1988: It began with the singer waving a gun around in an office building. It ended after a one-hour, two-state car chase when police shoot out the two front tires of the singer’s pickup truck.
It was on this day that James Brown, one time “hardest working man in show business,” is carted off to jail and charged with assault, resisting arrest, illegal possession of a firearm, and (surprise, surprise) drugs.
