Background
Shay McNeal was born on November 5, 1946, in Sturgis, Kentucky. She is the daughter of John H'Earl Evans, an executive with the Red Cross, and Mary Ellen Baird.
Shay McNeal
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Shay McNeal studied at DeKalb College.
Shay McNeal
Shay McNeal
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Shay McNeal studied at DeKalb College.
(The tragic fate of the Romanovs is well known: on July 17...)
The tragic fate of the Romanovs is well known: on July 17, 1918, the Tsar, his wife, their four daughters, and ailing heir were led down to a basement in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and murdered in cold blood by a Bolshevik firing squad. The Deoxyribonucleic acid analysis and identification of the bones were the conclusive proof the world was waiting for, and the case was considered closed. Until now. Shay McNeal's controversial, groundbreaking new account challenges this accepted view.
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Plot-Save-Tsar-Romanov/dp/0688169988
2002
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Trump-Failure-Middle-Resurgence/dp/1732722218
2018
Shay McNeal was born on November 5, 1946, in Sturgis, Kentucky. She is the daughter of John H'Earl Evans, an executive with the Red Cross, and Mary Ellen Baird.
Shay McNeal attended DeKalb College, which became Georgia Perimeter College and merging with Georgia State University in 2016.
In 1968-1970 Shay McNeal served as an assistant director at the Savannah St. Mission. Then she was a special project assistant at the Lovable Company in 1970-1971 and an associate buyer at the Montgomery Ward in 1971-1973. In 1975 McNeal became a director of the broadcast and public relations at Macy's. In 1979 she started Smith McNeal Advertising - an advertising, political consulting, and public relations firm, where she served as a president for a decade. McNeal also held the position of a national fashion director at the Dan River Mills, senior vice president at the William Cook Advertising in 1986-1989, president at the Preemptive Limited in 1989-1991, and also worked at Georgetown Productions in 1991. Besides, McNeal was a consultant to political campaigns and has been a guest numerous times on the British Broadcasting Corporation, Cable News Network, Discovery Channel, and radio shows in the United States and the United Kingdom. From 2009 to 2014, she was a founder, owner, and winemaker of the Aspen Dale Winery. Since 2011, she serves as a columnist at The Charleston Mercury. Her regular column, Meet You in the Middle, attempts to identify issues that both sides of the aisle in the United States Senate and House can potentially meet in the middle on and crave out reasonable compromises that will benefit all the constituents they serve. The emphasis is on foreign affairs as well as core domestic issues.
Shay McNeal began research in 1995 for her book about the fate of Russia's imperial family, the Romanovs. The Russian tsar and his family were reportedly murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918, but suspicious details of the family's remains and subsequent rumors about survivors kept the story of this royal family alive. As it became available following the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, McNeal examined declassified information about the case and published the results of her investigation in The Secret Plot to Save the Tsar: The Truth behind the Romanov Mystery.
The subject of the Romanovs' death has attracted many writers, but McNeal's book is different. She widens the scope of the Romanov tragedy by tracing complicated relationships and complex intrigues. Some of the details McNeal discovered include attempted rescues of the royal family by none other than King George V of Great Britain, President Woodrow Wilson, and other powerful politicians in Japan and Europe. Apparently, even Vladimir Lenin was involved, having been provided financial support from the Allies to ensure that the family would remain safe.
McNeal disputes archaeological evidence and Deoxyribonucleic acid testing that supports the Bolshevik story. Why, she asks in the book, were the certified facts of Deoxyribonucleic acid bone-testing of the alleged Romanov physical remains put under lock and key? Did the officials have something to hide? Her main goal was not to reach any definitive conclusions regarding the Romanovs' fate but to act as a "conduit" for her readers.
Shay McNeal is widely known as a writer and a former successful advertising executive. In 1987 she became one of the Top Advertising Women in the Southeast by AdWeek Atlanta. Also, she was a founder of the Smith McNeal Advertising - an advertising, political consulting, and public relations firm. As a president, her tenure culminated in numerous national and marketing awards. Shay McNeal also was a founder, owner, and winemaker of the Aspen Dale Winery and won over forty awards for winemaking and blending.
(The tragic fate of the Romanovs is well known: on July 17...)
2002
Shay McNeal married Richard McNeal. He died in 1972. Then McNeal married Gordon Smith on October 24, 1975. They divorced in 1982. Shay McNeal has two children, Hethur from the first marriage and Paris from the second marriage.
