Cash, was required to enlist into the Air Force with a full first name, not just initials. Elvis Presley was a truck driver for Crown Electric, Carl Perkins had been working on the cotton fields and just starting his music career, Jerry Lee Lewis was married for a second time at the age of eighteen, while Johnny Cash had been serving in the United States Air Force since 1950.Ĭash, who had been born with the real name of J.R. The would-be Sun Records Rock’n’roll stars were still young in 1953, living their lives as everyday United States citizens and keeping ordinary jobs. He was seventy-four, getting old, and, despite the image he portrayed to his people and the world, he was getting weaker and progressively more ill. By this time, he’d been leading his country for twenty-six years. The United States had to keep its eye on the Soviet Union, and Stalin in particular. However, no fighting ever took place, and instead, the superpowers were at a stalemate. The growing uncertainty and distrust between the superpowers had evolved into threats of war. Similarly, the influence the Soviets had on eastern Europe was of great concern to the US in particular, as communism had the potential to sweep through the continent, where many eastern countries had become Soviet satellite states, and south-east Europe was occupied by communist-esque Yugoslavia. However, the opposing ideologies led to immense tensions between the eastern and western nations, essentially a case of communism versus capitalism. The Soviets occupied a share of post-war Germany by taking control of the east, while Britain, the United States, and France kept hold of the west.
Despite the West and the Soviets defeating Nazi Germany in 1945, since the end of the Second World War, the two great superpowers of the world - the United States (US) and the Soviet Union - had been locked in a continuous threat of war. In 1953, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin turned seventy-four years old. Johnny Cash’s Morse Code Manual and photograph for the United States Air Force, early 1950s (Johnny Cash Official Website, )
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