry my friend but he was not making an illegal turn it's just a dangerous intersection there is no stop sign there.. you can turn at that intersection.. James Dean isn't the only one that's died at that intersection let me tell you.. it has been altered now slightly
Turnupseed went on to start a million dollar electrical contractor business and never really cared.
@@ralphmelvin1046Yeah so this guy James Dean died there. 54 other people have died there also and almost 700 injured in accidents.
Such a tragic ending. We love you James RIP
georgie23 👴🏿👴🏿👴🏿👴🏿👴🏿👴🏿👴🏿
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we never rest, life is eternal, we just change characters and names, in eternal mode, the very same old spirit...
I lived in Fairmount Indiana...beside the cemetery James Dean is buried in...on the same road of Dean's childhood home...grew up there..my whole life..loved it...
We go there every September.
Nice life Doyle,,,I visited the cemetery in 1992, and it is a nice area. I grew up in a small town in Michigan that is similar and loved it also.
Is Jimmys Favorit tree still there.
im from ohio. Ive seen his grave, home, museum. liked the town. interesting.
My uncle is buried in Fairmont...
His mechanic, Rolf Wütherich died in a car crash in 1981. He was found to be intoxicated.
wow
Ironic, he died in a car crash, too. Too bad their aren't any recorded interviews with him.
Dean's last words, according to Wutherich, were: "That guy's gotta stop He'll see us." The star died after suffering a broken neck and internal injuries
Yep i just googled the wreck thats what James Dean said !
Wutherich spoke only German, how did he know what Dean said, if anything?
This guy is full of crap. Highway patrol officers said there was almost no blood, and Dean had a broken kneck
Hmm. I know someone who was in a bad car wreck, was in ICU, and couldn't remember the accident for a long time. On the other hand, facility in a foreign language- easiest is reading it, next is understanding it, finally if you can speak it, you're pretty good. And people around the world are more likely to have familiarity with English than Americans do in a foreign language. English is the international language. It was once French. So supposing what Rolf understood isn't a fact. His reason for lying?
@@vettefool You fool, you cannot know how much English Wutherich spoke or understood.
I drove that, and the surrounding stretches of rural highway back in the 70's and 80's. In late afternoon, in the lazy wide-open stretches of highway as you cross the foothills to the coast in south central California the type of accident that killed Dean are sadly easy to understand and unsurprising. No alcohol or high speed required. A momentary lack of attention, or simply not seeing a little sports car is all it took. James Dean is now forever young...
The estimate of that Porsche 550 speed was over 100 mph. May have been closer to 120 mph from what Dean's own people were saying in the car towing the trailer. Calculations put his average speed at 120 mph when he passed the car towing the trailer. Add the fact its downhill & almost a straight away this might have been the highest speed he achieved in that car that day right at the wrong time. 1100 pounds is super light weight for a car. Low to the ground & a Silver color that blends into the road. All these things contribute to Turnupseed misjudging the Porsche 550 or not seeing it until the last moment. Reminds me of the JFK Jr small plane crash. Many things working against a good outcome.
@@ag4allgoodUm, no. There is so much wrong and untrue about your comment. If he were going 120 mph, that car would have been thrown apart and pulverized and it would have come to rest SO much further than it did.
@@organboi Speed estimates of the Porsche varies. The driver of Dean's station wagon tow vehicle Bill Hickman said he was passed by Dean's Porsche doing 85 mph as they headed down SR46. Several other drivers reported being passed Dean going down SR46 at high speed. That downhill grade then the flat straight going into the intersection where the accident happened. Car & Driver did a computer simulation which estimated only 55 mph. The correct answer is ..... we don't know. The only people who know for sure Dean, is dead & even Rolf Wutherich didn't remember the events before or after that crash.
So, if Dean was the passenger ,how come one of his feet was trapped and crushed between the brake pedal and gas pedal?
Exactly how this guy doesn’t know nothing about the crash I mean the mechanic Rolf was suppose to drive but he let Dean Drive
The car did a 360 in the air and the mechanic was on the ground so obviously it was total chaos and the place Jimmy’s arms and head ended up could have been leaning in any direction. The cops say he was still alive when they showed up. That’s what’s intriguing to me. Was he conscious at all after the crash?
@@JamesDean-ls7xz ~ Rolf died in a car accident alcoho; involved he was 39
@Moo Meow Who said they were holding hands?
