We Met Katherine Johnson - One Of The Real 'Hidden Figures'

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UPDATE: Katherine Johnson, one of the real "Hidden Figures," died today at 101.
We met with her back in 2017.
Movies about the American space program almost always feature white men, but Hidden Figures centers around the life of Katherine Johnson, who’s played by Taraji P. Henson.
Hidden Figures tells the true story of the black women mathematicians who worked behind the scenes to help launch Americans into orbit for the first time, at the height of the civil rights movement in the South.
“They’re going to show you where I lived and what trouble I got into,” Johnson told VICE News correspondent Dexter Thomas in Newport News, Virginia.
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@VICENews 4 года назад

Katherine Johnson, one of the first Black women to work as a NASA scientist, has died at the age of 101. Back in 2017, VICE News spoke to her about 'Hidden Figures'

@Caysari 4 года назад

"First Black Woman" literally shows that she is white lol

@disgusting1072 3 года назад

Aurious ummm she is black

@valk_7233 2 года назад

@@Caysari And this commentary just show how stupid you are.

@Mermaid404 2 года назад

@@Caysari She is. Light skinned black woman get over it!

@Mermaid404 2 года назад

@@Caysari BOTH her parents were Black and it WAS SEGRATED BACK THEN!

@coolocelot 7 лет назад

"She started her career as a *computer*" dang. I can barely start a computer.

@thisaragm6175 3 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@jamiyabrown9431 3 года назад

same

@lakep7798 3 года назад

Right??!🤣

@joe_isom Год назад

This was before we had electronic computers 🖥 😊

@tyrishasmith-grady703 9 месяцев назад

She was the computer

@williammatthews2948 7 лет назад

Thank you Ms. Katherine Johnson for your most important and vital contribution to America's space program. I send you my utmost respect.

@Christoere 7 лет назад

1:43 My mum hates maths, and so does my dad. But I'm an Aerospace Engineer..

@shalommichael8263 7 лет назад

Christoere

@Christoere 7 лет назад

No, i just found space and aircraft really interesting. I suppose my first inspiration started from just beating my older brother at building the best Lego or K'nex models. Maybe I just took that competition too far hahaha

@nubianq333 7 лет назад

Adopted ? What's your point?...

@LucaFacciniBrit 7 лет назад

I think liking Maths is different to understanding it. Perhaps your mum has some skills that you inherited, making you good at it. That is what I think happened to me, thanks to my mum (high school Maths teacher) I'm now studying engineering.

@Atento987 3 года назад

Skills in different disciplines come naturally to some, but not to others. Math is one of those skills that not too many ppl have, or can even develop. Glad there's always someone with the right set of skills for the need at hand. Thank you Katherine Johnson (RIP) for your invaluable contribution to space science, and to humanity thereafter.

@apextroll 7 лет назад

Nobody is more obsessed with washrooms than Americans.

@TravelingThruLife 7 лет назад

Fair Play

@nameless592 7 лет назад

apextroll 👏

@angelia497 7 лет назад

true

@laureah21 7 лет назад

Haha so true, when do you think unisex toilets will come about

@lucianf89 7 лет назад

Then you've never heard of South Africa or Apartheid

@sexybeast6567 4 года назад

Wow. She is so lovely. We've lost a national treasure with her passing. RIP. My prayers and thoughts are with her family. Thank you for your invaluable contribution to humanity.

@dzengrinder 7 лет назад

Man, this dudes hair look like it can run its own space program

@dannycool59x49 7 лет назад

you don't grow the hair, it grows you

@aikolyn 7 лет назад

dannycool59x damn, thats deep

@andersonkurk3976 7 лет назад

dzengrinder He's Gerald from Hey Arnold.

@RealD8 3 года назад

The 80s are coming back!

@Geanneley 3 года назад

Well ur face looks like spiderman

@amazinggrace5692 3 года назад

Wish I had learned of these amazing women when I was in school. I wouldn’t have felt so odd.

@lakep7798 3 года назад

Can you imagine just how many girls it would have inspired?

@neetrab 9 месяцев назад

Why did you feel so odd?

@amazinggrace5692 9 месяцев назад

@@neetrab Loved math and science at a time when that wasn’t cool for girls. My father never acted as if it was odd though, so I was lucky. We were all supposed to go to college to get our MRS degree.

@tomthemasteratstuff8954 3 года назад

It said she passed 2020 February 24th that's very sad R.I.P Katherine Jonson you made us proud.

@preciousbabydoll9793 7 лет назад

Praise God, Ms. Katherine Johnson is alive to acknowledge this honor. She sincerely deserve this praise.

