and expanded it six years later with the addition of Kris Jr. To provide for his family, Kristofferson joined the Army, ...

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson ... and had been assigned to West Point military academy to teach English. Before accepting the commission ...

Kris Kristofferson, the actor ... and was tapped by a superior to teach English at West Point, but instead he turned to songwriting. His music came at a time when the nation's baby boom was ...

A hard-drinking singer-songwriter with an outlaw spirit, Kris Kristofferson transformed ... But in 1965, he turned down a post at the West Point Academy to try his luck as a songwriter in Nashville.