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    • Oct 22, 1963
    Thieves in St. Louis steal a saddle embedded with 65 silver dollars from Webb Pierce's car while the singer appears on an all-night radio show. Police later find the saddle--minus the silver dollars
    Oct 22, 1963
    David Allan Coe begins serving a four-year prison sentence at the Ohio State Penitentiary, for car theft, possession of obscene materials and possession of burglary tools. He later claims he killed a fellow inmate during his incarceration
    Nov 16, 1963
    Ernest Tubb's bus has a head-on collision with a car going the wrong way on a North Carolina freeway exit. Jean Shepard suffers a broken knee cap, while Tubb and Lefty Frizzell are bruised in the crash
    Dec 25, 1963
    Red Foley's wife, Sally, falls and breaks her leg at home
    Mar 11, 1964
    Elvis Presley is injured while filming a fight scene for "Roustabout" in Los Angeles. He requires stitches in his forehead
    May 3, 1964
    Patsy Stoneman's husband, Don Dixon, is killed in an automobile accident
    Jul 31, 1964
    Jim Reeves and pianist Dean Manuel die in a plane crash during a thunderstorm in Brentwood, Tennessee. Numerous locals--including Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins and Ernest Tubb--search for three days before discovering the wreckage
    Aug 2, 1964
    Two days after the crash that claimed their lives, the bodies of Jim Reeves and keyboard player Dean Manuel, plus the mangled plane they were flying in, are finally discovered beneath some trees in Brentwood, Tennessee
    Aug 10, 1964
    Mick Jagger is found guilty of speeding and driving without insurance in Liverpool, England. In 1969, he co-writes "Honky Tonk Women," ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Aug 14, 1964
    Singer/songwriter Johnny Burnette drowns in a boating accident on California's Clear Lake. With his Rock 'N' Roll Trio in the mid-1950s, he helped define rockabilly. The Trio's "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" will be named one of the 500 greatest country singles in history in the 2003 Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"



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