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1980 - The largest TV audience ever, an estimated 82 million people, watched as Sue Ellen’s sister, Kristin Shepard, shot J.R. Ewing on "Dallas". The jilted mistress was seen holding the smoking gun after a summer of viewers asking that haunting question, “Who Shot J.R.?” Eighty percent of all viewers watched the show.
In 1979, the night before my senior year started, my family & I moved to Southern Indiana. One of the first people I met was my friend Shari, who the previous year had drawn a comic of a sarcastic, wise-cracking character named J.R. Oddly enough, this character looked just like me (aviator frames, long hair parted in the middle) and even more astounding, had my initials. My nickname was born.

I spent the entire school year meeting new people who, while barely able to contain their laughter, asked me "who shot you?" (yeah, it was just as side-splitting hilarious the thousandth time as it was the first). I hated it at the time but, in retrospect, my last year of High school in a completely new town, I met a lot of people in a relatively short time and they all remembered my name with ease. Some people still call me J.R. and a lot of them don't even remember "Dallas". Take that Larry Hagman!

Thanks for the memories Scout!

We are constantly invited to be who we are. Henry David Thoreau