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1965
Cash is arrested after being found with prescription pills (but no prescription) stashed in his guitar case; he pleads guilty to a misdemeanor drug charge and is fined $1,000. Left, the singer is flanked by a bondsman and a U.S. marshal as he is transferred in El Paso, Texas, from the county jail to the federal courthouse

1968
Cash performs at California's Folsom Prison in January; the live concert album of the event goes on to become a top seller


FROM THE AUG. 4, 2003 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED SUNDAY, JULY 27, 2003

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