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    • Apr 1, 1964
    Hank Williams Jr. performs during a Democratic fundraising dinner at the Fairgrounds Coliseum in Nashville
    Jun 6, 1964
    When president Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a garment workers union in Los Angeles, he's greeted with a female chorus performing the Ernest Tubb hit and LBJ signature song "The Yellow Rose Of Texas"
    Sep 21, 1964
    Elvis Presley is made a special deputy sheriff of Shelby County, Tennessee
    Nov 2, 1964
    Brenda Lee earns a standing ovation from Queen Elizabeth II during a Command Performance at the London Palladium
    Nov 3, 1964
    One year after John Kennedy's death vaulted him to the nation's highest office, Lyndon B. Johnson is re-elected president. His years in the position are referred to two dozen years later in The Bellamy Brothers' country hit "Rebels Without A Clue"
    Nov 5, 1964
    Two days after Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater in the presidential election, the Country Music Association re-elects Tex Ritter as its president. "I had another president in mind," Ritter says, "but I want you to know I'm mighty thankful"
    Mar 21, 1965
    In its third attempt, a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery begins in Alabama. Led by Martin Luther King, participants include Leonard Bernstein and Peter, Paul & Mary, whose Peter Yarrow earns a country hit later as the writer and producer of Mary MacGregor's "Torn Between Two Lovers"
    Sep 20, 1965
    Minnesota congressman Al Quie recognizes Jimmy Dean's patriotism by having his name added to the Congregational Record
    Jun 18, 1966
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs perform for an hour as a pre-speech warm-up when Nashville attorney John Jay Hooker kicks off his Democratic campaign for governor with a rally in Lebanon, Tennessee
    Sep 28, 1966
    Chet Atkins and Archie Campbell perform during a Nashville fundraiser for the Democratic Party



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