Howard Hughes's Last Ten Years Were Much STRANGER Than America Was Told

Howard Hughes's Last Ten Years Were Much STRANGER Than America Was Told Officially, Howard Hughes died of kidney failure on April 5, 1976, on a private jet somewhere between Acapulco and Houston. But the man on that stretcher weighed about ninety pounds, and the FBI had to compare his fingerprints before anyone would say for certain who he was. In 1938 New York threw him a ticker-tape parade for flying around the world in ninety-one hours. By 1966 he was carried on a stretcher into a service elevator at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, and he did not come out for four years. He bought the hotel instead. The windows were taped shut. His orders went out on yellow legal pads, carried by a small circle of aides. His own business chief later said they never once met face to face. When he died, no will was found that any court would accept. Three weeks later, a sealed envelope turned up on a desk in Salt Lake City. Chapters: 00:00 — Cold Open 02:49 — ACT I — THE RISE 06:34 — ACT II — THE FACADE 11:14 — ACT III — THE CRACK 17:23 — ACT IV — THE RECKONING 22:06 — ACT V — THE AFTERMATH Source Material Visual material used in this production is obtained from publicly accessible archives, including Wikimedia Commons and Europeana. Copyright & Fair Use Notice This channel incorporates copyrighted material under the principles of Fair Use as recognized by U.S. law. Under Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act, certain uses of copyrighted works such as for analysis, commentary, educational purposes, research, and reporting are permitted without prior authorization from the copyright holder. Sources Las Vegas Sun, Howard Hughes, a revolutionary recluse — https://lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may... The Washington Post, Hughes Autopsy Report (1978) — https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv... Las Vegas Sun, Hughes doctor, aide plead no contest in drug case (1978) — https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/1978/s... CIA, The exposing of Project Azorian — https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the... Deseret News, Hughes estate settled 14 years after his death — https://www.deseret.com/1990/10/13/18... #documentary #history #howardhughes #lasvegas