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    • Sep 22, 1967
    While shooting "The Bill Anderson Show" at the WSIX-TV studios in Nashville, Jan Howard's briefcase falls off the trunk of her car. A man in an Oldsmobile picks it up and drives off, taking her tax records, personal documents and tranquilizers
    Nov 2, 1967
    David Allan Coe finishes a four-year sentence at the Ohio State Penitentiary. He was found guilty of possessing burglary tools
    Nov 2, 1967
    Johnny Cash is arrested and jailed overnight in Lafayette, Georgia, for illegal possession of pep pills. The next morning, the sheriff asks Cash why he is wasting his life and hurting his family over narcotics. Within days, the singer begins taking steps to end his addiction
    Nov 28, 1967
    Jimmy Buffett's apartment in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is destroyed by fire. Buffett, who is performing in New Orleans at the time, is unhurt. His roommate dies in the blaze
    Dec 1, 1967
    Country/pop singer Jimmie Rodgers is pulled over by a Los Angeles policeman for traffic violations. He is found two hours later in his car with a broken wrist and fractured skull, requiring three brain operations and the insertion of a steel plate
    Dec 3, 1967
    Singer/songwriter Wayne Kemp, the author of "The Image Of Me" and "Love Bug," is involved in an accident while touring in Moline, Illinois. Two of his band members are killed, and Kemp suffers serious burns
    Jan 1, 1968
    Little Jimmy Dickens' wife, Ernestine, dies in a car accident in Sherman, Texas, when her car veers off an icy overpass
    Mar 20, 1968
    Eric Clapton and most of Buffalo Springfield, including singer/songwriter Neil Young and Jim Messina, are arrested in Topanga Canyon, California, and jailed for narcotics use. Stephen Stills escapes out a window before the entourage is busted
    Apr 18, 1968
    A friend accidentally shoots Roger Miller in the left hand with an air pistol in his Los Angeles home. It takes 90 minutes for doctors to remove the pellet, delaying a promotional trip to London
    Apr 27, 1968
    A fan steals Janis Joplin's cape in a backstage incident. Her version of "Me And Bobby McGee" is destined to be named one of country's 500 all-time greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"



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