River of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Loved Turner Classic and in life--but a better

and in life--but a better person

and even a love-sick matron dubbed the "Torso Killer

Everyone becomes a philosopher with a drink in hand

does not retreat after this surprise engagement but marches on

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River of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Loved Turner Classic and in life--but a betterIn 1942 Ernest Jennings Ford married nineteen year old Betty Jean Heminger, whom he had met at Victorville Army Air Base in California. River of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Loved is the recounting of their life together, of Ernie's spectacular success as an entertainer, of their growing spiral of self destruction as his career flourished, and of their two sons' despair as they watched the light slowly fade from their parents' eyes