More people wearing tinfoil hats
RIP Jimmy Dean. You were the best and a true legend and you'll never be forgotten
He was called James not Jimmy
He was one good actor.
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
@VintageFuzz
That "last witness" was Bill Hickman following behind in Jimmy's '55 Ford wagon. Sanford Roth was travelling with Hickman and photographed the crash scene. FYI , Bill Hickman was called Big Bastard by Dean. Guess who was Little Bastard? Bill Hickman stared in Bullit with Steve McQueen; he's the big guy driving the black Charger.
I can't believe he said those things just before he died...
I can't believe he'dead..
Anyway he'll always live as we remeber him.
He's legend
U r right
Absolutely
What makes sad and angry about this accident is that in those days probably every few minutes a car might passes or crosses that junction (not like nowadays) , the driver of the ford wasn't patient enough to wait , it is so annoying to me that jimmy used to race safely on tracks and eventually died in a silly crash.
😢😢
They both should have slowed down especially Turnupseed
This made me cry. I love James Dean.
As soon as I heard James say "Take it easy on the roads out there, the life you save could be mine.", I started crying my eyes out. I've have always had this strange, unexplainable connection to James Dean...it feels like I knew him...like I knew him better than anybody else...I get so emotional whenever I hear his voice, hear about him, the crash, or if I watch one of his movies...I wish I could find out why this happens...
seek help before its too late. I will pray for you.
The life you might save might be mine.
So sad that this didn't happened tow weeks later.
Donald Turnupseed sustained a minor cut to the bridge of his nose, and claimed that he never saw Dean, despite two sets of skid marks that proved he had. He then had to hitch home, and was picked up by one Blackie Kymes. They stopped at a diner, where Kymes heard the radio report announcing Dean's death. He decided not to tell Turnupseed, for fear of upsetting him further, and drove him back to his Tulare home.
Good to see that this video I made (that's me asking Don Dooley, "You believe the mechanic was driving car?") nearly 20 years ago now has an impressive 150,000-plus views, and that Lee Raskin is still posting every month or so that James Dean was driving at the time of the crash! One day maybe I'll be able to get the whole 13' version up, with some more interesting quotes, so that you can all see how it was originally intended to be viewed.
Fifty- Nine years ago today. RIP James Dean.
James Dean didn't have to be in accident, 2 hours prior to the accident he was pulled over. The 10-15 minutes of his drive was taken away for doing 65 to 70 on a empty road with some posted speed limits of 55 mph. Now if he wasn't pulled over he would have been been 15 minutes farther from site of accident those 2 vehicles would not have met. Also, frequency of posted speed limit signs were a lot less, so while driving would relax the foot and probably speed between those posted speed limits. Chances would be that the pickup with the trailer would have taken it's place
of course jimmy was driving. he was on his way to race his brand new & much prized porsche, & had decided last minute to drive the car itself to the race site instead of towing it, as had been originally planned. he made this decision so he could "break in" the engine & get a feel for it in anticipation of racing it. in light of all of this, why would he let someone else drive it? anyone who knows anything about dean knows he'd never settle for being a passenger in that situation.
You get over yourself yet?
@@SuperSedingAngeL-yr0 It took poor Edgar 11 years to get over iaggo71's comment. Now that he's replied to it, he still doesn't feel better.
Jimmy's face had glass from Turnipseeds left headlight embedded in his face, and his feet were trapped under the foot pedals. The impact crushed the drivers side of Deans car and pushed him over toward the passenger seat. There was no way that Rolf was driving, or he would have been killed on impact, as Jimmy was.
Exactly!
Two points--Look how tiny and low the Porche was, now imagine it travelling at high speed. towards you , from quite a distance away , (if you could see it) how easy was it to totally misjudge the time it would take, to get where you were? On what was then, a relatively quiet road, with diminshing light . Every day ,motorists make that judgement, when coming out of a junction / side street. 'Is that guy far enough away to chance pulling out in front of him? In a City, not so difficult, ON a fast Highway ???
It was daylight but like You said it was hard to see . Donald saw Jimmy but what a horrible accident.
By a twist of poetic eeriness, the rostrumed stills were shot at a company called CAL, on DEAN St (in London's Soho)! This version also has the original ending, with a nice closing montage of shots to The Doors' The End.
yes he was driving the car, his machanic was wearing his red jacket, and that is what made people thing he was driving, one of deans feet was jamed between the accelerator and the brake.
