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Oct 17, 1968
Guy Drake buys a used 1968 Buick from Boyd Motors in Benton, Kentucky, for $750. The check bounces, and he will be arrested 18 months later, ironically as he's marketing his single "Welfare Cadilac"
Oct 18, 1968
John Lennon and girlfriend Yoko Ono are arrested at their London apartment for possession of marijuana. Lennon is a co-writer on two future country hits: "I Feel Fine" and the ironically titled "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party"
Dec 11, 1968
A plane carrying Tex Ritter is hijacked from Nashville to Cuba. Ritter cancels one show and is returned to Miami
Dec 27, 1968
Two 150-pound marble urns and a marble replica of Hank Williams' hat are stolen from his grave in Montgomery, Alabama. The memorial objects will be recovered over the next four days
Apr 23, 1969
The Ash Grove suffers the first of three devastating fires, this one requiring four months of repair before reopening. The Los Angeles venue has hosted such acts as Bill Monroe, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Flatt & Scruggs and Maybelle Carter
May 28, 1969
London police book Mick Jagger on charges of narcotics possession when they find him at his home with marijuana. Within days, The Rolling Stones record "Honky Tonk Women," cited among country's greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
Jun 10, 1969
Two members of Waylon Jennings' band, Jimmy Gray and Richie Albright, are jailed in Niagara Falls for marijuana possession
Jul 8, 1969
The federal government places a lien on Johnny Cash's Tennessee home. The house serves as collateral as Cash pays off an $82,000 debt, the result of a 1965 forest fire at Los Padres National Park caused by the exhaust system on Cash's camper
Aug 9, 1969
Sharon Tate and four others, including Jay Sebring, are sadistically murdered in Los Angeles. Charles Manson and several others are later convicted for the crime. Sebring had introduced Elvis Presley to his barber/spiritual adviser, Larry Geller
Nov 16, 1969
Janis Joplin is arrested in Tampa for using vulgar language on stage. Within a year, she records "Me And Bobby McGee," hailed in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number" among the greatest country singles in history
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