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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 281211" data-attributes="member: 22">1951Mack: You knew in the third grade that you’d be president.Greg: Everybody in the third grade wants to be president.Paul Galveston: You’ve always been smart. You’ve always understood power, Gregory, and craved it.Greg: I have a cross-stitched sampler. It says “Never assume”. My mother made it for me when I was a little boy and it’s proved to be a good rule to live by.Greg on Ruth: She was a lousy wife and a crummy mother.Greg to Ruth: You always were a great judge of character.Greg: I’ve always been a guy who hated surprise parties.Mack: I always liked those models when I was kid of the big sailing ships.Mack on his father: When I was ten, he came home and started kicking me in the stomach. I didn’t know why. I never found out. But I told myself that, well, he’s just letting off steam.Deputy Sheriff Newly on Hutch McKinney: He was foreman on the Southfork for a couple of years. He had a bad temper. He was a touchy guy. He used to get in fights all the time.Digger: We were living in Braddock, maybe a mile from Southfork.Rebecca: The way Digger used to go on about his problems with Jock …Digger: I tried to kill Jock Ewing once or twice, but I bungled it. See, I can drill but I can’t kill!Jock on Digger: Couldn’t even kill me the time he tried.JR: Digger Barnes did try to kill my daddy and that’s no tall tale because I was there.JR: I don’t know why Daddy put up with Digger. I asked him once, more than once. “He’s a drunk,” I’d say, “a failure, a man who tried to kill you. Why don’t you just snuff him out?” Daddy would look off into space and remember and say he didn’t know where he’d be if he hadn’t met up with Digger Barnes. “Nobody does it alone,” he’d say. Miss Ellie: You know what Digger was like — drunk so much of the time and disappearing for months.Maggie to Pam and Cliff: You know Digger — your mama probably did like I used to do, just emptied his pockets after a drunk, figured he'd around to sorting it out afterwards.Engraving on Hutch McKinney's belt buckle: "To HM, with love RB."Pete Adams on Jason: He had a son, Jack, who was born in 1951 in Montana.Harry McSween on Jack Ewing: He’s a natural born drifter.Jamie Ewing, Jack’s sister: He’s a natural born con artist.Angelica Nero on Dimitri Marinos: He kept track of [Jack and his mother Nancy] regularly and sent them money all the time, which she never refused. He never had another child.1952Johnny Rourke: Didn’t Lucy and Ethel once get locked in a meat locker?Punk Anderson on the Oil Baron’s Ball: I haven’t missed a single one of these things since we got started.JR, speaking about the Oil Baron’s Ball in 1982: The Ewings have never missed one yet.Miss Ellie: Your daddy always enjoyed it so much.Brooks Oliver, attorney, speaking about Franklin Horner of the Cattleman's Bank in 1983: The witness has known [Jock] for more than thirty years.JR on Franklin Horner: I never did like that penny pincher.Deputy Sheriff Newly on Hutch McKinney and Jock: There was bad blood between them. They hated each other’s guts.Jock: I found out that Hutch had been cutting steers, selling them and getting kick back on the feed money. Maybe he’d padded some other bills too, I didn’t have time to check. He’d been up at Two-Stick Pasture all day and I just couldn’t talk to him, but I knew that he and some of the boys liked to stop by the Braddock Saloon and have a few belts after they’d finished work — it was the only saloon in town at the time — but by then I was so damn mad, I couldn’t wait for him to get back to the bunk house so I drove into town to meet him. Well, I got there a little early and had four or five belts before Hutch arrived. He was surprised to see me.Verno Ferris, Braddock local: It was 1952. Eisenhower had just beat the pants off of that Stephenson guy. It was a couple of weeks after the election. Some of us were still celebrating.Ferris: Right there in the bar, Jock fired [Hutch]. He ordered him to leave the ranch by morning, or he was going to kill him.Jock: Then all hell broke loose. Ferris: Hutch McKinney and Jock Ewing almost tore the place apart. Jock on Hutch: He picked