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Sep 3, 1956
Police in Springfield, Missouri, answer a disturbance call to find Red Foley's wife, Sally, in the front seat of their car crying. Her face and forehead are covered with marks, and she accuses her husband of hitting her, though she does not file charges
Sep 8, 1956
Jimmy Boyd is arrested for reckless driving in Los Angeles after he was spotted drag racing and skidded into a fire hydrant on Kester Avenue trying to elude the police. Boyd is fined $100
Oct 18, 1956
When Elvis Presley stops at a Memphis gas station, fans gather around his car while an attendant checks the engine. Station owner Edd Hopper is angered by the crowd and pops Presley in the head. Presley, in turn, gives Hopper a black eye. Hopper and an employee are fined for assault. Charges against Presley are ultimately dropped
Nov 22, 1956
An unemployed sheet-metal worker in Toledo, Ohio, punches Elvis Presley, claiming the singer caused the break-up of his marriage. The attacker is found guilty of assault
Apr 15, 1957
Two weeks after Rick Hall lost his wife in a car accident, his father dies when a tractor overturns. Devastated, Hall gives up a steady job and starts playing music. Eventually, he establishes Fame Recording Studio in Florence, Alabama, becoming a producer for Bobbie Gentry, Jerry Reed and Mac Davis
May 14, 1957
During the second day of shooting on the set of "Jailhouse Rock," Elvis Presley is rushed to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles after swallowing a porcelain tooth cap during a dance number
May 27, 1957
Ernest Tubb is arrested for carrying a pistol and for drunk and disorderly conduct after he fires a shot in the lobby at Nashville's WSM radio
Jun 19, 1957
David Ragsdale is accidentally shot in the back at a San Mateo, California, bar. A year later, Ragsdale files a $500,000 suit against Ray Price, reasoning that if Price hadn't been singing, he wouldn't have been at the club
Jul 4, 1957
Actress Judy Tyler dies in an automobile accident in Billy The Kid, Wyoming. She had worked with Elvis Presley just months earlier, playing his romantic interest during the filming of "Jailhouse Rock"
Sep 22, 1957
T. Texas Tyler is arrested and jailed in San Antonio for possession of marijuana after he's found with 45 doobies at the White Plaza Hotel. Tyler is unable to perform at a tour stop that night with fellow members of the Grand Ole Opry
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