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The Alamo (1960)
A few facts.
Crockett lived through the battle and was executed. Jim Bowie had consumption and may have been dead before the battle took place. The Mexican's onslaught took place about 3A. M. and was only discovered because the troopers started shooting VIVA Santa Anna! The final few of the Americanos hid in the buiding and had their own cannon turned on them! Fannen had not surrendered without firing a shot till two weeks after the Alamo, abd all his men were out to death without firing a shot!
The movie is very entertaining, but if you want the truth read Gen. De La Penja book. He was the second in command and told it true!
Charmed (1998)
^ small bits do not make a good show
Boring, and no matter how much flesh is shown will it improve. But Ghost Whisper is so bad she uncovers a lot of those small bit of flesh! Although he husband being from Pittsbburgh makes it better! And now that I have to make up a bunch of useless letters to fill their quato here is the words to my favorite song!
When I was young and they packed me off to school and they taught me how to play the game! I didn't mind if they groomed me for success of if they said that I was just a fool! How you dared to tell me that I was just my father's son. I'd rather look around me and compose a better way! Enough yet?
History's Greatest Mysteries (2020)
This is a great show, but I wish they would do one on the Johnstown flood!!!
Johnstown has had four major floods. But why did the one on Memorial day 1889 claim about three thousand live. I have to start out saying that I lost five members of my family in this one, and non in the other three! Why? Because Andrew Canegee and his chums built the domn upriver from Johnstown 30 feet higher then the original lake while spending ZERO DOLLARS on cleaning out the spillway! Why is that important? If you clean the spillways out the water level in the lake will ease down to a reasonable level. But if not it grows as high as the dam is built too. Thus when his Hunting & Fishing club's lake broke that day the water level starting down the river was 95 foot high, as it passed thru the town where Charles Browson was born, and when it reached Johnstown is was still 45 foot high. Only two buildings, both made out of stone and mortal survived but all the rest of the buildings were crushed and driven down to the stone bridge where the gas lines ruptured thus killing more people fron burning to death that those which drowned. But Carnegee bought off procecution by funding an Art Gallery and a college in Pittsburgh! But I think everyone should know this story to prevent people from getting away with MURDER! Wm Freeburn.
Tattletales (1974)
Very funny show till...
Watching today and it made me very angry. The bit about sooooooooooo many husbands who cheat on their wives. Well I have 4 things to point out! 1) I have been married twice. The first one lasted only 4 years and I will give you three guesses why!!!!!! 2) My second marraige has lasted 35 as of last July 18thwith NOBODY cheating! 3) Between marraiges I had someone I thought was specaisl till I found out she was married. 4) When a married man does cheat does he turn homosexual? I highly doubt it! So it is women the men cheat with so why aren't the women partly responcible as I would doubt none of knew! And if all these women who cheat with married men get pregnant so what they can just murder the HELPLESS humman, and this bullsh.. about ot not being human show me one time when a woman goes full term and produces a toaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Slap Shot (1977)
It was very entertaining
And it was filmed in my home town, or at least my home town till it died. Two people I knew very well, including my grandmother were in it. But the guy upset in the film about playing a game in a dead town was sure accurate! Johnstown survived a 45 foot wall of water on Memorial day 1889 only to be MURDERED BYT THE UNION! How? Well strike after strike pushed by the unionss until the owners locked the gates forever!!!!!!! Then when the idiots who voted the unions in turned to the unions for help the unions packed up and skipped town in the middle of the night!!!!! Leaving us to splitup all over the country to find some kind of work! Anyone who feels unions are good should have their heads examined!! Of course the term redneck came from the coalminers, which we were part of for two centuries. But when the miners tried to unionize they wore a red bandanas to secrectly, ha ha, the Col. In the Kentucky nat'l guard was quoted as saying "I'M GOING TO FING KILL ALL THOSE RENECKS! Don't believe look at my last name, as we created a town in Kentucky which was a coalmine with each citizen getting equal shares of the profits! The name is Freeburn!
Blood and Fury: America's Civil War (2016)
Often wrong and sometimes lazy!!!!
