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Fact #147751

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While performing live on stage in The Ice House Hockey Arena, London, Ontario, Canada, Johnny Cash proposes to his girlfriend, June Carter. She accepts.

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Marshall Grant (bass player) : I wasn't surprised. I knew he was going to do it sooner or later and I figured he'd do it some awkward place, like he did. That's just sorta his style. Whenever he feels the urge he just says it or does it, and it was just his time.

Everybody just looked at one another and sort of laughed.
(Source : interview in The Ottawa Citizen, 1998)

Ralph Willsey : They were all a dither for a moment or two, and I don’t think she answered him, or at least not so that we all could hear.

Johnny Cash : We had just sung a song called 'Jackson', and I stopped the show and said, 'Will you marry me?' on the microphone. She said, 'Go, sing another, sing another, sing another!' I said, 'I'm not gonna sing until you answer me. Will you marry me?' And she says, 'Sing a song. Sing a song.' She turned her back, you know, trying to get somebody in the band to play some music or something. [It] kept going until she finally said, 'Yes.' And I said, 'Okay, next song.'
(Source : tv interview on Mike Douglas Show, 1981)

Marshall Grant : When we walked off the stage … there in that old ice hockey arena, I said ‘June, you’ve made a mistake … if you go through with it, you are in for one hell of a life.
(Source : interview in The National Post, 2014)

June Carter Cash : I would have liked it if he’d gotten down on his knees and proposed to me.
(Source : interview, 1981)

Andy Oudman (news reporter, Q97.5 FM) : The crowd was going bananas. I do clearly remember him saying, 'Will you marry me?' and she asked him not to embarrass her. If you were bending down to tie your shoe you might have missed it.
(Source : feature in The National Post, at http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=ee4be5de-d731-4323-b5f0-f233da45ff75&k=74407)

Jean Bock (audience) : You certainly felt a spark when John and June were on stage together," Bock says. "I think they were in the midst of singing a song when he asked her, and [at first] she kind of fluffed him off ... No one thought it was for real.
(Source : feature in The National Post, at http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=ee4be5de-d731-4323-b5f0-f233da45ff75&k=74407)