...today marks the 37th anniversary of the tragic crash of the - TopicsExpress



          

...today marks the 37th anniversary of the tragic crash of the Convair CV-300 bearing Lynyrd Skynyrd from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana on the evening of October 20, 1977. Three Skynyrd members—Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and his sister and “Honkette” Cassie Gaines—died when their plane skimmed the treetops... Anyway, I spent a good hour Friday trying in vain to contact Johnny Mote, the farmer who turned tragedy into farce when he saw Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle approaching his farmhouse after the crash, looking like a blood-drenched hippie, and promptly shot him...
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:37:32 +0000

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