His Breaking Point
But every couple of months, he’d fall off the wagon. Bill described his brother’s “breaking point,” which was about a year and a half before he got killed. After returning from a “disaster” in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve, where they refunded $42,000 of the show, Kinison got drunk and out of control.
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People walked out and demanded their money back. In the month of January, he had three drunk-driving wrecks. By the end of the month, Bill, Kinison’s money manager and business manager told him, “You’re broke.”