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May 11, 1965
Johnny Cash is arrested for trespassing in Starkville, Mississippi, when he walks on private property to pick some flowers. During his night in jail, he violently kicks the walls of his cell, breaking his big toe
Jun 20, 1965
Ira Louvin and his wife, Anne, die in an automobile accident headed east on Interstate 70 in Callaway County, Missouri. His car is hit by another car headed west. Several open alcohol bottles are discovered in the westbound auto
Jun 27, 1965
Johnny Cash sets off a fire at Los Padres National Forest in California, blamed on a faulty exhaust on the singer's camper. The blaze consumes nearly 585 acres of condor habitat and requires 450 firefighters to extinguish
Jul 10, 1965
Wreck on the highway: Roy Acuff, guitarist June Stearns and steel player Shot Jackson are injured in a near-fatal car crash in east Tennessee. Acuff has a pair of pelvic fractures and a broken collarbone. Stearns never returns to the band
Jul 11, 1965
One day after Roy Acuff was injured in a near-fatal car accident, fellow Grand Ole Opry member Mother Maybelle Carter is likewise in a car wreck in Ohio
Oct 4, 1965
Johnny Cash is arrested in the El Paso airport and charged with possession of more than 1,000 pills, including dexedrine and tranquilizers
Oct 22, 1965
Fire breaks out in Tex Ritter's room at the Andrew Jackson Hotel in downtown Nashville. Ritter loses his guitar, several hunting rifles and new cowboy outfits made in England and Hong Kong
Oct 27, 1965
Native American songwriter Peter La Farge commits suicide by slashing his wrists in a Greenwich Village bathtub. At the time, Johnny Cash has a country hit with the La Farge-penned "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes"
Oct 31, 1965
Sandy Rogers, the adopted son of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, dies from choking on his own vomit after an alcohol binge in Frankfurt, Germany, where he was stationed with the Army
Nov 5, 1965
George Jones performs at a nightclub in La Porte, Texas. The next morning, fan club secretary Jacqueline Young is found beaten and strangled to death in a convertible parked in a pasture outside of town
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