Part I: A quote from David Stanley in his 1986 book “Life With Elvis,” page 189: “One of the paramedics looked around. ‘What happened here?’ ‘I think it’s a drug overdose,’ I answered. This was no time to play games.” So according to David Stanley, he is the one who responded to the question the […]
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“How Fast Can This Thing Go” – Part II
Over the past 40+ years David Stanley has said many times that when he entered the bathroom on August 16, 1977, he saw drug packets and pills and syringes on the floor, and like a good TCB Soldier he gathered everything up in an effort to protect Elvis from “embarrassment” in the event there was […]
“A Quarter to Two”: Information in a Vacuum
Definition of “in a vacuum“: “If something is done in a vacuum, it is not affected by any outside influences or information.” (Collins English Dictionary) Recently I watched a video of Billy Smith and Jo Smith recorded in the early 1980s talking about August 16, 1977, and how they were notified that Elvis was having […]
The Calls to The Enquirer
There are two claims about the calls allegedly placed to the National Enquirer on August 16, 1977. First, according to Bill Burk, there was a call placed by a male alerting them to something happening at Graceland. Burk did not note the time of this call in his reporting. The other call was supposedly made […]
Gaslight Adjacent
Over the years, the people close to Elvis have sold a tale to the fans about Elvis’s drug addiction that goes pretty much like this: “We couldn’t do anything about Elvis’s drug problem because he was too strong-willed and he’d just tell us to mind our own business.” Or, they’d ask, “How do you protect […]
Evidence.4: “The Elvis Conspiracy” Synopsis
21 pages. Let’s take a look: Page 1: “[Charlie Hodge’s] more than 20 year association with Elvis Presley lends a great deal of credibility to author Dick Grob’s work, substantiating much of the evidence uncovered and reported in ‘The Elvis Conspiracy.’” There is nothing in this book (The Elvis Conspiracy?) substantiated by Charlie Hodge, and […]
The Approximation of Truth
There is a adage that has made its way around the media world the past few years that goes, “Photo or video or it didn’t happen.” Imagine if we applied that rule to the Elvis community, and to the history of Elvis (and the Presley family) going back nearly 100 years. What would our knowledgebase […]
That Bomb Threat
Someone sent me a few passages from a new book featuring pilot Ron Strauss, who flew the Lisa Marie for Elvis back in 1976-1977. I’d like to address this one story about the Lisa Marie and a bomb threat early on the morning of January 1, 1977, at Pittsburgh International Airport. Fact pattern bullet points: […]
Evidence.3: The In-House Investigation
Dick Grob and his supporters have said for years that Grob’s investigation into Elvis’s death, as (supposedly) requested by Vernon Presley, was a top-notch investigative tour de force, with no stones left unturned. According to these folks, and to Grob himself, Grob looked at everything and everyone, even the autopsy report he was unable to […]
The Sleep Question
Redux. Let’s look at these two statements, from a video that was posted recently by Linda Thompson: Linda Thompson: “…I loved him, he loved me, and there was someone else in the wings, that he was going to see, and I felt, I was hoping he’d be okay…I didn’t wanna wake up and find him […]
“The Dangers”
Just a few comments on these two paragraphs from Billy Stanley’s 1989 book: First, we have another example of this ridiculous “If Linda…” nonsense, in this case Stanley saying that Linda Thompson would have been “alert” and would not have slept until Elvis slept. So, what we are to understand here is that no female […]
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Departure
A question I have never heard asked before: “Why did Dr. Nichopoulos go to Graceland after being notified of Elvis’s medical emergency?” The answer would seem to be pretty logical, and simple: to help his patient. But does this answer really explain the whole situation? According to the account Dr. Nichopoulos outlined in his book, […]
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