The plane was heading to Hector Field in Fargo, ND.
Buddy Holly and the others were going to perform at the old Moorhead Armory in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Bobby Vee and the Crickets performed in their places which in turn helped jump start Vee’s career.
As an aside in the fall of 1967, I went to a tri-college dance held for the freshmen from North Dakota State University, Moorhead State College, and Concordia College. At the time Concordia College prohibited dances from being held on its campus.
Interesting post. I was 10 yo and lived in Moorhead and remember the news coverage although at 10 i really wasn’t in to R&R at the time. I do certainly remember dances at the Moorhead armory during my high school years and met my wife at one of the more memorable dances to say the least. (Moorhead High alum 1967)
I was still a HS Senior In 67 but upon graduating attend MSC as it was still called then. Moorhead was a great quiet place to live and grow up. Its been >50 years since we’ve been back.
The plane was heading to Hector Field in Fargo, ND.
Buddy Holly and the others were going to perform at the old Moorhead Armory in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Bobby Vee and the Crickets performed in their places which in turn helped jump start Vee’s career.
As an aside in the fall of 1967, I went to a tri-college dance held for the freshmen from North Dakota State University, Moorhead State College, and Concordia College. At the time Concordia College prohibited dances from being held on its campus.
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The song has special meaning to me, being raised on a family farm south of Fargo. I vividly remember hearing on the radio the morning after that the plane had crashed in a blinding blizzard, in a cold wind swept stubble corn field a few miles south of the family farm on its way to Fargo. McLean’s memorializing in song of that tragic event will live with me forever.