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At 12.28am on August 16th, 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 you'll be the greatest thing I've remembered 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 front page story in

Elvis. Calder was the editor of the National Inquirer. 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 I decided I've got to send in the troops for this.

Calder needed to get a whole bunch of reporters to Memphis, Tennessee. And he needed to do it

very quickly. We rented a jet plane, put about six different people on the jet plane with $50,000

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