At 12.28 a.m., on August 16, 1977, a man from Indiana snapped a photo of Elvis Presley

with a Kodak Instamatic camera.

That picture shows Elvis at the front gate of Graceland, heading back home after a late

night dentist appointment.

He's driving a black luxury car, a Stutz Black Hawk 3.

Elvis's right hand is on the steering wheel, and he's holding up his left as though he's

giving a casual wave.

He's wearing dark sunglasses, and it looks like he might be smiling, but it's hard to tell.

As far as anyone knows, it's the last image ever taken of Elvis Presley alive.

Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll, is dead at the age of 42.

He sold millions of records, more than anyone in the music industry except the Beatles.

What we're left with is a life that was the stuff of Fables.

I think he'll be the greatest thing every member that came out of America.

On the afternoon of August 16th, Ian Calder convened an emergency meeting at his office

in Lantana, Florida.

We wouldn't have dreamed if he was still alive running a major Frank Beach story in Elvis.

Calder was the editor of the National Enquirer.

It was on him to decide how to cover the king's death.

He had gone downhill, he had got fat.

He was not a major star at that particular point.

Now that changed big time when he died.

You don't have to be any kind of brilliant person to know that this was the biggest thing

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