One must recall the Town Hall event scheduled before a home game in October of 1965 when Johnny Cash was arrested at the El Paso International Airport after U.S. Customs agents found hundreds of pep pills and tranquilizers in his luggage as he returned from a trip to Juarez, Mexico. The Man in Black spent a night in the county jail and later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count, for which he paid a $1000 fine and received a 30-day suspended sentence. But that was not enough for General Earl Rudder, then president of TAMU. Rudder canceled the appearance and we had to find other sources of entertainment that Friday night.

One must recall the Town Hall event scheduled before a home game in October of 1965 when Johnny Cash was arrested at the El Paso International Airport after U.S. Customs agents found hundreds of pep pills and tranquilizers in his luggage as he returned from a trip to Juarez, Mexico. The Man in Black spent a night in the county jail and later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count, for which he paid a $1000 fine and received a 30-day suspended sentence. But that was not enough for General Earl Rudder, then president of TAMU. Rudder canceled the appearance and we had to find other sources of entertainment that Friday night.