Kyle had detailed knowledge of restaurant management and food preparation equipment, leading to the belief that he may have once worked in these industries. [36][37], "Benjaman Kyle" in 2010 (later identified as William Burgess Powell in 2015), Los Angeles Times, "Man learns his true identity after having amnesia for 11 years". [12], Kyle had nearly no memory of his life after the 1980s, including how he ended up in Georgia. In 2012, an online petition was created on the We the People petitioning system on whitehouse.gov, In 2007 while at The J.C. Lewis Health Care Center he met a nurse who first inquired about his past. [14] One event he does remember is reading about the September 11 attacks. After the incident, no criminal investigation was opened by Richmond Hill police until a friend inquired with the department in 2007. Oct. 4, 2015, List of Babylon 5 characters Benjamin Kyle, Learn how and when to remove this template message, National Criminal Justice Information Services Division, University of North Texas Health Science Center, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, "Man with no memory tries to start new life", "DNA expert: Man without identity wants it that way", "Jacksonville man with no name wants government to give him one", "Man Lives Six Years without Knowing Who he is", "I am Benjaman Kyle, an amnesiac who woke up with no memories in 2004. [33] IDignity also assisted in establishing Kyle's identification. Oct 24, 2020. These efforts included: In July 2009, a search was being made by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for Kyle's Vietnam draft registration, based on his birthdate and his physical characteristics. #Burger-King-Man-On-Plane; #Burger-King; #Fast-Food; #burgers #70s; #Burger-King; #Looking; #eyes; #thedangerbeard . Burger King hat guy on plane (FULL VIDEO) - YouTube Through Weinstein, and the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Kyle was able to obtain a Legacy Identification Card to supplement the identity card he received when he was in Georgia. His birth date turned out to be one of the details about his previous life he had been able to remember correctly. Based on his reactions to the mention of nuns during hypnosis, he may have been raised Catholic and may have attended Catholic schools. [29] This placed Kyle in Colorado in the late 1970s to early 1980s. AMA. [24] When asked by doctors to recall the Presidents of the United States, he was able to recall only those from the 20th century. While driving his truck in a yard, Kyle discovered that he still remembered how to drive a car. [11][17] The fact that Kyle had several weak matches to Powells, with a single strong match to a Davidson, indicates a possible non-paternity event in the male line of his familythat is, an adoption, a name change, or an illegitimacy. [citation needed], Kyle also had memories of being in the Denver Metropolitan Area. He had no identity document and was recorded in hospital records as "Burger King Doe". Through the outreach involved with the film, Kent Justice of News4Jax (WJXT) ran a series on Kyle with the help of Florida Senator Mike Weinstein. [9] Several online petitions were created asking lawmakers to grant Kyle a new Social Security number. A video posted online shows a man wearing a paper Burger King crown getting kicked off an American Airlines flight for calling other passengers the N-word. A man captured on video disrupting a JetBlue flight and disrespecting a Black passenger and staff has been stripped of his flight privileges with the airline. A genetic genealogy DNA test by Family Tree DNA produced a distant match with members of the Powell DNA Study. ", "History and Economic Impact of Sales Tax", "Tips roll in for amnesia victim; no ID yet", "Big Thompson Canyon July 31- Aug. 1, 1976", "Benjaman Kyle - MY IDENTITY HAS BEEN FOUND! Man thrown off Jamaica-New York JetBlue flight after racist behavior A man captured on video disrupting a JetBlue flight and disrespecting a Black passenger and staff has been stripped of his flight privileges with the airline. The later date is based on his recollections of a 2% retail sales tax that was enacted by the State of Indiana in 1963,[28] and that the popular WLS Chicago radio station disc jockey Dick Biondi left the station that year over management issues. Through a process of elimination they determined my ancestral bloodline and who my relatives were. [21][22][23] Genetic testing suggested that he may have had the surname Powell or Davidson or have relatives with these names. Kyle moved to Jacksonville, Florida, traveling on foot, in order to be filmed for a documentary. As of January 2015[update] he lived in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, in a 5-by-8-foot, air-conditioned shack provided by a benefactor. Man in Burger King crown sparks mass brawl on plane after repeatedly [18], Colleen Fitzpatrick attempted to create a family tree for Kyle, and based on DNA tests, cousins were identified from the western Carolinas who collaborated with her to try to determine his identity. [1], On August 31, 2004, at 5:00a.m., a Burger King employee in Richmond Hill, Georgia, found Kyle unconscious, naked, and sunburned behind a dumpster of the restaurant. The film, entitled Finding Benjaman, was in part a description about his curious circumstances, and in part an appeal to action for local media groups and politicians. In one video, near the start of the commotion, the man in the Burger King hat is seen sitting in an airplane seat screaming 'take your s** and get the f*** out of my seat'. 