LAWRENCE, KANSAS, Edited March 4, 2024, 3:16 PM, CST —
My 10th Great Grandfather is William Bradford, a Mayflower passenger. The rest are quite revealing, to say the least.
To list some of the biggest ones that stand out, to me at this time, I am related to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, Richard Nixon, Harry Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, James Madison, James Garfield, and Herbert Hoover.
Hoover is significant because Charles Curtis was the very first Native American Vice President of the United States of America with Hoover, Curtis is from Kansas, and I have been trying to restore Native American heritage in the United States of America this whole time, something I learned from my mother and father. It is the main reason why I chose to have Wes Studi in my first film, From Ashes to Immortality (2016). Also, please allow me to state, I truly believe Studi should be the first Native American President of the United States of America, and I can be his Vice President, because I know how to handle the theatrics of the Congressional Legislature. Honestly, though, it could be too late for that, for me, and Academy Award Winner Kevin Willmott, who was also in From Ashes to Immortality (2016), would make a fine VP, too.
Also, other people who stand out on my family tree, Thomas Jefferson, Diana Princess of Wales, Thomas Edison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, T. S. Elliot, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Disney, Agatha Christie, Buster Keaton, Emily Dickinson, John Wayne, Shirley Temple, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Katharine Hepburn, Jackson Pollock, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Cecil B. DeMille, Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller, Robert Peary.
And, more.
If my mother’s pedigree isn’t proof enough for you that I am an age-old Lawrencian likely from before the American Civil War days, I don’t know what else to tell you. Bill Nieder was a Gold Medalist Olympian in “shot put”, from Lawrence, and went to the University of Kansas. He is one of my some-number removed cousins, and I am related to Sue Hack, also, who served on the City Commission of Lawrence from 2002 to 2007.
This means, and it is your choice to believe me or not, that I am the “reincarnation” of Abraham Lincoln, a 6’4’’ giant, just like me, the bald man Dwight D. Eisenhower and, also, that my mother’s line corresponds to the Phoenix of Lawrence, Kansas, a symbol of female empowerment and rebirth into a new and better woman as the necessary step that humanity must take, together.
This picture below is in Weaver’s Department Store, in Downtown Lawrence. I almost bought it, but thought that it was greedy to do so, and then told an employee who helped me that they should not sell the picture, because Abraham Lincoln was the only man able to resolve the American Civil War, and people need to see that.
If you look closely at his suit jacket, I am the return of the Leo Prophecy, and so are all of you. You just have to see how.
As of March 1st, 2024, I applied to be on the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board. I was invited to do so by women in this Kansas Department, because I know how to defend the Public from prejudice against people with Traumatic Brain Injury, or TBI, a lot like Forest Gump (1994).
My birth brother’s nickname is Bubba. It is a name my father gave him before Forest Gump (1994). Mine is Shorty, because I was the shortest one in the immediate family, but now I am the tallest.
I also know how Black Americans, such as Martin Luther King Jr. were the last great Civil Rights Leaders in the United States of America, better than the hippies, and I will need the support of those alive today who identify with receiving Black racial prejudice, as well as racial prejudice of all kinds. Age, sex, gender, disability, religion or science, and political affiliation count, too—who cares? I don’t. We the People of the United States of America need to Unite, because this is the United States of America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was born October 14, 1890, and I was born October 14, 1985.
Lastly, I just want to say, there is a dear woman in Lawrence, Kansas, named Jen Young, and she was the very first lady to lovingly call me, Eric B. Hyde.
I like that. It works really well.
May the “Lord” protect the City of Lawrence, Kansas, from all peril from this day forward, in what is called KU Basketball’s March Madness.
My prediction is that all, or nearly all of the University of Kansas collegiate teams will win championships this year and the next, until 2027.
May the “Force” be with us all.
© 2024 Eric Bock Hyde. All rights reserved. “In God We Trust”. Amen.