#jack cash

[lucasdaily]

Lucas Till as the young Jack Cash in Walk the Line (2005) (requested by anonymous)

[libinih28]

no matter where I am, no matter what I'm doing, I will always cry when I hear johnny cash talk about jack cash

[tearyeye-private-i]

J.R. Cash and his brother Jack, from Recollections by J. R. Cash.

“The contrasting expressions of Cash and his brother Jack mirror the differences the boy’s parents saw in their son’s. Where Ray thought of Jack as enthusiastic and focused, he looked upon J.R. as lazy and unresponsive. Carrie viewed J.R. more sympathetically. She believed his quiet demeanor suggested a thoughtful and sensitive child.” 

-- Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life.

“Jack & J.R. The Cottonmouth and the Willow Tree.” 

     "Jack was my protector; I was the skinny one, and he looked after me. We were always together, always laughing. He taught me all those things a big brother teaches a little brother he loves. There was nobody in the world as good and as wise and as strong as my big brother Jack. There was only one time that in my eyes Jack fell off his pedestal, and it was probably one of the greatest lessons I ever learned: all men are human; all men sin; all men will fall short of your expectations at one time or another.

    The farms of Dyess were crisscrossed and bordered by drainage ditches. These ditches always contained a little water, even in the middle of summer, and in hem lived crawfish, eels, garfish, and a deadly poisonous snake, the cottonmouth moccasin. In the hot summer sun, the cottonmouths would crawl up on the willow limbs hanging over the stitches and sun themselves and sleep. A favorite sport of ours was to cut a long willow pole and crawl quietly through the bushes until we were within reach of the snake, then swing the pole up and down and strike the snake before he had a chance to fall into the water.

     One hot Saturday afternoon we had crawled quietly to within ten or twelve feet of one of the biggest cottonmouths I’d ever seen. Jack had the end of the pole in his hand. I whispered, “He’s a big one, Jack. Hit him hard.” Jack slowly rose to his feet and at the same time raised the pole and swung it down hard on the cottonmouth’s back. The tension of the moment made my heart pound in my ears. The size of the snake added to our fear, and as Jack hit the snake, he exploded excitedly, “Die, damn you!”

     The snake did die, and I thought I was going to, too. I stared at Jack in shock. “You cussed,” I said. “I didn’t know you would cuss.” To me, the word “Damn” was a bad word used by the checker players down at the filling station. Jack tried to smile and couldn’t. Then he tried to say he was sorry. “I didn’t mean to,” he said. “I said it before I thought.”      “I never heard you cuss before,” I repeated.      “I won’t anymore,” he said. “You’ll never hear it from me again. OK?”      “OK,” I said. And I didn’t.

     I think it bothered Jack that he had come down a notch or two in my estimation. He told me later he had asked God’s forgiveness, and again he was all right in my eyes. Because he knew his influence over me had been temporarily endangered, he made it a point to heal the wound." -- Man in Black: His own story in his own words, pg 34 -35.

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[johnny-cash-infocenter]

Buddies JR and big brother Jack. Today in 1944 Jack passed away due to a horrible sawmill accident.The grief Johnny felt was terrible. In his autobiography Johnny describes the loss of Jack as creating a big, cold, sad place in his heart and soul. Jack influenced Johnny the rest of his life. During Johnnys dark days of addiction he would draw strength from Jacks memory and ask himself; "What would Jack do?".

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Walk The Line (2005, James Mangold)

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Lucas Till as Jack Cash - Walk The Line (2005)