Plane crash kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J.P. Richardson, 1959 - Newspapers.com
WTOC-TV - The Day the Music Died. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash on this day in 1959. The plane crashed in a snow
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The Day the Music Died” is the day when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and JP Richardson all died in a plane crash. But none of them would have been on that plane
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This day in history: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper die in 1959 plane crash - CBS Detroit
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