Johnny and June: The True Love Story Behind Music’s Complicated Couple

Johnny Was Also Married Previously

In 1950, Cash graduated high school and took on a number of temporary jobs before deciding to join the Air Force. Before he was shipped off to Germany in 1951, he met his first wife, Vivian Liberto, at a roller skating rink in San Antonio. They had begun a whirlwind of a romance. And throughout Cash’s service, the young couple exchanged a massive volume of letters.

Vivian Liberto and Johnny Cash

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The romance continued through his four years in the service. Then when he returned to the United States in 1954, they got married. Johnny and Vivian went on to have not one, not two, but four daughters: Rosanne, Kathy, Cindy, and Tara.

And all this was before June came into the picture and changed everything…