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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 354980" data-attributes="member: 57984">Part of the problem is probably that DALLAS played to its bourgeois audience, pretending that the Ewings would be frightened of the CIA and, later, mafia dons.If the company was as powerful as we were often told -- the largest independent oil company in the southwest, as the writers once boasted -- Ewing Oil would have been giving marching orders to the Intelligence community and the mob.It&#039;s like the Navy Seals being terrified that Deputy Barney Fife was coming after them. (Questionable analogy, and I&#039;m sorry).During the &#039;70s, several subpoenaed mafia leaders were knocked-off before they could testify before the Church and House Select Committees in Congress about what they knew about the Kennedy assassination. But they weren&#039;t killed on orders of other mafia kingpins but on the orders of the CIA -- who were in turn doing the bidding of the oil companies and their hardware manufacturers.One just assumes Jock and Sam Culver were involved in all that. And Jeremy Wendell, of course, before his falling out with the family. Probably over the Kennedy assassination, but I&#039;m not sure.<img src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.09d301baf0ac61fff2faa17ec25536a4?rik=g%2bb%2f46h%2fd%2f9wYg&amp;riu=http%3a%2f%2fkreations.kaptainmyke.com%2fcp%2fcpimg%2fheaders%2fewingoilco.png&amp;ehk=Y1cCVQIDoCHZm3b6HqgVqe7efL5xvlHhZgXbh9bstBk%3d&amp;risl=&amp;pid=ImgRaw&amp;r=0" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 660px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 354980, member: 57984"] Part of the problem is probably that DALLAS played to its bourgeois audience, pretending that the Ewings would be frightened of the CIA and, later, mafia dons. If the company was as powerful as we were often told -- the largest independent oil company in the southwest, as the writers once boasted -- Ewing Oil would have been giving marching orders to the Intelligence community and the mob. It's like the Navy Seals being terrified that Deputy Barney Fife was coming after them. (Questionable analogy, and I'm sorry). During the '70s, several subpoenaed mafia leaders were knocked-off before they could testify before the Church and House Select Committees in Congress about what they knew about the Kennedy assassination. But they weren't killed on orders of other mafia kingpins but on the orders of the CIA -- who were in turn doing the bidding of the oil companies and their hardware manufacturers. One just [I]assumes[/I] Jock and Sam Culver were involved in all that. And Jeremy Wendell, of course, before his falling out with the family. Probably over the Kennedy assassination, but I'm not sure. [IMG width="660px"]https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.09d301baf0ac61fff2faa17ec25536a4?rik=g%2bb%2f46h%2fd%2f9wYg&riu=http%3a%2f%2fkreations.kaptainmyke.com%2fcp%2fcpimg%2fheaders%2fewingoilco.png&ehk=Y1cCVQIDoCHZm3b6HqgVqe7efL5xvlHhZgXbh9bstBk%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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