Clint Murchison, Sr.

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Clinton Williams Murchison, Sr. (April 11, 1895 – June 19 or 20, 1969)[1][2] was a noted Texas-based oil magnate and political operative. He was also the father of Dallas Cowboys owner Clint Murchison, Jr..

Personal

Murchison, the third child of John Weldon and Clara Lee Murchison, was born April 11, 1895 in Tyler, Texas.[1] In 1920, he married Anne Morris and had three sons: John Dabney Murchison (September 5, 1921 – June 14, 1979), Clinton Williams Murchison, Jr. (September 12, 1923 – March 30, 1987), and Burk Murchison (January 26, 1925 – April 15, 1936).[1][2] Anne Murchison died in 1926.[2] Murchison married again in 1943 to Virginia Long.[2]

He owned several ranches, one in northeastern Mexico, where he hosted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1950.[3]

Political involvement

In the late 1940s, Murchison and another Texas oil mogul, Sid Richardson, met FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. It was the start of a long friendship between Murchison and Hoover.[4] In 1952, the two worked together to mount a smear campaign against Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. Hoover and his close friend and companion, Clyde Tolson, also invested heavily in Murchison's oil business.

JFK conspiracy allegations

Madeleine Brown — an advertising executive who claimed to have had an extended love affair and a son with President Lyndon B. Johnson — said that she attended a party at Murchison's Dallas home on November 21, 1963 — the evening prior to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In attendance, according to Brown, were Lyndon Johnson as well as other famous, wealthy, and powerful individuals including, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, H. L. Hunt, George Brown, and John McCloy.[5] Brown said that Johnson met privately with several of the men after which he told her: “After tomorrow, those goddamn Kennedys will never embarrass me again. That’s no threat. That’s a promise.”[5][6]{{#tag:ref|Brown said that on November 22, 1963 — the day of the assassination — Johnson phoned her and repeated his warning. On the TV program A Current Affair, she stated: "On the day of the assassination, not but a couple of hours prior to the assassination, he [Johnson] said that John Kennedy would never embarrass him again and that wasn't a threat — that was a promise."[7][8][9] [10]

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cockrell School of Engineering (2013). "Clint W. Murchison Sr.". http://www.engr.utexas.edu. Austin, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved February 8, 2013. 
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Van Buren, Ernestine Orrick. "Murchison, Clinton Williams, Sr.". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved February 8, 2013. 
    3. ↑ "Windsor And Wife Leave For Visit in Tallahassee". St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg). January 29, 1950. p. 014. Retrieved October 30, 2013. 
    4. ↑ Summers, Anthony. Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, (New York: Putnam Adult, 1993), ISBN 0-399-13800-5
    5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hugh Aynesworth (November 17, 2012). "‘One-man truth squad’ still debunking JFK conspiracy theories". The Dallas Morning News (Dallas). Retrieved February 6, 2013. 
    6. ↑ Brown, Madeleine D. (1997), Texas in the Morning: The Love Story of Madeleine Brown and President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Conservatory Press, p. 166. ISBN 0-941401-06-5
    7. ↑ A Current Affair, February 1992.
    8. ↑ "Celebrity". Boston Herald (Boston). February 24, 1992. p. 015. Retrieved February 6, 2013. |group="nb"|name=""}}
    9. ↑ Fetzer, James. Assassination Science, (Chicago: Catfeet Press, 1998), pp. 368-369. ISBN 0-8126-9366-3
    10. ↑ http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20121117-one-man-truth-squad-still-debunking-jfk-conspiracy-theories.ece?ssimg=792323
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