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@misscharmcarm

Жыл бұрын

Do Nat Turner next please…

@teddyfartypants

Жыл бұрын

Do one on Wesley Willis

@ash.bl.9289

Жыл бұрын

Hey Biographic, Can you do a biography on Abdol Hossein Sardari? He is considered the Schindler of Iran and managed to save many Jews in occupied France by convincing the Nazis, with their own ideology, that Iranian Jews are Aryans like Iranians

@dannybaker9445

Жыл бұрын

Hey Simon/Biographics team, could you please make a video on Kim Philby (the british cold War double agent who sold secrets to the KGB and defected to Russia)?? Please and thank you in advance

@whoarewe7515

Жыл бұрын

Hi bio graphics are the comments that have just been posted real?

"I don't wanna kill all these folks, Dutch. Just YOU!"

@apprenticetomasterswithgeo1840

Жыл бұрын

Say you like RDR2 without saying it

@angeltrinidad7855

Жыл бұрын

Always nice finding random strangers who loves the same games as I do.

@c-secofficer123

Жыл бұрын

“This place ain’t no such thing as “civilized”, it is man, so in love with Greed that he has forgotten himself and found only appetites”

@divanbuys1484

Жыл бұрын

Came here for the RDR reference.

@Ben-rc9br

Жыл бұрын

this is what I came for

Seems ever since you started riding with us, the Pinkerton's seem to always know our moves Micah!!

"Once we run away from the Pinkerton's, we could run off to Tahiti and be mango farmers, Arthur!" - Dutch Van der Line.

I always thought it was so awesome that RDR2 used the Pinkerton Agency as the main law enforcement baddies. Basically the FBI before it was formed, and had no restraint.

@stephenlynch6389

Жыл бұрын

They tried to sue rockstar to take their likeness out the game and failed

@slapchawp3766

Жыл бұрын

They had a license to kill, literally. lol

@BasementPepperoni

Жыл бұрын

@@slapchawp3766 Yea, pretty much. If you were being chased by these people back in the Wild West, chances were that you would end up dead before standing in front of a judge.....and then hanged, lol

@JK-gu3tl

Жыл бұрын

They had restraints. It's the FBI that's way more powerful. I don't think the Pinkertons ever spied on civil rights groups.

@thomasnieswandt8805

Жыл бұрын

@@stephenlynch6389 i was looking for this comment :)

0:55 - Chapter 1 - Early years 3:00 - Chapter 2 - Barrels ahead 7:05 - Mid roll ads 8:40 - Chapter 3 - Alan Pinkerton , PI 13:10 - Chapter 4 - We never sleep 17:05 - Chapter 5 - Post war proceedings

@binqiling4730

Жыл бұрын

Chapter 6 😢

@theresapebbleinmyboot

Жыл бұрын

Bless you

@scarecrowlego884

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

My only exposure to the Pinkerton's has been in RDR2; so this is actually really interesting to find out about the person who started it all.

@HellsCowBoy666

Жыл бұрын

RDR2 isn’t far off from how truly vile the pinkertons were

@zooweemama911

Жыл бұрын

In one instance, the Pinkertons were hired by Henry Frick, who oversaw a steel plant for Andrew Carnegie in Pennsylvania that had gone on strike due to bad hours, dangerous working conditions and poor pay. Carnegie seemed to be a decent fellow, Frick on the other hand wasn’t. Anyways, the Pinkerton detective agency was deployed to end the strike and it ended in a massacre after the workers started throwing rocks. The Pinkertons opened fire, and it ended with 7 dead and 11 injured for the strikers, 3-8 dead for the Pinkertons and many more injured. This is just one example of how the Pinkertons were used, not as much of a detective agency but more as a private army. Frick himself survived an attempted assassination by a disgruntled worker, he was shot twice in the neck by a .38 caliber revolver, and then stabbed a few times in the leg, he then rose and helped subdue his attacker with the help of an assistant or two. This was shortly after the strike. Frick also caused the flooding of a small town, Johnstown in Pennsylvania, that was settled under a dam where Frick and Carnegie had a hunting and fishing club. Which, at the time was the worlds largest dam. The road out went right over the dam and someone ordered it lowered by three feet. After a few days of heavy rain the dam failed and flooded Johnstown, the flood killed 2200 people and caused the equivalent of $450 million in damages. The guys who hired the Pinkertons weren’t great people themselves, many of them were greedy businessmen, this is reflected by the Pinkertons own attitude of bending the law to their will with almost no oversight. Fascinating stuff.

