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    • Apr 6, 1937
    Merle Haggard is born in Oildale, California. After imprisonment in San Quentin, he becomes a legendary singer/songwriter with his blue-collar observations and rich vocal style sending him into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994
    Dec 30, 1939
    Leona Hobbs is born in McFarland, California. She becomes the first wife of Merle Haggard, married to him from 1956-1964
    Aug 15, 1951
    Fourteen-year-old Merle Haggard is picked up for robbing a liquor store in a case of mistaken identity. Released five days later when the real criminals are caught, he expects to be tried as an adult: he was carrying a fake I.D. that said he was 18
    Dec 25, 1951
    Merle Haggard spends Christmas in the Bakersfield Juvenile Hall for truancy. His mother shows up during the day with a holiday gift: a Martin guitar. Haggard runs away during the early part of 1952, and ends up in a reformatory in Whittier, California
    Apr 1, 1957
    Merle Haggard's first daughter, Dana, is born in Bakersfield. He misses the event, serving nine months in the Ventura County Jail for stealing a 1952 Oldsmobile
    Dec 22, 1957
    Merle Haggard attempts to rob a restaurant, mistakenly believing it had closed. He ends up serving time in San Quentin
    Dec 23, 1957
    Left unattended in jail, Merle Haggard walks out the front door of the Bakersfield police station, a day after the attempted robbery of a restaurant
    Dec 24, 1957
    After escaping a day earlier, Merle Haggard is apprehended by police at his brother's home, handcuffed and returned to the Bakersfield Jail
    Jan 30, 1958
    Merle Haggard is imprisoned at San Quentin for a botched burglary attempt
    Apr 6, 1958
    "I turned 21 in prison doin' life without parole..." Merle Haggard isn't incarcerated permanently, but he is behind bars at San Quentin as he reaches the legal age, a date he brands indelibly when he writes the country classic "Mama Tried"
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