E. Morgan Massey made headlines in the 1980s as president of the A.T. Massey Coal Co. when he contested the railroads? stranglehold on coal export traffic and challenged the powerful United Mine Workers of America in a long and bitter strike. If his career had ended in 1991 when he reached mandatory retirement age, he would have been one of the most consequential leaders in modern U.S. coal industry history.But at 65 years of age, Massey?s adventures in the coal industry had just begun.