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(upbeat lively music)

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Downloaded from
YTS.BZ

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(chattering)

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Official YIFY movies site:
YTS.BZ

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(upbeat music)

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- Look, a snow globe.

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(upbeat music)

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Hi, Melba.

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- Hey, currently editing
scenes of Elvis in the movies.

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- Hey Joel, I'm working
on Elvis' TV appearances.

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- I'm editing footage of
Elvis in the army years.

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- [Joel] Hey guys,
don't forget to try on

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your Elvis sunglasses that
I got at Graceland for you.

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Got to keep in the
spirit, everybody.

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All right, much better.

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Okay, but you look good.

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(laughing)

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(upbeat music)

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- Hi Joel.

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- Hey, hey, Celeste,
how are you?

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Good to see you.

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(upbeat music)

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- Here we go.

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Submit.

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There, it's done.

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(dramatic music)

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- Highway 61 Entertainment?

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- Yeah.

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- Here.

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- Oh, thank you.

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- [Man] I just need
your signature.

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- Sure.

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Thank you very much.

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- Yup, thank you.

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- Thank you.

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- Have a good day.

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- Hey Joel, we got a box.

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It's from the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, the FBI.

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I think I have the documents

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of the Freedom of Information
that we requested.

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- Oh, cool, open it up.

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- Okay.

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(dramatic music)

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Hm, it smells funny.

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Yuck, ugh,

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oh yuck.

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- What is it?

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- Hm, I don't know,
smells like ink.

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- Do you know what this is?

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- What?

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- [Joel] This is the
redaction of the documents.

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- What's redaction?

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- It means the black out.

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The government blacks things
out so that we can't see

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what's on them when they
want to keep it secret.

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But it looks like they
didn't do a good job.

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- [Gabrielle] Oh
wow, it's amazing.

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- What's going on?

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- Look at this, look at this.

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All the redacted documents
are wet, the ink is wet.

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- No way.

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- Look at this.

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Everyone get back
in your office.

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Let's try to get the
ink off before it dries.

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- Hey guys.

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Here you go.

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- Here you go.

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Okay.

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- [Chris] Wow.

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(soft music)

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- OK.

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Now, we're going
to find out what

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they didn't want us to see.

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Look at this one.

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Counterintelligence program,

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Weather Underground,
Bill Ayers, what else?

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- Hm, Drug Enforcement
Agency, Richard Nixon,

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Sam Giancana, Carlo Gambino.

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- [Joel] Those are mobsters.

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- Mafia?

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- Mafia, that's right.

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- Wonder what this all
has to do with Elvis.

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Federal Agent John Burrows.

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John Burrows is an
alias that Elvis

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used when he used to travel.

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Let me go back.

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This says something from 1987
with the name John Burrows.

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Why would Federal
Agent John Burrows be

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getting a letter
from the FBI in 1987?

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- I thought Elvis died in 1977.

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- He did.

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- He did.

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- [Joel] Witness
protection program.

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This is an address for

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John Burrows in Simi
Valley California.

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- Oh, and that's only
a few miles from here.

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- You know what?

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I think that we are
on to something.

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That John Burrows needs
to have a visit from us.

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I'm going.

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Who's coming with me?

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- Hey, let's do it.

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- You guys are crazy.

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Hey, good luck guys, bye.

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- OK, see you.

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(soft music)

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This is it.

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- [Passenger] This is it.

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(soft music)

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Check out the old
white Cadillac.

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- It's like late '50's.

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Alright let's go check it out.

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Here follow me please.

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Burrows, Burrow is on the
mailbox, that's the same

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that's on the
documents, Burrows.

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American flag,
that's kind of cool.

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Double security gate.

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Alright, let's check
out this Cadillac.

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Look at these bumper stickers.

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Nixon, Agnew, Ford,
Dole, Nixon's the one.

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He's a republican for sure.

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It's a TCB logo,
it's Elvis' logo.

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Let's look inside there.

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Look there's a gun,
look at that gun.

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Look it there, there's
another gun on the floor.

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Looks like a glock.

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Look there's a
eight track player.

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Look at all those
eight track tapes.

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They're all Elvis, they're
all Elvis eight track tapes.

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It's that DEA staff, the
Dead Entertainers of America.

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Let's check out back here.

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And look at all those bumper
stickers, Bush, Kemp, Dole,

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Regan, I'm getting very nervous.

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I think I'll just
go knock on the door

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and try to talk to him.

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Anyway give me those documents.

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Okay.

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(door bell)

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Hi Mr. Burrows, Mr. Burrows.

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Mr. Burrows can I
speak to you, sir?

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My name is Joel.

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I'm a documentary film maker.

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Sir I just got a load
of documents from

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the FBI in Washington, but they
didn't black out everything.

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Here take a look.

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I think I know who you are,
and I'd like to come in

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and talk to you if that's okay?

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(buzzer)

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- [Burrows] Come on
in, and sit down.

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Tell me where are you from, son?

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- [Joel] Originally I'm
from Tennessee, sir,

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Oakridge, Tennessee.

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- [Burrows] I was born in
Mississippi, but I spent

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most of my time in Tennessee.

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- [Joel] I'm pretty
shocked, I'm pretty shocked

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to meet you sir.

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- [Burrows] Well son I always
knew that sometime in my life.

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I mean I had a feeling that
sooner or later, that somebody

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would find me alive.

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But I didn't think that
after the age of 75,

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this would be the kind
of visit I would have.

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- It's him, I know his voice!

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- [Joel] Sir, I just
got back from Graceland,

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I'd like to interview you, I'd
like to know the whole story

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about your career, like I guess

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how or why you faked your death?

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- [Elvis] And if I don't do
it, I suppose you're gonna

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have a press conference anyway?

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- [Joel] Probably.

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- [Elvis] Oh Lord.

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- This is unreal.

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- [Elvis] There are good reasons
why I had to do what I did.

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And why I haven't come back to

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my singing career
and everything.

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I guess if I'm ever gonna
tell my story now's the time.

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- [Joel] How 'bout tomorrow,
I'll bring my film crew,

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we'll get right into it?

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- [Elvis] Alright son, now,
I'm in the Federal Witness

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Protection Program
for reasons which

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I'm sure we'll get in to.

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So I cannot appear
completely on camera.

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Now I've been trying to get
out of witness protection

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for some time, but there
are folks in high places

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who are afraid of me because
of information that I have.

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- Oh brimey this is just, oh,

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I've got to sit down!

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(upbeat music)

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- Are you gonna tell me
that you found Elvis?

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If that's Elvis I
am going tomorrow.

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- Alright, let's go.

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Let's go.

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(upbeat music)

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(upbeat music)

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- [Joel] Okay Mr. Presley,
this has been a shocking

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24 hours for me, but I have
prepared many questions.

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To the public you were an
extraordinary entertainer.

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- [Elvis] But off stage
I lead a secret life

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as a Federal Drug
Enforcement Agent.

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And I put my life on the
line for America everyday.

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And I ran a strike force
that carried out dangerous

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undercover operations against

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The Weather
Underground terrorists.

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The Black Panthers, and
mafia crime families.

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- [Joel] Well then, I
don't know where to begin.

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- [Elvis] Well how about
starting at the beginning?

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To understand how I ended
up here, you'll need to know

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everything about my life.

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- [Joel] Okay, when and
where were you born?

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- [Elvis] Tupelo, Mississippi.

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January the 8th, 1935.

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At 510 and 1 1/2 Maple Street.

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I had an identical twin brother
Jessie who was still born.

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- [Joel] Tell me
about your parents.

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- [Elvis] Daddy
was Vernon Elvis,

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and mama was Gladys
Love Presley.

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They were dirt poor,
barely educated, and daddy

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called me Evis, left out the L.

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He labor in the fields
since he was 12.

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I was alone with
mama as a child,

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'cause daddy went to prison.

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(upbeat music)

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I know what poverty is, I
lived it for a long time.

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When we moved to Memphis
I was a small town

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boy in a big city, with no dad.

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From the time I was a child
I was very close to mama.

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We were like adhesive tape.

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If there was trouble about
anything, I could wake her up

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any hour, and she
tried to help me.

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I called her Satnin,
'cause her skin was soft

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and smooth at satin.

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She taught me to have good
manners, to help people.

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And to work hard
and never give up.

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- [Joel] How did you
start off in music?

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And where did your
style come from?

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- [Elvis] Actually I was
studying to be an electrician,

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and I wanted to run away,

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but as I child I set
my heart on singing,

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and nothing in this world
could've stopped me.

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I was influenced by gospel
music, rhythm and blues,

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but I never had a music
lesson in my life.

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But I admired Mario Lanza, he
was a fantastic entertainer.

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And I watched The Student
Prince over and over.

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And I stretched my voice to
sing as high as he could.

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(singing)

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That was the only singing
training I've ever had.

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Then in high school I entered
a talent show, and I was

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amazed at just how
popular I became.

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In 1954 I was considered
a rockabilly singer.

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That was mix of hillbilly
music and rhythm and blues.

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At the time country music
was called hillbilly.

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Now the blues was
created by black folks,

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so in the south they
called the blues sinful.

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So you see I came along
when there was no trend.

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So I became the trend.

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(screaming)

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- [Joel] You had a
three octave range,

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it was said you cold
sing with power,

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or honest, pure sentiment.

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- [Elvis] You mean like,

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♪ Love me tender

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♪ Love me long

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I tried to sing to
suit every song.

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I could rage on the

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♪ Well since my baby left me

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00:14:46,318 --> 00:14:50,522
accuse on Hound Dog, or bare
my soul like in Blue Hawaii.

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If you're a gun
slinger you don't shoot

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with a bow and arrow.