One episode I thought should have been named "The John Adams Jr show, it was about Fredericksburg but left out everything except what the great grandson of a President went through! Of course I am predudice about it. You see, the pontoon boat which he went over & back on had my great-great grandfather & my namesake was on the pontoon boat, as captain of the boat. But he wasn't so lucky and was shot in the head! No mention of any of the others who never made it back and forth! Then Gettysburgh the h being origninal because us Scots founded a lot of the PA cities but when the English got here the names were changed, no mention was made of the fact that Lee's army had to buy their cannon fuses from a different company because the normal on had been flooded out. Well the new ones were made with made with more juice in the powder and caused a hotter blast, sending most shots well past where they were intended to go. And nobody, EVER, mentions that four of the original 13 colonies put in the Articles of Confederation, the contract that made the country, that they had the right of withdrawl from the Union at anytime. They were PA., MA., New York and Virginia! But Lincoln totally ignored this, which in fact made the countries creation a joke! And I had between 24-30 union fighters in my family as we were coal miners & slaves for 200 years!
America: Facts vs. Fiction (2013)
A lot of unknown trues, but...
They seem to lay off some of the most contriverial trues. Such as Lincoln claiming that nowhere in the Constitution does it give the states the right to ceceede! Technicly true. However, in the Ordinance of Confederation, i.e. The acceptance papers put in for all the original 13 colonies to unite, four of the original 13 colonies put in their paperwork the right to withdrawl from the union at anytime. So either the people who put this union together lied to the 4, or Lincoln decided to ignore this LEGAL paperwork for his own purposes!
And as for Washington, the first of my clan was in th revolution and spent 1777-1778 at Valley Forge. His opinion of Washington was very low. First Washington was a lousy general and could not win a battle till Von Stueben entered his army. And leter Washingtion and his cronies prevented anyone who was not a rich, educted land owner from voting. So the whole bit about taxation without representation was bull as far As Washington was concerned! Then when Washington gets created fro ending the Whiskey Rebellion I want to puck! Wawshington started the Whiskey Rebellion when he tried to steal the land of the people who went to war for this country. How? Well he created a land tax in Western PA. That the people HAD to pay in Silver or Gold, knowing that these people had no silver or gold and used the Barter system using Whiskey to trade for needed supplies! So the same people, including Hill Freeburn who was my kin went to war against the people who once again were being taxed without being able to vote and since that was what they fought against the British for how coiuld they wrong fighting Wash about? Oh and the panting of him praying alone in the woods for these men was according to Hill a PUBLICITY STUNT!
Ca$h Cab (2005)
Best memory practice you can have, w/plenty of humor
It is great to have a show that hunes your memory with the added feature of seeing some of the most lanbrained answer. But some questions, once in a blue moon***second full moon in a month*** mad me mad! The one lately with irked me was :Who was the Scottish steel magnet who gave away millions toward the end of his life?" The question should have read: "Who was the Scottish steel magnet who murdered nearly 3000 town folk on Memorial Day 1889?" A much more important question to me, considering 4 of those people were kin! My favorite question with one or the worst answers was "Which General sent President Lincoln a letter presenting him with Atlanta as a Christmas present?". The answer was so far off base I had to laugh, long and hard! The people answered Stonewall Jackson! Well I have to give them credit for getting a General from the Civil War as the answer, but naming Sronewall Jackson had two tremendous flaws attached to it. Because Stonewall Jackson was a Confederate General the only thing he might have sent Pres. Lincoln was a cannonball thru the oval office. But the second reason was the killer, because General Jackson has been dead about 1 1/2 years, which might have made it nearly impossible!!!!!! Good luck Ben with getting new shows!
Stars of the Silver Screen (2011)
Several errors about Jimmy Stewart
Stewart was not drafted, he enlisted and then got into the Army Air Corpse NOT as a fighter pilot but as a Bomber Pilot. He was then supposed to be a showcase piece, but with the help of a close friend, Hap Arnold, was able to fly in some of the most dangerous bombing missions of the war. Later to be one of the flyers to help set up the bombing raid on D-Day***although d-day was used in a lot of missions with the real name being Overlord***. American pilots had not taken off in the dark till this raid and were nervous about taking off during the early morning hours in order to get there in time, as they had to drop their loads till minutes before trhe landings. So Jimmy tought up a plan on how the pilots should take off at slightly different angles and then form up after all where in the air! So lastly for Jimmy diehards I recomend the book "Jimmy Stewart - Bomber Pilot! A really exzcellent book!
