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HE TOLD EVERYONE HE’D DIE LIKE HANK WILLIAMS. 7 YEARS LATER, HE WAS RIGHT. Johnny Horton had everything. “The Battle of New Orleans” was a smash hit, gold records kept coming, and his name was all over the radio. But something dark stayed with him. He married Billie Jean — Hank Williams’ widow. And from that moment, he couldn’t shake the feeling he’d meet the same end. Here’s where it gets strange. On November 5, 1960, Horton played his last show at the Skyline Club in Austin — the exact same stage where Hank Williams gave his final performance back in 1952. Nobody planned that. After the show, Horton drove toward Shreveport. Near Milano, Texas, a drunk driver crossed the center line on a bridge and hit him head-on. He was 35. Billie Jean was 27. She’d now buried two husbands — both country legends — and both had played their final show on the same stage, 8 years apart.

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