The trial and hanging received national publicity from newspapers such as The New York Times, thus turning Dula's story into a folk legend.

To this day many people believe that one of Dula's jealous ex-girlfriends murdered Laura Foster, that Dula was innocent of the crime, and that he accepted blame only to protect his former lover.

" Dula's story was also turned into a 1959 movie starring Michael Landon as Dula, and each summer the Wilkes Playmakers present a popular play based on the story.

Many people were convinced that one of Dula's jealous ex-girlfriends murdered Foster, and that Dula was innocent of the crime.

Dula's story was turned into a top-selling ballad in 1958 by the Kingston Trio, the song was entitled " Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley ".

In subsequent years, a folk song was written ( entitled “ Tom Dooley ”, based on the pronunciation in the local dialect ), and many oral traditions were passed down, regarding the sensational occurrences surrounding the murder of Foster, and Dula's subsequent execution.

Grayson would enter folklore as a romantic rival of Dula's, but this was not true.

After Dula was arrested, former North Carolina Governor Zebulon Vance represented him pro bono, and maintained Dula's innocence of the charges.

His supposed accomplice, Jack Keaton, was set free and, on Dula's word, Melton was acquitted of the crime.

* Finding Tom Dula's and Laura Foster's resting places

* Tom Dula's story on archive of Wilkes Chamber of Commerce website

* Tom Dula's gravestone images

It seems more likely that Governor Vance simply believed in Dula's innocence or thought that defending a Confederate veteran in the high-profile case would be politically beneficial.

For that legend was growing explosively, Rumor was insisting he received a price of $600 a man.

His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.

The Osmanli ruler Osman I was the first Turkish ruler who minted coins in his own name in 1320s, for it bears the legend " Minted by Osman son of Ertugul ".

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

However, during the tour of Australia in 2006 / 7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now " 95 % certain " that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail.

The title of this book revived the Ashes legend and it was after this that England v Australia series were customarily referred to as " The Ashes ".

Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.

Aphrodite also became instrumental in the Eros and Psyche legend, and later was both Adonis ' lover and his surrogate mother.

In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.

In Etruscan legend, he was known as Aivas Vilates.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

Alaric died soon after in Cosenza, probably of fever, at the age of about forty ( assuming again, a birth around 370 AD ), and his body was, according to legend, buried under the riverbed of the Busento.

A popular legend, originating from 12th century chronicles, tells how when he first fled to the Somerset Levels, Alfred was given shelter by a peasant woman who, unaware of his identity, left him to watch some cakes she had left cooking on the fire.

The subject was apt for a papal state seeking clout, since it depicts the historical legend when the greatest of the popes Leo, with supernatural aid, deterred the Huns from looting Rome.

According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.

According to the legend, it was where festive Adonia took place, in which athletes competed in hunting wild boars during sport competitions ; they also competed in dancing and singing, all to the honour of Adonis.

Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.

According to legend, this prompted Ananda to focus his efforts on the attainment of nibbana and he was able to reach the specified level of attainment before the calling of the conclave.

Burns's articles popularized both the legend and its new name, making it well known in western Canada before it gained popularity in the United States.

As the years passed, and he had outlived all the men in his family by several years, he frequently used a line popularized by football legend Bobby Layne, a Dallas neighbor and friend of Mantle's who also died in part due to alcohol abuse: " If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken a lot better care of myself.

The legend of the roc, popularized in the West in the travels of Marco Polo and later in the 1001 Nights tales, of Abd al-Rahman and Sinbad the Sailor, was widespread in the East.

Many of these have originated in recent times, and several popular New Age and conspiracy theory books have popularized the legend of the Spear.

Sami music: The Sami, an indigenous people found in central and northern Scandinavia, northern Finland and northwestern Russia, have a tradition of folk songs called joiks, which have been popularized by the likes of Mari Boine, who remains a legend in the field.

It is probably best known from urban legend studies, where it was popularized by Jan Harold Brunvand.

A legend, popularized in fiction, is that Qianlong was the son of Chen Yuanlong of Haining.

This legend was popularized by prof. F. Piekosinski research in a matter of Polish clans history of.

( 1958 ) Atlas Eclipticalis 1950. 0, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ( Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved ), Praha, Czechoslovakia, 1st Edition, elephant folio hardcover, with small transparency overlay coordinate grid square and separate paper magnitude legend ruler.

Anthony Pagden and Eulalia Guzmán ( Relaciones de Hernán Cortés 1958: 279 ) have pointed the Biblical messages that Cortés seems to ascribe to Moctezuma's retelling of the legend of Quetzalcoatl as a vengeful Messiah who would return to rule over the Mexica.

Mary Renault's The King Must Die ( 1958 ) is a dramatic retelling of the Theseus legend through the return from Crete to Athens.

AS Nancy-Lorraine's Hall of Fame includes triple-Ballon d ' Or and Uefa President Michel Platini, Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger, 1998 World Champion Aimé Jacquet, 2000 European Champion Roger Lemerre, 1998 African Ballon d ' Or Mustapha Hadji, Irish legend Tony Cascarino, 1986 European Cup winner Sacha Zavarov and 1958 World Cup Semi-finalist Roger Piantoni.

Nathaniel Hawthorne used the Fountain in " Dr. Heidegger's Experiment " to demonstrate that positive thinking is a far better remedy than deluded journeys to Florida for legendary cures ; Orson Welles directed and starred in a 1958 TV program based on the legend ; and Tim Powers featured it in On Stranger Tides, a novel of 18th century pirate-voodoo adventure.

In 1958, long after the legend of William Webb Ellis had become engrained in rugby culture, Ross McWhirter managed to rediscover his grave in " le cimetière du vieux château " at Menton in Alpes Maritimes ( it has since been renovated by the French Rugby Federation ).

Additional works included Archaeology and the Old Testament ( 1958 ), which traced the evolution of modern approaches to archaeology from the first excavations in the Holy Land ; and Solomon and Sheba ( 1974 ), which separated fact from legend.

The track also hosted a NASCAR Grand National race on July 19, 1958, won by the Ford of Jim Reed, but is better known as the US debut of NASCAR legend Richard Petty.

He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated in May 1958 adding to the legend of the Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx.

Lukic was born in Chesterfield to Yugoslavian parents ; an urban legend states that Lukic's mother survived the Munich air disaster while pregnant with him ; this is patently false as the crash happened in February 1958, nearly three years before Lukic's birth.

Aspen Highlands was founded and the land developed in 1958 by Aspen legend Whip Jones.

In remembrance of this legend, in 1958 Italian Senator G. G. Gallarati Scotti, honorary member of the committee for the foundation of the World Wildlife Fund in Italy, purchased Charlie, a bear intended to be killed, and donated it to the Sanctuary of San Romedio, in the Valle di Non.