Who knew whodunnit?

[Jimmy Todd]

When all was said and done, who actually knew that Kristin shot JR that fateful episode so many years ago? I know JR and Sue Ellen did, but did anyone else?
As for those who didnt know, how was the issue put to rest in their minds?
Another thing, a year later when the writers drowned Kristin for an encore, does anyone here think JR either pushed her off that balcony, or at least could have helped her but didn't?

 

[Toni]

When all was said and done, who actually knew that Kristin shot JR that fateful episode so many years ago? I know JR and Sue Ellen did, but did anyone else?
As for those who didnt know, how was the issue put to rest in their minds?
Another thing, a year later when the writers drowned Kristin for an encore, does anyone here think JR either pushed her off that balcony, or at least could have helped her but didn't?

Some answers here:
https://sites.google.com/site/mundodallases2/dallas/the-making-of-who-shot-j-r

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I didn't have a clue.

 

[Jimmy Todd]

Thank you @Toni. That was a very interesting article.
I'm wondering which characters knew who the assailant was. Besides JR and SE, maybe Bobby after Jeff Farraday got in touch with him about Christopher?
Was it just left publicly and for the family that the gunman was never caught?

 

[Toni]

Thank you @Toni. That was a very interesting article.
I'm wondering which characters knew who the assailant was. Besides JR and SE, maybe Bobby after Jeff Farraday got in touch with him about Christopher?
Was it just left publicly and for the family that the gunman was never caught?

Within the Dallas world, I think that all the family members present in Kristin´s "confession" knew, obviously: Jock, Miss Ellie, Lucy... JR probably dropped it to Bobby at the office and Lucy to Muriel at the disco!!!
I´ve always assumed that Bobby and Pam knew it that very day. Not sure about Ray but we all know what a bigmouth he was... Besides, he had to talk to Donna about something else than cows and horses before and after meals and marital sex...
Pam was a bigmouth too, so probably Cliff might have known, though to be honest he´d have used it against the Ewings. Not sure if it was hidden from public eye: if the Dallas Press didn´t guess it when they did the hearing about Kristin´s death, then they weren´t worth of being considered as the National Enquirer of Dallas!
It´s quite a mystery though. Besides, am I wrong or Sue Ellen did reveal in her crappy movie that Kristin shot her hub? Maybe that´s why JR was so upset about it, because people would have thought that a woman almost put him to rest.

 

[Jimmy Todd]

I wonder if at some point Lucy told Gary. Of course, after Kristin stayed with Gary and Val in Cali.

 

[Barbara Fan]

I thought it would be someone more dispensible like Alan Beam or Vaughn Leland

In UK the bookmakers were taking odds on it with Dusty being a favourite

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I hoped it would be Miss Ellie. I always hoped it would be Miss Ellie.

But it was always the sisters-in-law.

 

[DallasFanForever]

Watching it all for the first time I really had no idea who it was. They did such a great job of giving so many of the characters a motive that I had no clue