@HellsCowBoy666

Жыл бұрын

@@zooweemama911 APAB, all pinkertons are bastards

@cfcblue8

Жыл бұрын

Try Bioshock Infinite. You play as an ex-Pinkerton who was kicked out of the agency cause his methods were considered too violent for them.

@jonhall2274

Жыл бұрын

@@zooweemama911 How was he responsible for the flooding of the town, when you say, "someone", instead of Frick, "ordered the road to be lowered by 3 feet". Especially since Frick himself had a investment into the Club that you mentioned. Just curious is all, because although I ultimately assume no one *intentionally* caused the wearing down of the Dam to cause the flooding, & to me anyway, it sounds like that "someone", along with the rain, caused the flood, & not Henry Frick. So since you have knowledge of it, & If you could elaborate I would appreciate it!🙃

Pinkerton Detective Agency: We do not sleep. And neither will you by the time we're done, union-man...

@thokim84

Жыл бұрын

@Gerald H Capitalism is a boon for murder for hire entrepreneurship. Just ask Blackwater.

They are still very much alive today. They still operate privately out of Chicago but they are owned by a Swedish security firm called Securitas AB.

@Pistolita221

Жыл бұрын

Their HQ is not in chicago, lol. Ann Arbor is a weird lil city.

This is the guy every Mall Security Guard wants to be. Unions hate him.

"We got Lawmen in 3 different states after us".

@Superbatmanbro

Жыл бұрын

Agent Milton “ you are savages”

It's really interesting to learn that the guy who made his name with violent union-busting activities started out helping with the underground railroad & being a staunch abolitionist.

@DiscoDickJones

Жыл бұрын

Freed the slaves so they could be wage slaves to his capitalist friends in the north.

@AbnormalObs

Жыл бұрын

It's strangely incongruent

I maybe one of the few here who knew of Allen Pinkerton outside of Red Dead Redemption. Back in the 90s I picked up a 1960s era kids book about him and other media led me to want to be a detective. The knowledge of the labor stuff came much later and by that point I’ve learn every hero is going to have their dark spots.

@jonhall2274

Жыл бұрын

"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" 😉🙃

@zaco-km3su

Жыл бұрын

That wasn't just a dark spot.

@justinweber4977

Жыл бұрын

I knew about him in a vague way when I did a school report on Alphonse Bertillon, another very interesting figure in detective history.

@ampersandmcvinegar5681

11 ай бұрын

"dark spots" he says 😔

Despite what he did to the labor unions before his passing, Pinkerton was a man who lived an amazing life and fought like Hell for the enslaved. Thank you for the comprehensive insight that you always provide in every subject that cover on your show for your viewers.

My dad was a Pinkerton. Of course he was just a security guard down town as they are no more than a security company now, but it’s still fun to say that my dad was a Pinkerton lol

@wes773105333

Жыл бұрын

My mom is literally a Pinkerton. It's her maiden name, and we're decendents of Allan Pinkerton.

@fourtyfivefudd

Жыл бұрын

@@wes773105333 I’m jealous lol

@wes773105333

Жыл бұрын

@@fourtyfivefudd haha, most of the time when I mention Allan Pinkerton to people who are bragging about who they are related to, they have no idea who I'm talking about. Then I mention some of the history and they're just like "ok." If you go back far enough, everyone is related to somebody historic. You would have to be decended from a long line of isolated people to not be, but even then you'd likely be related to somebody who made an impact in that region.

@arkain1

Жыл бұрын

@@wes773105333 You should keep her surname instead of being yet another Smith 🤣

@wes773105333

Жыл бұрын

@@arkain1 I have to bring glory to the surname I have. Can't do that if I'm living under the shadow cast by Allan Pinkerton.

Here i am, playing rdr2 again and Now this! Well done i'd say. 👌

@mandalor45

Жыл бұрын

literally same.

@adamc8409

Жыл бұрын

Damn Pinkertons!

