Of all the people who deserve scrutiny for their actions on the morning and afternoon of August 16, 1977, Rick Stanley would top the list. He was on duty from 12:midnight to 12:noon that day, and was supposedly present through the early morning up until about eight o’clock, give or take. At that point, claimed […]
Category: August 16, 1977
[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.3:0011] “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.
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[WTF] David Stanley Entered the House
This question has been addressed here previously, but I think it deserves another look: When Elvis was suffering some sort of medical emergency on August 16, 1977, and upon hearing about this emergency, David Stanley drove his friend home. Why did Stanley enter the friend’s house, and then return to Graceland only because he heard […]
[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 […]
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