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    • May 11, 1952
    Lucy Robertson, the eight-year-old daughter of Texas Jim Robertson, dies when she's hit by a car in a hit-and-run accident in Teaneck, New Jersey
    May 15, 1952
    Woody Guthrie attacks his wife at home in Manhattan with a pair of scissors. He does not hurt her, but police are called to the scene. The episode is an early sign of his illness, eventually diagnosed as Huntington's chorea
    Aug 17, 1952
    Hank Williams is arrested in Alexander City, Alabama, for drunken behavior
    Dec 11, 1952
    Hank Williams discharges himself from a Shreveport sanitarium and promptly gets arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct
    Jan 16, 1953
    Bill Monroe suffers 19 broken bones in a head-on collision on Highway 31 near White House, Tennessee. He still manages to get out of the car and pull another passenger, Bessie Lee Mauldin, out of the other side. Monroe is unable to tour until May
    Mar 21, 1953
    Mab Anderson, the second wife of playwright Maxwell Anderson, commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in the family garage in New City, New York. He authored "September Song," which Willie Nelson will feature on his album "Stardust"
    Jun 10, 1953
    Woody Guthrie suffers severe burns on his right arm in an accidental fire at home while attempting to cook breakfast in a barbecue pit in Beluthahatchee, Florida
    Aug 2, 1953
    The Davis Sisters are involved in a head-on car accident in Cincinnati. Betty Jack Davis is killed, while Skeeter Davis survives. The driver of the other automobile later pleads guilty to manslaughter
    Dec 29, 1953
    Webb Pierce is jailed and charged with drunk and disorderly conduct and with resisting arrest after forcing his way into the dressing room of female wrestler Cora Combs at the Hippodrome in Nashville. Combs goes by the pokey to ask for his release, saying she feels responsible
    Apr 15, 1954
    Janet Louise Smith, the one-month-old daughter of future Grand Ole Opry star Jan Howard, dies in Columbus, Ohio, of a cerebral hemorrhage



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