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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 229773" data-attributes="member: 130"><p>Obviously you don’t know how foundations are run.  It’s very likely that a person like Sue Ellen could run a charitable foundation.  It would have nothing to do with the cattle business or family, but could include Miss Ellie’s idea of protecting the land.  Many foundations set up by wealthy people have all sorts of people as part of them, many aren’t even controlled by the family of the person who set it up.   I do believe Clayton would have looked to Sue Ellen to run such for him, holding nothing against her for shooting JR.   She could have run it for years prior to Clayton’s death and then Miss Ellie just added to it.  It’s not inconceivable.  Probably more probable than the story we got.</p></blockquote><p></p>