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What the...JFK, the Moon landing, Reagan and the hostages, 9/11...and now this?

Autopsy of 'Big Bopper' to Address Rumors About 1959 Plane Crash

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The son of "the Big Bopper" has hired a forensic anthropologist to try to answer questions about how his father died in the 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of famous rock-and-rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

Jay Richardson, who performs tribute shows as "the Big Bopper Jr.," hopes an examination of his father's remains will settle rumors that a gun was fired aboard the plane, and tell whether the Big Bopper might have survived the crash impact and died trying to go for help.

Call me a cynic, but it sounds like a way to generate publicity for his act. But I could be wrong.

It reminds me of the time they had the chance to dig up something at Giants Stadium and failed to find Jimmy Hoffa buried there. This is weird, but beliefs in conspiracies like this seem to go on and on. Some people will never be satisfied by the actual evidence anyway...as the recent hooey over "no planes hit the Pentagon" crackpots are still trying to promote. See Popular Mechanics: Debunking The 9/11 Myths - Mar. 2005 Cover Story

Or read my earlier post about the goofballs in Cedar Rapids who believe that conspiracy crap.

Nevertheless, here are the "clues" they will try and figure out:

• Following the concert in Clear Lake, Iowa, Waylon Jennings, then a member of Holly's band, gave up his seat on the plane to Richardson, who was feeling ill and seeking a shorter trip to the next stop.
• In its accident report, the Civil Aeronautics Board said pilot error was the cause of the crash.
• The report didn't mention a gun belonging to Holly that was found by a farmer two months after the crash.
• The owner of the flying service insisted his pilot was not at fault, saying the pilot must have been "incapacitated."
• Richardson's body was discovered nearly 40 feet from the wreckage, while the others were found in or near the plane.
  

Timed perfectly to coincide with the annual Winter Dance Party celebration they have in Clear Lake every year.

This year, it's February 1-3...

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