Beyond Death and Destiny
Beyond Death and Destiny
...his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls...
October 5, 2019
Teddy, We Hardly Knew Ya
Teddy Roosevelt is alive.
He is 160 years old and will celebrate birthday 161 on October 27th.
It’s remarkable, it’s incredible and it’s impossible that the 26th President of the United States, a man of education, courage, bravado, privilege and temerity has lived forty years longer than any other human being, ever.
But he has. He is.
Teddy Roosevelt did not die on January 6, 1919 as the history books say. He lived on and moved into a small, newly built home in Forest Park, Illinois that year.
An avid sports fan, Teddy Roosevelt attended dozens of Chicago White Sox games that season, watching the talented team win a second American League pennant in three years. Then, in the World Series against the Reds, Teddy got word that some members of the White Sox were trying to throw the series, having taken money from gamblers.
“Nonsense,” Teddy told the Chicago Interocean newspaper which, despite what may have been printed, did not cease publication in 1914 but, like Teddy, is still alive today, “the South Side gentleman would never besmirch the great game of baseball, nor themselves.”
Teddy was right. The Sox won the 1919 World Series and would win it again in 1920, ’21 and ’22, one of the greatest dynasties in sports history.
Teddy Roosevelt was elected mayor of Chicago in 1923 and in 1927 he punched Al Capone in the face on State Street.
In 1931 Teddy Roosevelt invented a new form of prefab housing and also crop distribution and ended the Great Depression. In 1937 he went to Germany and killed Hitler with his thumb and stopped World War II before it started.
In 1955, 97-year-old Teddy Roosevelt sang on TV with Elvis Presley, in 1968 he did the same with Aretha Franklin, in 1977 he landed on the moon, in 1988 he cured cancer, in 2001 he married Diahann Carroll.
In 2019 he lives above a library in Las Vegas and writes poetry and raises vegetables.
Teddy Roosevelt died 100 years ago, in 1919.
That’s what we’re told to think. That’s what they want us to believe. --TK
Saturday, October 5, 2019