20 Horrible Things Done By Influential People

do you call coercion and threats by a nation with a far more powerful Army fair and square welcome to watch Mojo and today we'll be discussing individuals noted for their contributions to history who either espoused horrible beliefs or committed horrible actions you don't know you don't want to no of course I want to child abandonment Steve Jobs there's no denying the impact Steve Jobs has had upon the technological industry his personal life however was an entirely different matter I'm just thinking of a couple of things where your mom was on the phone you were just a little girl and she was begging your dad for money like sobbing and begging and you as a little girl walks walk up and take the phone from her and said just give them just give her some money okay and like hang up the phone job's engaged in an onag again off again relationship with a woman named Chris Anne Brennan this romance eventually led to a contentious pregnancy and paternity battle one that jobs fought for years against this former lover you knew going into this the paternity test could prove that you were the father there are 24 million people in California that test has a 5% margin of error that's 1.2 million people to be the father of that child and it's not me jobs maligned the personal Integrity of Brennan with regard to the fatherhood of the child and refused to financially support the pair even when it was revealed that Brennan was on welfare the Apple co-founder did eventually offer financial assistance to his daughter Lisa but she didn't see a significant amount until after a 1982 Time Magazine interview with Brennan that revealed the details of their Affair as reported by Time Magazine I've slept with 28% of the men in America no all of them exactly 9 months before Alisa was born abuse allegations Alfred Hitchcock when you have an obsession over someone um it's and it is a terrible thing to be the object of that Obsession it was often a dream of old school Hollywood actors to work under Alfred Hitchcock this was despite the director's very specific ideas about what he wanted on screen and how far he would go to achieve these goals Walt Disney had the right idea if he didn't like the actors he tore them up tippy hedrin was just one of the prototypically icy and distant Hitchcock blondes that was seen frequently as a trademark of the director's films yet hedrin also claimed that Hitchcock deliberately sabotaged her career after she refused his sexual advances he said I'll ruin your career wow I said do what you have to do and I out the door I went and did he ruin your career yes he did hedrin also claimed that Hitchcock utilized real birds during an attack sequence in 1963's the birds instead of fake mechanical substitutes this was despite the director knowing full well about hedin's real life fear of the creatures adultery and mistreatment Martin Luther King Jr among the claims detailed Martin Luther King Jr was involved in extramarital Affairs and other sexual activities that if true and reveal publicly would have been devastating to Dr King and his movement the Civil Rights work of Martin Luther King Jr is rightfully lauded today for its utopian ideals concerning racial coexistence that said King's failures as a husband were brought to light via covert government surveillance efforts from both the FBI and the CIA the coel pro bugged Martin Luther King Jr they bugged his house they bugged his hotel rooms they bugged his office they had people um working in thec who were working for the FBI so they were on Martin Luther King hard Federal wire Taps revealed that King engaged in several extramarital Affairs during his marriage to ketta Scott King this was despite the leader own expectations within their marriage for his wife namely that she stepped down from her activism in order to focus on motherhood further allegations assert that King allegedly bore witness to a sexual assault by an acquaintance Pastor Logan kirce and rather than stepping in to stop it quote looked on laughed and offered advice many of the source documents will not be available until the year 2027 based on a judge's order when 2027 comes around a lot of people will be interested in listening to those tapes and reading those transcripts spying and sex trafficking Chuck Barry there was a lot of of backdoor slimy stuff going on the history books will always credit Chuck Barry as one of the fathers of rock and roll music Barry was convicted in 1962 for violating the man act a federal law whose designed line is to prosecute those who transport persons across state lines with intent for sex or prostitution they had met I think in Arizona or New Mexico he brought her back to work in his Club he had taken a underage girl across a state line the guitarist was also arrested for assaulting a woman in 1987 while staying at New York's gramarcy Park Hotel additionally hidden cameras were found in the women's restroom of a restaurant owned by Barry a case that Barry settled out of [Music] court anti-japanese sentiment Theodore Seuss geel AKA Dr Seuss Warfare can be fought on many fronts with one particularly important weapon being propaganda Theodore Seuss geel otherwise known as children's author Dr Seuss served in the United States Army's animation Department in 1943 sounds harmless enough innocent stuff but let's take a look in and find out what's cooking he wrote propaganda and training films for the Army during this time while continuing to draw political cartoons and posters much of su's Animation during this time was critical of the Japanese and often disparagingly depicting the people we were allowed to use certain words that we couldn't use on the screen then and maybe not even now the otherwise beloved author was just one of many Americans who were Swept Away in a wave of anti- Japanese sentiment during the second world war it doesn't excuse susa's actions or the content of his early books but it also