Your comments are intriguing because similar speculation has swirled around the Jim Reeves plane crash. The Patsy accident report is available but Jim's has been "lost" in the U.S. government's files, and other parts of it are locked up with Kennedy assassination records.

In the book by Larry Jordan, "Jim Reeves His Untold Story," there are two chapters devoted to the crash and the intriguing questions and strange occurrences. For instance, a young woman who worked at the last small airport from which Reeves and his passenger departed, was murdered a short time later (according to what her family believes), when her car was run off a mountain road in Arkansas. There was evidence at the scene that another car was involved. This woman had been in a position to see if anyone had been around the Reeves plane and was the person the FAA called the night Jim's plane disappeared from radar. It is also noteworthy that the singer would hire a guard to watch his rental planes 24 hours a day when he would travel somewhere. That is very unusual. Mr. Jordan's reporting on this matter is truly engrossing.

A best selling book called "Hit List" by Richard Belzer (the actor) and David Wayne, also details a lot of mysterious goings on regarding the Jim Reeves plane crash, which happened a little more than a year after Patsy's fatal crash.

Years ago someone who lives in Nashville and is friendly with key people in law enforcement there, said that both the Cline and Reeves crashes were suspicious and that both artists were causing problems for their labels by refusing to be bilked. It is a known fact that organized crime was active in the music industry in Nashville and Jim's producer at RCA, Chet Atkins, even told a reporter that if Jim had lived, he had intended to "clean up" the dirty industry.

Also, the family of guitarist Hank Garland still believes someone tried to kill him when he was involved in a near fatal car accident that destroyed his career.