1970, reminding him to name drop musicians like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin who had recently succumbed to drug-related deaths. During the actual conversation, Presley briefly reminisced about his upbringing in rural Mississippi, and said he sought to undo the anti-American sentiment he felt the...
including 5,000 deaths due to droughts and floods. The actual figures are likely to be considerably higher, due to the difficulty of compiling statistics across a vast terrain with unreliable communications.