TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, January 28, 2007

From Associated Press Jan. 17, 2007:

"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The son of "The Big Bopper" has hired a forensic anthropologist to answer questions about how his father died in a 1959 plane crash along with rock 'n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

Jay Richardson, who performs tribute shows as "The Big Bopper Jr.," hopes it will settle rumors a gun might have been fired on board the plane, and show whether his father could have survived the crash and died later after trying to go for help.

"I'm not looking for any great bombshell, but then again you never know," Richardson said in a recent phone interview from his home outside Houston.

The remains of J.P "The Big Bopper" Richardson will be exhumed from his grave in Beaumont, Texas, and then buried in another section of the cemetery with a life-sized statue.

Jay Richardson never knew his father, whose hits in the late '50s included "Chantilly Lace." His mother was pregnant with him when his father died.

The rock 'n' roll stars died on Feb. 3, 1959, when the four-passenger plane crashed after taking off from the Mason City, Iowa, airport — a tragedy memorialized as "the day the music died" in Don McLean's song "American Pie."

[...] The Civil Aeronautics Board said pilot error was the cause of the crash in its accident report. But the report didn't mention a gun belonging to Holly that was found by a farmer two months after the crash.

Newspaper accounts of the gun discovery fueled rumors among fans that the pilot was shot, causing the crash. The owner of the flying service added to the conspiracy theory by insisting his pilot was not at fault and saying the pilot must have been "incapacitated."
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Another finding at the crash that intrigued Richardson was that the Bopper's body was discovered nearly 40 feet away from the crash while the others were found in or near the wreckage.
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"I don't think I would have exhumed my Dad to do this unless there was some evidence that would compel me to do that," Richardson said...
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Also needed: new investigations into the helter skelter in a summer swelter and the marching band which refused to yield.

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