+Marsha Boyer His mechanic was not wearing his red jacket,Sammy Davis Jr got his rebel jacket after filming.
There's an enormous flaw in the recorded testimony presented in this video: the guy says at 6:23 about the Porsche "here it's going twice as fast," but the inquest showed without a doubt that Dean's car wasn't speeding. If it had been, the distance between impact and where it settled would have been much greater... So no, this guy is not a credible witness.
Man that was an amazing piece of history. From an actual eye witness. Dig that Morrison tune.
He was 5'8 and the car was knee high. He should of never taken it on the road.
I should have added that Turnupseed was using the rest room when the radio report came on. This little-known story emerged when Kymes was interviewed by a local paper, on the 40th anniversary of the crash, in 1995
In most car accidents there is alway blame for both. There is almost always something each drive could have done to have avoided the accident. This is the first time I heard anyone say he wasn't the driver. I have to think this fellow Miss saw the incident. The two car following was driven my Deans instructor. I'm sure he knew who was driving. As a trivia point that instructor was the driver of the black charger in the Bullit movie. I believe he was what you could call an actor/stunt man. He was also in the French connection.
Robert the stunt man actor you’re referring to was Bill Hickman. Bill was friends with Dean and from what I heard was driving the station pulling the trailer for the Porsche. I heard it was Hickman who was the first to reach Dean and held him in his arms as he died.
The crash happened fifty-seven years ago today. R.I.P. James Dean.
2019 now 64 years
@xvoy2002 thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, my grandfathers has been deceased for many years. He told me about this when i was about 10, so 40 years ago. I do remember him saying he had no idea who the person was since it was a shocking scene and Dean was messed up from the accident. I believe it was a police officer who told him who was actually dead.
They already determined James wasn't speeding at all it was just an accident. He was driving at a normal speed of about 55mph.
No he was speeding. Doing 80 to 100
@@windstorm1000 Wrong the crash was scientifically recreated computerized years later Their conclusion The Porsche was travelling about 60 miles per hour when they it Collied with the Ford at 80 to 100 miles beside Dean the mechanic Wutherich would have been killed instantly which he wasn't case closed do your homework
Wrong. He was riding at 35. But at the time of crash it was 350 miles per hour
@@meenak3351 350 miles per hour?? What the f...?
I read he was not speeding too
just so sad no matter how it happened or who was at fault
Why is it when a celebrity passes people make them into these beings that never die? "Oh he's still alive, but living somewhere..." Give it a rest and let him be.
fantasy /mania
Well when he died the jew Hollywood executives immediately released his documentary of his life and made millions.
Yet more bullshit. "The James Dean Story" came out a full two years later, and being a low-key documentary, cannot have done very well at the box office. It probably made a decent enough but not spectacular profit because it cost very little to produce.
...But it surely didn't make anywhere near the BILLIONS that a lifetime of James Dean movies would have made.
SS Asswipe.
Fans just don't want him to die for some reason. Funny how when you die you become even more famous and immortal.
Im really sorry for him!!!
Thanks on the video.
The song is by the Doors from their epic debut album.The last song on the disc.. It is called"The End".
I never couldn't comprehend and still can't comprehend how his mechanical buddy survived that quick turn hit crash that flew the little bastard in the air to the light pole i just can't
elmo46 dean had a satanic curse because he was disrespectful of high-level satanis in hollywood. They became angry and put a super dark curse on him so when he had the crash his blood spilled on the car and thus the car was deeply cursed to this day. Mom and i went to the museum for James Dean it was all good till we got to the room were the remnants of the car was. I got cold chills and wouldn't go in the room. Walked as fast as I could the fuck away from there. Must 've had a strange look on my face maybe shaking too don't remember but mom goes what's the matter and I said don't go in that room it's bad...she said why I said James Dean death car...what's left of it...bad....just don't go in there so she didnt.was never so spooked in my life...
@@ernestinemaloy6752 there was No such "satanic curse". I really hope you aren't referring to Vampira. If you are, then I suggest you do a little research on her. You will see she was just a huge gimmick the TV network used to introduce horror shows. She knew nothing about Satanic forces. Dean knew that she was a fraud ,too. But, she was never meant to be "real" in the first place.
