Johnny Cash gets posthumous pardon for picking flowers
By jend80
@jend80 (2071)
United Kingdom
September 14, 2007 12:14pm CST
this is hilarious - the song they mention is a fun one too
http://www.teletext.co.uk/entertainment/music/news/5/Cash+pardon,+a+bit+late.aspx
"Johnny Cash is to receive a posthumous pardon, 42 years after he was arrested for stealing flowers from a garden.
In 1965, Cash spent a night in prison in Starkville, Mississippi, for taking a bunch of flowers from a front garden. The incident inspired his song Starkville City Jail.
The pardon will be the centrepiece of The Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival in the town on November 4."
more dtailed report from a Pitchfork writer who can't quite belive this news
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/45586-johnny-cash-pardoned-for-picking-flowers
plus video from San Quentin where he talks about the arrest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ2sWO9SLVI
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
15 Sep 07
The teletext link is no longer available, it says... but the teletube video is great. He was quite the show master. I heard that he said he had the prisoners in the palm of his hand and that if he's suggested a jail break it would have happened at that concert.
