James Dean, the lunch-pail incident

Description: Jeremy Justuss transcribed interview of Kenneth Jones Harrold about James Dean. According to Harrold, Dean always had better lunches than Harrold. One day on the school bus, Harrold was going to steal part of Deans lunch but before he could Dean hit him in the head with his lunch-pail. Harrold has a scar on his head from the incident.
Origin: 1999-04-18
Source: http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/folklore/id/1735
Collection: Indiana State University Folklore Archives
Subjects: Legends
People
People associated with entertainment & sports
Folklore

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