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    • Jun 2, 1958
    "Maybellene" songwriter Chuck Berry is arrested in St. Charles, Missouri, on a federal charge of transporting a firearm on the interstate. The charges are later dropped
    Jul 10, 1958
    "Johnny B. Goode" songwriter Chuck Berry, driving his pink Cadillac, is arrested for "careless and imprudent driving" in St. Louis, Missouri. He pays a $15 fine
    Sep 5, 1958
    David Allan Coe is released from Chillicothe Reformatory in Ohio after serving two years for stealing a car
    Aug 27, 1959
    Chuck Berry--the author of future hits for Emmylou Harris, George Jones and Buck Owens--is arrested in Meridian, Mississippi, when a white girl at a fraternity dance kisses him. The African-American rocker is jailed overnight and fined $700
    Dec 22, 1959
    "Maybellene" songwriter Chuck Berry is charged in St. Louis with violating the Mann Act, for reputedly transporting a female across state lines for sexual purposes
    Feb 8, 1960
    Congress begins hearings to investigate payola in music and radio. Future Academy of Country Music awards producer Dick Clark survives the scandal. Rock deejay Alan Freed, credited as a co-writer on "Sincerely," is destroyed
    Mar 4, 1960
    "Maybellene" songwriter Chuck Berry is found guilty in St. Louis of violating the Mann Act, for taking an under-age female across state lines with reputedly improper motivations. It is the first of three such cases in which he will be tried over 13 months
    May 13, 1960
    Freddy Fender is arrested for possession of marijuana in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He spends the next three years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola
    Jun 1, 1960
    "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" writer Chuck Berry is found not guilty on two counts of violating the Mann Act. It is the second of three trials he undergoes during 1960-61 for allegedly transporting a woman across state lines for sexual reasons
    Nov 3, 1960
    Merle Haggard is released from San Quentin Prison and allowed to complete the more than two years remaining of his sentence on parole



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