himself up and left. Virgil Tuttle, ranch worker on Southfork: Old Hutch, he started coming in the bunk house. He went over to his bed and he spread out, and in no time at all, he’s snoring. When old Hutch gets to snoring, I could tell you stories. About midnight, the door of the bunk house flew open and Jock Ewing come in. Jock on Hutch: He was asleep in the bunk house with an empty jug of gin beside him. Virgil on Jock: He went over and pulled old Hutch right out of the bed, and he warned him what would happen if he found him on Southfork — he’d kill him. Jock on Hutch: I jerked him outside and we went at it again. Virgil: I figured I best stay put. Jock: I guess I just lost all control, I was so damn mad. Virgil on Jock: He came in to wash up. He had blood splattered all over him.Assistant DA Sloane: Did you ever see Hutch McKinney again after that night?Virgil: Never did.Jock on his Colt 38: I noticed it missing one day.Sloane on Jock’s gun: Any mention of it when it went missing?JR: No. Well, I don’t remember. I was just a little kid at the time.Sloane: Did you see that gun again after it disappeared?JR: No.Jock on the gun: I thought I lost it. That’s the reason I never said anything. I guess McKinney stole it.Digger: I was drinking. It was another of those three-day benders. I came home to your mama, Pam, Cliff, like I always did. Only this time, it wasn’t the same.Digger in 1952: Hey, what are you doing here, McKinney?Rebecca: Digger, Jock fired Hutch. He’s leaving Dallas. I’m going with him. I’m in love with him.Digger: You’re pregnant. What about my baby?Rebecca: Digger, Hutch is the daddy.Digger, striking Rebecca: You whore!(Digger and Hutch fight.)Hutch, pulling Jock’s gun on Digger: Say your prayers, Digger.(Rebecca knocks the gun from Hutch’s hand. Digger picks it up.)Hutch: Don’t shoot!(Digger shoots Hutch.)Digger: I dragged him outside, put him in my car. I buried the body in the first open space I saw. I realised later it was a section of Southfork.Digger: I took Becky and Cliff and we moved to Corpus Christi.Pam on Digger: What about afterwards — after what happened with Hutch McKinney? Did he still love [Rebecca]?Maggie: He never talked about that. He was upset about something, that's all I knew.Corpus Christi resident on Rebecca: She was a nice woman and beautiful. She was pregnant. Big with it, she was. Pam to Digger: What about the baby?Bobby: The baby McKinney fathered.Digger: I always loved you, Pam. Just like you were my own.Pam’s date of birth: 04-10-1950Pam’s place of birth: Dallas, Tx USABobby: Jean was Pam’s middle name.Pam: I'm born and raised in Texas.Miss Ellie on Pam: It’s as though she were born for [motherhood].Digger, looking at old photographs: That's you, Pam, at three months.  Gary to Bobby: You were always a messy kid, with milk down the front of your pyjamas.Miss Ellie to Gary: The first time I found you here [the Southfork kitchen], Bobby was in his high chair and you were feeding him a graham cracker.Bobby: In my jammies with the buttons on the back.Bobby to Jordan Lee: I’ve known you my whole life.JR on Bobby: You were always his favourite, Jordan.JR: Jordan, we've been friends for a long time.Jordan to JR: We haven’t exactly been bosom buddies over the years.Bobby, speaking in 1991: Most of those old oil giants are gone now. JR: Yeah — Daddy, Seth Stone, Jordan Lee, even old Digger Barnes. They were young, vital men when we were kids. They were the ones who made the Texas oilman a legend around the world. I tell you, they were there before OPEC, offshore drilling, supertankers and all that stuff.Cliff: You ever work in Louisiana?Dandy Dandridge: Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, everywhere — except offshore. Offshore ain’t for me. I figured He wanted us to work on water, He’d have webbed our toes.Eric Fairgate, Sid’s son: Dad didn’t go to college.Joe Cooper: Well, Sid had a special talent. He knew more about engines than most engineers.Lilimae: Education's a wonderful thing, Val. Lord knows, through no fault of my own, you didn't have much of a one.Lilimae: Val’s always loved to write. Never been much of a talker, but she always loved to write.Val on a fictionalised version of herself: She’s just a plain country