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- First wife of Johnny Cash and to whom the singer pledged to remain faithful in the song "I Walk the Line." Mother of Rosanne, Kathy, Tara and Cindy Cash. Vivian was the daughter of Thomas Liberto and Irene Robinson Liberto.
Jun 9, 2023 · While discussing her early life, Cash recalled how her mother, Vivian Liberto Cash, had been the target of a racist hate campaign after a photo of her and her country star husband was...
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May 16, 2021 · Cash denied his first wife, Vivian, was African American during a 1965 boycott by racists sparked by a photo of them together. The questions about Vivian's ancestry were finally resolved on...
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May 17, 2021 · Her father Thomas Liberto, owner of an insurance agency and an amateur musician, was from Sicily and her mother, Irene Robinson Liberto, a homemaker, was of Irish-German descent.
Vivian Distin ( née Liberto, formerly Cash; April 23, 1934 – May 24, 2005) was an American homemaker and author. She is notable as the first wife of singer Johnny Cash and mother of their four daughters. She inspired his first hit single "I Walk the Line".
May 18, 2021 · Rosanne Cash became tearful after learning that her mom, Vivian Liberto Cash, had a Black great-great grandmother who was subjected to a life of slavery.
Mother of Rosanne, Kathy, Tara and Cindy Cash. Vivian was the daughter of Thomas Liberto and Irene Robinson Liberto. Distin met the man in black at a skating rink in San Antonio three weeks before the Air Force sent him to Germany in 1950. Married Johnny Cash in 1954 and divorced him in 1966.
Born Vivian Liberto Distin on April 23, 1934 to Irene (Robinson) and Thomas Peter Liberto, Vivian started life in San Antonio, Texas. With her father’s grandparents hailing from Cefalù, Palermo, Sicily and her mother of German / Irish descent – Vivian was often mistaken as being of African-American ethnicity and sadly was subject to much ...
