As seemingly happens faster as years vanish, we can’t get through observing one thing before there’s another’n.
Buddy , Richie Valens , J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson perished during their Winter Dance Party tour in the frozen corn belt shortly after a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, en route to Moorhead, Minnesota. The DJ importance is obvious and so is the Enterprise author, Dr. Jeffrey K. Smith, whose book, “Listen to Me: The Brief Life and Enduring Legacy of Buddy Holly,” followed thorough exploration of Holly’s doings, including the Iowa area where the entertainers sang, then died.
“A Lingering Evil: The Unsolved Murder of Buford Lolley,” about the brutal January 1968 slaying 100 yards from Enterprise City Hall.