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Hank Williams was scheduled to perform a New Year’s Eve concert in Charleston, WV, but due to an ice storm in Nashville, Williams was unable to perform and hired a college student to drive him to Canton, OH for his next scheduled appearance, on 1 January 1953.
The two stopped for the night in Knoxville, TN, where a doctor examined Williams, who was drunk and feeling the effects of chloral hydrate (prescribed as a painkiller for Williams’ persistent back problems). Williams had also been involved in a fight 2 days earlier, which left him bruised and sore. The doctor gave Williams a shot of vitamin B12 and a shot of morphine. Around 10:45 pm, the driver helped Williams into the backseat of the car, covered him with a coat and blanket and drove on toward Canton.
Williams never made it. The 29-year-old died in the car somewhere near Oak Hill, VA on New Year’s Day 1953.
While the official cause of death was considered to be a heart attack, others have argued that it was caused by the combination of alcohol, morphine and chloral hydrate.
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Winter Sunset - Walter Launt Palmer
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“Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it.”
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
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"Creaming is essential, it's why we're all here"
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." -- H.L. Mencken
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You're entitled to be as delusional as you want, but you're not entitled to demand that I be the same.
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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick
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Buick Riviera 1971. - source Amazing Classic Cars.
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