Jock Ewing beside Miss Ellie's headstone and grave. In a storyline during the 1986–87 season of the show, a man named Wes Parmalee (portrayed by Steve Forrest) came to Dallas, where Clayton and Ray hired him as ranch foreman on Southfork. One day, Miss Ellie found Jock's belt buckle, knife, letters, and photo of a young Miss Ellie in Parmalee's room. Wes then claimed to be Jock Ewing, and that he had survived the helicopter accident, which necessitated plastic surgery and rehab in a South American hospital. After passing a series of tests set by J.R. and Bobby, including X-ray tests, a
Ewing family (Dallas) to Cliff Barnes, because he was planning to take over WestStar Oil. J.R.'s plot didn't succeed and he lost control of both Ewing Oil and WestStar on the same day. According to Dallas TNT site, Cliff Barnes sold Ewing Oil to Bobby and Sue Ellen in 1996. In the revival TNT series, John Ross III started an oil company under the name Ewing Oil, this was not the same company that his grandfather Jock Ewing had founded and that his father J.R. had inherited and worked in. Ewing Energies is a fictional company on the updated version of "Dallas". The