Posted on 06/17/2016 3:57:20 AM PDT by lowbridge
David Akeman (June 17, 1915 – November 10, 1973), better known as Stringbean (or String Bean), was an American country music banjo player and comedy musician best known for his role on the hit television show, Hee Haw, and as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Akeman and his wife were murdered by burglars at their rural Tennessee home in 1973.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vP9gS8JrY
http://nodepression.com/article/scarecrow-music-and-murder-stringbean-akeman
Terrible ending
Look at them pants.
With those pants he was 60 years ahead of his time.
A sad, remarkable story of the kind of man I’d just like to meet and jaw a bit with
Can't believe they let one of his murderers loose...the miserable POS.
What interesting is that around this time period 72-74...where I lived in North Alabama...we had some older couple who had collected a fair sized collection of gold coins. One afternoon....three guys show up behind their house on a dirt road...dressed in women’s clothing...and burst into the house. It’s just the couple there and the guy leads two around to some end of the house, and the wife pulls some shotgun out....shoots the guy near her, and ends up shooting at least of the other guys. I think two were dead out of this episode. Both the husband and wife were unharmed in the end.
Glad they didn’t end up the same way. Rest in peace David and Mrs. Akeman.
My Dad’s birthday today too, he would have been 95, born June 17, 1921. RIP to both of them. BTW the banjo is my favorite instrument so I am headed to your link next. Thanks for posting.
Bkmrk.
One of the killers died in prison, appeals rejected. The other one got out on parole.
> The stars showed up at Brown’s parole hearings voicing staunch opposition against the pleas of his family and supporters who said the 64-year-old inmate had been locked up long enough. By contrast, his release was subdued; no family or protesters were there. A small cluster of news reporters watched quietly from a gravel parking lot as the van drove off the property, heading toward an undisclosed family member’s home.Pastor Maury Davis of Cornerstone Church agreed to give Brown a job on the church’s custodial staff.
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