James Dean had right of way, the other guy pulled out on him, the other guy was thus at fault according to the law, regardless of speed, you check nothing is coming before you pull out
By every account he was speeding at the end of a long downhill stretch in a very tiny, (especially compared to cars of the 50’s), low to the ground, pavement gray car at dusk, and there was a slope on the sides of the road for drainage, so he was even lower. Some experts say he was going as fast 120 but the average is about 80.
James Deans car was to low so the driver of the other car couldn't see James
@@a5dr3 I googled James Deans last words before the crash " He`ll see us....he`s gotta stop' as told by the mechanic. It also said he wasn`t speeding.
Patricia Armstrong That’s a myth. It’s still in books so a lot of people still believe it but he didn’t have time to say anything. It was a tenth of a second and he got smashed. That’s why the accident happened. They’ve constructed the whole crash based on eyewitnesses and photos etc. If he had time to say that he could have easily avoided wrecking, but the driver turned in his lane at high speed to make that sort of fork in the road at the last second.
The mechanic didn’t even understand English so he would have had no idea what Jimmy said. He was also interviewed years later.
I find the whole thing fascinating, especially the fact that he was probably still alive when they brought him in the ambulance, (there’s contradictory eyewitness accounts) and the ambulance was involved in another crash on the way to the hospital.
@@a5dr3 So Turnupseed was speeding then , and it is his fault ? There` a few people that read the same thing i did, and it also said James Dean wasn`t speeding. I sure wouldn`t turn like Turnupseed did if i wasn`t very sure the coast was clear. Putting himself and someone else at risk like that . Shame he never even got a ticket or anything !!!
l'm 75 & remember the day that James Dean died very well! I recall watching the t.v.
news that night & seeing his wrecked Porsche on a flat-bed trailer, since at age 9, I
had never heard of that kind of foreign car before!/ Since he had only made 3 motion
pictures before his death & appeared in a few t.v. roles, had he not have died so young,
I believe his "star' would have faded & he would have gone into obscurity by now! R.I.P.
though, James! p.s. I did get to see his co-star Sal Mineo in (Rebel) in person in 1958!
I agree with your estimations, I, personally, don't rate him as a outstanding actor, more play is put on his rebellious atitudes and actions, in a time that ''Teenager's' and the trendy young, were supposed to be--and were, meant to be so. That was Deans aim and acheivement. P.S wasn't Sal Mineo murdered ?
This Is The End By The Doors fits perfectly with this video. James Byron Dean legacy with live forever. He lived fast died young but left and left such a important impact on the 🌏
THE MUSIC ,, THE END SO SAD! FOR HIM ,,.. GREAT GUY ACTOR < CAR RACER .. TO YOUNG. RIP..
James Dean was driving for sure he loved going fast 👍
He was driving a car the equivalent of tin foil and hit head on into a 1950 Ford car built like a tank....hmm?? You do the math Mr Murder conspiracy lol!
@ILUV2SK8 504 go take a selfie!
Well made video. Thanks for posting.
Crazy. Playing "This is the End" by The Doors.
after what I've seen about this and how they recreated the wreck and seen, it was the driver of the Ford who caused the accident
Apart from the fact that the driver of the Porsche was speeding.
Well the fact that he was speeding and the color of the car made it blend into the road is what caused the other driver to turn in front of him! Plus the fact that it is a kinda dangerous fork in the road!
The driver of the other car shouldn’t have crossed in front of Dean’s car. Dean wasn’t at fault.
James Dean was driving straight ahead in his lane and had right-of-way. The other car tried to cut across to at a sharp angle to side road on left without slowing down or yielding. He crossed in front of an oncoming vehicle, which unfortunately was Jimmy in that tiny lightweight Porsche. Turnipseed's abrupt left angle crossing oncoming traffic puts him at fault.
@@blueberrycobbler so driving 110mph isn't James Dean's fault? Yeah it was his fault.If he was going the speed limit. Those 2 cars would never have crashed.
ROCK ON JAMES DEAN!
His car body is still missing. Truck driver was delivering the wreck and magically vanished off his trailer.
SS Apparently it has been found but who knows how true that is.
Sam and Dean took it
Great choice of music for this short documentary.
James Dean was molested at the tender age of 11.He never got to choose who he gave himself too, it was taken from him.This can cause psychological damage to someone,you can see real pain in him when he's acting,true emotional pain ,this event in his life was something that haunted him for the rest of his life.Elizabeth Taylor said that.He wrote in a letter that he wanted to die.He needed help but in those days you never talked about those things just like now!It happens all across the world on every street.
if he was the passenger it's amazing his feet were smashed under the pedals and his torso crushed by the steering wheel but ok sounds good
No, it was left-hand drive. If you see pictures of the car BEFORE it was wrecked, it was clearly a left-hand drive.
