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00:00When Guitars Become Ghosts
00:02The Leonard Skinnered Instruments That Survived History's Cruelest Cut
00:06Musical Instruments Transform From Tools Into Testimony When Tragedy Strikes
00:12Your Guitar Carries Stories But Some Witness History In Real Time
00:16The Surviving Instruments From Leonard Skinnered's 1977 Crash Didn't Just Endure Impact
00:21They Became Sacred Relics Of Catastrophe
00:24A Fuel-Starved Convair CV-240 Scattered More Than Wreckage Through A Mississippi Swamp
00:29Three Days After Releasing Street Survivors, Skinnered's Plane Crashed Near Gillsburg, Mississippi
00:36Killing Band Members And Crew
00:38Remarkably, Several Touring Guitars Survived, Bearing New Scars
00:42Twenty People Survived With Injuries While Guitars Became Silent Witnesses To Both Survival And Loss
00:48Each Crack And Burn Mark Tells A Story That No Museum Placard Can Fully Capture
00:53Ricky Medlock's Guitar Fragments Emerged Alongside Other Instruments, Defying Fate
00:58Museum Technicians Grappled With Restoring Them Or Preserving The Damage
01:03Each Scar Became Part Of The Story, Making These Guitars Irreplaceable Historical Documents
01:09The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame And Southern Heritage Centers Now House These Musical Survivors
01:14Enshrined Behind Glass, They Resemble Religious Relics
01:18These Instruments Invite Reflection On Memorializing Tragedy
01:21Despite Embodying Loss, They Demonstrate Music's Resilience Against Time's Harshest Trials
01:27They Show That Profound Stories Often Emerge From Unbroken Objects
01:31The Rock and Rolls of the Day
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