speaks to a larger cultural sentiment of the era he wonders who in hell it was that let his out abuse and abandonment John Lennon Imagine there no [Applause] Heaven music is a very power ful thing and we as fans often tend to Martyr our favorite artists yet Perhaps we shouldn't because behind every musician is a human being with failures and faults John Lennon by all accounts failed as a father and husband at least when it comes to his first wife Cynthia Powell and their son Julian to a degree I was abandoned as a kid uh uh you know twice uh if not three times in many respects Lennon's contradictory life included physical violence against Powell during a time when much of the Beatles music espoused peace and love the Songwriter's split from Powell was acrimonious as well with the pair engaging in lawsuits over his infidelity with Yoko Ono as well as Lennon's emotional abandonment of their son there was a great deal of anger there but there's also you know I've grown up a lot and there's there's been forgiveness since then uh but it was it was tough yeah it was very tough growing up that's for sure advocating euthanasia and Eugenics Helen Keller every day she slips further away [Music] I don't know how to call her back the de blind activist Helen Keller wasn't the only politically minded individual of her time to advocate for euthanasia and Eugenics it just surprised many that a person who overcame so many physical challenges in her own life would espouse the destruction of another without giving it a similar Fighting Chance she did write about Eugenics and she was concerned that children with disabilities would who with severe disabilities would not be able to function in societ I think it was part of that Zeitgeist at the time Keller's opinion specifically reflected a 1915 case when a baby's life was allowed to expire after a doctor refused to operate Keller charged those who advocated for the baby's life as containing quote cowardly sentimentalism and she actively distanced herself from the disabled Community throughout her adult life just not BL other it is not blindness or deafness that bring me My Darkest Hours overseeing Co inel Pro Jay Edgar Hoover remember always that the spy and the sabur or the Destroyer carries no badge he hides behind a 100 fronts he pretends innocence he likes to rub elbows with patriotic men the figure of former FBI director Jay Edgar Hoover is one that looms large over the agency's power power and influence one aspect of Hoover's controversial Legacy includes operations that were conducted Under the Umbrella of Co inel Pro these weren't just mere smear campaigns but instead coordinated unrelenting attacks upon groups that the FBI considered undesirable we knew the FBI was systematically trying to squash descent and descent is the lifeblood of democracy the activities and lives of the Black Panthers anti-vietnam activists and even movie stars like jeene seberg were monitored by FBI agents phones were tapped conversations were recorded and assassinations were approved under co-intel Pro as the FBI manipulated the media and committed psychological warfare against United States citizens the surveillance was so enormous that it led various people rather sedate people in editorial offices and uh Congress to compare it to the Stasi the dreaded secret police of East Germany accusations of anti-Semitism Ral do it often comes down to the consumer to decide whether or not we're able to separate the art from the artist and I agree with you it is difficult very very difficult ralt dll is responsible for a writing score of certified children's Classics including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda however this English veteran of World War II has also been accused of harboring sentiments that could be perceived as anti-semitic I thought he was great at first but then he didn't turn out so nice D in his defense was quoted as saying saying I am not anti-semitic I am anti-israel the author's friends often labeled him as a provocator and subject to saying things on a whim yet this does nothing to hide the fact that some of doll's early work such as sometime never and Madame rosette contains defamatory language concerning Jewish people those kind of horror stories which which you have specialized at Tickler yeah assault Roman palansky here you come to a to a concrete um case for which I have behind the bars and that's what you want to talk about it some turn away at the accusations leveled against filmmaker Roman palansky due primarily to his genre defining work with Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown the writer and director even received the Academy Award for best director for 2002's The Pianist which was released decades after pansy's Infamous runnins with the law he was very powerful very wellknown I think when you're wealthy or powerful or well-known people don't say no to you and you you have like this different view of life where you're accustomed to getting what you want um because you get what you want the history of pansy's alleged sexual crimes dates back to 1977 when he was arrested for drugging and assaulting a teenager in his native France pansy would inconceivably be arrested for this crime again that same year this time with an underage model named Samantha gayy serious jail time loomed for the director who was informed of this incoming Justice and palansky decided to escapee from the US prior to his sentencing authorities here in Los Angeles have been unable to arrest palansky before now they say they've tried six times over the years yet when they learned he was going to be in Zurich this past weekend they asked the Swiss to help catch him advocating colonialism rard Kipling my dear boy I'm a British officer my job is to keep the law you keep not the jungle law look here I don't know about any jungle law but I do keep mans it doesn't seem unfair to say that many viewers of a certain age were first exposed to the work of English