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RECAPPING HISTORICAL NEWS

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ALBUM RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1968

JOhnny Cash
At Folsom Prison
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At Folsom Prison is a live album and 27th overall album by Johnny Cash,
released on Columbia Records in May 1968. Backed with June Carter,
Carl Perkins and the Tennessee Three, Cash performed two shows at
Folsom State Prison in California. The result was an album consisting
of fifteen tracks from the first show and two tracks from the second.

The album was a hit reaching number one on the country charts and
the top 15 of the national album chart. The lead single from the album,
a live version of "Folsom Prison Blues", was a top 40 hit,

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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Tim Maguire

                               

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GANGSTER JAILED ON THIS DAY IN 1932

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Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947)

Al Capone was an  gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. He
was convicted on federal charges of tax evasion in 1931 and sentenced to
federal prison in Atlanta. Capone was later transferred to, what was then, a
newly established prison on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. His term
there was completed on January 6, 1939.

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LOOKING BACK AT TODAY IN HISTORY

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