Monument at the crash site, a corn field near Clear Lake, Iowa.

Buddy Holly                         J. P. "The Big Bopper"   Ritchie Valens 
                                              Richardson                

Roger Arthur Peterson was the 21-year-old pilot of
the 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza that crashed, taking
the lives of Holly, Valens, and Richardson as well
as himself.

A 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza 35 (V-tail) similar to the one flown by
Peterson.

2009

             
              Eddie Cochran

The First AFL-NFL World Championship Game, later known as Super Bowl I ,
was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in
Los Angeles, California. The National Football League (NFL) champion
Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League (AFL)
champion Kansas City Chiefs by a score of 35–10.

Game MVP, Packers quarterback Bart Starr

Tom and Dick Smothers

Tom Smothers (Thomas Bolyn Smothers III), best known as the
zany half of the folk music comedy team The Smothers Brothers,
alongside his younger sibling Dick. Before fame, Tom was a
champion gymnast on the parallel bars in high school. He
began his music career as a regular on The Steve Allen
Show on NBC television.