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    • Sep 28, 1951
    George Jones is jailed for the second time in five weeks for failure to make support payments to his wife, Dorothy
    Dec 25, 1951
    Merle Haggard spends Christmas in the Bakersfield Juvenile Hall for truancy. His mother shows up during the day with a holiday gift: a Martin guitar. Haggard runs away during the early part of 1952, and ends up in a reformatory in Whittier, California
    Dec 29, 1953
    Webb Pierce is jailed and charged with drunk and disorderly conduct and with resisting arrest after forcing his way into the dressing room of female wrestler Cora Combs at the Hippodrome in Nashville. Combs goes by the pokey to ask for his release, saying she feels responsible
    Aug 29, 1954
    Ohio's Columbus Citizen reports that Woody Guthrie has just finished a jail sentence at the Columbus City Prison--his 12th jail stay in six weeks, as he rides the railroads illegally. Guthrie also notes in the story that he wrote "Oklahoma Hills"
    Apr 1, 1957
    Merle Haggard's first daughter, Dana, is born in Bakersfield. He misses the event, serving nine months in the Ventura County Jail for stealing a 1952 Oldsmobile
    Sep 22, 1957
    T. Texas Tyler is arrested and jailed in San Antonio for possession of marijuana after he's found with 45 doobies at the White Plaza Hotel. Tyler is unable to perform at a tour stop that night with fellow members of the Grand Ole Opry
    Dec 23, 1957
    Left unattended in jail, Merle Haggard walks out the front door of the Bakersfield police station, a day after the attempted robbery of a restaurant
    Dec 24, 1957
    After escaping a day earlier, Merle Haggard is apprehended by police at his brother's home, handcuffed and returned to the Bakersfield Jail
    Jan 1, 1958
    Johnny Cash gives his first New Year's performance at San Quentin prison in California. He does several more in ensuing years
    Jan 30, 1958
    Merle Haggard is imprisoned at San Quentin for a botched burglary attempt



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