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This Day in Rock History - Mar. 1st
1969: The Doors hold an infamous concert at the Coconut Grove Auditorium in Miami, Florida. Lead singer and resident bad boy, Jim Morrison is arrested on stage after he allegedly exposes himself to the crowd. He’s is not formally arraigned with a mug shot until September of the next year.
Although obviously drunk and verbally abusive to the crowd, Morrison is posthumously cleared of the indecent exposure charge during an appeals process that dragged on past the singer’s death in 1971.
This Day in Rock History - Oct. 30th
1970: A court in Miami sentenced Doors’ front man Jim Morrison to six months in prison for indecent exposure during a concert in the city that took place in March of the previous year.
The case was still being appealed when Morrison died the next July. Jim would ultimately receive a posthumous pardon for his conviction.
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