America Throwing a Party for Johnny Cash's 80th  

Johnny Cash will be celebrated this year on what would have been his 80th birthday: February26th.

There will be a groundbreaking on a project to preserve Cash's childhood home in Dyess, Arkansas.  A new Cash museum will open in Nashville later this year and there will be a few music releases to commemorate the anniversary of his birth.

There are three documentaries in the works as well.

Johnny Cash in 2003 at 71 of complications from diabetes.

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