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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 278899" data-attributes="member: 22">1945Miss Ellie, speaking in 1979: JR hasn't behaved this well since he was six years old.Gary on Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner: She could make the rape of Poland look like a Sunday school picnic.Pete Adams on Jason: He was discharged [from the navy] in 1945.Jock: I was in the Army Corps. I served in London and I had an affair with an army nurse named Margaret Hunter. She knew about Ellie. I knew about her fiancee, Amos Krebbs, but it was war time and our feelings were — well, let’s just say we were two lonely people.Amos Krebbs: You were in love with [Margaret], weren’t you?Jock: It was special.Ray Krebbs, Margaret’s son: She used to talk about those nursing days a lot. Seemed like the only time in her life she ever felt useful.Jock on Margaret: I was sent to France and she was shipped back home. We said good-bye. We knew it was over. We thought that was the best thing to do. We never kept in touch after that.Amos on Margaret: There I was — good old 4F Amos Krebbs. I had to wait till the whole war was over before she’d come home to Kansas, and then I had to put up with the fact that she’d fallen for some Texas colonel.Amos to Jock: I know she was in love with you. She never let me forget it.Ray: Mama told you about Jock Ewing?Lil Trotter, Margaret’s sister: About meeting him in England and all during the war? Oh yes, she spoke of him with genuine admiration.Ray: Admiration?Lil: Well, maybe it was a little more than admiration — love, maybe.Ray: Mama was in love with Jock.Lil: I thought that might have been. I often wondered if she married Amos because she was missing Jock so much.Ray: That may have been.Amos: When I married her, Margaret was already pregnant.Jock: As soon as I got home, I confessed [the affair] to Miss Ellie.Jenna: What happened when Jock told you about him and Ray’s mother? Miss Ellie: That was a terrible time for us. He regretted that it happened.Jenna: You must have forgiven him eventually?Miss Ellie: Yes, I did.Jock: What I didn’t know was I had fathered a child by Margaret.Lil to Ray: Lord bless your mother, she never said a word.JR on Ray: Daddy’s big mistake — a half-breed, born on the wrong side of the blanket.Garnet McGee, speaking to Ray in 1978: You were born poor. Intend to die that way too?Lil on Margaret: She had a hard time with Amos Krebbs, harder than she deserved. I never thought that Amos Krebbs was the right kind of husband for [her]. He certainly wasn’t the right kind of father for Raymond. I told her that. I told him that, too.Ray on Lil: She loved my mother a lot.John Ross on a two-cone drill bit: My granddaddy used this very bit to get his big well in 1945.Maggie Monaghan on Digger: When he finally came back, he had Becky with him.Maggie on Rebecca: She wasn’t from around here. Never did get it straight exactly where she was from — Oklahoma, maybe, or Tennessee.Pamela Barnes, Cliff’s daughter, looking through his safety deposit box in 2013: Grandma Wentworth’s engagement ring, the one that Digger gave her.John Ross: Not too shabby for Digger Barnes.Maggie on Digger and Rebecca: He married her on the rebound, we figured. I think he grew to love her. He seemed to.Cliff on Digger: He loved Mama.Pam: Did he? He never says that. When he speaks of her at all it’s with a kind of reverence, but not the kind of passion he seems to feel for Miss Ellie.Miss Ellie to Pam: I only met your mother a few times. None of us knew Rebecca very well.1946JR, speaking to John Ross in 1986: I wasn’t much older than you are now [seven] when [Jock] started taking me out in the field, teaching me how to run an oil company.Miss Ellie to John Ross: Of all the boys, your daddy was the one who always wanted to go out into the fields with your grandpa Jock. He loved the oil business. I guess that was partly because he always wanted to be his daddy’s favourite son.John Ross: And was he?Miss Ellie: Oh, your grandpa loved all his boys, but it was your daddy he taught the oil business to.Bobby: JR was the oilman. He was the one that was always supposed to follow in Daddy’s footsteps.JR: Hell, I’m an oilman. Always have been, always will be.John Ross, speaking in 1986: How would you feel about me coming to work at Ewing Oil full time?JR: I said the same thing to my daddy when I was your age.John Ross: And when he finished laughing, what did he say?JR: He said I was rushing into things and I had a lot of growing up to do first. I was disappointed, but your granddaddy was right. He knew how much the