What I love about James Dean was that he was fearless he was bold and he was a badass kind of similar to what I am
You wish...😒.
And he was gay
Yeah, that's why actors and people that worked with him on the set of his movies, said he was strange, weird, impossible to work with and very insecure and a lot of people didn't like him.😂
Dean was driving ,he wasnt murdered and there is no conspiracy. Porsches are hairy cars to drive. i have a Beck 550 REPLICA and it only comes up to my knees. people almost hit me all the time. its a hard car to see. I have a 08 GT3 RS which has the notorious ass twitch that Porsche 911,s are known for. they were called widow makers when the 70's turbos came out. Ive also driven the 918 Carrera and that car has design flaws. thats no bullshit. my dad has a Ferrari 458 and it is so much safer than a 918 and just as fast. If you buy a 911 of any model either a 996.1 997.1 997.2 etc. you better learn that car or it WILL kill you. be safe out there
+Colin Brown How can people not hear you in a 550? Even a good replica sounds really loud.
+Lt Mojo Risin i guess ypuve never heard of Dynamic Sound Resistance? For instance ypu dontbhear a jet approaching but youbdo as ot passes? Same principle. plus you make itvsound as if that little 1500cc motor was blowing out 1000hp when in reality it barely over 100. Do you ride motorcycles? I do. I have a 66 panhead custom bobber with twin 14 inch straight drag pipes and i also have a 13 Hyabusa with slash cut decatted headers and there isnt a day here in San Francisco that some dipshit doesnt pull out in front of me. its not about noise. its the fact people dont pay attention
+Lt Mojo Risin sorry for the spelling. i didnt proof it. im getting ready for bed
Colin Brown Then is it just me. When I hear a loud car I always look right away in the mirrors to look what it is.
+Lt Mojo Risin. its just you. At least for me. ive heard enough cars that unless it sounds like jet turbine im not going to notice. my first car at 16 was a straight piped 88 911 turbo slant nose and a pro mod 55 ford f100 chopped and channelled with a 428 super cobra jet with a 9% underdriven 10/71 supercharger. im 40 and i have no dumb ass kids and my chick is 26 and im not getting married or EVER having kids and have ALWAYS felt this way. ive owned over 35 vehicles and only 4 of them sat more than 2 people. ive never owned a front wheel drive and never will. i hate paddle shift cars with a passion and will spend whatever i have to in order to get the true manual gearbox. cars dont impress me anymore. i have my fun cars and i buy and sell exotic cars when i feel the urge. I love to drive fast and push cars way past their limits but. im at a point now that i just call up my chick and jump on a plane out of town.
I hope you make it. I'd be very interested in seeing it. If possible can you list all of the speakers on this clip? Thanks.
To jimmypier54: I interviewed Don Dooley over the telephone in 1993, along with Bill Bast, Roger Cannon and Warren Newton Beath. That's where these sound bites come from. I also had a brief email correspondence with Donald Turnupseed's son David, in 2005, but of course he wouldn't talk- except to say that his father never talked about the crash- ever.
R.I.P james Dean you are my idol l love you and your in my heart and your not forgotten you are a legend in my mind there will never be any amazing as you were James Dean lives forever in my heart
Only people with bitch energy have "idols"
James Dean was driving the Porsche. The Porsche didn't cause the accident. It was Turnipseed's Ford that turned into the opposing lane to make a left turn that caused the accident. It impacted the driver's side of the Porsche, pinning Dean's legs in the driver's footwell while his upper body was flung into the passenger area. Rolf Weutherich was ejected from the vehicle and as it spun he ended up outside on the road on the driver's side of the Porsche. Shortly before the crash, Dean got ticketed for speeding so he was obviously driving the 550 at the time and continued doing so until the fatal accident. Had it really been the mechanic that was driving the Porsche, where were the injuries consistent with having been directly hit by a much heavier Ford at a combined 90+ MPH?
It was Dean who caused the accident driving 100 to 150 mph, two young drivers both Fcked up, thats whar usuallu causes a bad accident BOTH FCK up
DDELFIERRO pgf
Reed Franklin you’re so flippant with your lack of knowledge of the documented evidence that it’s comical.