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They gave me credit
sometimes, but it's funny,

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I never wrote a song in my life.

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It made me look a lot
smarter than I am.

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- [Joel] Your image, your
look, it was the original cool.

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Where did you get
your hairstyle from?

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- [Elvis] The other guys
wore GI haircuts and I wanted

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to be different, I had read
all the Captain Marvel Junior

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comic books, and he was my hero.

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My real pin up.

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I realized I looked
just like him.

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Except actually
I had blond hair.

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So I died it black, I even
combed out a few hairs

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over my forehead, like him.

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And I parted it
on the right side

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like Captain Marvel Junior.

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I was one good looking
son of a bitch,

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00:15:43,309 --> 00:15:46,378
and after that I don't
know why it happened,

285
00:15:46,378 --> 00:15:48,747
but my entire life
was the mirror image

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of Captain Marvel Junior

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(lightening strike)

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00:15:54,853 --> 00:15:56,588
- [Joel] Really, your life was

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00:15:56,588 --> 00:15:58,924
like a 1950's comic
book character?

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00:15:59,591 --> 00:16:02,761
- [Elvis] In fact just about
everything that happened to me

291
00:16:02,761 --> 00:16:05,965
you can find in a Captain
Marvel Junior adventure.

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I kept my comic collection
in the Jungle Room

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downstairs at Graceland,
I think they still display

294
00:16:13,439 --> 00:16:16,608
my Captain Marvel Junior's at
Graceland from time to time.

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00:16:17,543 --> 00:16:19,411
I would read Captain
Marvel Junior

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everyday, just to know what
was gonna happen to me next.

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00:16:28,153 --> 00:16:31,357
- [Joel] What did you know
about Colonel Tom Parker

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when he became your manager?

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00:16:32,992 --> 00:16:35,227
- [Elvis] Well I knew he
had worked at carnivals.

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And had been in the Army.

301
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Also that he was behind Hadacol.

302
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♪ Hadacol

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00:16:39,898 --> 00:16:41,033
♪ Hadacol

304
00:16:41,266 --> 00:16:44,536
- [Elvis] From what I
understood it was mostly

305
00:16:44,536 --> 00:16:48,173
alcohol sold as medicine in
the dry counties in the south.

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When The Colonel signed
me he promised mama I'd

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be a millionaire in a year.

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00:16:53,379 --> 00:16:56,248
The Colonel got me my first
big recording contract,

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00:16:56,749 --> 00:16:58,050
and it came true.

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But mama didn't care for
The Colonel 'cause he never

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showed any emotion, she
said he was strange,

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00:17:05,090 --> 00:17:06,492
and that he looked like a clown.

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00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,829
I hated the business
side so I'd tell people,

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talk to The Colonel
just like he told me.

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00:17:13,465 --> 00:17:16,502
I pretty much signed contracts
without reading them.

316
00:17:17,369 --> 00:17:19,671
The Colonel was into
some of everything.

317
00:17:19,671 --> 00:17:23,308
He got my music on the
radio, and helped it along

318
00:17:23,308 --> 00:17:25,110
by supplying women to the DJs.

319
00:17:25,110 --> 00:17:25,611
You know what?

320
00:17:26,311 --> 00:17:30,149
He even sold I
hate Elvis buttons.

321
00:17:30,149 --> 00:17:33,652
Later on I realized The
Colonel was a great promoter.

322
00:17:34,219 --> 00:17:36,388
But not so much as a manager.

323
00:17:36,388 --> 00:17:38,957
(upbeat music)

324
00:17:41,693 --> 00:17:44,296
Anyway he got me on television,

325
00:17:44,696 --> 00:17:46,198
and everything broke loose.

326
00:17:46,498 --> 00:17:48,801
(clap)

327
00:17:48,801 --> 00:17:51,403
(upbeat music)

328
00:17:54,706 --> 00:17:57,976
(rockabilly music)

329
00:18:11,723 --> 00:18:14,893
- Today you're the
most controversial
name in show business.

330
00:18:14,893 --> 00:18:16,995
Your style of gyrating
while you're singing

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00:18:16,995 --> 00:18:19,198
has been badly criticized.

332
00:18:19,198 --> 00:18:21,100
- [Joel] When did the
national controversy

333
00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:23,001
start over your stage movements?

334
00:18:23,001 --> 00:18:23,969
(laughs)

335
00:18:24,369 --> 00:18:26,738
- [Elvis] Pretty much from
my national television show

336
00:18:26,738 --> 00:18:28,540
on Dorsey brothers in '56.

337
00:18:28,540 --> 00:18:31,443
(rockabilly music)

338
00:18:36,782 --> 00:18:39,184
- We'll do Elvis
the pelvis, alright?

339
00:18:39,384 --> 00:18:42,187
- [Joel] What did you think
of the term Elvis the pelvis?

340
00:18:42,387 --> 00:18:44,857
- [Elvis] I didn't like it,
it was probably the most

341
00:18:44,857 --> 00:18:48,093
childish expression I ever
heard coming from an adult.

342
00:18:48,293 --> 00:18:51,196
(rockabilly music)

343
00:18:52,431 --> 00:18:55,400
People who read sex into
my music had dirty minds.

344
00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,204
I just moved with the music,
I wouldn't do anything

345
00:18:59,404 --> 00:19:01,273
vulgar in front of anybody.

346
00:19:01,607 --> 00:19:03,208
Mama would never
have allowed it.

347
00:19:03,208 --> 00:19:06,411
- [Joel] Time Magazine
wrote, his entire body takes

348
00:19:06,411 --> 00:19:10,215
on a frantic quiver, as if he
had swallowed a jackhammer.

349
00:19:10,415 --> 00:19:13,385
- [Elvis] It was a natural
thing to me, like my music.

350
00:19:13,619 --> 00:19:17,156
If you feel it, you can't
help but move to it.

351
00:19:17,156 --> 00:19:20,592
Some people tap their feet,
some people snap their fingers,

352
00:19:20,792 --> 00:19:22,961
some people sway back and forth,

353
00:19:22,961 --> 00:19:24,863
I just sort of did
them all together.

354
00:19:25,063 --> 00:19:27,900
(rockabilly music)

355
00:19:29,201 --> 00:19:34,072
- The obscenity, and vulgarity
in the rock and roll music

356
00:19:34,072 --> 00:19:37,910
is obviously a muse
by which the white man

357
00:19:37,910 --> 00:19:40,712
is driven to the
level of a nigger,

358
00:19:40,712 --> 00:19:42,281
'cause it's obviously
nigger music.

359
00:19:42,281 --> 00:19:44,149
- [Joel] Did you copy
your stage movements

360
00:19:44,349 --> 00:19:46,919
from the negro rhythm
and blues performers?

361
00:19:46,919 --> 00:19:50,989
- [Elvis] Absolutely not,
in fact Jackie Wilson said

362
00:19:50,989 --> 00:19:53,091
every colored entertainer
at that time had copied me.

363
00:19:53,091 --> 00:19:56,528
They even called
him the negro Elvis.

364
00:19:56,528 --> 00:19:59,531
Rhythm is either something
you have or you don't have.

365
00:20:00,465 --> 00:20:03,402
But when you have it,
you have it all over.

366
00:20:03,902 --> 00:20:07,206
Talent, is being able to
sell what you're feeling.

367
00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:09,274
(upbeat music)

368
00:20:09,841 --> 00:20:12,578
- [Joel] What did you make
of the hysteria of the girls?

369
00:20:12,578 --> 00:20:15,214
Almost a riot at every show.

370
00:20:15,214 --> 00:20:18,016
- [Elvis] First time, I didn't
know what all the yelling

371
00:20:18,016 --> 00:20:22,588
was about, I didn't even
realize my body was moving.

372
00:20:22,588 --> 00:20:26,258
So I asked the backstage
manager, what'd I do?

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00:20:26,558 --> 00:20:28,760
And he said whatever it is,
go back and do it again.

374
00:20:29,494 --> 00:20:32,698
Later on I realized my
music let loose a pent up

375
00:20:32,698 --> 00:20:36,301
sexual frustration of some
kind that teenagers had.

376
00:20:36,501 --> 00:20:39,037
(upbeat music)

377
00:20:44,243 --> 00:20:47,879
I loved the fans, I
loved the pretty girls.

378
00:20:47,879 --> 00:20:51,049
I wanted to run to
'em, not away from 'em.

379
00:20:51,049 --> 00:20:53,518
I got scratched up and
bitten and everything.

380
00:20:53,518 --> 00:20:56,054
But I accepted it with a smile,

381
00:20:56,521 --> 00:20:57,956
'cause they didn't
intend to hurt me.

382
00:20:58,523 --> 00:21:01,393
They just wanted a piece
of me for a souvenir.

383
00:21:02,060 --> 00:21:05,364
Problem was, mama
worried I'd get stabbed.

384
00:21:06,164 --> 00:21:08,267
When mama worried
she drank alcohol.

385
00:21:09,735 --> 00:21:11,703
- Reasons of rock and
roll music and why

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00:21:11,903 --> 00:21:14,606
preach against it and I believe
with all of my heart that

387
00:21:14,606 --> 00:21:16,808
it is a contributing factor

388
00:21:16,808 --> 00:21:18,343
to our juvenile
delinquency of today.

389
00:21:18,343 --> 00:21:18,877
- [Interviewer] Do
you think that your

390
00:21:19,811 --> 00:21:22,347
rocking and rolling has had an
evil influence on teenagers?

391
00:21:22,547 --> 00:21:23,649
(laughs)

392
00:21:23,649 --> 00:21:24,716
- [Joel] Some reporters accused

393
00:21:24,916 --> 00:21:26,885
you of juvenile delinquency.