@coreemore2355 7 лет назад

I know her personally.I worked at the retirement home where she lives.shes very nice

@13ullseye 7 лет назад

Nice to see Gerald from Hey Arnold grew up and became a journalist, but still kept his ridiculous haircut.

@chocolat917 7 лет назад

Vandergrif 😂😂😂👍

@doa2012 7 лет назад

Vandergrif this made my day 😂😂😂😂

@d.l.3149 3 года назад

In reality, she went to the white women's bathroom, but the director lies in the story by saying it was a white man savior, not a black woman, who defied the separate bathroom rule. Pitiful in this day and age he couldn't give credit where credit was due to a black woman who defied the segregation rule.

@saquist 11 месяцев назад

He doesn't lie. Movies embellish. "Based on a true Story". The point is to have many MOMENTS of conflict. Costner is a great actor...you're just going to have him DO.....NOTHING? If you walked away with a "White Savior" narrative then you really weren't paying attention. (NOTE: Katherine LOVES this movie...so perhaps you're too high on that horse.) Don't look for the negative where none was intended.

@kingmemphis1986 Месяц назад

@saquist The movie was whitewash. The director said it was whitewash, but he attempted to play the word game. White washing is not just in movies, it is in history books as well.

@ShidaiTaino 7 лет назад

"Madam what was your past job" "I was a computer"

@LowMedow 7 лет назад

In my opinion, they should have stuck to factual information.

@lakep7798 3 года назад

Absolutely agreed.

@natosomething3690 3 года назад

They never do and never will, producers prioritise making a spicy and interesting film first of all

@saquist 11 месяцев назад

It's Dramatization not a Documentary. The directed made creative decisions to add drama for roles that were lean and he did so in a balanced way or did you NOT notice that Katherine didn't make that important decision in Mission Control?

@GeorgesOpinion 7 лет назад

What's with so many dislikes? Triggered racists I suppose lol

@ryans79mc 7 лет назад

I guess thats your opinion

@JewTube001 7 лет назад

He asked a question so you can tell him if you don't like his conclusion. I'm quite confused over it myself.

@jbmjbm2145 7 лет назад

blacks are the most racist that's why they are always suffering

@jbmjbm2145 7 лет назад

white man invented your computer and your internet boy

@GeorgesOpinion 7 лет назад

jbmjbm21 lmao

@freebethlehem6813 7 лет назад

I thought she was supposed to be black

@TheShouldersurfer 7 лет назад

she is old...dude

@Rowxstr 7 лет назад

every race when they get 90+ they look hella white

@TheMrRedSir 7 лет назад

+Pussy grabber in chief raicst

@HollyandChanel 7 лет назад

Before the 1970s anyone part Black was considered a Negro. When she was younger, she was the same complexion as Beyonce.

@MERKJONES 7 лет назад

She is black.

@User2718218 7 лет назад

She is a hero and I salute her and her colleagues and thank her from the bottom of my heart.

@stuart.w 7 лет назад

I have to say this was actually a pretty good little video. They got a simple answer from the director, didn't feel like they were pushing their narrative as hard as usual. Well done vice.

@lakep7798 3 года назад

Best interview! I really appreciate his asking about whether or not the decision to NOT show that she simply refused to go to a separate restroom diminished the boldness and bravery and courage that was part of her character. I think it did. Wow. What an amazing woman. Someone to be admired.

@YoungTwam 7 лет назад

It's always the white savior complex

@lpe3259 3 года назад

Exactly

@saquist 11 месяцев назад

Is it really? So you all think that there were NO WHITE people with great moral fortitude. Let's look at the truth. Katherine was surrounded by White People and according to her NO ONE STOOD IN HER WAY. The same has been true for me. This was simply a dramatization...do let resent you see what's not there.

@gutgutcalor9095 4 года назад

He shouldn’t have added that bathroom sign scene because her not using the black bathroom which was a mile a way gives a Rosa parks feel to her the history and courage

@johnd5398 Год назад

fucking bullshit

@joaquinjimenez207 7 лет назад

I love her so much. It's indescribable how much respect I have for her as a person of color who loves math

@charlesroque9993 7 лет назад

She is a hero! A true angel! True asset in opportunity perjectury launches! Forever indebted!

@TLTthatsME 3 года назад

It takes your breath away to know she wanted to travel in space but was denied.

@johnd5398 Год назад

No, it doesn't. Because I have more than 2 brain cells to rub together to generate a spark.

