HAWKINS, HAWKSHAW
(*1921)
HAWKINS, HAWKSHAW (b. Harold Franklin H., Huntington, W. Va., December 21, 1921-March 5, 1963) The third figure tragically killed in the plane wreck that took the lives of PATSY CLINE and COWBOY COPAS, Hawkins had a checkered career from the mid-1940s through the 1950s, gaining his greatest success just before his death. Winning a talent contest as a teen, Hawkins performed on radio in his hometown of Huntington, West Virginia, until he enlisted in the Army in 1942. Four years later, on his…