@adamturner749

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@user-tv4rt7ev1w

Жыл бұрын

Won’t take for this Pinkerton fluff piece

Can you do the Pinkerton Agency itself?

Have you heard of one Leviticus Cornwall?... His train was robbed one evening but some gang called to the "Van der Linde"

Aurthor Morgan disliked this video

My great-great uncle, James McDonnell, was one of the last Molly Maguires hung in Mauch Chunk PA (today's Jim Thorpe PA) for his alleged participation in strike violence that left one law enforcement person dead in 1863. A stay of execution from Pennsylvania's governor was waiting outside the hanging room door, but could not be delivered in time to save uncle James' neck. Well done, Mr. Pinkerton!

Simon, you should do a video on Milunka Savic, the most decorated female soldier in history. She was a fascinating character who had a pretty wild life with a bunch of interesting and crazy stories.

@nadiaandkofi

Жыл бұрын

Where she’s from?

@obscureorca

Жыл бұрын

@@nadiaandkofi Serbia

@tridot3605

Жыл бұрын

Did she fight in ww1?

@obscureorca

Жыл бұрын

@@tridot3605 Among a few other wars, yeah she also fought in WW1

@netrioter

Жыл бұрын

shes boring

I like that his wife considered it the best time of their lives when her husband was working 7 days a week.

@MarloSoBalJr

Жыл бұрын

"I love my husband when he's asleep." -Most housewives

@jonhall2274

Жыл бұрын

@@MarloSoBalJr Lol!😂🤣

God damn Pinkertons!

On April 1, you should cover one of the Pinkertons' most proficient agents, Edgar Ross

@oliverwelles5366

Жыл бұрын

NOWWW

@allanscott21

Жыл бұрын

Nah do one of the real Pinkerton's agent Milton

@jonhall2274

Жыл бұрын

Can you, or anyone else, elaborate as to why it's best done in April Fool's Day, please?🧐 🙃

@shadowbanned1999

Жыл бұрын

@@jonhall2274 Agent Ross is a character in the red dead redemption videogames that feature the Pinkerton's in it

@allanscott21

Жыл бұрын

@@jonhall2274 and so is agent Milton

Pinkerton’s is now owned by Securitas, a Swedish-based security company.

@DiscoDickJones

Жыл бұрын

And they're still spies and union busters. It's just called mail services and security now.

@carloszapata847

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like the name in the Spanish dub of the company Mr. Incredible worked on before getting fired.

@thokim84

Жыл бұрын

Murder for hire Capitalists exist everywhere.

The Pinkies were the security force of Belmont Park Racetrack at least up til the 70's.

The Pinkertons are still around. I worked for the company a few years ago

@zaco-km3su

Жыл бұрын

They are Securitas now.

Great episode. I had no idea of Allan Pinkertons early history, or that he helped in the underground railroad.

My question is how did they gather 3 million signatures at that time and place seems absolutely impossible.

@invaderj815

Жыл бұрын

The same way corrupt officials do it now by collecting them from the graveyard

Brilliant job mate, so informative and a great watch. Know you’ve done a few on the Irish Rebellion in 1916 on your other channel, an insight into James Connolly would be a great watch👍

I'm so glad you covered Allan Pinkerton. Thankyou. May I suggest you cover Admiral Richard E. Byrd. He was an interesting fellow that led an extraordinary life.

I want a part 2 of this. Go into detail of the strikes

I am a security guard, albeit now I am at the top of my field doing aviation security at an airport. A large part of our work still is directed against organized labor. My last assignment with a company was Amazon. Part of my job, because I was a smoker, was to hang out in the smoking area with the employees and talk to them. Many thought I was their friend, and I really did care about many people there, but I was always on the job gathering intelligence about who was unhappy about what and if there was any talk of unionization. All was reported back to the company. It made me feel dirty and I left for my new job. Be careful what you tell a security guard, no matter how friendly they seem. Their main job is to spy on the employees. Think about it. No unarmed guard will ever defend you, or at least he isn't supposed to. He has no more legal authority than any other civilian. What is he there for?

What a great history of Pinkerton! Thank you!

