This week’s Who Do You Think You Are? features Bill Paxton – maybe best known for his lead role in the movie “Twister.”
Bill always wondered if he was related to Texan hero, Sam Houston (who he just happens to be playing in a movie out next year). After Bill sees that indeed he and Sam are distant cousins, he sets off on a journey back to his third great grandfather and finds out that after spending years fighting in the Revolutionary War for the Patriot cause, he drops his arms and takes up a cutting edge new religion called, Swedenborgianism. Bill’s ancestor was caught between the worlds of being a slave-owning land owner and a God-fearing man who believed that human kindness would lead him to heaven.
This episode airs Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 10/9c on TLC. Don’t miss it!
