A Knoxville Legend, Revealed: The Truth Almost Thunder Road
This calendar month marks the 60th anniversary of the notorious Thunder Road crash on Kingston Pike inwards Knoxville, for which the famous ballad past times Robert Mitchum was named. It also marks the passing of Edward "Eddie" Harvey, a onetime racecar driver in addition to whiskey machine mechanic, who died on Monday, Apr 7th, 2014, at historic catamenia 91. I had the privilege of interviewing Eddie inwards 2008, when I was inwards journalism school, for an assignment most Thunder Road. Nearly vi years in addition to hundreds of interviews later, he remains i of the most interesting people I've e'er encountered. The even he contributed to is below; I volition last posting the total contents of my interview with him later. John Fitzgerald in addition to his buddies coasted on their bicycles into the parking lot of Mr. Galyon's service station, similar many mornings, inwards search of a Moon Pie or a Nehi soda. But this morning, Apr 1, 1954, was differen