Patty, known now as Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw, will
turn 59 on February 20.

ABC-TV reporter Greg Dobbs covers breaking news of a tragic train
derailment in Chicago.

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.

        
                 Space Shuttle Columbia memorial at Arlington Cemetery