Stars of the Silver Screen: James Stewart (2011)
Pretty well done, but...
The people make it looks like Mr. Stewart hates the German Mr. Kruger because he is German. Well, let's see. Mr Kruger's role takes others water for himself because HE is so important! He refuses to help, because HE's to important and finally yells at the pilot because HE knows everything, even how to run the plane. The best part is toward the end when the PILOT gets the plane running and make the OH SO SELF-IMPORTANT German help pull the p0lane! I think it was the fact that Mr Kruger part acted just like a Nazis that PO'D Mr. Stewart's part. Or is all this made up because the English people are still sore that we beat them twice and they had to rely on us to save their bacon during WWII. See how easy it is to turn things around?
The Patriot (2000)
A very great movie!
This is one of the best movies on the revolution that has been made. And it pointed out that, in truth the Revolution was won in the South. Washington, first off did not want to fight a war with England, in fact he spent most of his adult life trying to become an English officer. Secondly about Washington was he couldn't win a battle if he had 10 times as many men as the English. And finally, and worst off all, after he won, the poor who had really forced him to go to war and I know as the first in my family fought, and was at Valley Forge starving and without food was situated near the house Washington & his wife stayed at. Eating 3 meals a day, warm as necessary! Oh he was painted, kneeling praying for his men, NICE PUBLICITY STUNT! Then after the war he and his rich friends got to vote, while the men in who had been in the trenches did NOT get to vote. Then Washington tried to steal the land of the western PA people because he had a gift of that land, from an English lord. So he tried to make them pay taxes in silver or gold, knowing full well they had none, and used the barter system to trade for what they needed, CAUSING THE WISKEY REBELLION, as that is what they used to barter! No wonder they don't make a good movie about the men at Valley Forge! Oh Hill Freeburn was the first of my family here and was at Valley Forge!
Gettysburg (1993)
The movie was excellent and there was only a slight flaw
I was actually in this movie along with a lot of my friends! The movie used reenactors from around the area to march across the fields and stag mock battles. The slight mistake was not following the TRUE history of the 20th Maine and their attack down the slope of Little Round Top. Gen Chamberlin NEVER gave the order to fix bayonets and charge down the hill to drive off the Confederates! What proof do I have? First off, there were five off my clan there, with one not 50 feet away as the 3rd Us Cavery was right beside the 20th Maine and would and did HEAR what went on. His letters home stated that the 20th, having run out of ammo, and unwilling to retreat grabbed their bayonets pell-mell and tool off on their own. He stated that there was a lot of cursing and the men screaming at each other to drive them ^)(^+_&+ back. There was no order other then what was screamed at each other to get going. But I must say that helping to make the film, and meeting Sam Elliot was in the top five events of my life. He couldn't have been more pleasant to us reenactors then if we were kin. Oh, if there is any doubt of my claims go to Gettysburg(H) as it first was and look at the PA volunteer monument, where 4 of my kin's names are and go to the little round top where the 5th was. Would have been six but my namesake was shot in the head leading the pontoon boats. And all cities in PA that were founded before the 19th Century ending with burg were burgh, like Pittsburgh, founded by the Scots later changed by the English who came later, and like always steal everything.
Blood and Fury: America's Civil War: Battle of Fredricksburg (2016)
This should be renamed The John Show
John Adams did this john Adams did that. First part: John Adams going across the river on a pontoon and oh boy survives. Nothing about the pontoon layers and how many died, for me especially my namesake and kin Capt. Wm Freeburn who was shot in the head leading the pontoon layers, who also were killed by the score! Oh no, they are immaterial, but not JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ADAms. Take your show and place it where the moon don't shine!!!!!!!!!!! Signed the great grandson of a very unimportant person, you know someone who DIED for his country!!!!