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    • Dec 28, 1952
    Hank Williams gives his final performance, for 130 people at a holiday party for members of the Musicians' Union in Montgomery
    Dec 31, 1952
    Hank Williams sets out from Birmingham to Charleston, West Virginia, for a New Year's Eve show. Slowed by snow, he tries to grab a flight in in Knoxville, but the flight is cancelled. Williams gets a shot of morphine, then takes what proves to be his final ride in the back seat of his blue Cadillac
    Jan 1, 1953
    Hank Williams is pronounced dead at Oak Hill General Hospital in Oak Hill, West Virginia, after passing away in the back seat of a Cadillac, en route to a show in Canton, Ohio. Many believe he died from a mix of alcohol and morphine. He will become one of the three inaugural members of the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Jan 4, 1953
    Hank Williams' funeral draws more than 20,000 people in Montgomery, Alabama. A country choir led by Webb Pierce, Red Foley, Little Jimmy Dickens and Carl Smith performs "I Saw The Light." Ernest Tubb offers "Beyond The Sunset"
    Jan 6, 1953
    Catherine Yvonne Stone is born in Montgomery, Alabama. In a protracted legal dispute as an adult, she proves she's the daughter of Hank Williams, by Bobbie W. Jett. She subsequently uses the stage name Jett Williams
    Jan 8, 1953
    Just one week after Hank Williams' death, his widow, Billie Jones Williams, blasts Hank's mother: "She is trying to cheat me out of everything, but I think she will fail"
    Jan 8, 1953
    One week after the passing of a legend, Jack Cardwell records the tribute hit "The Death Of Hank Williams" in Mobile, Alabama
    Jan 17, 1953
    Less than two weeks after Hank Williams was interred at the Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama, his coffin is dug up and moved to a new site
    Jan 24, 1953
    Just weeks after his death, Hank Williams hits #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with the prophetic "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive"
    Jan 26, 1953
    Dolores Gray records a pop version of Hank Williams' "Kaw-Liga"
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