Recalling ‘Cactus’ Jack Call, the Man Patsy Cline Came to KC to Honor

While the story of singer Patsy Cline is largely centered in Nashville, the country music capital, Jackson County – specifically, Independence – played a melancholy role in Cline’s 1963 death in an airplane crash in Tennessee. The January death of an Independence country music disc jockey from injuries sustained in two-vehicle collision near U.S. 40 and Sterling Avenue brought Cline to Kansas City several weeks later. What happened then – as well as during the decades since – continues to resonate with the late disc jockey’s two sons.

Recalling ‘Cactus’ Jack Call, the Man Patsy Cline Came to KC to Honor