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    • Jul 27, 1961
    Spade Cooley suffers a heart attack in his holding cell at the Kern County Jail in Bakersfield, California, after his 14-year-old daughter, Melody, testified against him in a trial for the murder of his wife. He is transferred to Kern County General
    Aug 4, 1961
    Spade Cooley, who has already suffered two heart attacks since April, is taken to Bakersfield's Kern County General Hospital, suffering from chest pains. It causes a delay in his trial for the murder of wife Ella Mae Cooley
    Nov 14, 1961
    Johnny Cash is jailed in Nashville for public intoxication after trying to kick in the door of a nightclub that was closed near Printers Alley
    Feb 19, 1962
    Chuck Berry, the author of "Maybellene," "Johnny B. Goode" and "Thirty Days," begins a three-year sentence in the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, for violating the Mann Act, an antiquated law designed to battle prostitution
    Jan 1, 1963
    Johnny Cash makes a return visit to perform at San Quentin prison in California, appearing with June Carter
    Feb 3, 1963
    Merle Haggard's prison sentence ends. He served two years, nine months behind bars and two years, three months on parole
    Oct 18, 1963
    Chuck Berry leaves the Federal Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri, after serving one year of a three-year sentence for violating the Mann Act. During his stay, he wrote "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie," a future country hit for Emmylou Harris
    Oct 22, 1963
    David Allan Coe begins serving a four-year prison sentence at the Ohio State Penitentiary, for car theft, possession of obscene materials and possession of burglary tools. He later claims he killed a fellow inmate during his incarceration
    May 11, 1965
    Johnny Cash is arrested for trespassing in Starkville, Mississippi, when he walks on private property to pick some flowers. During his night in jail, he violently kicks the walls of his cell, breaking his big toe
    Jul 10, 1966
    When Neil Young spots Buffalo Springfield associate Richard Davis being shook up by police over a parking ticket in front of The Whisky in Los Angeles, he tries to assist Davis. He ends up jailed and receives multiple lacerations and head injuries



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