I honestly think the car was bad news. It has a scary trail over the years and it disappears...
I just watch a short documentary on the crash . Using the latest technology in road accident investigations and found that Deans car was actually traveling at approximately 55 mls per hour . Well with in the limits at the time . The Driver of the ford cut from the out side lane to turn and had to cross the opposed lane to make that turn and drove straight in front of Deans car resulting in the collision . From their conclusion they found the ford driver to be at fault . Interesting
I've always thought, if James Dean could return from the grave to give his side of the story, he would be angered a lot of people believe he had a death wish and was responsible for his own demise. My guess is he was driving "blind" directly into the setting sun. Could be wrong. The other driver still may have not seen the car because of the blinding sun even if he looked in Jimmy's direction 2 or 3 times before turning and then realizing it was all too late to avoid collision.
GordanGeeko : Spot on buddy . Most people truly believe that he was responsible for that collision and his own passing . They are totally 100 % wrong . The man ( Dean ) was driving along a highway at 55 mph ( Current limit at the time ) The chap in the ford was on a slip road witch joined directly onto the highway on about a 30 / 40 degree angle . This chap drove directly into deans path resulting in his death . This type of intersections have been abolished due to high accident value . There are docos and recreations proving this point out right dean was in the right . But wrong place . On youtube etc . Some times or most times it easy for people to see what they want to see . And this is one of these situations . Most unfortunate .
It WAS Donald Turnupseed Fault,James had the right away and was Fully Following the Rules of the road
Rose Franco : That it was my friend . Poor JD copped heaps of slack over the years . He was totally innocent of any wrong doing involving the accident . Have a great day .
Poor James..
R.I.P
Silver colored cars under the right circumstances just plain disappear. I was an over the road trucker for 30 years and saw that happen about a dozen times.
I enjoyed the interview audio and this video. This excerpt is neither here nor there as to whether Dean or Wütherich drove, but notes an odd confluence relating to The Doors' "The End" -- could be apocryphal: From Stephen Davis' 2004 biography, Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend -- p. 139: August, 1966: "The next night Jim and Pam drove with some friends to the notorious bend in the road in Cholame, California, where James Dean had fatally wrecked his Porsche in 1957 [sic]. Jim made this pilgrimage because he wanted to see the spot where Dean had died, but he was disappointed to learn that his idol had actually expired in a nearby hospital a few hours after the crash."
James Dean Died On September 30 1955 Not 1957 Dana Rowe
@@danarowe8924 That's why the [sic] is written in there. Stephen Davis wrote that, not David Muse.
The original car has long since disappeared.. I have read it was last seen in 1958 at a car show in Florida.
James Dean:
- The Rebel Without A Cause
- Mr Hollywood
- The Daredevil
- The Stuntman
- The Real One
- The G.O.A.T
- The Legend
- The Icon
it's really strange because it's almost as if he knew he was going to die soon..
Poor ol' Dean was ahead of his time. Now a days, quite a few 'drivers' . .. . drive like him.
Fairmount In reminds me of the small town all my family are from. Danville Illinois, and Caitlin Illinois. I took the route where the accident was. What surprised me was it’s the bottom of a grade on both ends. Turnupseed is racing home from school in a Friday, and James is less than an hour away from where he’s going to meet friends for dinner. Up the hill where Turnipseef was driving down. One of those things. Fixed points in time.
His car was a accident waiting to happen. Gray paint blends with the road. And was so small it made it hard to see it coming until it was to late.
Two accident recreations have both shown that the driver of Dean's Porsche wasn't exceeding the speed limit nor was the accident his fault. There's no need to consider who the driver might have been. Whomever, it wasn't his fault. Turnupseed should have been cited for vehicular manslaughter.
The recreations showed that Dean's car would have been visible if Turnupseed had looked. Turnupseed had been on the road for awhile, was very tired, and he admitted he was distracted and didn't expect any other traffic. He failed to give Dean the right-of-way. It's that simple. Turnupseed should have been prosecuted for vehicular manslaughter.
