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Jul 13, 1945
The Roswell Daily Record, of New Mexico, reports that four young men pleaded guilty to charges of statutory rape. Among them is Lefty Frizzell
Nov 3, 1945
James Wagner dies in a plane crash in the Berkshire Mountains near Wingdale, New York. Wagner is the biological father of the future Priscilla Presley
Feb 9, 1947
Fire breaks out in the home of "This Land Is Your Land" songwriter Woody Guthrie at 3520 Mermaid Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. His four-year-old daughter, Cathy Guthrie, is burned severely. She dies the following morning
May 5, 1947
A plane carrying Tex Ritter crashes after leaving the airport in Richmond, Virginia. Ritter is bruised on his arms and legs, but catches a car ride to the venue in Tappahannock, Virginia, where he performs a matinee
Jan 26, 1948
Les Paul and Mary Ford are injured when their car slides down a 20-foot embankment after skidding on icy Route 66 near Davenport, Oklahoma. She fractures her pelvis, while Paul suffers a broken nose and broken right arm. He also contracts pneumonia as they wait eight hours in the snow before they are discovered
Jan 27, 1948
A robber breaks a window on Roy Acuff's car in St. Augustine, Florida, and steals a banjo and two guitars valued at $340
Feb 18, 1948
Woody Guthrie writes the first of several erotic letters to Mary Ruth Crissman, the sister of a former duet partner, one of them supplemented with newspaper accounts of murders. She later files charges against him for mailing obscene materials
Sep 1, 1948
Actor Robert Mitchum is one of four people arrested for marijuana use at a home in the Hollywood Hills. Mitchum fears it will end his career, but he goes on to take part in many more movies as well as a country hit: "Little Old Wine Drinker Me"
Sep 4, 1949
"If I Had A Hammer" songwriter Pete Seeger's car is attacked by rioters during a Ku Klux Klan-led anti-Communist demonstration in Peekskill, New York. Seeger's wife and three-year-old son are injured by shattered glass
Nov 18, 1949
Smiley Burnette is involved in a head-on collision while touring in Oklahoma
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