oil business was going to change before I was ready to take over Ewing Oil. He also knew that an education would prepare me for those changes.John Ross, speaking in 1991: School can’t teach me how to run an oil company.JR: Well, where do you think I learned?An extract from Margaret Krebbs’ diary, dated October 19th 1946: “Raymond’s first birthday. I feel so depressed today. Jock, if you only knew how much your son and I miss you. I long to talk to you, to see you, but I won’t come between you and your family. I cannot.”Amos to Jock: She never really did get over you.Amos on Margaret: I was kind of angry at one point there. That’s how come I happened to steal [her diary].Cliff: I had an older brother, Tyler. He died when he was six months old.Jessica: Daddy died and Clayton took over Southern Cross. After a while, that ranch meant everything to him.Clayton: All my adult life, I’ve been in charge. I’ve lived on my own land and in my own house.Clayton: Jessica was a pretty wild kid when she was young. It was always hard for her to keep her emotions in check.Jessica: I did grow up a little wild. I was the talk of San Angelo.Jessica: Folks used to say I wrestled mountain lions down in San Angelo.Clayton on him and Jessica: We were close at the time and I could kind of look after her and protect her from — well, from herself actually.Clayton on Jessica: I pulled her out of a lot of scrapes when she was younger.Jessica: There was more than one party Clayton had to rescue me from.Jessica, speaking to Clayton in 1984: You look like you used to when you caught me sneaking in from a late date.Clayton: I guess I’ve always been uncomfortable around Jessie.Jessica to Clayton: I knew dear Rabbit from our days at San Angelo. I bet you didn’t know he had a crush on me in high school.Jessica: When Clayton married Amy, I felt like I’d lost my best friend. Everything between us changed. Oh, I know that’s the way it’s supposed to be. I mean, a married man doesn’t have much time for his kid sister anymore, especially as she’s the wildest girl in San Angelo.Clayton: I loved Amy.Harry McSween on Clayton: His wife was enormously wealthy in her own right. The family left her a trust fund with more money than the Farlows ever had.Clayton: After Amy and I got married, I really didn’t have the time for Jessica and I guess she felt that because she really started to let loose and one day she came home pregnant.Clayton on Jessica’s son Steven, aka Dusty: I never knew who his father was and I’m not sure that Jessie did either.Jessica: Atticus [Ward] is Dusty’s father.Jessica on Atticus: He wanted to marry me after I told him I was pregnant, but [Clayton] wouldn’t give us the time.Ray, speaking about Jessica’s pregnancy in 1984: Thirty, forty years ago I guessed that caused quite a scandal.Clayton: It would have, but we agreed upon a plan. Amy and I took her on a long trip overseas so she could have the baby in peace.Jessica to Clayton: Who banished me to England in the first place? You!Clayton, speaking in 1984: Jessie left San Angelo thirty years ago and she hasn’t been back very much. My sister was a dreamer. Texas just wasn’t big enough for her. She had her head full of a lot of crazy notions, travelling all over and meeting all kinds of people.1947Mack Mackenzie on his father and uncles: They were brought up in a Depression, fought a war. They knew how to be grownups. They knew how to get older. After what they went through, they almost looked forward to it.Ginger Ward, speaking in 1982: Why do you call Mack Pat?Pete Mackenzie: Because I’m Mack. Mackenzies are always Mack. When Pat was a boy, he was Little Mack and I was Big Mack.Mack: That was before his name became famous for that special sauce on a sesame seed bun!Mack: When I was six years old, I was running through the house. I knocked over a lamp and it broke and my dad beat the hell out of me. He just didn’t spank me, he hit me with his fists, gave me two black eyes. I was six years old and I told my friends that I fell off my bike.Pete Mackenzie to Mack: You’re stupid. You always have been. You never could touch me.Sid Fairgate: I remember my own father. He used to have this attitude like I owed him something. Even as a kid, I figured that was wrong. I figured that he had it backwards, that it was fathers who owed their kids something.Taylor “Guzzler” Bennett: I never had any brothers or sisters. My mama died when I was a little boy. It was just Daddy and me. He was not an affectionate man.JR to his mother-in-law Patricia Shepard: I suppose you think Sue Ellen’s descended from royalty on your side of the family — or maybe her daddy’s?Sue