The two men were also part of the cast of a new country music sketch comedy television series, Hee Haw, beginning in 1969. Akeman and his wife lived modestly in a small cabin, but he was known to ...

After that, I remember watching 'Hee Haw' and seeing String on it, and I didn't understand how he could be on the television and be dead." Metro Detective Sgt. Sherman Nickens, right, escorts ...

The killer of Grand Ole Opry and "Hee Haw" comic David "Stringbean" Akeman and his wife, Estelle, is being released from prison after spending 40 years behind bars. WTVF-TV reports 64-year-old John A.

"Stringbean, like Grandpa Jones, since the Hee Haw shows, is playing a lot of colleges," host Tex Ritter said by way of introduction, noting the musician's high-profile tenure on the long-running ...

mainstay of the country music television variety hour “Hee Haw” and one of the last surviving members of the Stoneman Family, a renowned Appalachian string band, died on Thursday at her home ...