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[CH.3:0009] 10 Seconds: J.E. Revisited
00:36: Shortly after the announcement of Elvis’s death, Joe Esposito responded to several questions at a makeshift press conference at Baptist Hospital. Esposito made the following comments: Joe Esposito, at BMH: “He was upstairs in his bedroom and I went upstairs to talk to him and he wasn’t breathing when I got up there.” Question: […]
[CH.3:0007] Two Points on the Medical
Not doing a deep-dive here, just again going over several important points. First, by all medical evidence, Elvis had been dead for more that 3 hours at the time his body was discovered at 2:20pm. Every medical professional involved in this case at the time agrees that he had been dead for a significant period […]
[CH.3:0002] 05h:20m
[CH.3:0001:120124] Four important quotes pertaining to Elvis’s death and the situation on August 16: “The biggest single problem is what happened when Elvis died.” “The caller would not give a name.” “[The caller] called again…” “They didn’t know what to do about it…” [CH.3:0002:053025] The events of August 16 are largely shaped by the accounts […]
[CH.3:0011] “That Phone Call”
“That phone call” refers to a specific outgoing call, one of several placed from Graceland on 8/16/77 around the same time period, prior to 2:20pm.
[CH.3:0004] The Aunt Delta Call
From a previous post: We are then told (by the same source) that one of Dr. Holmes’s associates called back and spoke with Aunt Delta. This presents several questions: If Aunt Delta told Dr. Campbell that Elvis was “having difficulty,” or even, “having difficulty breathing,” how did she know this? There is no report of […]
[CH.3:0003] Emergency Call #2
Emergency Call #2 was placed ninety minutes after Call #1. Estimated time of death: 9:00am – 11:30am. No third call.
Opening Graceland…Whose Idea Was It…?
Over the past 43 years the story of opening Graceland as a tourist attraction always includes one major component: Priscilla Presley came up with the idea in late 1981 to open Graceland to the public. Priscilla has been given credit for this idea and has accepted the praise and gratitude. Never has there been an […]
[Q2] Billy Smith: ~1:45pm
8/16/77: Billy Smith says he was alerted to Elvis’s emergency situation by a phone call from Patsy Gambill at “a quarter to two” (~1:45pm), which is approximately one hour before we’ve been told (as part of the official story) that the ambulance departed Graceland with Elvis en route to Baptist. An alert at ~1:45pm would […]
[Q1] “Lying on the Bed”
At Baptist Hospital, shortly after Elvis had been pronounced dead, Joe Esposito told a MPD detective that Ginger Alden had found Elvis on the bathroom floor, she then called downstairs on the intercom for assistance, and that Al Strada had gone upstairs. According to Esposito, Strada then called for Esposito to come up, and when […]
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