The singer was deputized in 1959 before a San Antonio concert.
by Barrett Jackson in Scottsdale, Arizona. However, it's not clear what happened to it after that.
Country singer/songwriter Johnny Cash poses for a mug shot after U.S. Customs agents found hundreds of pep pills and tranquilizers in his luggage as he returned from a trip to Juarez, Mexico in October 1965 in El Paso, Texas.The local law enforcement title is noteworthy because of Cash's kinship with prisoners and law enforcement throughout his career. Prisons were concert halls for his 1968 live album"At Folsom Prison" and its follow-up,"At San Quentin," a year later.
While Cash was never convicted of a felony, he was often on the wrong side of the law. He was arrested seven times for minor offenses, including drug possession in El Paso.It’s unclear what led to Kilday’s decision to honor Cash in Bexar County. San Antonio newspaper archives only mention the incident once, and there is one known photograph of the ceremony taken by an Express photographer.
Cash’s honorary title doesn't come as a surprise to Hector Saldaña, the curator of the Texas Music Collection at Texas State University's Wittliff Collection, because San Antonio played an important role in Cash’s early life, Saldaña said.for the first time in 1950 to begin basic training at Lackland Air Force Base. He was later assigned to the Air Force’s Security Service as a radio intercept operator and was scheduled to be deployed to Landsberg, Germany.
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