1885, Logan, Utah, d. 1946, Chico, California). The news of Kyle's identification received widespread coverage, including stories by the Orlando Sentinel, ABC News and New York's Daily News. The unidentified man, who is white and has light shoulder-leng No new leads were developed by the story, but he was able to find work and housing through the generosity of viewers. The unidentified man, who is white and has light shoulder-length hair, was seen sitting in a seat aboard the plane as it was preparing to leave Jamaica for New York, according to TMZ. He was diagnosed with dissociative amnesia in 2007 by Jason A. The later date was based on the year that the King Soopers grocery store chain merged with Kroger. [12], More specific memories placed him in Indianapolis between at least 1954 and 1963. He had cataracts in both eyes, and had corrective surgery nine months after he was found, when a charity raised enough money to pay for the operation. A reporter was able to find some Social Security records of him working in various jobs until 1983, after which no records could be found for the remaining period of more than 20 years before his discovery in 2004. Many people have shared their DNA profiles so that they may be compared with mine. AMA /r/IAmA", "Benjaman Kyle Indianapolis Birth Announcements, 30 Aug 1948", "Powell Surname DNA Project by Jim Barrett", "Davidson/Davison/Davisson Research DNA Study Project", "I am Benjaman Kyle, an unidentified amnesiac with no memories, and the country's only "invisible person" without a SSN. The video obtained by TMZ shows the man, who is white and donning a cardboard Burger King crown in the clip, shouting racial slurs at the passenger before takeoff. His family filed a missing persons report at the time, and police found he had moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he had moved on a whim with a coworker. [6] The earlier date was based on his memory that he arrived during the construction of the Pearl Street Mall in the downtown area, and shortly after the Big Thompson Canyon flood[31] that occurred on July 31 August 1, 1976. He later found out she was fake, there was never any meeting. In March 2011, Kyle was approached by Florida State University's College of Motion Picture Arts graduate student John Wikstrom. [24], On September 16, 2015, Kyle announced on his Facebook page that his identity had been established by a team of adoption researchers led by CeCe Moore. A DNA test taken by a close relative has confirmed that we are related," Kyle wrote. The JetBlue Racist Burger King, often called "Kingposting", refers to a viral video of an incident on a JetBlue flight in which a passenger in a paper Burger King crown shouted racial slurs against another passenger, who he claims kneed him in the stomach. Man in Burger King crown sparks mass brawl on plane after repeatedly HE'S BACK!!! A comparison of the whereabouts of the Powell and Davidson families revealed that members of both families were living in proximity in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1900s. [1] The nurse helped support Kyle financially while he earned about $100 a month mostly doing yard work. More specific memories of Boulder placed Kyle there between 1976 and 1983. The video obtained by . The Burger King plane guy got kicked off ANOTHER flight - Reddit A MAN in a Burger King crown sparked a mass brawl on a JetBlue flight this week after repeatedly calling fellow passengers the N-word. On August 31, 2004, he was found naked and injured, without any possessions or identification, next to a dumpster behind a Burger King restaurant in Richmond Hill, Georgia.Between 2004 and 2015, neither he nor the authorities had determined his identity or background, despite searches that had included television . A gap of more than 20 years in his life history still remains without any documented records. JetBlue Racist Burger King | Know Your Meme A man launched into a racist tirade minutes after boarding JetBlue flight 1760 from Jamaica to New York on October 20. There were a number of major efforts to identify Kyle by matching his fingerprints or DNA with that stored in various databases. He came up with the surname "Kyle" from his police and hospital placeholder name. [15] Kyle reported having memories of the controversy surrounding the construction of mass transit in Denver, at a time when the city still had no financing to proceed. "Benjaman Kyle" was the alias chosen by an American man who had severe amnesia. King in Atlanta. In 1976, he had cut ties with his family and abandoned his possessions, including his car and the trailer where he had been living. JetBlue bans white man, donning Burger King crown, after racist scene [8] In 2011, with help from Florida State Representative Mike Weinstein, Kyle was able to obtain a legal, government-issued Florida Legacy ID. He also appeared on local television networks across the country. Upon seeing himself in the mirror for the first time, Kyle realized he was around 20 years older than he thought he was. Although it is unclear where and when the incident took place, the video has surfaced three-weeks after the same man was kicked . A man in a paper Burger King crown hurled racist slurs at a fellow passenger on a New York-bound JetBlue flight, after accusing her of taking his seat and kneeing him in the stomach, videos show. A friend contacted Georgia Congressman Jack Kingston for help with the case. [12] Many of his memories he cannot describe in words and are at the tip of his tongue. Kyle says he has been met with skepticism about the case.[6]. [35] Dr. Phil McGraw paid for Kyle to seek a professional hypnotist in an effort to help him recover lost memories. The Granada closed in the mid-1950s. Fitzpatrick's efforts had not yet pinpointed his exact identity when he cut off communication with her. It is now the", "No-man's land: Amnesia stole his identity for 11 years", https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-amnesia-20151004-story.html, "Man With Amnesia Finds His Family After 11-Year Search", "Florida man with amnesia knows real identity after 11 years", "Man with amnesia still searching for his past", "The Last Unknown Man" | New Republic | 2016-11-21, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjaman_Kyle&oldid=1147251400, Fingerprint comparison to databases of military personnel and government workers, Searches on Y-DNA online databases such as Ybase.org, Ysearch.org, usystrdatabase.org, smgf.org, and DNAAncestry.com, Searches on mtDNA online databases such as mitosearch.org, EMPOP.org, and smgf.org, Research of the birth announcements published in Indianapolis newspapers around the time of Kyle's remembered birthdate, This page was last edited on 29 March 2023, at 19:05. [20], Kyle remembered that he was born 10 years before Michael Jackson and on the same day, giving him a possible birth date of August 29, 1948. [7] Georgia Legal Services did not obtain medical records for Kyle because Memorial Health requested an $800 fee. Secret Flying on Twitter: "'Burger King Man' kicked off flight for