Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash's 50th wedding anniversary would have fallen on March 1, 2018.Johnny proposed to June on stage in front of 7,000 people in 1968, an event depicted in the 2005 biopic Walk the Line. Just weeks later, the couple wed.They remained married for 35 years, until June's death in May 2003. Johnny passed away just a few months later.Their love story lives on in recordings of their iconic duets like "Jackson" and "I Walk the Line."Fifty years ago, on March 1, 1968, Johnny Cash and June Carter tied the knot. Today, they are still one of the most legendary couples in country music history.Johnny Cash was known for his deep, bass-baritone voice and rebellious nature, the latter of which was tamed over the years by June. Together they had a dynamic bond, both in love and in music, working together to write and perform iconic songs like "Ring of Fire" and "Jackson." They remained together for three-and-a-half decades, taking their vows of "till death do us part" to heart. Johnny and June were first introduced through Elvis Presley in 1956. While still married to his first wife, Vivian Liberto, Johnny met June at the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee while singing backup for the King of Rock and Roll. June had come to see Elvis perform, and she ended up meeting Johnny backstage. Despite the fact that Johnny was married, he was instantly smitten with June, and the two developed an immediate connection. As their romance progressed, June felt overwhelmed by her feelings for Johnny, saying that falling in love with him was one of "the most painful things I바카라 게임 웹사이트�ve ever gone through in my life." Coming to terms with the fact that she loved Johnny was like being "in a ring of fire—and I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m never coming out." She found it easier to put those emotions into song, co-writing "Ring of Fire" to describe their passionate relationship; the song later became a big hit for Johnny after he recorded it in 1963. (Years later, June recorded the famous tune herself for Press On, her second solo album, released in 1999.)Meanwhile, Vivian filed for divorce from Johnny, citing his substance abuse and alleged extramarital affairs; the divorce was finalized in 1967. After a number of failed attempts at getting June to marry him, Johnny finally got her to say yes to his proposal in front of an audience of 7,000 people in London, Ontario on February 22, 1968. (The public proposal was depicted in a pivotal scene in the Oscar-winning 2005 Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line.)The couple married just a few weeks later in Franklin, Kentucky; June was 39 and Johnny was 36. They had their son, John Carter Cash, in 1970, blending together their families to include seven children in total. (June also had two daughters from two previous marriages, and Johnny had four daughters from his marriage to Vivian.) Their love story was anything but simple, though it was filled with love, persistence, and devotion. The early years of their relationship were captured in the documentary The Winding Stream, which offered an intimate look at the couple바카라 게임 웹사이트�s remarkable—but not always rosy—romance. But to anyone who's watched the film—or listened to the couple's duets or read Johnny바카라 게임 웹사이트�s famously romantic love letters to June—it's clear just how much Johnny and June truly adored each other.Over the years, June showed her unconditional love for Johnny by helping him overcome his drug and alcohol addictions. June was his greatest support, willing to do whatever she needed to help Johnny beat his addiction to amphetamines, even flushing the drugs down the toilet to keep them from him. Though June also dealt with her own addictions, according to their son's book, Anchored In Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash, Johnny credited her with saving his life more than once. "She바카라 게임 웹사이트�s always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody바카라 게임 웹사이트�s gone home and the lights are turned off, it바카라 게임 웹사이트�s just me and her," Johnny once said in an interview. After 35 years of marriage, June Carter Cash passed away on May 15, 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee of complications following heart-valve replacement surgery. At Johnny Cash바카라 게임 웹사이트�s last public performance on July 5, 2003, he read a statement expressing his undying love for his late wife before singing "Ring of Fire.""The spirit of June Carter overshadows me tonight with the love she had for me and the love I have for her. We connect somewhere between here and heaven, she came down for a short visit, I guess, from heaven to visit with me tonight to give me courage and inspiration like she always has."Just four months after June's death, on September 12, 2003, Johnny Cash passed away from diabetes complications. Yet still today, Johnny and June's epic love lives on in the beautiful music they made together, preserving their romance forever in song.