Meanwhile, Mildred Keith still had the photograph she had taken. In the following decades, Cline's legend swelled as the singer's story was shared in the 1980s films "Sweet Dreams" and "Coal Miner's Daughter," and her music was reissued during the 1990s. Also killed in the March 5 plane crash were country music singers Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins, as well as Randy Hughes, Cline's manager and the plane's pilot. The singer had been returning from the benefit concert organized for the family of "Cactus" Jack Call, a Kansas City disc jockey who had died in a car accident several weeks before. Likely the most tragic is Cline's death in a private plane crash outside Nashville, Tennessee, on March 5, 1963. In the vast sprawl that is the story of country music in America, Kansas City can claim several cul-de-sacs. Photo courtesy of the Keith family How the "last photograph" of Patsy Cline happened "Girl," said Patsy Cline, "you have a treasure." Mildred Keith shot the famous "last photograph" of Patsy Cline. The door opened to reveal a woman wearing fire engine red lipstick and a long, white dress. He led her backstage and then knocked on a door. Perhaps an hour later he returned and caught Keith's eye. Keith handed the book to a security guard, who disappeared with it. On March 3, 1963, Keith, then 41 years old, had brought the book to the concert at Memorial Hall in Kansas City. That's what the country music singers and musicians who scheduled appearances in Kansas City had come to call the scrapbook in which Keith maintained the photographs she had begun taking in the 1950s.
Mildred Keith had been asked to bring "The Book."
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