60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
8/2/64 - After an intense, two-day search, the body of country music superstar Jim Reeves was found in the wreckage of his aircraft and, at 1:00 p.m. local time, radio stations across the United States formally announced his death. The single-engine Beechcraft Debonair aircraft, with Reeves at the controls, had crashed 42 hours earlier during a thunderstrom.
Thousands of people traveled to pay their last respects at his funeral two days later. The coffin, draped in flowers from fans, was driven through the streets of Nashville and then to Reeves' final resting place near Carthage, Texas.
