Did Elvis's desire to help the government run deep enough to allow the CIA to use Graceland as the cover for a massive secret undergound installation? The very idea was so ludicrous, of course, that no one would ever suspect the truth. Then Elvis, forgetting quite who he was dealing with, is said to have threatened to expose the scheme unless the CIA moved out from beneath him - paying the price with his life.

 

Equally ludicrously, some have blamed Elvis for assassinating JFK, having been enraged by the way that the handsome President was barging into his limelight. Elvis was then killed in revenge.

 

Sounds pretty wild to me :unsure:

Wow! These are new to me, Brian, and quite honestly, the second one you can dismiss straight away as a load of rubbish :angry: Elvis , despite all his fame, remained a humble guy, and there is no way on this earth he would ever have felt jealous about JFK attracting the attention of the world. He knew his business and never publicly commented on anything political, that wasn't his way. In a similar vein to this, I read somewhere he was killed by a 'mafia' type organisation, because he was supposedly going to expose them in public court over a deal that he and his father were cheated on (supposedly something to do with a plane purchase). Another load of rubbish :arrr:

When Elvis stayed in hotels on tour, he often used the pseudonym John Burrows. Just days after he died, someone with that name, who very much resembled Presley, was supposedly seen buying a ticket for South America. Had Elvis chosen to escape from his own glamourous but destructive existence for a life of anonymity?

Heard that one, but there is no way Elvis would have ever done that to his daughter, nor his fans. That's just put around, by people who just can't accept that Elvis died on August 16th 1977 :( I've even seen a so called pic up on ebay which was taken some time after Elvis died, but is supposed to show him looking out of the window of his house, no way was it him. Wish it was, but there is no chance at all!

In his book, Elvis: The Last 24 Hours, Albert Goldman even went as far as to suggest that Presley committed suicide by overdosing on a stash of drugs that he stockpiled. David Stanley, Presley's stepbrother, who was at Graceland the day Presley died, is alleged to have removed the needles and drug packets near Presley's body before the paramedics arrived, suggesting that he did not want to see Presley's name tarred with the brush of suicide. These rumors have been strongly rejected by some of Elvis' family and friends such as Joe Espositio during past appearances on the Larry King Show

According to Peter Guralnick's book, Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley (1999), "drug use was heavily implicated in this unanticipated death of a middle-aged man with no known history of heart disease...no one ruled out the possibility of anaphylactic shock brought on by the codeine pills he had gotten from his dentist, to which he was known to have had a mild allergy of long standing...There was little disagreement in fact between the two principal laboratory reports and analyses filed two months later, with each stating a strong belief that the primary cause of death was polypharmacy, and the BioScience Laboratories report...indicating the detection of fourteen drugs in Elvis' system, ten in significant quantity."

 

 

As far as I can remember the PM report was sealed and will remain so for, can't remember if it's 50 or 100 years after Elvis' death :blink: I don't think we'll ever know for sure. No doubt that he was taking 'prescribed medication' in large numbers, yes I believe he had an addiction to pain killing pills, uppers, downers etc, but one thing that people don't always realise, is that Elvis was physically ill. He had a number of quite serious complaints, the one with his colon, had the effect of making his stomach swell. His weight gains weren't necessary a result of his diet. Yes, his diet was typical Southern fare and didn't help, but it wasn't the main reason. I watched a programme a few months ago, which indicated some of his illnesses were possibly hereditary. The bottom line is, we'll never really know the absolute cause of his death, at least not in my lifetime.

Sorry, Brian, I only just noticed your post about the 'suicide speculation'. I give no credence to what Goldman has to say about Elvis. It’s been said of Goldman, that his version of the story may ‘owe as much to his need to be sensational as it does to the actual facts’ It’s also been said of his book ‘It is Goldman’s bigotry that really undoes his book. It is hard not to conclude that all his disgust is self disgust’ . He did exactly the same to John Lennon in his biography. :angry: I think the ‘suicide’ story originally came from Dee Stanley (Vernon’s ex wife) who said that a suicide note had been destroyed, but like Goldman, she too has come out with a load of garbage. Elvis was never a fan of his step mother and she was more than likely bitter over her divorce from Vernon. As far as I, and most Elvis fans, are concerned, suicide was never a possibility.

'Elvis IS Alive?'- and working as a CNN cameraman :wacko:

 

For God’s Sake :rolleyes:

 

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