Ellen: The only thing I remember about my daddy was the smell of liquor on his breath.Ann Ewing on Harris Ryland: His father committed suicide before he was born.JR: When I was eight years old, I asked my daddy for a horse and he said when I came up with the money, he’d sell me one. So all that summer, I worked in the oilfields, digging trenches and such, twelve hours a day, and true to his word, Daddy sold me a horse. I learned quick enough that horse was blind. Now I loved my daddy and I respected my daddy, but most importantly, I feared my daddy.Christopher Ewing on Jock: Everybody said that he was an ass-kicking, hard-drinking son of a bitch.JR on Jock: He was the original hardball player. You remember what happened to people who got in his way?Bobby: If he was going to run somebody over, he’d at least warn them to get out of the way first.JR: Maybe that’s the way you remember it, but it wasn’t like that in the early years.JR: Mama, you don’t know the half of what Daddy did when he was running Ewing Oil. Now he was a fair man, but he was tough and ruthless when he had to be. He brought strong leadership to the company and strong leadership to the family.Tom Owens to Jock: You came to my farm personally. You tried to get me to sell. When I wouldn’t, you spread some money around. Suddenly nobody would buy my crops. You crushed me like a bug, took everything. Jock: Back in those days, I ran roughshod over a lot of people.Tom on Jock: He destroyed me.Tom: My boy and I had to start all over again from nothing in Landowne.Dr Harlan Danvers on Jock: He’s a tough man. He always has been.Sue Ellen Ewing: JR’s daddy used to run Ewing Oil using the three Bs — booze, broads and booty.Mr Harrigan, editor of the Navarro Sentinel newspaper: I’ve lived all my life in Navarro County. People treated Ewing Oil fair and square. Of course, one hand washed the other. I’m not denying that.Judith Ryland to her son Harris: Your grandfather had a saying, “Money and morality are like two cars on a one-lane road. When they meet, morality’s gonna end up in the ditch.”Miss Ellie, showing the charms on her bracelet: Here’s the one that Seth Stone gave me when he left Texaco and went independent. And Andy Bradley gave me this one, and Jock even added to it.Bobby to Marilee Stone (née Hurst): Your family and mine go back a long ways. You might have made Seth president, but everybody knows it was your daddy first and then you who built that company and amassed the fortune.Jock, speaking about Jeb Ames and Willie Joe Garr in 1979: They're about as trustworthy as two stepped-on rattlesnakes.JR: Well, sir, you're the one who brought them in as partners up at those two fields in Galveston.Jock: No, I brought their daddies in. Men you could trust with a handshake.Marilee Stone on Jordan Lee and Andy Bradley: Stonehurst has been partners with them for a long time.Wade Luce on Wade Luce Oil: I invested a lot of my life into that company.Jordan Lee on the Dallas oil cartel: Together we’ve always been able to keep the major companies at bay.Clayton, looking around the Southern Cross: The old ranch house just down there near those trees, big rambling building — that’s where Steven was born.Donna Krebbs: I thought Dusty was born in San Angelo.Clayton: That’s what we wanted people to think, but he was born in London.Clayton on Jessica: She can appear to be normal for long periods of time and then suddenly fly into a murderous rage. The first time it really surfaced was after Steven’s birth.Clayton: After the birth, Jessica went into an emotional depression that was so bad we had to put her in a rest home, a place to see that she got proper care. Amy and I kept Dusty. That’s what we had agreed upon.Miss Ellie on Jessica: Did she resent you from taking him away from her?Clayton: I didn’t think so. We had agreed that Amy and I would take the baby but I guess, deep inside, she resented it.Clayton on Dusty: We never adopted him legally, but we got a birth certificate that named us as parents and we took him back to Texas. Clayton on Dusty: I never told him that he was not my real son.Ray: After Jessie got out of the rest home, she was all right?Clayton: We assumed so. She responded to the treatment beautifully and actually by the time she was released, Amy and I were back in Texas. Miss Ellie on Jessica: You thought she’d recovered?Clayton: Yes. Everything was fine.Jessica on Dusty: All those years, Amy had him instead of me.Judith to Harris: You had trouble sleeping since you were a baby. I cannot count the nights you would fuss until I gave you my breast.</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?