@rayfordcarpathia4015 7 лет назад

You did diminish Katherine Johnson's actions of choosing to not use the 'colored' bathroom. Dexter Thomas had a good point that you seemed to not think about.

@johnd5398 Год назад

It diminished nothing. It's no worse than jaywalking or speeding. We ignore signs every day and think nothing of it.

@ricktyman4709 Год назад

@@johnd5398 The Director made up a scene that makes the White character a hero, which never happened. It was clearly a deliberate attempt to make white audiences comfortable that not every white person is portrayed as racist. But at the same time, it dilutes the historical accuracy because it never even happened.

@joe_isom Год назад

The directors response to that was good though. “When a white person does the right thing, & a black person does the right thing, then everyone does the right thing.” Or something like that. I know that wasn’t what he said word for word, but I really admire that response. So if a black person does the right thing FIRST, then the white person does the right thing SECOND, I don’t believe that diminishes anything. Skin colour shouldn’t matter these days. We’ve put that part of the past behind us, even though people of color still get treated like garbage by some nowadays, films like this are a step in the right direction. I love this film. It was so inspiring to me. That people of all colours, shapes & sizes can overcome any obstacles they may face & accomplish anything. That is part of the message I take from it. Learn from the past, but let it remain the past.

@saquist 11 месяцев назад

No Dexter did NOT have a good point. The director is CORRECT. The real story is "𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭." C'mon ya'll... This is a Hollywood DRAMATIZATION and that's not dramatic. You don't bring in Kevin Costner to be a passive observer. These ROLES need MEAT. He needed something todo. The same is true at the end of film where they GIVE Katherine the genius suggestion of delaying the ejection of the retro rockets to keep the heat shield from breaking loose. Katherine didn't do that BUT the director decided the ROLE of the main character need a point of climax for the ending.

@pfscpublic 7 лет назад

It's inspiring to see Katherine and finally to hear some of her story at last

@jimmyho1051 7 месяцев назад

She said “ can’t tell it” cause she’s old school and don’t want young bucks using her struggles as theirs. A true pioneer

@Draindad 7 лет назад

WE WAS ROCKET SCIENTISTS AND SHIT

@Tonybmw1988 7 лет назад

Hllspwn lmfao!

@igortomas3776 7 лет назад

Flying dem pyramidz n sheit!

@idislikegoogleplus9452 7 лет назад

Hllspwn WE WUZ ALIENS N SHEET

@Mad_Axe_Man125 7 лет назад

lmao i was looking for this comment

@larryross4669 7 лет назад

Hllspwn lol

@WillingTan 3 года назад

Thank you Katherine for Inspiring millions! Just watched Hidden Figures.

@elizabethbeavers6247 3 года назад

Started her career as a "computer." Blows my mind.

@LowMedow 7 лет назад

Don't add "dramatization" into films.

@jarbackk447 3 года назад

Well then it’s not a film is it? If you want it to be true then it should’ve been a documentary.

@jarbackk447 3 года назад

Mr. Vic well you can, but there is no problem with you adding dramatization into films and bending reality either. If you’re looking for historical facts and facts only a documentary is more suited.

@dianaenamorado3526 3 года назад

Go watch a damn documentary then

@tyronetarver3453 2 года назад

It is lazy filmmaking to believe you have to include lies in order to produce drama. There was a motive behind these untrue scenes. And that was to diminish Dr. Johnson's civil rights accomplishments and hurdles that she (and the other Black Women) jumped all by themselves. Dr. Johnson was a genius. They can't deny that. But what was more important was that they had to include a White Savior to downplay the bravery of these Black women.

@theREALchriszito 7 лет назад

2:49 Great question. He handled it about as well one could, but way to highlight this tired fucking trope

@pattimessenger6214 2 года назад

I love the movie Hidden Figures! Thank you for this insight into the real story.

@billyray7106 7 лет назад

wow, you all miss the message of the movie WE ALL GET THERE TOGETHER or not at all. TOGETHER!!!

@obsoleteoptics 7 лет назад

Billy Ray Amen!

@jessicamarie5781 7 лет назад

Billy Ray voice of reason. Jeez talk about ppl missing the message. It wasn't just a white black thing and toilets. All kinds of history being made, women in that field. America trying to put a man in space. No wonder we are not in the top ten of the world of education. More information about reality television then history and the reality of things.

@neetrab 11 месяцев назад

I just stumbled across the movie last night. Loved it!! Didnt even know it was a true story until the credits came. Wow

@Bondisaurus 7 лет назад

Dude straight out of house party.