author Rudyard Kipling's literary work with the animated Disney adaptation of the Jungle Book Kipling was born in British India and it was living under these circumstances that provided a huge influence on his art including his Jungle Book duy as well as a poem titled The White Man's Burden Welly now look at that the color and Majesty of India the Exquisite manners and food of England all the Fair necessities of life this poem's narrative offers a cautious yet encouraging advocacy of American colonialist efforts in the Philippine Islands while the Jungle Book yes even the Disney version presents imagery that mirrors Britain's own colonialist approach to Indian rule espor that's the way I earned my commission in the Maharaja fifth packar Brigade Back in 88 it was uh what was it here it comes the Victoria Cross bit again forced conversion and misappropriation of funds Mother Teresa she probably uh make a good work for church but actually their care and the the the way she treated the sick people seems not to be what the media told the career and life of Mary Teresa Buu AKA Mother Teresa did contribute to providing Health Care to the poor needy and sick people who had nowhere else to turn however it's also been alleged that the quality of this varied and often came under the Proviso of a forced conversion to Catholicism these could be in the form of baptisms of children against their parents wishes or deathbed conversions I have videos of a telling a congregation in in scripts clinic in 1992 that she was she was surreptitiously converting Moran people who were not able to give consent Mother Teresa also contributed to hiding the actions of priests that were accused of Behaving inappropriately with children and also came under Fire for misappropriating funds for her own Medical Care against those designated for her Mission India's home Ministry refused to renew the missionaries of Charity's license to receive funds from abroad citing what it called adverse inputs without giving more detail marrying miners Charlie Chaplan he was very taken with me he had his cameraman photographed me in the position of the famous painting The Age of Innocence he thought that I resembled that little girl in the oil painting the world of old Hollywood is full of Dark Shadows that contrast the bright lights and dazzling Stars Charlie chaplain's work during the silent film era was massive influencing countless artists yet the man's personal life was tumultuous from his left-leaning political sympathies to alleged sexual relationships with minors Charlie's assistant said to Charlie this is the little girl I've been telling you about and I went running over to meet them and Charlie looked at me and he said oh yes and she very pretty now would you like to be in a movie it should be said that legal ages of consent have historically differed from both state to state and year to year but chaplain's first two wives were under the age of 18 his second spouse Lita gray was alleged to have been a teenager at the time of their affair during which she became pregnant gray would also allege that chaplain pressured her for an abortion in order to circumvent the scandal of their secret marriage in Sonora Mexico I couldn't quite figure out how this was the same man seated at this table as the man I saw on the screen it kind of scared me and I animal abuse allegations PT Barnum figured it end up here feeling sorry for yourself the modern-day s shows carnivals and circus attractions all owe a debt of gratitude to the Showmanship of PT Barnum however the man's style of operation within the circus business has come under large scrutiny over the years particularly in the wake of 2017's the greatest showman I never liked your show but I always thought the people did they did they do specifically Barnum often exploited real life physical conditions for those appearing in his various sideshows while other exhibits leaned heavily into racist and culturally insensitive stereotypes the animals under Barnum's watch fared little better with many of the tools used to get them to perform their shows also doubling as instruments of pain [Music] the Kennedy labotomy Joe Kennedy senior individuals historically turns to a lot of different places when it came to seeking out answers for mental illness the surgical procedure known as a labotomy was one of these places and it wasn't only the poor that turned in this direction by the end of the procedure she's basically lost the ability to talk and it's it's clear that this has gone terribly wrong the Kennedy family patriarch Joe Kennedy senior subjected his daughter Rosemary to labotomy during her early 20s this was after complications during her delivery and birth resulted in Rosemary developing some sort of learning SL intellectual disability from a young age Rosemary the eldest Kennedy daughter uh was a bit slow she was diagnosed with learning disability at the age of about six or seven the public perception of Joe and the Kennedy family's feelings towards Ros Mary range from ignorance to shame it's also largely believed that the labotomy was performed to both both neutralize the Kennedy daughter's mood swings and ensure the political paths for Joe's Sons were made more clear Joe was convinced rosem labotomy would somehow fix things and then miraculously she would become a perfect Kennedy like all the other kedes the Bengal famine Winston Churchill is not a matter upon which I am able to shed any clear Rave light at the present time and if I were I should certainly not shed it the Legacy of former prime minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill was still being forged when this humanitarian disaster struck India back in 1943 World War II raged across the globe yet this was also still the time of British colonialism in India the war specifically Japan's occupation of Burma was devastating for India's economy during this time with food stuffs being diverted preferentially and strategically