{"id":7572,"date":"2025-08-27T23:31:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/?p=7572"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:31:37","slug":"how-ricky-nelson-saved-the-lives-of-his-twin-boys-on-the-mysterious-plane-accident-that-led-to-his-own-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/?p=7572","title":{"rendered":"How Ricky Nelson saved the lives of his twin boys on the mysterious plane accident that led to his own death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Nelson, born Eric Hilliard Nelson in 1940, rose to fame as a teen pop idol and star of the long-running sitcom\u00a0<em>The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet<\/em>, alongside his famous parents and brother David. Though he struggled with school, Ricky found success early, earning $100,000 a year by his late teens.<\/p>\n<p>His musical career took off after debuting his first single \u201cI\u2019m Walking\u201d on the show, leading to several hits like \u201cTravelin\u2019 Man\u201d and \u201cGarden Party.\u201d In 1963, he married Kristin Harmon, and they had four children, including twins Matthew and Gunnar, who later became musicians themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Ricky had a lifelong fear of flying but continued touring. In late 1985, he was scheduled to fly with his sons to a New Year\u2019s Eve concert in\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ricky Nelson, born Eric Hilliard Nelson in 1940, rose to fame as a teen pop idol and star of the long-running sitcom\u00a0The Adventures of Ozzie <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/?p=7572\" title=\"How Ricky Nelson saved the lives of his twin boys on the mysterious plane accident that led to his own death\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7574,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572\/revisions\/7574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}