394
00:21:27,352 --> 00:21:29,721
- [Elvis] Delinquency meant
robbing, knife fighting,

395
00:21:29,721 --> 00:21:33,258
committing crimes, and I
did nothing to 'cause that.

396
00:21:33,725 --> 00:21:35,927
I didn't see how any
type of music could have

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00:21:35,927 --> 00:21:38,997
a bad influence on people,
there's a big difference

398
00:21:38,997 --> 00:21:42,267
in singing on a record and
signing for an audience,

399
00:21:42,668 --> 00:21:44,836
when people came out they
paid their money to see

400
00:21:44,836 --> 00:21:47,205
something with life in it,
if I did nothing but sing,

401
00:21:48,407 --> 00:21:51,743
I'd a been cheating the
audience, and they'd just

402
00:21:51,743 --> 00:21:53,512
stay at home with their
records next time.

403
00:21:54,112 --> 00:21:58,050
Once a judge in Florida
threatened to have me arrested.

404
00:21:59,685 --> 00:22:02,587
Even had the police
film the show.

405
00:22:06,058 --> 00:22:08,760
So I just stood still
waving my little finger,

406
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:09,861
and the audience loved it.

407
00:22:11,963 --> 00:22:15,600
- [Joel] Do you recall
the Milton Berle Show?

408
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,403
- [Elvis] Yeah, it was
painful because Milton

409
00:22:18,603 --> 00:22:21,406
came out dressed as my
twin brother, now they had

410
00:22:21,606 --> 00:22:25,143
no idea I had a twin
who had died, Jessie.

411
00:22:26,244 --> 00:22:29,581
And like all surviving twins
I blamed myself for his death.

412
00:22:30,449 --> 00:22:33,418
I felt I had to make it
up to mama all of my life.

413
00:22:34,986 --> 00:22:37,422
- Here he is Elvis Presley!

414
00:22:37,422 --> 00:22:38,590
(screaming)

415
00:22:38,890 --> 00:22:42,060
- [Joel] Did you enjoy the Ed
Sullivan TV show appearances?

416
00:22:42,060 --> 00:22:46,264
- [Elvis] Yeah but, they'd
only show me from the waist up.

417
00:22:47,899 --> 00:22:50,369
I was an ordinary,
church going country boy,

418
00:22:50,369 --> 00:22:52,804
who just happened to love
to sing rock and roll music.

419
00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:56,274
Ed Sullivan knew, and
he tried to put an end

420
00:22:56,274 --> 00:22:58,543
to the criticism of me.

421
00:22:58,543 --> 00:23:02,981
- This is a real,
decent, fine boy.

422
00:23:03,181 --> 00:23:06,551
- [Elvis] Steve Allen had
me sing Hound Dog wearing

423
00:23:06,551 --> 00:23:09,588
a tux, which I
regretted right away.

424
00:23:10,288 --> 00:23:13,024
I promised to always be
myself after that experience.

425
00:23:14,226 --> 00:23:16,795
Then a guy at the gas
station took a swing at me,

426
00:23:17,095 --> 00:23:20,832
and I him, and I had to
go to court, I guess lots

427
00:23:21,032 --> 00:23:23,301
of people were waiting for
that kind of thing to happen,

428
00:23:24,035 --> 00:23:26,371
they used that to make
me out as a delinquent.

429
00:23:27,038 --> 00:23:27,706
- [Interviewer]
What about the rumor

430
00:23:28,106 --> 00:23:29,741
that you once
socked your mother?

431
00:23:29,741 --> 00:23:31,510
(laughs)

432
00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:33,478
- Well I think that
one takes the cake.

433
00:23:34,212 --> 00:23:36,581
I figured, when they
quit talking about you,

434
00:23:36,581 --> 00:23:37,949
you're finished.

435
00:23:37,949 --> 00:23:41,420
Upside was, movie studios
got interested in me.

436
00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:44,489
Love Me Tender was my
hit song at the time.

437
00:23:45,323 --> 00:23:47,826
So they asked me to star in
a picture and everything.

438
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,865
Now I realize the movies were
a lot like being on stage.

439
00:23:54,065 --> 00:23:57,235
Just be myself, and
they came out better.

440
00:23:57,235 --> 00:23:59,604
(soft music)

441
00:24:01,373 --> 00:24:04,242
The downside was, my
fame put me and mama

442
00:24:04,242 --> 00:24:05,410
in two different worlds.

443
00:24:06,077 --> 00:24:09,247
It separated us, she
loved that I had done

444
00:24:09,247 --> 00:24:12,451
something with my life,
which she missed me so much.

445
00:24:13,618 --> 00:24:17,322
She felt she was losing me
to the fans, to The Colonel,

446
00:24:17,989 --> 00:24:20,992
so when I was away she
drank more and more.

447
00:24:20,992 --> 00:24:22,828
Mixed with diet pills combined.

448
00:24:22,828 --> 00:24:25,897
So me going into the Army
was the worst thing for her.

449
00:24:26,164 --> 00:24:28,567
(soft music)

450
00:24:32,404 --> 00:24:35,373
(upbeat music)

451
00:24:45,383 --> 00:24:47,619
- [Reporter] Elvis
Presley no longer has that

452
00:24:47,819 --> 00:24:51,189
rock and roll beat, the tempo
is hup, two, three, four

453
00:24:51,590 --> 00:24:53,191
for Private Presley.

454
00:24:53,191 --> 00:24:55,560
(upbeat music)

455
00:25:01,967 --> 00:25:05,770
- [Elvis] In 1957 I
took my Army physical,

456
00:25:05,770 --> 00:25:10,675
just like everyone,
but I didn't imagine

457
00:25:10,976 --> 00:25:12,511
I'd get a notice for the draft.

458
00:25:13,512 --> 00:25:16,982
(rock and roll music)

459
00:25:22,354 --> 00:25:23,488
- [Officer] I.

460
00:25:23,688 --> 00:25:25,423
- I Elvis Presley.

461
00:25:25,423 --> 00:25:28,059
- [Officer] Congratulations,
you are now in the Army.

462
00:25:28,059 --> 00:25:31,229
- [Joel] Entertainers
usually only did USO shows,

463
00:25:31,229 --> 00:25:32,931
why do you think
you got drafted?

464
00:25:33,598 --> 00:25:37,202
- [Elvis] I know why, when
Jailhouse Rock came out,

465
00:25:38,169 --> 00:25:41,239
The Colonel came to
Graceland and told me

466
00:25:41,239 --> 00:25:43,775
he got a call from
the Department of the
Army in Washington,

467
00:25:44,342 --> 00:25:45,977
they told him that
youth was going to hell

468
00:25:46,177 --> 00:25:50,148
in a hand basket, 'cause
of me, for a long time.

469
00:25:50,649 --> 00:25:53,151
And now Jailhouse Rock
was the last straw,

470
00:25:53,818 --> 00:25:57,556
'cause I was advocating
for homosexuality.

471
00:25:57,556 --> 00:26:00,725
So they were drafting me into
the U.S. Army to stop me.

472
00:26:00,725 --> 00:26:01,259
- [Joel] Really?

473
00:26:01,927 --> 00:26:05,030
Did you ask The Colonel
to get you out of it?

474
00:26:05,030 --> 00:26:07,532
- I did, but The
Colonel said they'd

475
00:26:07,532 --> 00:26:09,401
threatened to deport
him if he tried.

476
00:26:09,901 --> 00:26:11,736
That's when The Colonel
told me he was not really

477
00:26:11,736 --> 00:26:15,407
from West Virginia, and his
name wasn't even Tom Parker.

478
00:26:16,308 --> 00:26:19,644
He was Andreas Cornelis
Van Kuijk, from Holland.

479
00:26:20,478 --> 00:26:24,282
He said when he was 18 he
hired on a boat and jumped

480
00:26:24,482 --> 00:26:27,485
ship to Florida and
joined a carnival.

481
00:26:27,485 --> 00:26:31,289
So he was an illegal, so
I was off to the Army.

482
00:26:34,492 --> 00:26:37,228
And I was scared to death
that when I got back

483
00:26:37,228 --> 00:26:39,197
there'd be no music
career left to have.

484
00:26:39,497 --> 00:26:42,667
(rock and roll music)

485
00:26:44,235 --> 00:26:47,706
That's what they wanted,
but The Colonel said he

486
00:26:47,706 --> 00:26:50,408
would keep my name alive.

487
00:26:50,408 --> 00:26:54,312
So I cut five singles for RCA
to release while I was away.

488
00:26:56,147 --> 00:26:59,618
The hardest thing was
saying goodbye to mama.

489
00:27:01,519 --> 00:27:04,389
By going to the Army made
her even more worried,

490
00:27:04,589 --> 00:27:05,690
and she drank more.

491
00:27:06,524 --> 00:27:10,061
To her Germany was the enemy,
she was sure I was gonna

492
00:27:10,261 --> 00:27:12,364
get killed even though
there was no war.

493
00:27:17,202 --> 00:27:23,174
Pretty quick mama's liver
went out and she died.

494
00:27:23,174 --> 00:27:25,510
My world was snatched from me.

495
00:27:26,111 --> 00:27:28,880
I felt like I lost
everything I'd never had.

496
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,784
I wasn't only losing a
mother, I lost my best friend.

497
00:27:33,284 --> 00:27:34,919
The only one I could talk to.

498
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,189
And I missed her so
much, I carried her

499
00:27:38,189 --> 00:27:39,791
nightgown around for weeks.

500
00:27:39,991 --> 00:27:44,462
I slept with it, and
I cried all the time.

501
00:27:44,462 --> 00:27:47,666
Losing mama was the saddest
thing that ever happened to me.

