#jack anglin

Country to City: some of the Grand Ole Opry troupe outside the Palace Theatre, November 2, 1955. From left to right: Irving Berger, manager of the Palace; Roy Acuff; Ruby Wells; Kitty Wells; Johnnie Wright; and Jack Anglin.

The death of Jack Anglin on March 7, 1963 (one half of the country duo Johnny and Jack) is always over shadowed by the deaths of Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowoboy Copas just two days earlier. Anglin was on his way to Cline's funeral when he was killed in a single vehicle accident. He was 46-years-old. 

"At Cline’s memorial service on Thursday, March 7, Bill Anderson sat in a pew at Phillips Robinson, just in front of Kitty Wells and Johnnie Wright. Wells was the 'Queen of Country Music,' despondent over the death of a potential successor. Wright, her husband, was half of groundbreaking duo Johnnie & Jack, along with his step-brother Jack Anglin.

'Getting up to leave, I spoke to Johnnie for a quick minute,' Anderson says. 'A few minutes later, I saw Johnnie was walking on the little porch outside the funeral home, just bawling like a baby. Someone said they’d just told him that Jack was in an automobile wreck and they think he’s dead.'