You're right, melarry. Back in 2003 I just happened to be driving right there at the Cholame intersection where the crash took place in 1955. I had stopped at a nearby diner which had a blowup of the newspaper account, and after studying the details I re-enacted the accident as best I could, from each driver's perspective. Turnipseed was entering the highway from a farm road and totally misjudged the speed of Dean's Porsche. The farmer clearly was at fault, but it made for a better story to blame the celebrity. The Live Fast, Die Young angle sells more papers and serves as a cautionary tale for society's youth.
melarry duuu
@@TRRyan James was a professional,,,that tired ass who pulled right in front of jim,,I hope he's not sleeping well
Anniversary of this was 4 days ago.. RIP, James Dean.
RIP
Yes.,64 years ago, yet here we all are, still watching, still saddened by the loss of this beautiful, strange man. Most of us watching weren't even born when he was with us, but we still feel a connection with him.
everyone is free to believe what they want, im just forever grateful for this video to hear my grandfathers voice again...
I believe what your grandfather said, he had no cause to say anything but the complete truth in any case. God bless him, r I p.
Which person is your grandfather?
@@RG-hf4et the man speaking the the interviewer, donald dooley
@@mylesdooley5048 The man in the suit & tie? Or the man with the accent later on talking about who was driving?
@@RG-hf4et the man in black in the crash picture was my grandpa
Even elvis was upset
I have the same thing happening to me, and that is because he was born in my town, I believe his spirit still lurks around here, in the county, we also have a fair/festival for him.
yeah, I agree, he is one of a kind
A head-on collision with no airbag or shoulder belt?...Poor ol Jimmy there didn't have one single prayer to live on!!!
It was 1955!
My grandfather was a witness to the crash. Actaully a couple of minutes after. He surveyed teh crash, and tried to help. He had no bones about it,,, he said the driver was stll in his seat. He was horrrified by the accident. But he realized later that it was the famous actor who had died. He said he heard rumours later that another guy was driving, but he said the driver (james dean) was still in the drivers position.
Question. Right at 3:55 there is a blonde haired guy with his hands in his pockets wandering through the crash scene this dude is in many many pictures. Do we know who he is? Is this Turnupseed? Or just some unknown guy? Thanks I've been curious about this for years.
Apropos songs - I count on Lou Reed singing the lyrics - Walk On The Wild Side
"Jackie is just speeding away
thought she was James Dean for a day
then I guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that bash
But she said ´Take a walk on the wild side
Hey honey take a walk on wild side."
RIP James... my dad knew you when he was a boy long long time ago. He still remembers your smile.
the first thing i noticed, kind of a dark thing of significance is the 130 on the car. cos in numerology a zero has no importance. so youve got a 13. which is bad luck etc.
that porsche spider was so low profile it's hard to see
James was driving his mechanic was ejected from the car
This is the end my beautiful friend... This is the beginning of the end James Dean a star that shines so bright left kisses in the wind at night
James Dean not a legend not a king a lonely man caught in between
James Dean a master of minds who got hypnotized in legends of time
James Dean a seeker for love a dream he captured from above
James Dean with the dark steel blue eyes, with pain drowning him inside
James Dean a man who never felt no shame but gathered all , the misty blue rain
James Dean a heart full of gold that love captured his soul
......... Love you James.. I know you're real new name , a note from Marilyn Monroe that she hid deep down in my soul P.S. It's meeeeeee!
They making all kind of shitty comments to you ,( James , Jimmy, ) but you know our philosophy we just laugh it off hahaha laugh it off
THANKS ⚘
I write poetry as well,.. beautiful poem, very heart bound and mystical
Thanks poetry is a beautiful inspiration , it can express the true feelings of your heart 😊
your very welcome,. for us writing our feelings into printed emotion is as easily as an artist painting his expression on canvass
@fishbackrobert I don't know what photos you've been looking at, but all the photos I've ever seen show the left front of the Spyder as the impact point. The left front is demolished, and you can still see the unbroken right headlight.
History repeats itself: Another fast car loving actor in a Porsche : Paul Walker age 40 star of Fast and Furious,(a flim about street racing), was in a Porsche Carrera GT on Nov 30 2013 when the driver somehow lost control of the vehicle. It then slammed into either a post or a tree and then burst into flames and exploded. Paul a was killed along with another in his Prosche but the bodies were unidentifiable. Police say high speed was a major factor. Paul starred in many major films, a handsome actor of 40 with an extremely sucessful career and he liked fast cars. "Life In The Fast Lane" Eagles RIP Paul. The human body was designed for speeds up to a fast jog and to fly no higher then a man can jump and the body will not evolve with the need for speed achieved through machines.