502
00:27:48,667 --> 00:27:52,137
I never really got
over her being gone.

503
00:27:57,409 --> 00:27:59,744
People thought I
couldn't take the Army.

504
00:27:59,944 --> 00:28:03,381
They were expecting me to
mess up, but I was determined

505
00:28:03,381 --> 00:28:07,385
to prove otherwise, so I
worked very hard at it.

506
00:28:07,585 --> 00:28:10,221
I didn't want the old boys
to say that I got it easy

507
00:28:10,221 --> 00:28:11,656
while they worked.

508
00:28:12,590 --> 00:28:14,292
I was pulling K1 and washing
out the pike and everything,

509
00:28:14,492 --> 00:28:18,396
so they figured, well
he's just like we are,

510
00:28:18,396 --> 00:28:19,664
it was good for me,

511
00:28:20,031 --> 00:28:21,700
I got to be one
of the boys again.

512
00:28:26,171 --> 00:28:26,905
I never met a better
group of boys in my life.

513
00:28:27,238 --> 00:28:30,408
(rock and roll music)

514
00:28:32,811 --> 00:28:35,880
We went to clubs,
I saw some shows.

515
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,049
Even went to Paris a few times.

516
00:28:39,517 --> 00:28:41,519
It was a normal
thing in the Army,

517
00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:44,889
if you have a family,
to live off base.

518
00:28:44,889 --> 00:28:45,957
And that's what I did.

519
00:28:46,257 --> 00:28:48,526
I always liked a big
breakfast with bacon,

520
00:28:48,526 --> 00:28:51,196
and butter, and jam
together with my biscuits.

521
00:28:52,564 --> 00:28:55,100
Sometimes I sang
hymns with the boys.

522
00:28:56,201 --> 00:28:59,003
But I didn't do any
shows in the Army because

523
00:28:59,003 --> 00:29:02,440
The Colonel was used to
getting 50,000 a night,

524
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,275
and he didn't want people
seeing me for free.

525
00:29:04,275 --> 00:29:08,012
I gave autographs to fans who
came from all over Europe.

526
00:29:08,012 --> 00:29:09,080
They were so nice.

527
00:29:09,380 --> 00:29:11,916
I felt I'd come back to
Europe and tour one day.

528
00:29:12,283 --> 00:29:13,451
- [Joel] What kinds
of bad experiences

529
00:29:13,651 --> 00:29:14,619
did you have in the Army?

530
00:29:15,086 --> 00:29:19,824
- [Elvis] Well in Germany the
whole time I was very worried

531
00:29:19,824 --> 00:29:22,761
about my singing career, that
other acts would come along

532
00:29:22,761 --> 00:29:25,396
and my audience
would go with 'em.

533
00:29:25,396 --> 00:29:29,300
Also daddy started seeing
a woman named Dee Stanley.

534
00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:31,936
And I resented the hell
out of it, because mama

535
00:29:31,936 --> 00:29:33,938
had been in the grave
for a few months.

536
00:29:33,938 --> 00:29:35,673
And they'd go off in the
bedroom and she'd holler

537
00:29:35,673 --> 00:29:38,376
so loud, it was like
they was killing hogs.

538
00:29:38,877 --> 00:29:42,147
I knew daddy was lonely,
but I'd have to listen

539
00:29:42,147 --> 00:29:46,217
to these escapades, and daddy,
he'd say I'd got no right

540
00:29:46,217 --> 00:29:49,487
to complain, 'cause mama
had worried herself to death

541
00:29:49,487 --> 00:29:54,058
on account of me, then fishy
things started happening.

542
00:29:54,058 --> 00:29:56,127
Whoever got me drafted
tried to finish

543
00:29:56,127 --> 00:29:57,495
me off over in Germany.

544
00:29:57,796 --> 00:30:00,031
I was invited to
the BMW factory.

545
00:30:00,698 --> 00:30:04,769
They gave me a 507 to drive,
I took in on the Autobahn

546
00:30:05,436 --> 00:30:06,504
and the brakes went out!

547
00:30:07,238 --> 00:30:09,808
I wrecked the car,
but I wasn't hurt.

548
00:30:09,808 --> 00:30:11,509
Tell me, how could a brand
new vehicle have bad brakes?

549
00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:17,982
And how come the
newspaper said I was dead?

550
00:30:17,982 --> 00:30:20,618
(blues guitar)

551
00:30:24,856 --> 00:30:26,558
And another time I was driving
a jeep in the dead of winter,

552
00:30:27,625 --> 00:30:31,362
an officer who I didn't
know said he had rigged

553
00:30:31,362 --> 00:30:33,631
up a tank heater to the
motor to keep me warm.

554
00:30:35,934 --> 00:30:39,637
But he hooked it up to the
exhaust, and the next thing,

555
00:30:39,838 --> 00:30:41,172
I wake up in the hospital.

556
00:30:42,006 --> 00:30:46,211
The Army covered it up,
they said I had tonsillitis.

557
00:30:46,211 --> 00:30:48,746
(blues music)

558
00:30:52,383 --> 00:30:56,287
Another time, skin doctor
gave me some face treatments.

559
00:30:57,021 --> 00:31:00,859
His name was Laurenz Landau,
he made a pass at me,

560
00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:03,494
so I whipped him real good.

561
00:31:03,494 --> 00:31:05,296
Then he tried to blackmail me.

562
00:31:07,031 --> 00:31:11,035
But daddy got the FBI into it,
and the doctor disappeared.

563
00:31:15,406 --> 00:31:18,509
Then someone tried
to blow up my house.

564
00:31:18,943 --> 00:31:21,479
The Army blamed it on
East Germany, but they

565
00:31:21,679 --> 00:31:23,147
had nothing to do with it.

566
00:31:23,514 --> 00:31:26,050
(blues guitar)

567
00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:33,791
- You have any
preference in types

568
00:31:33,791 --> 00:31:35,226
of women or kinds of women?

569
00:31:35,226 --> 00:31:37,528
What kind of a woman would
you pick for yourself?

570
00:31:39,264 --> 00:31:41,399
- [Joel] Priscilla Ann
Beaulieu was a 5'3 inch

571
00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:46,437
14 year old Army brat, of
all the women in the world,

572
00:31:46,437 --> 00:31:48,006
why did you choose her?

573
00:31:49,173 --> 00:31:53,177
- [Elvis] Well that is true,
I had guitars older than her.

574
00:31:53,177 --> 00:31:54,112
Priscilla came to my party.

575
00:31:54,379 --> 00:31:57,348
And when I saw her she
was a spitting image

576
00:31:57,348 --> 00:32:01,619
of my heroine, Mary Marvel,
from the comic books.

577
00:32:03,221 --> 00:32:06,324
I mean the structure of
Cilla's face was unmistakable.

578
00:32:06,658 --> 00:32:11,629
The turned up nose, the sharp
chin, the strong jawline.

579
00:32:12,196 --> 00:32:17,101
The big blue eyes, Cilla
was my Mary Marvel.

580
00:32:18,503 --> 00:32:20,471
- [Joel] Wait, but
wasn't Mary Marvel,

581
00:32:20,471 --> 00:32:22,006
Captain Marvel Junior's sister?

582
00:32:22,206 --> 00:32:24,842
- [Elvis] Well yes,
a long lost sister.

583
00:32:24,842 --> 00:32:28,479
See I had another Mary
Marvel that got away.

584
00:32:28,479 --> 00:32:31,015
An actress Debra Paget,

585
00:32:31,015 --> 00:32:34,585
but she was dating Howard
Hughes, and his goons were

586
00:32:34,585 --> 00:32:36,220
watching us all the time.

587
00:32:37,956 --> 00:32:39,958
'Cause Cilla was so
young I felt I could

588
00:32:39,958 --> 00:32:41,259
mold her the way I wanted.

589
00:32:41,926 --> 00:32:45,029
And I told Cilla I'd
marry her one day.

590
00:32:46,230 --> 00:32:49,767
- [Joel] How would you sum
up your Army experience?

591
00:32:49,767 --> 00:32:51,569
- I became a better human being.

592
00:32:52,403 --> 00:32:54,505
'Cause the Army teaches
boys to think like men.

593
00:32:57,775 --> 00:33:00,411
It gave me a better
understanding of myself.

594
00:33:00,411 --> 00:33:00,912
I was an ambassador for
America being in Europe.

595
00:33:01,245 --> 00:33:02,313
It was very humbling.

596
00:33:02,613 --> 00:33:06,417
Maybe someday I can come
back as an entertainer.

597
00:33:06,417 --> 00:33:08,052
- [Reporter] Thank you
very much Mr. Presley.

598
00:33:08,052 --> 00:33:09,454
- Thank you very much.

599
00:33:11,089 --> 00:33:14,258
Arrivederci, no that's Italian.

600
00:33:14,258 --> 00:33:18,363
When I got back from Germany,
I got a great reception.

601
00:33:18,363 --> 00:33:21,432
But I still worried,
'cause they easily

602
00:33:21,432 --> 00:33:24,002
forget about you if you're
out of the public eye.

603
00:33:24,469 --> 00:33:28,639
I wanted to get back on stage
and reclaim my audience.

604
00:33:28,639 --> 00:33:29,974
- Has three years of
sobering Army life

605
00:33:29,974 --> 00:33:32,076
changed your mind
about rock and roll?

606
00:33:34,479 --> 00:33:35,613
- It hasn't changed my
mind because I was in tanks

607
00:33:35,913 --> 00:33:38,716
for a long time, we rock
and roll quite a bit.

608
00:33:38,716 --> 00:33:41,486
Being back home at
Graceland was fantastic.

