Gene Beley

Biography

Gene Beley is a graduate of San Jose State University and holds a master’s in journalism from UCLA. He is the founder, editor, and publisher of Country News in Morgan Hill, California, and writes a monthly article for Sea Magazine—usually from his second office on a 28-foot Carver Mariner yacht in the California Delta.

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PROFILES / Winter 2005

Folsom Prison Blues

By Gene Beley

What most people don’t know today is that Johnny Cash’s famous Folsom Prison concert was an event that had its beginnings many years before. Reverend Gressett ministered to prisoners in the California State Prison system. Gressett started...