@baatinunseen5732 7 лет назад

I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to pause for a moment and give thanks for the great contributions of the Black community to our society. Their peaceful and generous nature make them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture. Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people. Real estate values are fueled by the mix of African Americans into an area due to their caring and respectful nature of these communities, an example of all they have achieved through their enthusiasm for self improvement by hard work and a self-reliant can-do nature. Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a nation. So before anyone complains about why our children have to go to school on veterans day and NOT on martin Luther king Jr. day, one should ask themselves, what has a vet ever done for this country that the black community hasn't? So now I say kudos to you African-Americans. We live by your example.

@thewestwinger3855 7 лет назад

Lovely comment, the best among a sea of racist comments

@nubianq333 7 лет назад

Your unintelligent sarcasm coupled with a dose of hatred is noted with sympathy !!

@armstrongodey1202 7 лет назад

Lol what kind of trouble did. You get into? Can't tell it! 😂 😂

@audengranger 7 лет назад

Hi, are there closed captions or a transcript available for this video? Thank you!

@tsvetalutz7969 7 лет назад

I like that the movie producers added Katherine running to and from the coloured bathrooms because it shows how cruelly blacks were treated at that time, and if these scenes were never added, we wouldn't have the song Runnin' by Pharrell Williams. +the noise Katherine's heels make when she runs is satisfying.

@Stacey-ki4qc 7 лет назад

Thank you ms. Katherine. one Love... ❤💋

@sunayakong8537 3 года назад

Director: we need drama, not truth man don’t you get it it’s artistic privilege.

@deanblack1391 3 года назад

May has well have been a documentary if he didn't add drama

@jayfrazier1368 7 лет назад

Such a true legend✊💯

@davidm9214 3 года назад

Movies are a way to change history since people tend to not open history books past high school if they make it to grad at all

@davy209 2 года назад

I know. People should not be getting their history lessons from movies.

@jamesward3859 2 года назад

But in a way, a lot of people wouldn’t of heard of her if it wasn’t for Hidden Figures

@davidm9214 5 месяцев назад

@@mjb6839 honestly most people ask me questions and I'm like...can't you google it....Also google is a company that can be bought and paid for, they are on board with the woke agenda

@meherfanorchachookaleemqaz1142 3 года назад

I love Mrs Katherine Johnson and I’m learning about her at school

@seaden9387 7 лет назад

So inspiring 💕💕💕💕

@Rocanala 3 года назад

Beautiful lady! Inside and out!😍

@andrewwell1855 7 лет назад

How can people dislike this! she had the balls to go inside of a white women restroom.

@McJessica1616 7 лет назад

2:14 Audiomachine - Reaching. Amazing song!!!

@commess1 3 года назад

Thanks for this.

@RustyB5000 7 лет назад

homeboy needs a haircut so bad. can't take him seriously

@yir9383 7 лет назад

Beautiful & Brilliant lady..A story and movie that should have been made before now.

@georgem5524 3 года назад

Thank you !

@terrygyimah1956 3 года назад

This woman is a true inspiration and I definitely want to watch this movie because I have never seen it

@holasoydora428 3 года назад

tell me why no one offered her a ride to space smh

@saquist 11 месяцев назад

Commercial Space Flight is extremely knew and she was very old when she passed away in 2020. That really wouldn't have been a great idea.

@ceerstar851 Год назад

I'm glad the director got called out about the "white savior conplex". He made himself look dumb. Pretending like he didn't know what it was called or what it was. His "it doesn't matter who does the right thing" answer was jus ridiculous. I couldn't possibly disagree with that any more than i do. He handled that very poorly.

@saquist 11 месяцев назад

Not at all. As a black guy I think it was creatively a good call. These are dramatizations. This isn't a documentary. He allowed other characters to SHARE THE STAGE. Katherine's story was already stellar. But a Movie embellishes to make important points. If we had it your way nothing interesting would have happened here. Katherine just went to the bathroom and no one complained. Congratulations you made a boring movie about a great person. :D

@jonaldgammadmendozavlog5610 3 года назад

Nice movie! I fall in love with the story

@mombradshaw5528 2 месяца назад

I could LISTEN FOR AGES to any elderly person ..the stories and wisdom i wish i had !!..let alone a mathematical genius who was a woman and black! The things she overcome and the things she gave to our world 🌎

@obsolom6917 3 года назад

maaaaa, i'm cryingggg

@sergeantmasson3669 Год назад

Incredibly amazing genius lady.