609
00:33:41,486 --> 00:33:45,256
Hardest thing was mama wasn't
there for the first time.

610
00:33:45,823 --> 00:33:47,558
And daddy moved in Dee Stanley.

611
00:33:49,193 --> 00:33:51,662
But I told her she'd
never replace mama,

612
00:33:51,662 --> 00:33:53,364
and she couldn't
stay in mama's room.

613
00:33:53,731 --> 00:33:56,467
So she and daddy moved
into the house out back.

614
00:33:58,936 --> 00:34:02,840
I worked on my voice in Germany
with Celli the whole time.

615
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,309
I have some power singing
from the diaphragm.

616
00:34:05,309 --> 00:34:07,945
I heard a song over there,

617
00:34:07,945 --> 00:34:12,517
O Sole Mio, and I recorded It's
Now Or Never based on that.

618
00:34:14,986 --> 00:34:17,588
- [Joel] But you didn't
return to music, you began

619
00:34:17,588 --> 00:34:19,590
making movies, right?

620
00:34:19,590 --> 00:34:20,758
- [Elvis] Here's what happened.

621
00:34:21,492 --> 00:34:23,961
I taped the Frank
Sinatra Comedy Special,

622
00:34:25,163 --> 00:34:28,332
and before his show
Frank introduced me

623
00:34:28,332 --> 00:34:30,401
to some boys he said
were friends of his.

624
00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:32,537
And said they were like family.

625
00:34:34,238 --> 00:34:36,340
One was named Uncle Sam.

626
00:34:37,341 --> 00:34:39,243
And Mickey and Carl.

627
00:34:40,178 --> 00:34:42,513
And one he called Cousin Chuck.

628
00:34:42,713 --> 00:34:45,817
Then after the show The
Colonel said these boys

629
00:34:45,817 --> 00:34:47,852
wanted me to sing
in Frank's casino.

630
00:34:48,152 --> 00:34:52,090
Calneva Lodge, when
going to Las Vegas.

631
00:34:55,993 --> 00:34:58,362
- [Joel] Did you like
that idea of performing

632
00:34:58,362 --> 00:34:59,497
for casino audiences?

633
00:34:59,797 --> 00:35:03,534
- [Elvis] Yeah, but Sammy
Davis insisted on taking

634
00:35:03,734 --> 00:35:06,637
me to dinner, no
Colonel, just me and him.

635
00:35:06,637 --> 00:35:09,440
And that's when he thanked
me, he said I brought

636
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,176
the beat to white audiences,
and opened up radios stations

637
00:35:12,176 --> 00:35:17,448
to black music, he said
that I busted open the door

638
00:35:17,448 --> 00:35:19,016
for singers like Little Richard.

639
00:35:19,016 --> 00:35:22,553
And then he said now I'm
going to pay you back.

640
00:35:22,753 --> 00:35:25,756
Then he said, Frank
Sinatra's friend Uncle Sam

641
00:35:25,756 --> 00:35:28,759
was no uncle to anyone,
his real name was

642
00:35:28,759 --> 00:35:30,027
Sam Giancana.

643
00:35:30,862 --> 00:35:34,031
And Carl was Carlo Gambino.

644
00:35:34,031 --> 00:35:37,034
Chucky was Charles
Lucky Luciano.

645
00:35:37,869 --> 00:35:40,605
And Mickey was Mickey Cohen.

646
00:35:40,605 --> 00:35:43,141
And then he said do you get it?

647
00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:45,476
Stay away, go make
pictures, or anything.

648
00:35:45,476 --> 00:35:49,947
Or otherwise you'll end up
property of the Italian mafia

649
00:35:49,947 --> 00:35:51,482
just like Frank and me.

650
00:35:51,682 --> 00:35:54,852
(rock and roll music)

651
00:35:59,557 --> 00:36:00,892
- [Joel] Did it scare you?

652
00:36:00,892 --> 00:36:01,926
- [Elvis] Yeah it did.

653
00:36:02,226 --> 00:36:04,495
'Cause back in '56 The
Colonel had me sing

654
00:36:04,795 --> 00:36:06,597
at New Frontier in Las Vegas.

655
00:36:07,431 --> 00:36:10,134
I played the lounge with
Liberace for two weeks.

656
00:36:10,601 --> 00:36:12,370
And The Colonel
gambled the whole time.

657
00:36:13,538 --> 00:36:16,440
The Colonel lost a half a
million dollars at roulette,

658
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,709
and they stuck a gun to my head.

659
00:36:18,709 --> 00:36:22,613
The Colonel wrote an IOU
and we barely got out alive.

660
00:36:22,613 --> 00:36:24,382
Of course I didn't get paid.

661
00:36:24,916 --> 00:36:29,520
- [Joel] Did you complain, or
demand The Colonel pay you?

662
00:36:30,855 --> 00:36:32,890
- [Elvis] No, everything
was moving so fast,

663
00:36:32,890 --> 00:36:35,259
in those days, there
wasn't much I could do.

664
00:36:35,259 --> 00:36:37,628
I was even afraid to tell daddy.

665
00:36:38,729 --> 00:36:43,000
Anyway after what Sammy
Davis said I told The Colonel

666
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,671
I was going to make pictures
and that's what happened.

667
00:36:46,671 --> 00:36:48,906
First picture was G.I. Blues.

668
00:36:49,307 --> 00:36:52,710
And just like that the
press changed my image.

669
00:36:53,211 --> 00:36:56,480
The rowdy country bumpkin
Elvis the pelvis was gone.

670
00:36:57,481 --> 00:37:01,385
Now I was an upstanding,
all-American young man.

671
00:37:01,385 --> 00:37:03,654
A middle classed
hero in Hollywood.

672
00:37:09,227 --> 00:37:12,129
(upbeat music)

673
00:37:20,905 --> 00:37:22,707
- [Joel] Tell me
about the movies,

674
00:37:22,707 --> 00:37:24,308
and your new start in Hollywood.

675
00:37:24,308 --> 00:37:27,778
- [Elvis] The first thing,
I got back at Frank Sinatra

676
00:37:27,778 --> 00:37:30,615
for criticizing my music
by dating his girlfriend,

677
00:37:30,615 --> 00:37:35,987
Juliette Probst, she was
my costar in G.I. Blues.

678
00:37:39,156 --> 00:37:42,026
That got the Rat Pack feuding
with The Memphis Mafia.

679
00:37:42,727 --> 00:37:46,063
We would get into
fist fights sometimes.

680
00:37:47,465 --> 00:37:51,168
At Paramount every movie
star wanted to meet me.

681
00:37:51,168 --> 00:37:53,638
At first I thought
it was fantastic,

682
00:37:53,638 --> 00:37:56,540
there was Clark Gable,
and Burt Lancaster,

683
00:37:56,540 --> 00:37:59,877
cowboy stars like Glenn
Ford, and Randall Kid.

684
00:38:00,978 --> 00:38:04,081
I used to pay 12 cents to see
their movies back in Memphis.

685
00:38:05,750 --> 00:38:09,520
And I met Charleston Heston,
I called him cowboy Moses.

686
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,157
But really, those sons of
bitches didn't care about me.

687
00:38:14,191 --> 00:38:18,296
They only invited me out 'cause
a lot of women came around.

688
00:38:18,296 --> 00:38:20,865
- [Announcer] He's a high
flying stock car jockey.

689
00:38:21,732 --> 00:38:23,768
- [Announcer] Is a
singing, swinging cowboy.

690
00:38:23,768 --> 00:38:24,635
- [Announcer] In
an eye popping ride

691
00:38:25,102 --> 00:38:26,771
with explosive hilarity.

692
00:38:28,105 --> 00:38:32,043
- [Joel] So how would you
characterize your film career?

693
00:38:32,043 --> 00:38:34,378
- [Elvis] About the only
thing worse than watching

694
00:38:34,378 --> 00:38:36,280
a bad movie is being in one.

695
00:38:36,947 --> 00:38:40,017
The scripts were all the
same, schlock formula.

696
00:38:41,218 --> 00:38:46,223
I would beat up a guy, and
then sing a song to him.

697
00:38:52,063 --> 00:38:56,033
You see The Colonel told
the movie studios, give me

698
00:38:56,033 --> 00:38:58,069
a million dollars, and
you can shoot Elvis

699
00:38:58,069 --> 00:39:01,038
in a phone booth if you
want, but each picture

700
00:39:01,038 --> 00:39:03,774
took me further from my dream
of being a serious actor.

701
00:39:04,241 --> 00:39:05,676
It became a travel log.

702
00:39:05,676 --> 00:39:08,045
Hawaii, Acapulco.

703
00:39:08,045 --> 00:39:10,348
(upbeat music)

704
00:39:12,817 --> 00:39:16,087
They even had me playing
my same damn role twice.

705
00:39:16,087 --> 00:39:17,321
In the same picture!

706
00:39:17,988 --> 00:39:20,358
A blond headed me
in Kissin' Cousins.

707
00:39:24,295 --> 00:39:27,898
I was so mad, I cut up
with the boys on the set.

708
00:39:27,898 --> 00:39:30,434
(upbeat music)

709
00:39:32,737 --> 00:39:33,371
The director tried
to get rid of them.

710
00:39:34,271 --> 00:39:37,708
So I said whoa, let's
get one thing straight.

711
00:39:37,708 --> 00:39:40,811
First of all this script
ain't worth a damn.

712
00:39:41,011 --> 00:39:44,882
And second, if my boys go,
you can kiss my ass goodbye.

713
00:39:45,649 --> 00:39:49,754
But no matter how silly, my
pictures always made money.

714
00:39:50,755 --> 00:39:53,290
Paramount used it to make
Beckett for Peter O'Toole,

715
00:39:53,290 --> 00:39:54,358
and Richard Burton.

