I was searching for Roger Clemens to be sure I was spelling his name right and you'll never guess what I found!
Roger Clemens - Dickipedia - A Wiki of Dicks!
This is a GREAT site! They've got Political dicks, Entertainment dicks, International dicks, Sports dicks, Media dicks and Miscellaneous dicks! I've known a few of the latter in my time.
This is more fun than the Star!
Check it out! It's like walking down the isles at an organ bank or something!
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Thursday, March 08, 2007
UPDATE! Big Bopper Likely Died Instantly
This is the 2nd and most likely final part of my post on the untimely and unfortunate demise of the Big Bopper in 1959. He's gone, but will never be forgotten because his music lives on....at least in the hearts of those of us that remember him like it was just yesterday when we bought our 45 RPMs...
This is from today's Houston Chronicle......
Exam: 'Big Bopper' likely died instantly in '59 crash
By ELIZABETH A. DAVIS
J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson suffered massive fractures and likely
died immediately in the 1959 plane crash that also killed early rock
'n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, a forensic anthropologist
said today after exhuming the body.
The performer's son, Jay Richardson, hired Dr. Bill Bass, a well-known
forensic anthropologist at the University of Tennessee, to look at the
remains in Beaumont.
There have been rumors a gun might have been fired on board the plane
and that the Big Bopper might have survived the crash and died trying
to get help.
Bass took X-rays of the body and found nothing today to support those
theories.
"There was no indication of foul play," Bass said in a telephone
interview from Beaumont. "There are fractures from head to toe. Massive
fractures. ... (He) died immediately. He didn't crawl away. He didn't
walk away from the plane."
The rock 'n' roll stars' plane crashed after taking off from Mason
City, Iowa, on Feb. 3, 1959 — a tragedy memorialized as "the day the
music died" in Don McLean's song American Pie.
Jay Richardson, who performs in tribute shows as "The Big Bopper Jr.,"
didn't know his father, who gained fame with the hit Chantilly Lace.
His mother was pregnant with him when his father died.
The Civil Aeronautics Board determined pilot error was the cause of the
crash. A gun that belonged to Holly was found at the crash site,
fueling rumors that the pilot was shot, but no one has ever proved a
gun was fired during the flight.
Richardson watched Bass open the coffin today and observed his
examination. He said he was pleased with the findings because it proved
the investigators "knew what they were talking about 48 years ago."
"I was hoping to put the rumors to rest," he said.
Bass and Richardson were surprised to find the body preserved enough to
be recognizable.
"Dad still amazes me 48 years after his death, that he was in
remarkable shape," Richardson said. "I surprised myself. I handled it
better than I thought I would."
The body was reburied in the cemetery but in a different plot where
there will be room for a graveside statue to be installed later.
Bass, 78, is a pioneer in his field and has worked on such famous cases
as confirming the identity of the Lindbergh baby that was kidnapped in
1932 and murdered.
Bass founded the University of Tennessee's Body Farm, which is formally
called the Anthropological Research Facility, to gather data on the
rate of decay of hundreds of donated corpses and help police
investigators determine time of death.
This is from today's Houston Chronicle......
Exam: 'Big Bopper' likely died instantly in '59 crash
By ELIZABETH A. DAVIS
J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson suffered massive fractures and likely
died immediately in the 1959 plane crash that also killed early rock
'n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, a forensic anthropologist
said today after exhuming the body.
The performer's son, Jay Richardson, hired Dr. Bill Bass, a well-known
forensic anthropologist at the University of Tennessee, to look at the
remains in Beaumont.
There have been rumors a gun might have been fired on board the plane
and that the Big Bopper might have survived the crash and died trying
to get help.
Bass took X-rays of the body and found nothing today to support those
theories.
"There was no indication of foul play," Bass said in a telephone
interview from Beaumont. "There are fractures from head to toe. Massive
fractures. ... (He) died immediately. He didn't crawl away. He didn't
walk away from the plane."
The rock 'n' roll stars' plane crashed after taking off from Mason
City, Iowa, on Feb. 3, 1959 — a tragedy memorialized as "the day the
music died" in Don McLean's song American Pie.
Jay Richardson, who performs in tribute shows as "The Big Bopper Jr.,"
didn't know his father, who gained fame with the hit Chantilly Lace.
His mother was pregnant with him when his father died.
The Civil Aeronautics Board determined pilot error was the cause of the
crash. A gun that belonged to Holly was found at the crash site,
fueling rumors that the pilot was shot, but no one has ever proved a
gun was fired during the flight.
Richardson watched Bass open the coffin today and observed his
examination. He said he was pleased with the findings because it proved
the investigators "knew what they were talking about 48 years ago."
"I was hoping to put the rumors to rest," he said.
Bass and Richardson were surprised to find the body preserved enough to
be recognizable.
"Dad still amazes me 48 years after his death, that he was in
remarkable shape," Richardson said. "I surprised myself. I handled it
better than I thought I would."
The body was reburied in the cemetery but in a different plot where
there will be room for a graveside statue to be installed later.
Bass, 78, is a pioneer in his field and has worked on such famous cases
as confirming the identity of the Lindbergh baby that was kidnapped in
1932 and murdered.
Bass founded the University of Tennessee's Body Farm, which is formally
called the Anthropological Research Facility, to gather data on the
rate of decay of hundreds of donated corpses and help police
investigators determine time of death.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Big Bopper's son hires scientist to quell rumors | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Big Bopper's son hires scientist to quell rumors | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
I just loved The Big Bopper in the 50's! I still like hearing Chantilly Lace. I didn't realize he was only 28 when he died. His voice was so deep he sounded much older, but then again I was in my teens then and everyone seemed older!
I'm also absolutely fascinated by the Body Farm in Tennessee. Dr. Bill Bass who founded the Body Farm is also an expert in determining identities and what caused some one's death. I'm glad he's going to do the forensic autopsy and I hope I see the results when they are published.
The pictures are from here.
Oh and for the record (every pun intended!), Jerry Lee Lewis's version is lame. There was only one Big Bopper and the Killer doesn't even come close to that sound.
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