Howard Hughes: A Jury REJECTED His Will. Nobody Knows Who Wrote It.

Three weeks after Howard Hughes died, a three-page handwritten will arrived, naming who was to receive the residue of the largest private fortune in America. In June 1978 a jury found that Hughes had not written it. No court has ever said who did. By then the empire was being run by men he had never met, and the doctor at his bedside was related by marriage to the man running the company - neither of which is an allegation, and both of which are on the record. Told in seventeen parts across sixty minutes, from court filings, sworn testimony and contemporary reporting, including documents taken in a burglary for which nobody was ever charged. Chapters 0:00 They had to check 2:17 The drill bit 5:19 Three days, nineteen hours, seventeen minutes 8:30 The man who never saw him 12:07 The room, and who maintained it 15:09 The household 19:01 No contest 22:10 Down the fire stairs 25:02 The voice on the telephone 28:02 The name had become more useful than the man 31:29 Romaine Street 34:03 The ninth of August 36:52 Freeport, then Acapulco 38:53 One twenty-seven, Central time 42:20 The envelope on the desk 46:21 Seven months in Las Vegas 50:53 A road named after a man nobody there ever saw Attribution Archive material in this film comes from Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive. 110 images in this film are public domain or CC0 and carry no attribution condition. CC BY 2.0 - Beau B; Bruce Tuten; Bryan Correira from Las Vegas, USA; Cliff; Cliff from I now live in Arlington, VA (Outside Washington D; MDGovpics; Orange County Archives; Portland Corps from Portland, Oregon, U.S.; Steve Ginn from Ventura California, United States; jeans_Photos CC BY 3.0 - Jean Marc Gfp; Piergiuliano Chesi; trackofalljades CC BY 4.0 - Los Angeles Times; UB-TY144 CC BY-SA 2.0 - Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland; Ken Lund; Mark Warner; Stephan Röhl; boellstiftung; larry&flo; tracie7779; wbaiv CC BY-SA 3.0 - AngMoKio; Coolcaesar at en.wikipedia; JeanColumbia; Stephen Foskett (Wikipedia User: sfoskett ); TedQuackenbush CC BY-SA 4.0 - Acroterion; Camila Moyano Elizondo; Hunini; Jim Evans; Michael Bernhard; Mr.Ndong; Pi3.124; Robert Taylor; Stephan Röhl; TLM2TLM; Unknown author; Xnatedawgx Every image is listed individually, with its source URL and licence, in the film's own credits file. Disclosure This film is narrated with a synthetic (text-to-speech) voice. Every photograph in it is a real archive image - none were generated - and each one is credited above and listed individually in the film's credits file.