716
00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:58,095
Why couldn't they spend it on
making great pictures with me?

717
00:39:59,563 --> 00:40:02,767
And The Colonel turned
down dramatic roles because

718
00:40:02,767 --> 00:40:05,669
there was no music, you
see all the movie songs

719
00:40:05,669 --> 00:40:08,639
went to The Colonel and
they sucked like donkeys.

720
00:40:09,507 --> 00:40:12,843
The son of a bitch took
50% of everything from me.

721
00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:15,413
Then he'd shake down the
writers for 50% of their cut.

722
00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:19,383
The result was the best
song writers stayed away.

723
00:40:20,050 --> 00:40:22,119
And I had old fashioned
songs I didn't maintain

724
00:40:22,319 --> 00:40:23,120
my singing career.

725
00:40:23,421 --> 00:40:26,791
I couldn't turn
manure into music man.

726
00:40:26,791 --> 00:40:30,227
I tried to fire The
Colonel, but I realized

727
00:40:30,227 --> 00:40:32,229
I'd have to finish
out my movie contracts

728
00:40:32,229 --> 00:40:34,131
to win back my audience.

729
00:40:35,065 --> 00:40:37,101
- [Joel] Well then why'd
you stay with The Colonel?

730
00:40:37,868 --> 00:40:39,670
- [Elvis] I was a
very lonely person.

731
00:40:39,970 --> 00:40:43,707
I was taught to obey and
respect elders no matter what.

732
00:40:43,707 --> 00:40:45,709
And when I went to Germany
The Colonel worked hard

733
00:40:45,709 --> 00:40:48,879
to keep me as a star,
anyway I wasn't concerned

734
00:40:48,879 --> 00:40:51,248
with the business or my career.

735
00:40:51,248 --> 00:40:53,984
I was concerned with my fans.

736
00:40:54,185 --> 00:40:56,520
And being the best
I could be for them.

737
00:40:57,455 --> 00:41:00,191
A lot of entertainers had
contempt for their audience.

738
00:41:00,524 --> 00:41:01,725
But not me.

739
00:41:03,260 --> 00:41:05,629
- [Joel] Did you like
doing all the fight scenes?

740
00:41:05,629 --> 00:41:07,998
- [Elvis] Oh yeah, and
there was fight scenes

741
00:41:07,998 --> 00:41:10,968
in every picture, and I
learned karate in the Army.

742
00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:13,704
And it was new to
Hollywood at the time.

743
00:41:14,538 --> 00:41:18,275
Once I even punched my horse,
he wouldn't listen to me,

744
00:41:20,144 --> 00:41:21,445
he wouldn't stop, so I
punched him in the head.

745
00:41:21,912 --> 00:41:23,280
And after that we was friends.

746
00:41:25,216 --> 00:41:28,486
I like the cowboy movies,
I even bought some horses

747
00:41:28,486 --> 00:41:29,587
and rode them at Graceland.

748
00:41:37,127 --> 00:41:38,395
- [Joel] What were
you thinking when

749
00:41:38,395 --> 00:41:41,131
The Beatles arrived in America?

750
00:41:41,131 --> 00:41:42,666
- [Elvis] I thought,
while I'm making these

751
00:41:42,666 --> 00:41:44,869
damn teenager movies,
The Beatles are taking

752
00:41:44,869 --> 00:41:46,036
over the music business.

753
00:41:46,036 --> 00:41:48,305
(cheering)

754
00:41:50,875 --> 00:41:53,577
I also remember thinking,
if they had money,

755
00:41:53,777 --> 00:41:56,046
why don't they get
their teeth fixed?

756
00:42:00,084 --> 00:42:02,019
They made fun of
me on television.

757
00:42:02,686 --> 00:42:03,888
- [Reporter] You
guys are nothing

758
00:42:03,888 --> 00:42:04,989
but a bunch of British
Elvis Presleys.

759
00:42:04,989 --> 00:42:06,790
- They must be blind.

760
00:42:06,790 --> 00:42:07,958
- It's not true, it's not true.

761
00:42:07,958 --> 00:42:09,493
(laughing)

762
00:42:09,493 --> 00:42:10,561
- [Elvis] And pretty soon

763
00:42:10,794 --> 00:42:13,063
The Beatles were making
movies like Help,

764
00:42:13,063 --> 00:42:16,267
then A hard Days
Night, that were good.

765
00:42:16,267 --> 00:42:19,069
And I was doing Girl
Happy and Tickle Me.

766
00:42:19,069 --> 00:42:20,971
It made me look out of touch.

767
00:42:23,107 --> 00:42:25,776
When they came to visit
me in Los Angeles,

768
00:42:26,176 --> 00:42:27,378
I was not impressed.

769
00:42:28,178 --> 00:42:31,081
I didn't care for John
Lennon, who later said

770
00:42:31,081 --> 00:42:33,517
The Beatles were
bigger than Jesus.

771
00:42:33,517 --> 00:42:35,185
Ringo didn't say anything.

772
00:42:35,553 --> 00:42:37,555
George Harrison was a wimp.

773
00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:40,558
And McCartney was very feminine.

774
00:42:40,558 --> 00:42:43,827
I wasn't surprised when
they became a big part

775
00:42:43,827 --> 00:42:45,829
of the hippy movement,
and drug culture.

776
00:42:45,829 --> 00:42:48,265
They started talking
about taking drugs.

777
00:42:48,465 --> 00:42:51,035
- [Reporter] How often
have you taken LSD?

778
00:42:51,035 --> 00:42:52,369
- About four times.

779
00:42:52,937 --> 00:42:54,538
- [Elvis] And I
thought it was awful.

780
00:42:54,538 --> 00:42:58,642
The Beatles were terrible
examples for the kids to have.

781
00:42:58,642 --> 00:43:01,111
- [Joel] What kind of
movies did you want to make?

782
00:43:01,111 --> 00:43:02,546
- [Elvis] Just something
more challenging

783
00:43:02,546 --> 00:43:03,914
than Hollywood's image of me.

784
00:43:06,317 --> 00:43:10,321
The image is one thing, and
the human being is another.

785
00:43:10,321 --> 00:43:13,223
It's hard to live
up to an image.

786
00:43:14,425 --> 00:43:17,328
I became very discouraged.

787
00:43:17,328 --> 00:43:21,031
Once I was home
watching television,

788
00:43:21,031 --> 00:43:24,068
and The Righteous Brothers sand
a song I knew I could sing.

789
00:43:24,068 --> 00:43:26,236
So I shot the screen out.

790
00:43:27,705 --> 00:43:30,307
I was in a unique
position that they could

791
00:43:30,307 --> 00:43:32,676
replace whatever I destroyed.

792
00:43:32,876 --> 00:43:37,348
And just because you look
good, don't mean you feel good.

793
00:43:37,348 --> 00:43:41,885
No one knew how lonely
and empty I felt.

794
00:43:41,885 --> 00:43:43,320
I was not happy.

795
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,956
(soft music)

796
00:43:50,094 --> 00:43:53,530
- [Joel] How did the name
Memphis Mafia come about?

797
00:43:53,530 --> 00:43:55,599
- [Elvis] Well, it
was some boys I knew

798
00:43:55,599 --> 00:43:59,503
from Humes High School,
Marty Liker, and Red West,

799
00:43:59,970 --> 00:44:01,972
Billy Smith was
a cousin of mine.

800
00:44:02,272 --> 00:44:05,643
Joe Esposito and Charlie
Hodge I knew from the Army.

801
00:44:07,277 --> 00:44:09,346
I had required them
to wear dark suits

802
00:44:09,546 --> 00:44:12,082
for a respectable appearance.

803
00:44:12,282 --> 00:44:15,085
A reporter came up with
the name Memphis Mafia,

804
00:44:15,085 --> 00:44:17,254
and I thought it was
funny, and it stuck.

805
00:44:18,088 --> 00:44:20,290
- [Joel] Were the
Memphis Mafia hangers on,

806
00:44:20,290 --> 00:44:22,760
or blood suckers?

807
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,296
- [Elvis] No, we loved
each other, it was like

808
00:44:26,296 --> 00:44:28,399
Robin Hood and his merry men.

809
00:44:28,399 --> 00:44:31,268
They did odd jobs like
look after my schedule

810
00:44:32,002 --> 00:44:34,571
and my wardrobe, and
get me places on time.

811
00:44:34,571 --> 00:44:37,141
But I needed my
boys for protection.

812
00:44:37,141 --> 00:44:38,909
'Cause people were
always coming at me.

813
00:44:40,010 --> 00:44:44,048
I gave them meals and bunks,
sort of like ranch hands.

814
00:44:45,149 --> 00:44:48,385
When we first got to Hollywood
people thought we were gay.

815
00:44:48,385 --> 00:44:48,886
(laughs)

816
00:44:49,787 --> 00:44:52,690
Little did they know my house
was always full of women.

817
00:44:54,425 --> 00:44:57,127
One time I counted and
there was seven of us,

818
00:44:58,429 --> 00:45:01,699
and 112 women, and I gave
my boys grazing rights.

819
00:45:01,699 --> 00:45:04,134
I was still a southern
boy with simple tastes.

820
00:45:04,334 --> 00:45:06,704
I needed my friends
from the southern world

821
00:45:06,704 --> 00:45:09,606
where I come from, not
actors and producers.

822
00:45:09,606 --> 00:45:12,776
But daddy, he resented
my boys 'cause he thought

823
00:45:12,776 --> 00:45:15,612
they were taking his
place, or maybe they

824
00:45:15,612 --> 00:45:16,580
were after my money.

825
00:45:17,147 --> 00:45:21,351
Daddy trusted nobody, he was
worried about being poor again.