to military personnel rather than Indian natives British soldiers so poor people Churchill's level of blame for the Bengal famine fluctuates depending on who you ask with some quoting the prime minister's disparaging remarks towards India's people While others claim Churchill's hands were tied and that he effectively quote did his best once alerted of the crisis contemporary non-official observers reported from the start that this was a man-made famine Kolkata newspaper the Statesman wrote the sickening catastrophe is man-made the famine constitutes the worst and most reprehensible administrative breakdown in India Nazi sympathy coko Chanel operation model head your code name is now Westminster the name Coco Chanel is synonymous with the fashion industry yet the real life historical figure behind this brand possessed a complicated history we're speaking of Chanel's involvement with Nazi officials during their occupation of France during World wari to Chanel had an endgame in mind with regards to her SS collaborations specifically freeing her nephew who was being held as a p she decided to go uh to go to the French you know um uh collaborative collaboration uh uh government and who were in touch with the Gestapo Chanel's romantic affair with Nazi officer Hans gunon Dinklage succeeded in this aim yet she continu continued contact with the Nazi brass after the release of her nephew one of Chanel's political allies was the aforementioned Winston Churchill and it was via this influence that the fashion icon was able to avoid charges of collaboration after the war we've had many dinners together since the 20's vacation together so it's personal oh yes Sir Winston has even taken the opportunity to cry in my lap promoting segregation woodro Wilson he introduced Jim Crow to Washington waston DC at a time when it was just starting to loosen up he brought it back and it became for all intents and purposes the law of the land armchair historians might like to point out how former US President woodro Wilson probably would have wanted his 14 points or the League of Nations to be part of his lasting Legacy instead a recent light has since been shined upon just how reticent Wilson's presidency was to listening to voices of change and their increasing glamor for equality the former president supported segregation at every turn including enforcing it within the branches of the federal government in addition to this physical separation from whites black federal workers were appointed to menial positions or reassigned a job slated for elimination Wilson worked to remove African-American politicians from their posts and he actively opposed the women's suffrage movement post Civil War reconstruction in America was not easy but the 20th century presidency of woodro Wilson did a lot to help undermine a lot of that era's success CU on the one hand he's got this abstract vision of a more just world that has all of this potential and possibility in it and then on the flip side for all of his big ideals he is such a narrowe hearted Little Man the siege of draa Oliver Cromwell the mere mention of the name Oliver Cromwell is enough to elicit many passionate opinions the name the legacy of this former Lord protector is nothing if not complicated with some sides of History praising cromwell's military might and others condemning him for the same reasons the siege of draa was a military conflict often used to underline cromwell's brutality while also criticizing the man's campaign in Ireland heard afterwards that Oliver Cromwell had ordered his men to take no prisoners and to kill the innocent he justified his actions by claiming that the massacre was God's Vengeance for the murder of Protestants in the rebellion of 1641 Sir Arthur Aston who was in charge of defending the Garrison refused a chance to surrender to cromwell's invading forces as a result nearly all of aston's men were killed along with an unnamed number of civilians it's this latter fact that speaks to just how often cromwell's opposition was slaughtered seemingly without regards to Mercy or decency some Defenders hold themselves up in St Peter's Church cromwell's Men set the church on fire and burned them all alive when the round heads had finished there were 2,000 dead for us to bury before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into settings and switch on your notifications the Indian Removal app act Andrew Jackson his Vis remains on the $20 us note but perhaps Reckoning will eventually come for former American President Andrew Jackson the man's problematic Legacy has grown exponentially in recent years thanks primarily to his enforcement of the Indian Removal Act in 1830 the Cherokees actually won a supreme court case over land in Georgia but Jackson ignored the decision the bill was signed into law by Jackson and its enforcement was continued by the president's successor Martin van under this act over 60,000 Native Americans were forced to uproot and move west a journey that became known as the Trail of Tears many were Shackled In Chains and forced to walk at gunpoint more than 1,000 Mi West on a series of routes that all led to Oklahoma up to a third of the 15,000 Cherokee who were forced to make the journey died the ACT is seen today largely as a strategic land grab Movement by the United states with Jackson's personal feelings asserting an idea that native self-rule should only take place upon federal land west of the Mississippi River they took everything from us America's built on Stolen lands America is a stolen country did any of these Revelations surprise you let us know in the comments we knew that the FBI had us under constant surveillance but I don't think anyone at the time really knew the full extent of um of the the program of coel pro check out these other clips from watch Mojo and be sure to 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Length: 25min 50sec (1550 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 09 2024