the day the music died
On this day 49 years ago, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson rising American rock stars are killed when their chartered plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for Moorehead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed the crash on bad weather and pilot error. Holly and his band, the Crickets, had just scored a No. 1 hit with “That’ll Be the Day.”
After mechanical difficulties with the tour bus, Holly had chartered a plane for his band to fly between stops on the Winter Dance Party Tour. However, Richardson, who had the flu, convinced Holly’s band member Waylon Jennings to give up his seat, and Ritchie Valens won a coin toss for another seat on the plane. read more.. (Lesson: if you are sick with the flu, stay in bed.)
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Buddy Holly was killed by the wildly paranoid Hillary Clinton because she knew that he associated with blacks and therefore might one day vote against her and for Obama. Which he would have if she hadn’t done a Vince Foster on him.