826
00:45:21,351 --> 00:45:24,254
I'd tell daddy they
do all this for me,

827
00:45:24,254 --> 00:45:25,889
but he never understood it.

828
00:45:26,356 --> 00:45:28,826
He was afraid if I went
broke he'd have to go back

829
00:45:28,826 --> 00:45:32,429
to working in the field, he
had a backache for 23 years.

830
00:45:32,429 --> 00:45:34,264
- [Joel] Were these guys
in the Memphis Mafia

831
00:45:34,264 --> 00:45:35,299
your close friends?

832
00:45:35,799 --> 00:45:40,370
- [Elvis] I thought so, but I
mean they were hired employees

833
00:45:40,370 --> 00:45:42,506
who done a job for me.

834
00:45:43,173 --> 00:45:47,177
They looked at me as the boss,
a person they had to please

835
00:45:47,177 --> 00:45:49,546
or lose their position
if they don't.

836
00:45:49,546 --> 00:45:53,217
See I was the prototype
man, the first rock star.

837
00:45:53,217 --> 00:45:56,887
Whether I was good or not
so much, people loved me.

838
00:45:57,488 --> 00:45:59,389
And it was a heavy
burden to know

839
00:45:59,389 --> 00:46:02,292
who were actually true friends.

840
00:46:07,765 --> 00:46:10,567
- [Joel] Why did you give
away Cadillacs and cars

841
00:46:10,567 --> 00:46:13,036
of all kinds to both
friends and strangers?

842
00:46:13,036 --> 00:46:15,038
- [Elvis] Giving away
Cadillacs was easier

843
00:46:15,038 --> 00:46:18,008
than getting clothes
because they always fit.

844
00:46:18,675 --> 00:46:21,478
I just couldn't stand seeing
folks that were really down.

845
00:46:21,478 --> 00:46:24,414
And I liked being able to
help one person at a time.

846
00:46:24,414 --> 00:46:26,750
I mean money's meant
to be spread around.

847
00:46:26,750 --> 00:46:30,654
The more happiness it
creates, the more it's worth.

848
00:46:31,054 --> 00:46:32,856
It's just old
paper if it sits in

849
00:46:33,056 --> 00:46:35,259
the bank without
helping anybody.

850
00:46:41,365 --> 00:46:43,333
- [Joel] You were known
for affairs with your

851
00:46:43,333 --> 00:46:46,670
Hollywood leading ladies,
how did you get away with it?

852
00:46:46,870 --> 00:46:49,439
- [Elvis] Well, I was no saint,

853
00:46:49,439 --> 00:46:51,508
it was the old double standard,

854
00:46:51,508 --> 00:46:54,578
in California I did
whatever I wanted.

855
00:46:55,078 --> 00:46:56,947
My wife Cilla was at home.

856
00:46:57,247 --> 00:46:59,716
I told Cilla she would
read all these things,

857
00:47:00,083 --> 00:47:02,052
but it was just
publicity for the movies.

858
00:47:02,352 --> 00:47:04,888
(upbeat music)

859
00:47:06,557 --> 00:47:10,627
When I did get busted I told
Cilla it made me realize

860
00:47:10,627 --> 00:47:11,628
how much I loved her.

861
00:47:12,763 --> 00:47:14,298
That usually worked.

862
00:47:18,001 --> 00:47:21,438
But it wasn't easy meeting
expectations neither.

863
00:47:22,206 --> 00:47:24,107
Everyone expected
me to be a star.

864
00:47:24,107 --> 00:47:28,245
24 hours a day, but I
was just a human being.

865
00:47:28,745 --> 00:47:32,115
Women would go to bed with
a star, and wake up with me.

866
00:47:34,318 --> 00:47:38,555
One time I broke it off with
an actress, and she was so mad

867
00:47:38,555 --> 00:47:44,695
she said she had a gun,
so I said, honey I got 10.

868
00:47:44,695 --> 00:47:49,399
- [Joel] Who was your favorite
co star, or Elvis girl.

869
00:47:49,766 --> 00:47:52,069
- [Elvis] That's
easy Ann Margaret.

870
00:47:52,669 --> 00:47:54,438
She was the love of my life.

871
00:47:54,872 --> 00:47:56,940
We were very similar, and
understood each other.

872
00:47:56,940 --> 00:47:57,574
(bell)

873
00:47:58,041 --> 00:48:00,711
She also looked
like Mary Marvel.

874
00:48:00,711 --> 00:48:02,779
Ann had the greatest
laugh in the world.

875
00:48:02,779 --> 00:48:05,649
She had magnetism
and sensuality.

876
00:48:06,216 --> 00:48:09,519
And a hot acting
career, and an ego.

877
00:48:09,519 --> 00:48:11,555
And she could ride a motorcycle.

878
00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:13,523
She was the female me.

879
00:48:18,095 --> 00:48:21,331
I was crazy about Ann,
so it was a real toss up

880
00:48:21,531 --> 00:48:23,634
between Ann and Cilla.

881
00:48:23,634 --> 00:48:26,036
But Cilla could not
compete with Ann.

882
00:48:26,336 --> 00:48:28,906
She was just a
young girl who never

883
00:48:28,906 --> 00:48:31,241
did anything in her life.

884
00:48:31,241 --> 00:48:34,278
You see, I never saw
Cilla as a partner.

885
00:48:34,278 --> 00:48:35,512
I was raising her.

886
00:48:36,179 --> 00:48:39,549
My boys said I made her
look like a Vegas hooker.

887
00:48:41,451 --> 00:48:44,721
After Viva Las Vegas, I
told Ann I'd marry her

888
00:48:44,721 --> 00:48:45,956
if she quit the business.

889
00:48:47,190 --> 00:48:49,259
But I couldn't handle it if
I saw her kissing another man

890
00:48:49,259 --> 00:48:49,993
in a picture.

891
00:48:50,827 --> 00:48:53,363
And I grew up on the southern
belief that a woman's place

892
00:48:53,363 --> 00:48:54,364
is in the home.

893
00:48:56,466 --> 00:48:59,002
But Ann wasn't about
to give up her career.

894
00:49:00,304 --> 00:49:03,807
In the meantime Cilla
complained about Ann to her dad.

895
00:49:04,841 --> 00:49:06,643
To the Captain, and he
threatened to sue me, so he made

896
00:49:06,843 --> 00:49:09,212
me sign a contract
to marry Cilla when

897
00:49:09,212 --> 00:49:10,647
he let her come to Memphis.

898
00:49:12,049 --> 00:49:14,484
The Colonel said a
lawsuit would look bad,

899
00:49:14,952 --> 00:49:16,386
so me and Cilla got married.

900
00:49:16,954 --> 00:49:19,856
(upbeat music)

901
00:49:23,427 --> 00:49:25,729
- [Joel] What about
Celeste Yarnall from

902
00:49:25,929 --> 00:49:27,297
Live A Little, Love A Little?

903
00:49:28,031 --> 00:49:30,367
- [Elvis] Celeste was
the one that got away.

904
00:49:30,867 --> 00:49:32,235
She was so beautiful.

905
00:49:38,775 --> 00:49:41,411
I got her cast because I
had seen her in Star Track.

906
00:49:42,446 --> 00:49:44,648
And she looked just
like Mary Marvel.

907
00:49:45,248 --> 00:49:48,585
She had all the sharp features,
even had the red outfit.

908
00:49:49,252 --> 00:49:51,989
I fell hard in love with
her, I asked her to come

909
00:49:51,989 --> 00:49:54,691
and live with me in Las
Vegas, and she said yes.

910
00:49:55,158 --> 00:49:56,693
But then she disappeared on me.

911
00:49:56,893 --> 00:49:59,429
(upbeat music)

912
00:50:04,201 --> 00:50:06,436
- [Joel] Why do you think
you never maintained

913
00:50:06,436 --> 00:50:09,373
a lasting relationship
with any one woman.

914
00:50:10,340 --> 00:50:15,379
Mama and I had a very deep
kinship, I lost my twin,

915
00:50:15,379 --> 00:50:19,716
and mama had lost a
child, I had an awful case

916
00:50:19,716 --> 00:50:23,553
of survivor's guilt, having
lived when Jessie did not.

917
00:50:24,354 --> 00:50:28,392
So I lived my whole
life just for mama.

918
00:50:28,392 --> 00:50:31,828
Even after she died, I
couldn't let somebody else

919
00:50:31,828 --> 00:50:33,363
replace her in my life.

920
00:50:34,031 --> 00:50:36,767
I mean everyone
loves their mama.

921
00:50:36,767 --> 00:50:38,902
And whenever I got too
close with another woman,

922
00:50:39,569 --> 00:50:42,572
I felt I was betraying
mama, so I'd end it.

923
00:50:42,572 --> 00:50:45,108
(upbeat music)

924
00:50:47,577 --> 00:50:50,914
Mama was the most important
relationship in my life,

925
00:50:51,381 --> 00:50:53,216
but it crippled me in some ways.

926
00:50:55,786 --> 00:50:58,522
(upbeat rock)

927
00:51:08,465 --> 00:51:12,702
By 1968 I couldn't sing
into the camera anymore.

928
00:51:12,702 --> 00:51:14,771
I realized I needed
to be in front

929
00:51:14,971 --> 00:51:16,773
of an audience to feel alive.

930
00:51:16,973 --> 00:51:20,510
It was time to prove I was
still the King of Rock and Roll.

931
00:51:24,181 --> 00:51:28,185
I felt like I was coming back
from the Army all over again.

932
00:51:28,185 --> 00:51:30,821
Actually I had to
remember how to perform.