girl from Tennessee. She’s intimidated by the situation. Words didn’t come easily.Extracts from "The Runaway", a short story by Valene Ewing: "Everybody in my dusty little Tennessee town knew each other from the day they were born. That is why I was so startled to see this tall stranger without any shoes on standing in my mother's kitchen … As I closed my eyes in bed that night, that wonderful feeling told me I had made a friend."Val on the man in her story: He became a real good friend of our family and I saw him all the time after that.Val: Mama and me, we were never close. Gary to Val: You got all the attention she used to get, right? Maybe she felt shut out by you and your daddy, and she figured the only way to get close was to make herself a star.Lilimae: I set my mind on being a star. I chased my musical dreams my whole life. It was always just around the corner.Val: Mama, you have been trying to make a go of your music as far back as I can remember and nothing's ever happened.Lilimae: I used to be a singer — country and western, some religious. I even wrote my own songs.Val on Lilimae: She left my daddy and me for weeks [at a time], while she went off chasing that dream of hers of becoming a professional singer.Val: When I was growing up and my mama kept going off and leaving me to follow her dream and become a star, I felt sad and I felt lonely and kind of hurt.Val on Lilimae: She didn't even sing me ‘Little Maggie’ [before she left].Lilimae: I may have left Valene from time to time, but she was always with her daddy who loved her.Lilimae on her singing career: I always kept at it. You make sacrifices for your talent. Talent is God-given so you have to do it. Sometimes your family doesn't understand that. They don't understand that you're doing it for them. It's true, Val. You never knew that it was for you, did you?Lilimae: Packing for the road is never easy, I remember. First you have to pack for hot weather, then for cold weather, all that jumping around, and laundry is never easy.Lilimae: I remember how it was when I was performing. The first place any strain or tension always shows is in a singer’s voice.Lilimae: I remember when I was in Nashville, bass players were always late for some reason. I never knew why. Someone once said it’s because, and I think this is a silly reason, it’s because their fiddles are so big.Lilimae: I've been in the Bayou, I've been all over. I played Louisville once with Mother Maybelle.Lilimae: I toured at one time with Maybelle Carter, back in Tennessee. Gary: Did you tour with the Carters?Lilimae: Almost. I'm afraid I was poorly managed at the time and my manager ruined the arrangements. Lilimae: I sang with the Carter Family — Mother Maybelle Carter and all the Carters. ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken’, that was their big song.Kenny Ward on the Carter Family: ‘Circle’ sort of became their theme and when they'd perform, they'd have the whole audience join in and sing with them.Lilimae: Yeah, Mother Maybelle used to do that. She'd have the words all printed up and pass them out, especially when there were people of all ages because that's what the song's all about, generations.Lilimae: With me, it's always been family first. I gave up a singing career with the Carters.Lilimae to Val: Your papa’s insurance didn’t hardly pay for [his] funeral. I couldn’t even pay for your board with any neighbour folk.Lilimae: I can't help but think back to some of those Christmases we all had back in Tennessee — everybody altogether, singing, praying, and the presents, simple, humble, handmade mostly, but they were wonderful, so personal. I sometimes think they meant more to people. Val on Lilimae: When I hear her talk about those dear sweet Christmases that never were, I just want to throw up. Val: That Christmas when Daddy died, I was with some neighbours and Mama swore up and down that she would come to Aunt June’s to see me, if they could just get me there. So they carted me one hundred miles to Aunt June’s, just to spend Christmas with Mama. She never came. Best she could do was send a patchwork quilt for me, store bought. I have hated patchwork ever since.</blockquote>

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