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Mary Reeves, center, veiled in black, walks to her car on Aug. 4, 1964, after attending joint services for her husband, Jim Reeves, and Dean Manuel, both killed in a plane crash near Brentwood.

Reeves' plane fell from the sky, plummeting into the Brentwood woods, just east of I-65. He and his manager/piano player Dean Manuel were killed in the violent crash, at 4:52 p.m. on Friday, July 31.

In July 1964 Jim Reeves was found dead in the wreckage of a private plane ten miles south of Nashville. He was 39. But Jim's death was far from being the end of the story.

Jim Reeves, a crooner that stood at the intersection of country and pop, died in Nashville on Friday, July 31, 1964 alongside his manager and pianist, Dean Manuel.

Mary Reeves, center, veiled in black, walks to her car on Aug. 4, 1964, after attending joint services for her husband, Jim Reeves, and Dean Manuel, both killed in a plane crash near Brentwood.