@charlesmims8843 7 лет назад

Thanks for just being you amen an be blessed

@izzylee1252 7 лет назад

I know this is really serious and meaningful but omg the interviewer looks like Gerald from hey Arnold

@gemini29ism 3 года назад

Thank you🖤🖤🖤💚💚💚💚💚

@islamicchronicles5381 3 года назад

THANK YOU

@sugerprince 3 года назад

See people said segregation was so long ago but they people who lived it are still here

@gastonneal724 3 месяца назад

My mother didn’t like math, but I found her algebra books when I was 5. I love math.

@whydontyoukillemall 7 лет назад

i feel like these comments and this segment miss the point a little

@leejohns2010 3 года назад

I'd much much rather to see Katherine going into bathroom in the midat of all that BS in the office.

@johnd5398 Год назад

you wanna watch an old woman go to the bathroom....?

@jackiegonzalez6814 7 лет назад

Wow I saw the move today

@m.shannontalbott3884 3 года назад

Thank you Katherine Johnson a queen in your own right

@thamsanqahadebe5778 2 года назад

What a treasure💕

@Ash-ng4mn 4 года назад

But you created a movie (supposedly non-fiction), and lied. That's not art.

@mystic7579 3 года назад

That’s what you do when you have poetic license!!

@deanblack1391 3 года назад

You do realise if he didn't add over dramatic scenes and made some fake things he may as well have made a documentary

@saquist 11 месяцев назад

No...if you look at the beginning of these films....everyone of them says "BASED on a true story". It's not a documentary it's a dramatization just like a play. It's a powerful story meant to enertain...so like your crazy uncle sometimes things are embellished for dramatic effect.

@kimoralee9581 3 года назад

Respect ✊🏾❤️.

@nassmatic 4 года назад

They should issue a US stamp for Mrs. Johnson and her colleagues.

@saquist 11 месяцев назад

I agree with this!

@Libra_Strings 7 лет назад

I mean Melfi diminished my thoughts of the movie initially.

@monavie9110 4 года назад

Rest in Peace

@shaunig6716 2 года назад

AMAZING LADY!!! Amazing!!!

@bangkokhomes Месяц назад

What an amazing woman. Deserves the highest respect

@itskelvinn 7 лет назад

Can someone tell me why brought all the papers to the bathroom in the movie? She probably spent like a minute on the toilet? So carrying 3 binders full of papers on a mile run, just for a minute of work? Seems like carrying the extra weight probably needed an extra minute of running anyway...

@angienatoyn 7 лет назад

Is that Marge interviewing her?

@zenzen3267 7 лет назад

why did this video get 201 thumbs down when the real deal was there😡😡😡😡

@familylifetoo9541 3 года назад

100 more movies could be made about the human computers, i d love to see them, if they are done as well, and more can stay with the original facts. so cool

@kbabyblue 11 месяцев назад

Who else thought she was the white lady 😳 ?

@Spring_of_Smiles Год назад

Wow, I've seen her documentary

@EllaBenchan 11 месяцев назад

I love her from the hidden figures movies.

@riglodawnstar41 8 дней назад

That directors response was something to the question about the bathrooms rubbed me wrong lol not sure about his p.o.v.

@maverick6775 4 года назад

A beautiful and smart woman

@Mike-gc9ih 8 месяцев назад

One of the best movies ever

@mikerphone. 7 лет назад

space x get to work, we're launching this old lady into space!

@hugocampos5536 Год назад

Thanks for your contributions to the space program Mrs Johnson, now you are beyond the space and stars with God.

@Anonymous-qd3je 3 года назад

00:44 . . . she sounds like Akrack: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jXW1OpVr2wc.html

@RaySmith79 7 лет назад

love trumps hate

@snostalgia-ll4yc 7 лет назад

Half of the comments are "This dude's hair is fucked all the way up 😂" or "she's so old so looks white omg"

@tomking1890 11 месяцев назад

I agree with the interviewer.

@lionelboi8638 4 года назад

WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL!

@Finkardop 7 лет назад

nasa didn't have segregated bathrooms in 1961 which is what the movie wants you to think. the ibm lady had the supervisor position 14 years before 1961. The whole end scene where she saves the day didn't happen and the character Kevin costner played didn't even exist. This movie is re written history and is false. read up on the real story if you want to be inspired by what really happened.

@user-hu6lr3vr7g 4 месяца назад

It amazes me as a non-American that all those engineers who actually built and designed the space craft get no recognition but this person gets recognition for writing a navigation guide (It was more than just Katherine writing that code) just because she is black (supposedly) and a woman. What about all the people that actually built these space crafts! Only in America! Cue roll eyes 🙄. As a female biologist, I feel really insulted, big science = equal big teams.