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    • Dec 19, 1985
    Johnny Paycheck shoots Larry Wise at the North High Lounge in Hillsboro, Ohio, after Wise asked if he'd ever eaten turtle meat
    Jan 2, 1986
    Johnny Lee files a $15-million suit in Houston against manager Sherwood Cryer for non-payment. He seeks to be released from a 1974 management contract under which Cryer received 50% of his net income
    Jan 3, 1986
    Johnny Paycheck is indicted for shooting a man in an Ohio bar December 19
    Jan 14, 1986
    A Dallas court rules Jimmy Dean owes his brother and former business partner, Don Dean, $500,000 for violating a 1980 agreement not to talk about Don in public. The verdict is later reversed on appeal
    Jan 15, 1986
    A safe stolen from Bill Monroe's bus in December is found at a creek in Hendersonville, Tennessee. The vault, which had contained $10,000 in cash, is empty
    Feb 4, 1986
    An official report on Rick Nelson's fatal New Year's Eve plane crash indicates his blood contained traces of cocaine, marijuana and alcohol. Another report will later overturn that assessment
    Feb 18, 1986
    The Everly Brothers' mother, Margaret, sues Don Everly when he fails to sign the title of the house that she lives in over to her
    Mar 26, 1986
    Jerry Lee Lewis' 23-year-old wife, Kerrie McCarver, files for divorce in Memphis. The petition claims he has "struck her on occasions too numerous to mention"
    Jun 11, 1986
    French radio station owner Jean-Pierre Antona is arrested for illegally carrying a weapon near the stage while Ricky Skaggs performs at Fan Fair in Nashville. The Tennessean reports that after watching American detective shows on TV, Antona thought everyone in the U.S. carried a gun
    Jun 19, 1986
    Johnny Rodriguez and Jerry Lee Lewis perform at a Memphis club to raise money for Johnny Paycheck's legal defense in a shooting case. Paycheck is out on a $50,000 bond, paid for by Merle Haggard and George Jones



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