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    • Aug 30, 1967
    More than a year after Vivian Cash filed for divorce, Johnny Cash withdraws legal opposition. She retains custody of all their children, including Rosanne Cash
    Nov 2, 1967
    David Allan Coe finishes a four-year sentence at the Ohio State Penitentiary. He was found guilty of possessing burglary tools
    Nov 2, 1967
    Johnny Cash is arrested and jailed overnight in Lafayette, Georgia, for illegal possession of pep pills. The next morning, the sheriff asks Cash why he is wasting his life and hurting his family over narcotics. Within days, the singer begins taking steps to end his addiction
    Dec 1, 1967
    Country/pop singer Jimmie Rodgers is pulled over by a Los Angeles policeman for traffic violations. He is found two hours later in his car with a broken wrist and fractured skull, requiring three brain operations and the insertion of a steel plate
    Sep 13, 1968
    Jeannie C. Riley wins a $390,000 breach of contract lawsuit filed against her and Plantation Records owner Shelby Singleton in Nashville by Little Darlin' Records founder Aubrey Mayhew, who claimed she was signed to his label
    Sep 27, 1968
    Songwriter Don Chapel, who's already filed for D-I-V-O-R-C-E from Tammy Wynette, files an alienation suit against George Jones, claiming the Possum lured his wife away with numerous gifts, including a new Lincoln Continental
    Nov 3, 1968
    While performing in Atlanta, Jerry Lee Lewis hits a man in the audience in the face with the microphone stand for saying something derogatory about the music. The man dies in 1970, and his estate sues Lewis five years later
    Jun 10, 1969
    Two members of Waylon Jennings' band, Jimmy Gray and Richie Albright, are jailed in Niagara Falls for marijuana possession
    Jul 8, 1969
    The federal government places a lien on Johnny Cash's Tennessee home. The house serves as collateral as Cash pays off an $82,000 debt, the result of a 1965 forest fire at Los Padres National Park caused by the exhaust system on Cash's camper
    Mar 26, 1970
    Peter, Paul & Mary's Peter Yarrow is found guilty of "taking immoral liberties" with a 14-year-old girl, resulting in a three-month jail sentence. Six years later, he's the writer and producer of Mary MacGregor's pop-country hit "Torn Between Two Lovers"



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