Remembering 'The Day the Music Died'

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the crash in an Iowa corn field of the small plane carrying Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. Their deaths by aircraft began a tradition among singers that has been proudly carried on by the likes of Jim Croce, Patsy Cline, Ronnie Van Zant, Stevie Gaines, Otis Redding, Rick Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Aaliyah, and John Denver.

To this day, theologians remain baffled as to why God didn't grab the plane just before impact, carry it to New York, and land it in the Hudson where the musicians could have put on a show for rescuers on the Staten Island Ferry.