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    • Dec 30, 1962
    Brenda Lee suffers a minor eye injury and has her hair singed when she tries unsuccessfully to rescue her poodle, CeeCee, from a house fire in Nashville. Lee's nine-room home, valued at $37,000, is destroyed along with $25,000 worth of clothing
    Jan 28, 1963
    A truck hits Charley Pride at a smelter in Helena, Montana, damaging his ankle, which has a pin permanently embedded
    Sep 22, 1963
    "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" singer Julio Iglesias suffers a compressed spine in a near-fatal car crash in Madrid, Spain. He learns to play guitar during his recovery
    Nov 16, 1963
    Ernest Tubb's bus has a head-on collision with a car going the wrong way on a North Carolina freeway exit. Jean Shepard suffers a broken knee cap, while Tubb and Lefty Frizzell are bruised in the crash
    Dec 25, 1963
    Red Foley's wife, Sally, falls and breaks her leg at home
    Mar 11, 1964
    Elvis Presley is injured while filming a fight scene for "Roustabout" in Los Angeles. He requires stitches in his forehead
    Jun 12, 1964
    Broadway composer Cole Porter, a co-writer of the country hit "Don't Fence Me In," checks into Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York with a fractured hip and a bladder infection. He remains for 10 days
    Jun 22, 1964
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter leaves New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital following 10 days of treatment for a hip fracture and a bladder infection
    May 11, 1965
    Johnny Cash is arrested for trespassing in Starkville, Mississippi, when he walks on private property to pick some flowers. During his night in jail, he violently kicks the walls of his cell, breaking his big toe
    Jul 10, 1965
    Wreck on the highway: Roy Acuff, guitarist June Stearns and steel player Shot Jackson are injured in a near-fatal car crash in east Tennessee. Acuff has a pair of pelvic fractures and a broken collarbone. Stearns never returns to the band



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