[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 149 (Tuesday, September 24, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H5662]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          HONORING JOHNNY CASH

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, today I attended a marvelous program in 
Emancipation Hall where a statue of Johnny Cash was unveiled for time 
immemorial.
  The statue of Johnny Cash was placed there by the State of Arkansas 
who earlier placed the statue of Daisy Bates in the Capitol.
  I commend the State of Arkansas for doing that, and for the 
outstanding addresses by Arkansas legislators, their Governor, and by 
Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash.
  Johnny Cash was born in Arkansas, but he came to Memphis to start his 
musical career. He went to Sun Records, and Sam Phillips got him 
started.
  He was at Sun Records on a day when Elvis was there, Jerry Lee Lewis 
was there, and Carl Perkins was there. They put together songs that day 
that Sam Phillips recorded. It was called the Million Dollar Quartet.
  Johnny Cash was a great singer, a great humanitarian, worthy of this 
honor, and someone we should all remember, a life well lived and 
memorialized here in the Capitol.

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