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    • Jan 13, 1934
    Skeeter Davis' grandfather, James Roberts, is murdered in Rising Sun, Indiana
    Aug 1, 1934
    Lead Belly is released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. His song "Goodnight Irene" will become a country hit  twice in 1950, for Moon Mullican and for Ernest Tubb & Red Foley
    Nov 16, 1937
    Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, and two other men are accused by their employer, Orville Bean, of forging a $4 check. Vernon pleads not guilty
    Nov 17, 1937
    Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, is found guilty of forging a check. He spends six months in jail before he's sentenced for the crime
    May 25, 1938
    Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, is sentenced to three years for forging a check the previous November. The next day, the victim, Orville Bean, kicks three-year-old Elvis and his mother out of their home
    Jun 1, 1938
    Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, begins serving a three-year sentence at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman
    Feb 6, 1939
    Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, is released from jail after serving eight months of a three-year sentence for forging a $4 check
    Nov 16, 1944
    Chuck Berry, a future member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, pleads guilty in Boone County, Missouri, for using a gun to steal a car. He and three friends are sentenced to 10 years in prison. He serves three years
    Jul 13, 1945
    The Roswell Daily Record, of New Mexico, reports that four young men pleaded guilty to charges of statutory rape. Among them is Lefty Frizzell
    Jan 23, 1946
    A Los Angeles judge dismisses charges filed by Ruthie Reece, a singer in Spade Cooley's band who accused Cooley of attacking her in Glendale in November. The judge calls the 18-year-old's story "improbable"



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