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    • Aug 16, 1905
    Air Force general Henry Kristofferson is born in Tacoma, Washington. His children will include Country Music Hall of Fame member Kris Kristofferson
    Sep 8, 1922
    Mary Ann Ashbrook is born in Ross County, Ohio. Her offspring include a Country Music Hall of Fame member, singer/songwriter Kris Kristofferson
    Jun 22, 1936
    Kris Kristofferson is born in Brownsville, Texas. He records the 1973 hit "Why Me," becomes a member of The Highwaymen, appears in numerous movies and writes such classics as "Help Me Make It Through The Night" and "For The Good Times," landing in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Nov 1, 1965
    Kris Kristofferson arrives in Nashville, where he takes a job as a janitor at the Columbia Recording Studios. The gig is an intermediate step before he becomes one of the town's most influential songwriters
    Dec 6, 1967
    Forty songwriters attend the inaugural meeting of the Nashville Songwriters Association International. They include Kris Kristofferson, Marijohn Wilkin, Eddie Miller, Boudleaux and Felice Bryant and Liz and Casey Anderson
    Feb 19, 1969
    Johnny Cash hears songwriter Shel Silverstein's "A Boy Named Sue" for the first time during a songwriters party in Tennessee, also attended by Graham Nash, Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and Joni Mitchell. Cash records the song five days later
    May 16, 1969
    Roger Miller records Kris Kristofferson's "Me And Bobby McGee" in Nashville
    Jul 17, 1969
    During an appearance at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, Johnny Cash brings an unknown Kris Kristofferson out of the audience to perform "Me And Bobby McGee." The next day, the local paper identifies the newcomer as "Chris Tofferson"
    Oct 19, 1969
    Kris Kristofferson and Shel Silverstein write "Once More With Feeling" with the help of a little wine in Nashville. Jerry Lee Lewis records the song the next day
    Feb 25, 1970
    "The Johnny Cash Show" features the Man in Black's performance of Kris Kristofferson's "Sunday Morning Coming Down." Other guests: The Carter Family, Kenny Rogers, The Statler Brothers, Mama Cass Elliot and Bob Hope
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