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Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
Author, PRESIDENTS OF WAR, 9 other books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. @PBS contributor. Born Chicago.

Feb 2, 2022, 8 tweets

Winter Dance Party, today 1959:

One of last photos of Buddy Holly, today 1959, performing at Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake, Iowa, Winter Dance Party, before his death with the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in plane crash the next morning:

Surf Ballroom, where Holly, Big Bopper and Valens gave final performance today 1959, still stands and is still used in 2022:

Buddy Holly’s February 1959 overnight bag, preserved by his brother, belongs in Smithsonian:

Buddy Holly’s 1959 overnight bag is a small museum of grooming products of the time—anyone recognize anything?

Buddy Holly’s 1959 overnight bag was recovered from plane wreckage in Iowa.

Buddy Holly honored at Iowa crash site of tomorrow 1959:

Sea and Ski, 1958:

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