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    • Sep 20, 1957
    Sixteen days after Jerry Lee Lewis filed for divorce, his second wife, Jane, also files, accusing him of cruel and inhuman treatment. Among her accusations: that he once left her to fend for herself and their child on 82 cents and six cans of milk
    Dec 17, 1957
    T. Texas Tyler is given probation three days after he received a five-year sentence for marijuana possession in San Antonio
    Dec 31, 1957
    Ernest Tubb is fined $250 when he hits a tree, driving drunk, on Lynwood Terrace in Nashville with his 1957 Cadillac
    Jan 27, 1958
    Despite a protest by "Heartbreak Hotel" writer Mae Boren Axton, who questions his "moral character," Canadian Hank Snow becomes an American citizen during a ceremony in Nashville
    Jan 30, 1958
    Merle Haggard is imprisoned at San Quentin for a botched burglary attempt
    Jul 6, 1958
    Elvis Presley picks up a speeding ticket in Fort Worth, Texas
    Sep 21, 1958
    A check for $76.11 is issued to future country producer Jimmy Bowen by Stamford Productions for a television appearance. The document is later used as evidence in the payola trial of rock & roll disc jockey Alan Freed
    Nov 13, 1958
    Hank Snow's Cadillac is impounded in Gallipolis, Ohio, pending the settlement of a $2,250 lawsuit filed by the owner of the Downtown Coaches' Club. Snow had shown up an hour late for a November 4 concert when the car broke down, and the club reimbursed ticket-holders in his absence
    Sep 30, 1959
    Stamford Productions issues a $100 payment to Conway Twitty for a TV appearance. The check, returned because of insufficient funds, is entered as evidence in the payola trial of rock & roll disc jockey Alan Freed
    Dec 10, 1959
    Red Foley is indicted on charges of income tax evasion, covering the years 1954 and 1955. After two trials, he is eventually found not guilty



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