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Hank Williams

On January 1st, 1953 Hank Williams was scheduled to play a concert in Canton, Ohio. Before the long road trip ahead, he was injected with two shots of vitamin B-12 and morphine by a doctor. Hank then got into the backseat of his Cadillac with a fresh bottle of whiskey while his chauffeur headed north to Canton. When the driver was stopped for speeding, the policeman noticed that Hank looked like a dead man. Williams was taken to a West Virginia hospital where he was officially declared dead at 7:00 am that morning. Somewhere on that long and lonesome highway a life gave way to the birth of a legend. The Cause of Death, “Acute rt. ventricular dilation,” loosely translated, Hank died of “a broken heart.” The last single released in his lifetime was “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive.” He was 29 years old.

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