One time, when she asked him who he was talking to, he said it was
Ol’ Dirty Bastard
, who had died in 2004.
Who was with Kinison when he died?
And he had just married
Malika Souiri
, 27, who was in the passenger seat during the crash. (She suffered a concussion.) Like Elvis, to whom he compared himself, Kinison remained a brand name after his death.
Was Sam Kinison under the influence when he died?
Deputy Coroner Gabriel Morales said that Kinison, 38, suffered multiple traumatic injuries to the chest cavity and died within minutes of the crash near Needles. “Drugs did not contribute to the cause of death,” Morales said. “(But) we
are not saying that he wasn’t under the influence
.”
Did Sam Kinison’s wife die in the accident?
NEEDLES, CALIF. — Sam Kinison, 38, a street preacher turned loud and bawdy stand-up comic, was killed April 10 and his wife was
seriously hurt in an automobile accident
here. A spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said Mr. … Kinison’s wife of six days, Malika, 27, was hospitalized with a concussion.
What happened to Sam Kinison’s brother?
His brother Kevin, 28, the baby of the family,
shot himself to death in his parents’ house in Tulsa after suffering a nervous breakdown
. Kinison was devastated and began thinking about suicide himself. ”Till the day he died,” says Bill Kinison, ”Sam was still moved to tears when he talked about Kevin.”
What happened when Sam Kinison died?
Sam Kinison, a former tent preacher who gained fame as a shrieking and often insulting stand-up comedian, was killed Friday night
in a head-on automobile crash
on a desert highway near Needles, Calif.
What comedian died in a car crash?
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Why did Sam Kinison stop preaching?
Kinison was
attempting to make a name for himself as a preacher during this
time as well, and perhaps being overshadowed by other, more powerful and popular preachers during the Jesus Movement played a role in his decision to exit the career.
Did Sam Kinison have brain damage?
Kinison
was only three years old when he was hit by a truck
, which left him with some brain damage. At the age of 12, he experienced another type of trauma when his parents divorced.
