Buddy  Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) 

    (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)

                                                                                       Photo: Des Moines Register

One of the last photos of Buddy Holly taken at the Laramar Ballroom
in Fort Dodge, Iowa on January 30, 1959. 

The crash site today near Clear Lake, Iowa

Back row, (L-R) Dr. David Brown, Dr. Laurel Clark, Payload commander Michael Anderson, Ilan Ramon. Front row, (L-R) Commander Rick Husband, Flight engineer Kalpana Chawla, Co-pilot William McCool. (NASA)

                                         
                                           Mike Gracia

                            
                              Sandy Kozel

                                          
                                         Mike Gracia