Johnny Cash: The Life (72 page)

The tension in the Cash household was evident on the faces by the time of daughter Tara’s birth in the summer of 1961. (Rosanne Cash collection)

In a photo that appeared in hundreds of newspapers around the world, Cash is headed to a federal courthouse in El Paso in October 1965 after being arrested for possession of more than a thousand pills. (Associated Press)

Cash on the day of his landmark concert at Folsom Prison in January 1968. “I knew this was it, my chance to make up for all the times when I had messed up,” he said. (© Dan Poush)

Moments before going onstage at Folsom, Cash suddenly felt calm. “There was something in their eyes that made me realize everything was going to be OK,” he said of the audience. “I felt I had something they needed.” Robert Hilburn, at Cash’s side, covered the concert for the Los Angeles Times. (© Jim Marshall Photography LLC)

Cash’s relationship with his longtime manager Saul Holiff, right, was a delicate balance of huge career strides and tumultuous confrontation. (Photograph by Jorgan Halling/Saul Holiff Collection)

John and June backstage in Anaheim, California, a year after their marriage in March 1968. (© Dan Poush)

John and June at the hospital with John Carter in 1970. (Sony Music Entertainment)

June, Anita, John Carter, and John during an appearance on the television show
This Is Your Life,
which was taped in Nashville in early 1971. (Sony Music Entertainment)

With the superstardom gained after the Folsom album, Cash turned increasingly to the Bible and used his popularity to express his faith through his music and ABC television show. (Sony Music Entertainment)

At Rosanne’s 1979 wedding to singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, Cash poses with daughters, from left, Rosanne, Tara, Cindy, and Kathy. (Rosanne Cash collection)

Cash with manager Lou Robin and his wife, Karen, during a fifties-themed party in the 1970s. (Lou Robin collection)

John and June share the stage with Billy and Ruth Graham at one of the many Graham Crusade concerts in the 1970s. (Courtesy Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Used with permission. All rights reserved.)

One side of John and June in a playful photo shoot in 1980. (Marty Stuart collection)