Jean Shepard on the plane crash that killed four Opry stars

August 6, 2018 1:56 PM

Jean Shepard's short (3 mins) interview about the plane crash that killed her husband and Patsy Cline. Shepard had a 15 month old baby and was eight months pregnant when her husband died. Four Opry stars died in the crash, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas, Randy Hughes, and Patsy Cline. Here is the front page article in the Nashville Banner just after the crash. Here is a previous post about Cline.
posted by OmieWise (2 comments total)

Good post. I’ve never seen that interview. I can’t blame her for being resentful.

That said, they’re all country legends, but Patsy Cline, especially, was the soundtrack of my childhood. I remember finding out she’d died, because I was a little kid and I thought it had just happened. I was devastated. My parents had to explain that it had happened many years earlier.

It wasn’t until years later that I found out about the other people on the plane.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 6:20 PM on August 6, 2018

TIL about the other Day the Music Died.
posted by otherchaz at 6:31 AM on August 7, 2018