| Subject: Buddy's glasses (frames) |
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Bill Griggs
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Date Posted: Tue June 23, 2009 23:28:12
I'm starting a new thread for this as the other one is quite long and this subject needs this attention.
There have been some Buddy Holly personal items sold.
There have been some Buddy Holly personal items sold that seem to have a "questionable" lineage.
However, of all the items to question, Buddy's frames have, to use a lawyer's term, a chain of evidence that seems to be unimpeachable.
Buddy was wearing his glasses when the plane crash took place.
Buddy was the only person wearing horn rim glasses on that plane.
Albert Juel, while plowing his field that Spring, found a large number of items that had been buried in the snow after the plane crash.
Albert Juel turned those items over to Sheriff Allen.
Sheriff Allen put those items into a manila envelope and filed them as "Evidence".
Those items sat in that envelope in the files of the Mason City (Iowa) police station for 20 years, as "evidence".
In 1979, I attended the first Clear Lake tribute show in Iowa and met with Sheriff Allen.
A couple weeks later, in 1979, Sheriff Allen was investigating an old murder and was going through the files at the police station and came across that envelope.
As the name "Charles Hardin Holley" was written on the envelope, no one up to that time had put it together that it was Buddy Holly.
In that envelope were some dice, a lighter, the frames, and some other items.
As I had just met Sheriff Allen a couple weeks prior to this discovery, he called me and asked for the address and phone number of the Holley family, which I gave him.
The frames, still within that chain of evidence, were returned to the Holley family and then, Maria Elena. (The items purported to have belonged to the Big Bopper were also returned to his son, Jay, at a later date.)
Maria Elena showed me those frames a couple times when I was visiting her during the 1980s.
Civic Lubbock arranged to purchase the frames from Maria Elena and donated them to the new Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas where they are today.
The frames at the Center are the same frames Albert Juel found, the same frames Sheriff Allen found, the same frames in the photo taken the day the Sheriff rediscovered them, the same frames I saw at Maria Elena's home, and are the same frames now at the Buddy Holly Center.
ALL of the above had been reported on by me in both "Reminiscing" and "Rockin' 50s" magazines.
What is the problem?
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