HOWARD HUGHES: Great American

Small biography on legendary American innovator, entrepreneur, and billionaire (of Welsh descent) Howard Robard Hughes Jr. born December 24th, 1905

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Education

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• Howard
• Robard
• Hughes
• Welsh
• Aviator
• Texan
• American
• Billionaire
• Eccentric
• Tycoon
• Obsessive
• Compulsive

[angelinasiel]

does anyone know a song - 0:14??

[WelshMeic]

It was probably made up by the producers of this segment (NBC I think).. It does kind sound like a Vangelis song though (the title of that song I can't remember)..

[MarqueeMagic]

Hughes and Telsa are my two most influential mentors that I continuously study. Its amazing how just these two people have single handedly changed the world

[eventhorizon55]

This man was a true innovator...

[DavidEdwardSchnell]

This is a myth.

[Maxobillion]

@WonderDerek I think the fact that he suffered from mental issues made him even greater. He faced many demons but none of them could bring him down!

[carnut476]

@WonderDerek True, Two other great southerners the few people know are JACK KILBY & WALDO SEMON .

[praxylite]

the medical institute was a tax con whereby America's richest man paid no tax for the last 20 years of his life. He did however have no problem giving hundreds of thousands of dollars cash, probably millions, to people like Nixon but left not one cent to charity at his death. A self obsessed madman who should be pitied rather than admired. Give me Bill Gates over Hughes any day.

[Ricks550]

@JesusChristRulesYOU He with out sin cast the first stone.

[lilmark816]

I wish I could have searches his house when he died, and took his valium and syringe full of opiates, that way he would be good for something rather then just sucking golfballs through a garden hose.

[Goljar]

Too bad he did not have any children...

[gododgers05]

@JesusChristRulesYOU

But look at what he left behind and all the good things he has done. He may have been eccentric but he did so much for the aviation world. Btw I am both a pilot and a Catholic.

[drewnwalker]

@WonderDerek Anyone that really knows much at all about Mr. Hughes should know he was brilliant and that at that time OCD was undiagnosed. People that talk about him like he was some freak are ignorant of history and have no class.

[IExposeMormonism]

@monkoman100 I don't know much about the Hughes connection but it's unlikely Hughes controlled those from Mormonia. They are there for Money and power.