Posted on 08/09/2024 2:08:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Johnny Cash Statue To Be Erected In U.S. Capitol On September 24th, the Man in Black will become the first professional musician to receive a statue in the U.S. Capitol’s Emancipation Hall.
A statue of Johnny Cash will soon stand in the U.S. Capitol, making him the first professional musician ever to receive the honor.
A statement from Congress dated July 31st confirmed that the Man in Black’s statue at Emancipation Hall will be unveiled in a morning ceremony on September 24th. The statue will join the National Statuary Hall Collection. The announcement was signed by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Each U.S. state has two statues allotted to it in the National Statuary Hall Collection, intended to celebrate notable figures from the state’s history. Cash’s statue represents Arkansas—he was born in Dyess—and marks the state’s second statue. The other depicts civil rights activist Daisy Bates. In 2019, Arkansas passed a bill to switch out existing statues of Sen. James P. Clark and lawyer Uriah Rose with new representations of Bates and Cash.
Cash’s statue will be crafted by Little Rock sculptor Kevin Kresse. It will reportedly be eight feet tall, and depict the musician with a Bible and a Guitar. “I think the honesty of his work, the truth in his lyrics and the simplicity and straightforward way of getting that message across just spoke to me as an artist as well,” Kresse told NPR’s Scott Simon in a May interview.
Earlier this year, the posthumous Cash album Songwriter was released via Mercury Nashville/UMe. He recorded the bulk of the record during sessions in 1993, about a decade before his death.
Johnny Cash was born in Arkansas. Arkansas is a former Confederate state. Therefore, Johnny Cash’s statue must be torn down. Liberal logic.
I agree, see post 12 & 19
His plaque should read:I fell into a giant ring of fire (DC).
Written by (gay) Jim Stafford, IIRC.
Johnny Cash would have preferred his statue be in front of Folsom Prison.
He was the first boy named Sue.
No, it was written by Shel Silverstein.
What makes you say Jim Stafford was gay? He was married to a woman for 24 years, and had at least four children.
Of course, he was also married to Bobbie Gentry, so maybe he was gay?
Why not President Reagan ?
Waiting for the statue to be declared racist for being called “man in black”. Or is that possibly why it was chosen? Some Gen Z staffer ignorantly assumed he was a black man?
I guess the democrats couldn’t agree on a black female or fake black female to honor
When will a tribute to Jim Thorpe be placed in the Nation’s Capitol.
My friend who was a Hollywood grip said the when he met Cash that Cash witnessed to him with his personal conversion and the friend said that he had a reputation as doing so since his faith was so important to him.
Man, this goes back a long way, but in the mid 1950s Cash was involved in a general beat down as fists flew everywhere at the Garden of Allah, in San Jose, California. To think that he recovered and went on to a fabulous career? Only in America.
I think we could hear much of him and his intensity and passions in his voice.
Just another statue of an iconic American for filthy democrats to tear down and escape unpunished.
Did you spend 4 years in Air Force intelligence as a morse code intercept operator in West Germany during Cold War?
“When will a tribute to Jim Thorpe be placed in the Nation’s Capitol.”
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Thorpe was born in Oklahoma, so Oklahoma can put a statue of him in the U.S. Capitol whenever they decide to do so. You should send a message to the Gov, etc., and see if they’ll do it.
Very well deserved. God Bless Johnny Cash. “Ragged old Flag” is an incredible song.
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