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    • Sep 4, 1949
    "If I Had A Hammer" songwriter Pete Seeger's car is attacked by rioters during a Ku Klux Klan-led anti-Communist demonstration in Peekskill, New York. Seeger's wife and three-year-old son are injured by shattered glass
    Oct 15, 1953
    Jimmy Boyd is hit with a $30,000 lawsuit in Los Angeles. The suit claims the "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" singer and two classmates assaulted a 13-year-old girl in Griffith Park Sepember 24
    Dec 23, 1953
    Teenager Jimmy Boyd and his mother file a lawsuit in Los Angeles charging an assault case initiated against him is an attempt at extortion. The original suit will eventually be dropped
    Oct 10, 1956
    A New Jersey woman testifies in court that her husband hit her because she's a fan of Elvis Presley. The husband, a Bing Crosby fan, claims she hit him, too. The judge finds both innocent of assault charges
    Oct 18, 1956
    When Elvis Presley stops at a Memphis gas station, fans gather around his car while an attendant checks the engine. Station owner Edd Hopper is angered by the crowd and pops Presley in the head. Presley, in turn, gives Hopper a black eye. Hopper and an employee are fined for assault. Charges against Presley are ultimately dropped
    Nov 22, 1956
    An unemployed sheet-metal worker in Toledo, Ohio, punches Elvis Presley, claiming the singer caused the break-up of his marriage. The attacker is found guilty of assault
    Jan 5, 1965
    Faron Young is arrested for assault after throwing his drink in the face of a policeman cracking down on a violation of Nashville liquor policies at the Music City Club on 16th Avenue. Young is required to pay a $75 fine
    Nov 3, 1968
    While performing in Atlanta, Jerry Lee Lewis hits a man in the audience in the face with the microphone stand for saying something derogatory about the music. The man dies in 1970, and his estate sues Lewis five years later
    Oct 1, 1971
    Jerry Lee Lewis is sued in Memphis by Ann McMahon, a fan who claims he assaulted her verbally and physically during a show at the El Capitan South Supper Club. The Killer denies the allegations
    Aug 26, 1973
    Jerry Lee Lewis has his nose broken by a fellow diner at T.G.I. Friday's in Memphis, after The Killer calls the man's female companion a "redneck whore"



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