“Their voices still echo every time I close my eyes.” On February 3, 1959, Waylon Jennings surrendered his seat on a plane in Iowa.
On the bitterly cold night of February 3, 1959, a small Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft lifted off from Mason City, Iowa, carrying three of rock and roll’s brightest and fastest-rising stars:
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson.
Within hours, the plane crashed into a frozen cornfield just outside Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all…
On the bitterly cold night of February 3, 1959, a small Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft lifted off from Mason City, Iowa, carrying three of rock and roll’s brightest and fastest-rising stars:
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson.
Within hours, the plane crashed into a frozen cornfield just outside Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all…