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

If anyone else is interested, he was buried at the Graceland cemetery. Pissing on his grave is definitely going on my bucket list

@captainblue2344

Жыл бұрын

Real classy

The Pinkerton treated Author Morgan very badly

Spicer Lovejoy in Titanic 1997, played by legendary David Warner is an ex Pinkerton cop.

Simon, this was a brilliant one. I understand if you never see this, but if you do, I suggest a video more than anybody about Malcolm McLaren. A good biographics about the bastard, the wanker, the thief, and the very evil man that pretty much for almost his entire existence in main stream pop culture always found away to change it forever in the most ridiculous and outlandish ways possible, and then be able to find an artistic point to it all once the chaos was over… even if he most likely made up a few bits

“You better back off my land Agent Milton”

Pinkertons seem to love express cartridges from Cattleman revolvers with sick engravings.

Really fascinating episode

Thank you for making this. I’m a Pinkerton Myself. My grandfathers name is Allen Eugene Pinkerton. So for sure this man you are educating everyone about is my great great great great great grandfather hahah. My fathers dad however went by Eugene his middle name. He was a stunt man in movies. Died before I was born. Well thank you again. So insightful. I have been digging deep on my family.

"Pinkerton?! More like Finkerton!"-Dutch Van Der Lin, 1899 (probably)

Hey Biographic, Can you do a biography on Abdol Hossein Sardari? He is considered the Schindler of Iran and managed to save many Jews in occupied France by convincing the Nazis, with their own ideology, that Iranian Jews are Aryans like Iranians

@duncancurtis5971

Жыл бұрын

And Chiune Sugihara of the Japanese consulate in Latvia 1941, known as the Good Jap.

If anyone was ever wondering about a definition of the term "class traitor" this biography pretty much fits the bill.

Good video 👍

So interesting would live to see you do a video on Mary pickersgill or Elizabeth Paterson Bonaparte

The Original Bureau of Investigation would make a nice video

Will check out the videos for John Brown and Eugene Vidocq. Great video, A+ The crew at biographics, including The Whistler, know how to tell a great history. Thank you for the video.

Working dawn to dusk as a 19th century cooper was no barrel of laughs.

Is there a video on any of your channels about D.B. Cooper seems like it would be up ur alley

You should do one on General Norman Schwarzkopf(man who led collation forces during the Gulf War)

The vidoqc society in pennsylvania is amazing!! They help cold cases so much.

Hey biographic I would love to see a video about rokossovsky

Supposedely,he had a home in Onarga,Illinois with a wooded lot that he opened to the public for Sunday drives and picnics. That home is being renovated for a museum.

You should do video on Shinzo Abe

Interesting video ☺️

“Your a wanted man Arthur Morgan five thousand dollars for you head alone”

Next you should do a video on Rip Van Winkle

“Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin” Alan Pinkerton

@Stellar-Cowboy

Жыл бұрын

Ah but see, that’s where his faulty judgement of society starts. The man was too bogged down in law and right-doing that he forgot the bad guy always wins. You either let the bad guy triumph or you become one yourself, and beat him with his own tactics

@ethanramos4441

Жыл бұрын

@@Stellar-Cowboy Yeah and obviously we know what side he chose

@justinweber4977

Жыл бұрын

@@Stellar-Cowboy "The bad guy always wins"? That's an extremely pessimistic sort of view.

@Stellar-Cowboy

Жыл бұрын

@@justinweber4977 it may seem so but the “bad guy” will do anything in its power to win. The good guy will follow his morals and be bound to them. I’m saying this about war. I’m not talking about your issue with a bully. Bullies lose, they’re dumb. For instance, the US bombed Japan in WW2. They killed tens of thousands and affected millions. They didn’t care about morals. They were “bad guys”. And they won.

Simon can you please do one on "Ragnar Lodbrok". Thanks for all you and your team do love the channels

can you do one for linus pauling, twice nobel winning chemist who became controversial late in life?

Please do Jerome Caminada, Mancunian Detective and inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, and also Barney Ruditsky.

