Just over 60 years ago, the University of Tennessee and the surrounding Knoxville area made national headlines because of a snowball fight.
While it sounds unusual, the incident ended in the deaths of three people: one a student, the other two civilians. The excitement of a snowball fight turned into a riot of sorts, disrupting traffic heavily along Cumberland Avenue.
The weather forecast for Knoxville on Feb. 1, 1965, predicted only a small amount of snow, but as the day progressed, it fell more than expected…