Johnny Cash’s Family Condemns White Supremacist: Read Cash’s 1964 Letter to Radio Stations

The children of late country legend Johnny Cash remember their father as a peaceful social justice advocate. So when video footage of the neo-Nazi rallies that broke out in Charlottesville over the weekend captured one white supremacist in a Johnny Cash t-shirt, the singer’s daughter, Roseanne Cash, spoke out.

“[Johnny Cash] would be horrified at even a casual use of his name or image for an idea or a cause founded in persecution and hatred. The white supremacists and neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville are poison in our society, and an insult to every American hero who wore a uniform to fight the Nazis in WWII,” Roseanne wrote in an emotional Facebook post also signed by Kathy, Cindy and Tara Cash.

“Several men in the extended… Continue Reading


Source: https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/columns/country/7934004/johnny-cash-letter-racist-radio-stations-family-condemns-white-supremacist