Also in both cases it was debated who was the driver initially.
Wolfgang Kovac- why does it matter? James Dean died six decades ago.
I'm just adding a parallel to this person's observation.
Wolfgang Kovac
people die in car accidents every day
Yes
Great opening song...
Don Duley the witness was truthful, but became confused. James Dean was the driver because his left foot was crushed between the clutch and brake pedals...holding him captive in the wreck. Dean had to be extracted. The mechanic, Rolf Wutherich was thrown out of the Porsche onto the shoulder of the road. See Wikipedia James Dean for updated facts. Lee Raskin, James Dean historian/author, James Dean At Speed, Amazon.com
Há algum documentário sobre James Dean legendado em português? Esse documentário na qual James Franco faz o papel de James Dean está disponível no Brasil?
James Dean had to be driving the car... no doubt in my mind! Why? His foot had to be extricated from under the peddles. The driver's side was struck by the Ford, and James Dean had glass embedded in his face. As the Porsche had a plexiglass windshield, the only source of glass to the riders in the Porsche, was the Ford's headlights. Glass in face + Dean's skull was fractured in several places, and his neck had multiple breaks too, that's sounds like a close encounter with the headlight to me. Case closed.
@PrincessPhoenix83 Thank you for your nice reply. I have personally witnessed two fatal automobile accidents. One, as it occured, and the other several moments after it happened. You read about it in the newspapers, but when you witness something like this, it is a severe shock which stays with you. When you see a person trapped in a car and dead, when you come to help, it is something that reminds you the fragility of life. It is precious. Drive safe.
if the other guy did a left turn in front of James Dean, then whoever drove the Porsche was innocent, agreed?
very interesting video enjoyed the creation of it thanks :)
People should check out the National Geographic show on the crash.Proves pretty effectively that the driver of the Porsche would have been killed instantly,which tends to happen if your head and torso slam into the grill of a 50 Ford at 55 mph.Ergo,James Dean dead,James Dean=driver.Rumors never die.For years people assumed that the photo of Rolf on the ground who at first glance looks like Jimmy,proved that James Dean had been cut in half.
Showed what a Good Guy He was to make sure His cat was O.K.
Rest assure!! James dean was not driving the car!! Have a blessed day!!
You are COMPLETELY WRONG.
The officer who pulled him over had a badge number 930. True story.
It will for every remain a mystery, as to who was driving the car~James Dean was going to have the car transported to the Race Track, but the Mechanic told him to drive his Porsche 550 Spyder to California, so he could get a feel of how it handled on the highway! Errie how the song playing in the background on the Radio was "The End' by the Doors!
Christina MacLean Hubbard Bad advice from the mechanic. I wish James would had agreed to transport it to the track. That Porsche was built for track racing. It wasn't safe on the highway. Compared to other vehicles, it was very light weight and only a few inches high. Also, why put so much wear and tear on a sports car just before racing it on a track? James was set up.
Ladysugarshaft More than bad advice from the Mechanic. You are right, James's Porch should have been transported to the track. Any good mechanic would know that. I, truly, believe the mechanic set James Dean up, and that the Mechanic was driving that Porch.
+Christina MacLean Hubbard - Why would the mechanic risk his own life to set James Dean up?? He could have just as easily died in the crash.
+Christina MacLean Hubbard no, james dean wanted to drive the car to salinas, it was his manager that wanted him to have it transported, dean was in the middle of filming the movie giant, his manager didn't even want him driving, dean wanted to see how the car handled.
+Christina MacLean Hubbard dean wanted to drive the car and the machanic was not driving the car, dean was,his feet were caught in the gas brake and clutch peddles,
James Dean was driving the Porsche Spyder when he crashed into Donald Turnupseed's Ford at the CA 466/41 Junction near Cholame. Dean had to be extricated from the Spyder as his left foot was wedged between the crushed clutch and brake pedals. He became a captive in the cockpit, whereas his passenger, mechanic Rolf Wutherich was thrown out when the Porsche flipped in mid air, according to witness, Robert White. Lee Raskin, James Dean historian and author, James Dean At Speed, Amazon.com
James dean you live in my heart
I`m in love with James Dean !
Couldn't we swop James Dean for Tom Cruise?
Immediately !!
What!!! Hell no. james dean was just too cool for anytime in history. That's why he and marilyn monroe died young. They were un conventional for their time.
Not cool
Sounds good to me ❤