On this date six decades ago, "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" was released by Johnny Cash as a single. This timeless song narrates the journey of Ira Hayes, an indigenous American who served as a Marine, in a heartfelt ode to an important aspect of the Native American experience 🌟 Listen: https://johnnycash.lnk.to/BitterTearsohnn | Johnny Cash

Learn about "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes," a song about a Native American marine at Iwo Jima that Cash dared radio to play. https://JohnnyCash.lnk.to/BitterTears | Johnny Cash

Ira Hayes, a Native American Marine immortalized in the famous 1945 photograph of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, became a national hero overnight. But behind the image, he battled severe PTSD and alcoholism - arrested over 50 times before tragically freezing to d*ath in the Arizona desert in 1955. | LazBu

On this date in 1964, JOHNNY CASH released the single THE BALLAD OF IRA HAYES (Jun 2, 1964) Fifty-eight years ago today, Johnny Cash released the folk song, “The Ballad of Ira Hayes.” Backlash immediately followed. The song is about a real-life man, Ira Hayes who was a Pima Native American and one of the Marines in the famous photo from Iwo Jima. He was one of six men to return from that battle. However, after his heroic deeds during World War II, Hayes battled alcoholism and unhappiness on a re