Biographies that you have criminally overlooked so far: Classical composers: - Ludwig van Beethoven - J.S. Bach - Antonio Vivaldi Gods/iconic figures: - Michael Jackson - Babe Ruth Chess legends: - Gary Kasparov - Bobby Fischer Painters/artists: - Gustav Klimt - Marcel Duchamp Architects/builders: - Gustav Eiffel - Frank Lloyd Wright - Le Corbusier - Antonio Gaudi - Buckminster Fuller Writers: - Léon Tolstoï - Fiodor Dostoïevski - Homer - Sophocles - Victor Hugo - Jules Verne - Jorge Luis Borges - Miguel de Cervantes - John Steinbeck - Dante Alighieri Philosophers/theologists: - René Descartes - Confucius - Emmanuel Kant - John Locke - Voltaire - Jean Calvin Scientists: - Pythagoras - Euclid - Leonardo Fibonacci - Max Planck Dictators: - Nicolae Ceausescu - Manuel Noriega Explorers: - Zheng He - Vasco da Gama - John Cabot - Amerigo Vespucci - Hernán Cortés Other: - Anne Frank - Caterina de' Medici - Cesare Borgia

@thomassultana263

Жыл бұрын

Actors - Nicholas Cage - Chuck Norris How about some athletes?

He became the very thing he swore to destroy.

@NopeAndYep

Жыл бұрын

Ummmm.....you left out he was a part of the illuminati. Private Eye, The Hidden Hand... Worked with the terrorist John Brown, (illuminist/Jacobins/Knights of the Golden Circle, Masons) Who was associated with John Wilks Booth... be wary of foreigners telling you about your nation's history...

A good thing that island he frequented wasn't Tahiti

Can you make a video on Andrew jackson

Simon and Team.. I'm dying for an episode about Robert L. Howard or Hans-Ulrich Rudel👀🔥❤

"Bring us the girl, wipe the debt away..."

@cfcblue8

Жыл бұрын

You know it’s bad when the Pinkerton Detective Agency did a lot of bad things, but they kicked out Booker because he was too violent for them.

@testshietchannel

Жыл бұрын

@@cfcblue8 Well, de Witt sure was an a-hole at times 🤷‍♀️

I just saw Pinkertons and Warnes graves this month

Man caught a bullet.

Man, disguising Lincoln.. must have been tough with his height for that time. Lol. Or this time.

Please make a biographical on Seretse khama

6:42 the cobbler? I thought he was a cooper!

Actually Simon, the Van Der Linde gang was the Pinkertons downfall

Good job teacher

I learned about Pinkerton detectives from American Outlaws, a 2001 Colin Farrell cowboy movie where he plays Jessie James.

Wouldn't mind seeing something on James FitzGibbon, though maybe there's not enough detail, maybe a video on multiple small but important officers and soldiers like him from the same era...

Warographics on the Battle of Blair Mountain

Agent Milton, now there’s a real nasty Pinkerton.

This dude deserves his own TV show!

I now see how he took down the INFAMOUS Vanderlinde gang

Arthur Morgan: Damn Pinkertons

I'm related to James b hume. My dad used to tell me stories of him and read from his book.

"All barrels all the time" - what a crazy guy xD

Interesting video

Big ups Pinkerton for the work done on the underground railroad. Riding shotgun with Bro John Brown....real thing them.

Where’s Arthur Morgan’s bio at?

The Agency is still around but I think only does government contracts after an act that was passed in the late 19th century.

Never expected Pinkerton to be a Chartist!

i like how Red Dead uses the Pinkertons accurately

Can you do one for Arthur Morgan? Thanks

6:19)Slavery was legal in almost every state.Rhode Island outlawed it when still a colony.Freed had to carry papers.Freeborn, US or from elsewhere, also had to carry papers.A Canadian was lynched during a slave revolt.Up to 1863, slave catchers could cross the lines and to bring back alleged slaves. 9:22)The Chicago PD was organized 10 April,1855. How did he become a city detective in 1849?

Arthur Morgan would've been more interesting

I wonder if Craig (The second counterfeiter) used counterfeit money to bribe the policeman who let him escape

Do an episode on Errol Flynn!

❤️❤️Simon!!

TIN MAN! TIIIN MAAAN! I first heard the name Pinkerton in Bioshock Infinite. There's actually a lot of real world references in that game like the battle of wounded knee and the boxer rebellion.

I think you'll find Magnum is more famous.