Robert Workman and Kathleen Campbell provided these Death Hag shots on this 56th anniversary. Buddy Holly's tombstone and a plaque commemorating the crash location.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
The Day the Big Bopper Died
The Big Bopper and two others were killed in a plane crash 56 years ago today.
A couple of years ago, they DUG HIM UP!
"Jay Richardson [the Bopper's son who was born two months after his father died] stepped up beside the upper end [of the coffin]. I stood beside him. A hush fell over the group as Rodney Landry grasped one edge of the lid and gave a tug. After nearly half a century in the soggy ground, the lid raised smoothly and silently. As it did, it revealed one of the most remarkable sights I've ever seen in my career. What I saw, and what Jay Richardson saw, was not a bare skull or rotting tissue. What we saw was the Big Bopper himself, complete with his trademark crew cut. The skin was discolored — a mottled bluish-purple — but the features were instantly recognizable, and bore a striking resemblance to those of the man who stood beside me, getting his first glimpse of his father in the flesh."
Source Awesomestories.com
Did anyone else feel gypped when we didn't get a peek?
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