1968: Photos of Johnny Cash’s legendary Folsom Prison performance

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In 1953, Johnny Cash watched the Crane Wilbur film Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison and was inspired to write a song from the perspective of the incarcerated. The result was "Folsom Prison Blues," one of his most popular songs.

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