When Johnny O'Keefe came to Kempsey

By Phil Lee, Kempsey Museum
Updated February 26 2020 - 8:56am, first published February 25 2020 - 1:06pm
Johnny OKeefe with Festival of Spring Queen candidate, Judy Everson. Photo: Macleay Argus archives.
Johnny OKeefe with Festival of Spring Queen candidate, Judy Everson. Photo: Macleay Argus archives.

It is 60 years since one of Australia's greatest rock 'n' roll stars, Johnny O'Keefe, made an unscheduled stopover in Kempsey when his bright red Plymouth Belvedere was involved in a collision on the Pacific Highway at Clybucca on the morning of June 27, 1960.

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