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    • Nov 23, 1963
    Willie Nelson signs the papers to buy a 200-acre farm in Ridgetop, Tennessee
    Mar 16, 1964
    Rock & roll deejay Alan Freed is charged in New York with evading more than $37,000 in income tax. He earned co-writing credit on the '50s pop hit "Sincerely," eventually remade for the country charts by The Forester Sisters
    Apr 9, 1964
    The Los Angeles Angels, owned by cowboy star Gene Autry, file papers with the city of Anaheim indicating their intent to move the baseball team to Orange County
    Oct 31, 1964
    Ray Charles is arrested in Boston for possession of marijuana and heroin, leading him to secure professional help to beat his addiction
    Oct 11, 1965
    Police in Grand Prairie, Texas, arrest three members of Jerry Lee Lewis' band and a teenage girl when more than 200 illegal pills are found in their Cadillac
    Oct 23, 1965
    Elvis Presley receives a speeding ticket in Memphis
    Dec 28, 1965
    Johnny Cash pleads guilty to drug possession in El Paso, Texas, where he was busted in October with over 1,000 pills. A related newspaper photo leads the Ku Klux Klan to boycott Cash concerts under the misguided premise that Cash's wife is black
    Feb 4, 1966
    The Tennessean reports Johnny Cash will file a $25-million defamation of character lawsuit against the Ku Klux Klan, which has circulated messages demanding boycotts of his concerts, falsely believing he married an African-American woman
    Aug 22, 1966
    Johnny Cash fails to appear at the courthouse during the first day of divorce proceedings in Ventura, California
    Dec 3, 1966
    A Boston court convicts Ray Charles of heroin and marijuana possession. He receives a five-year suspended sentence and a $10,000 fine. Charles had a pop hit earlier in the year with Buck Owens' "Crying Time"



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