So many sing about "the day that music died" on Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash.
February 3, 1959. A plane lifted off from Clear Lake, Iowa, on a cold winter's night carrying the pioneers of rock n' roll. The plane would never arrive.
Stunned residents are shaken up after a plane crashed into their Clearwater mobile home community Thursday night, killing three people, and destroying multiple homes.
It was a little past 1 AM on February 3rd, 1959 when American musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa