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It was something he apparently saw coming. Hiriam King Williams (Hank, Sr.) died on New Years Day, 1953, from a combination of alcoholism and prescription pain killers from a back injury. It was something he apparently saw coming. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. Hank felt there was something bad around the corner.”There is a framework of events that is largely agreed upon, starting with Williams being chauffeured to a planned New Year’s Eve show in Charleston, W. Va.
©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. The singer, who suffered from a back problem, was given a sedative by his regular doctor — who had allegedly purchased a fake medical diploma through the mail and was rumored to frequently overprescribe — before setting off with a college student named Charles Carr acting as his driver. When new wife Billie Jean asked what was the matter, she claimed his reply was, “I think I see God comin’ down the road.”Within 48 hours of Williams’ prediction, he had met his maker, but the circumstances surrounding how he died have given rise to one of music history’s greatest debates.“I think he had a profound sadness in him,” says Marc Abraham, writer and director of the new biopic. . At the time, Carr’s nervous account of the final few hours of the journey were enough to raise questions of foul play, especially when some witnesses — including a police officer — oddly claimed to have seen a soldier also riding in the car.Some biographers (including Colin Escott, whose book “I Saw the Light” provides the basis for the film) have suggested that Williams may have even died at the Andrew Johnson in Knoxville, and that Carr had unwittingly driven several hundred miles with a corpse. At the time, Carr’s nervous account of the final few hours of the journey were enough to raise questions of foul play, especially when some witnesses — including a police officer — claimed to have, oddly, seen a soldier also riding in the car.Some biographers (including Colin Escott, whose book “I Saw the Light” provides the basis for the film) have suggested that Williams may have even died at the Andrew Johnson in Knoxville, and that Carr had unwittingly driven several hundred miles with a corpse. When new wife Billie Jean asked what was the matter, she claimed his reply was, “I think I see God comin’ down the road.”Within 48 hours of Williams’ prediction, he had met his maker, but the circumstances surrounding how he died have given rise to one of music history’s greatest debates.“I think he had a profound sadness in him,” says Marc Abraham, writer and director of the new biopic.
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On the evening of December 30, 1952, the restless, rail-thin 29-year-old tossed and turned in bed at his home in Montgomery, Ala. Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
The new biopic “I Saw the Light,” in theaters Friday, traces country legend Hank Williams’ struggles with alcohol, infidelity — and the weight of being one of the biggest music stars in the United States, following hits such as his cover of “Lovesick Blues” (1949) and his own “Why Don’t You Love Me” (1950).But one big thing is left out of the movie: the singer’s mysterious death. All rights reserved.
“I actually wrote 13 pages for that scene but took them out because they felt superfluous,” explains Abraham. It was also something that was suggested by the initial police report. )But as Jack Neely, executive director of the Knoxville History Project, explains, local folklore tells a different story. But suspicions about this final journey arose immediately.