by The Big Rich: The Rise;Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
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Richardson’s collection remains on display today at Fort Worth’s Sid Richardson Museum.
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Glassell’s club was forced to close after a Peruvian military coup in 1968. Its clubhouse still stands, abandoned and decaying, the oilman’s first thousand-pound marlin still hanging over his crumbling fireplace.
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Hunt maintained minimal contact with his “second family” by Frania Tye, who remained in Atlanta.
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The work product of Kirby’s detectives can still be found among Drew Pearson’s personal papers at the Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.
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Clint Jr. appears to have gotten help arranged by one of Lyndon Johnson’s aides, Bobby Baker. In 1973 Baker told Playboy that he arranged for Clint to pay the powerful Kansas senator Estes Kefauver a twenty-five-thousand-dollar bribe, ferried to him by Clint’s pal Robert Thompson. Kefauver, Baker charged, had then put pressure on George Marshall. Clint Jr. denied the story. Thompson didn’t. For years he delighted in telling the story to friends.
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In later years the quote would be widely, and mistakenly, attributed to Lamar’s father.
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It would later be alleged that Senator Eastland accepted a bribe of either fifty or sixty thousand dollars to intercede on Bunker’s behalf; a Dallas grand jury, however, declined to indict him. Bunker strongly denied doing anything improper.
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A measure of Bunker’s anonymity was the New York Times headline announcing his nationalization: “Bunker Hill Nationalization Will Cause $4 Billion Loss.”
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Bunker did manage to recoup twenty million dollars in costs from the Libyan government for the oil field equipment he was forced to abandon.
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The Hunts’ victory gave them the upper hand in settlement talks that ensued over the federal obstruction of justice charges. Eight months later, prosecutors agreed to an exceedingly generous resolution. Charges against Herbert were dropped. Bunker pled no contest and paid a thousand-dollar fine.
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The remaining fifteen million ounces of silver were said to be stored in warehouses in Chicago and New Jersey.
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The Hunts always denied trying to corner the silver or any other markets. They characterized their silver efforts as simply a solid bet on a solid commodity.