Clint Murchison Sr.

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

Personal

Murchison, the third child of John Weldon and Clara Lee Murchison, was born April 11, 1895 in Tyler, Texas.[3]

During World War I, Murchison served as a first lieutenant in the United States Army.[1] He later joined Sid W. Richardson as lease traders in the Burkburnett oilfield in 1919.[1]

Murchison owned several ranches, one in northeastern Mexico, where he hosted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1950.[4]

Family

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).[3][1] Anne Murchison died in 1926.[1] Murchison married again in 1943 to Virginia Long.[1]

Death

Murchison was reported to have been ill several years prior to his death.[2] On July 20, 1969, he died at Henderson County Memorial Hospital in Athens, Texas.[1] At the time of his death, Murchison's fortune was estimated to be $500,000,000.[2]

JFK conspiracy allegations

Madeleine Duncan Brown, an advertising executive who previously claimed to have had an extended love affair and a son with President Lyndon B. Johnson, said that she was present at a party in Murchison's Dallas home on the evening prior to the assassination of John F. Kennedy that was attended by Johnson as well as other famous, wealthy, and powerful individuals including J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, H. L. Hunt and Sid Richardson.[5] According to Brown, Johnson had a meeting 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][nb 1] Brown's story received national attention and became part of at least a dozen John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Brown provided a similar account on A Current Affair stating: "On the day of the assassination, not but a couple of hours prior to the assassination, he said that John Kennedy would never embarrass him again and that wasn't a threat - that was a promise."[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Van Buren, Ernestine Orrick. "Murchison, Clinton Williams Sr.". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "Murchison Sr. Dies; Fortune near ½ million". Chicago Tribune. Chicago. UPI. June 21, 1969. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
  3. 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. External link in |work= (help)
  4. ↑ "Windsor And Wife Leave For Visit in Tallahassee". St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg. January 29, 1950. p. 014. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 Aynesworth, Hugh (November 17, 2012). "'One-man truth squad' still debunking JFK conspiracy theories". The Dallas Morning News. Dallas. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Celebrity". Boston Herald. Boston. February 24, 1992. p. 015. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
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