933
00:51:30,821 --> 00:51:34,458
So I went to see Tom Jones
to study his stage moves

934
00:51:34,458 --> 00:51:35,725
that he'd gotten from me.

935
00:51:37,094 --> 00:51:39,529
Then I did the '68
television special,

936
00:51:39,529 --> 00:51:41,198
and that felt fantastic.

937
00:51:42,632 --> 00:51:46,636
And I recorded In the
Ghetto and Suspicious Minds.

938
00:51:48,205 --> 00:51:49,806
I had to get back
where the audience

939
00:51:50,006 --> 00:51:52,442
is and get away from home.

940
00:51:53,577 --> 00:51:55,812
Cilla was was controlling
my personal life.

941
00:51:56,179 --> 00:51:58,281
She even tried to
order my boys around.

942
00:51:58,281 --> 00:52:00,584
She'd say get me a Coke,
and they'd say go get it

943
00:52:01,118 --> 00:52:02,452
your own damn self.

944
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,021
The Colonel was
controlling my business.

945
00:52:06,523 --> 00:52:08,925
And daddy didn't want me
spending my own money.

946
00:52:09,392 --> 00:52:12,129
He was trying to keep me from
any fun there was to have.

947
00:52:13,296 --> 00:52:18,268
So I opened in Las Vegas,
but after a few shows

948
00:52:18,668 --> 00:52:21,238
I realized I was
still not happy.

949
00:52:29,613 --> 00:52:33,517
I mean America was
under siege man.

950
00:52:33,517 --> 00:52:37,687
Protests, drugs, bombs,
hippies, violence.

951
00:52:37,687 --> 00:52:39,689
It was bad man.

952
00:52:39,689 --> 00:52:42,425
- [Joel] The social unrest
gripping the United States

953
00:52:42,425 --> 00:52:45,328
in the late '60's, how
did that effect you?

954
00:52:45,328 --> 00:52:48,165
- [Elvis] I was so
fearful for our country,

955
00:52:48,165 --> 00:52:51,234
the hippie elements
were destroying America.

956
00:52:51,434 --> 00:52:55,639
- Turn on, tune in, drop out.

957
00:52:55,639 --> 00:52:57,607
- [Elvis] The whole drop
out thing was crazy.

958
00:52:57,607 --> 00:53:01,077
Do whatever you want to,
get everybody to take drugs.

959
00:53:02,279 --> 00:53:07,083
And The Beatles and John
Lennon, they were in on it.

960
00:53:07,083 --> 00:53:09,920
- We don't need our education,
we don't need to get your

961
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:14,057
whatever it is these exams
you're gonna finish, what for?

962
00:53:14,558 --> 00:53:16,893
- [Elvis] And the hippies
were pushing LSD on the youth,

963
00:53:17,093 --> 00:53:18,528
even as young as 10.

964
00:53:19,529 --> 00:53:23,767
- If you're introduced to LSD,
it's a religious experience.

965
00:53:23,767 --> 00:53:26,469
And it can be even more
important than reading

966
00:53:26,469 --> 00:53:27,938
the Bible six times.

967
00:53:27,938 --> 00:53:29,539
- [Elvis] Teenagers were
dropping out of school,

968
00:53:29,539 --> 00:53:30,907
and overdosing on drugs.

969
00:53:32,008 --> 00:53:33,543
Dropping dead.

970
00:53:34,244 --> 00:53:37,013
♪ Revolution has come

971
00:53:37,013 --> 00:53:38,181
- [Elvis] And other groups
were trying to overthrow

972
00:53:38,548 --> 00:53:39,749
the United States.

973
00:53:41,051 --> 00:53:43,653
Turning America communist.

974
00:53:45,388 --> 00:53:47,591
Crime and violence
was everywhere.

975
00:53:49,059 --> 00:53:52,128
The America I loved was coming
apart for the first time.

976
00:53:54,064 --> 00:53:57,834
I was worried it might not be
there when Lisa Marie got big.

977
00:53:58,668 --> 00:54:01,571
- A bomb exploded early this
morning in the pentagon.

978
00:54:01,571 --> 00:54:04,674
- [Bernardine] Guard
your, guard your colleges,

979
00:54:04,674 --> 00:54:08,511
guard your banks, guard your
children, guard your doors.

980
00:54:10,146 --> 00:54:12,148
- [Reporter] Credit
for the capitol bombing

981
00:54:12,148 --> 00:54:14,517
was claimed in a letter
received by the associated

982
00:54:14,517 --> 00:54:17,621
press today, signed by
The Weather Underground.

983
00:54:17,621 --> 00:54:19,689
- We will build a revolutionary
youth movement capable

984
00:54:19,689 --> 00:54:22,359
of actively engaging in the
war against the imperialists.

985
00:54:23,293 --> 00:54:24,494
- [Joel] What did you make of

986
00:54:24,794 --> 00:54:26,896
The Students for a
Democratic Society,

987
00:54:26,896 --> 00:54:27,964
which became The Weathermen?

988
00:54:28,798 --> 00:54:31,001
- [Elvis] The Weather
Underground terrorists

989
00:54:31,001 --> 00:54:32,936
took their name
from the Dylan song.

990
00:54:33,536 --> 00:54:34,671
They were violent thugs.

991
00:54:34,971 --> 00:54:38,074
They were led by Bill
Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

992
00:54:38,541 --> 00:54:41,177
- I'm not committed to
non violence in any way.

993
00:54:41,177 --> 00:54:43,980
- A bomb went off at the State
Department earlier today.

994
00:54:43,980 --> 00:54:46,983
And The Weather Underground
claims responsibility.

995
00:54:46,983 --> 00:54:50,520
- [Elvis] First they started
riots, then they tried

996
00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:52,555
to start a communist revolution.

997
00:54:52,555 --> 00:54:54,824
(gunshots)

998
00:54:54,824 --> 00:54:58,628
And they idolized killers
like Charles Manson

999
00:55:01,097 --> 00:55:02,532
and Sirhan Sirhan.

1000
00:55:03,199 --> 00:55:04,901
Even the Black Panthers
couldn't stand The Weathermen.

1001
00:55:05,368 --> 00:55:07,570
- The Weathermen ain't
nothing but child's players,

1002
00:55:07,570 --> 00:55:08,605
and they call that a revolution.

1003
00:55:09,039 --> 00:55:11,841
We think these people may be
sincere but they're misguided

1004
00:55:11,841 --> 00:55:13,109
they're muttle heads, and
they're scatter brains.

1005
00:55:13,109 --> 00:55:16,012
- The Underground plans
to kill Ford, Rockefeller,

1006
00:55:16,012 --> 00:55:19,015
Attorney General Leavy,
and FBI Director Kelly.

1007
00:55:21,685 --> 00:55:23,653
- [Elvis] Captain
Marvel Junior had fought

1008
00:55:23,653 --> 00:55:25,221
and defeated Captain Nazi,

1009
00:55:26,489 --> 00:55:29,059
and Bill Ayers looked
exactly like him.

1010
00:55:29,059 --> 00:55:33,596
So I gave Bill Ayers the
nickname of Captain Nazi.

1011
00:55:33,596 --> 00:55:37,600
It made sense they both
wanted to destroy America.

1012
00:55:41,438 --> 00:55:43,773
- [Joel] Did you
support civil rights?

1013
00:55:43,773 --> 00:55:45,375
- [Elvis] I believed in it.

1014
00:55:46,042 --> 00:55:48,445
I grew up with black
folks, I had a tremendous

1015
00:55:48,445 --> 00:55:51,514
kinship with them, I listened
to Martin Luther King's

1016
00:55:51,514 --> 00:55:54,818
speeches over and over
he was so inspirational.

1017
00:55:55,618 --> 00:55:57,520
But the Black
Panthers were violent.

1018
00:55:59,456 --> 00:56:02,525
- [Joel] Now Leonard Bernstein
said Elvis introduced

1019
00:56:02,525 --> 00:56:05,628
the beat to everything,
the music, the language,

1020
00:56:05,628 --> 00:56:08,331
the clothes, a whole
social revolution.

1021
00:56:08,331 --> 00:56:10,367
The '60's comes from it.

1022
00:56:10,367 --> 00:56:14,170
So in a way were you
not responsible for
the youth culture

1023
00:56:14,170 --> 00:56:15,805
for unleashing all of it?

1024
00:56:15,805 --> 00:56:20,910
- [Elvis] I think with
my music, I tapped into

1025
00:56:20,910 --> 00:56:23,847
a spirit of personal freedom.

1026
00:56:23,847 --> 00:56:26,816
That just as easily could've
been used for the positive,

1027
00:56:26,816 --> 00:56:28,118
not destroying anything.

1028
00:56:29,018 --> 00:56:32,288
Peter the Apostle said
to use liberty, not for

1029
00:56:32,288 --> 00:56:35,291
maliciousness, but
to serve the Lord.

1030
00:56:36,793 --> 00:56:39,462
- [Joel] You had a lifelong
romance with law and order.

1031
00:56:39,462 --> 00:56:41,498
Why did this run so deep?

1032
00:56:41,498 --> 00:56:43,867
And exactly when did
you become involved

1033
00:56:43,867 --> 00:56:45,735
in federal law enforcement?

1034
00:56:45,735 --> 00:56:49,572
- [Elvis] I always had a
fascination with guns and law.

1035
00:56:49,572 --> 00:56:50,840
Even as a child.

1036
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,410
(upbeat music)

1037
00:57:00,517 --> 00:57:05,121
Of course I served in the
U.S. Army, and I was a deputy

1038
00:57:05,321 --> 00:57:09,325
in the Memphis Police
Department, and
many jurisdictions.

1039
00:57:12,695 --> 00:57:15,331
I donated to police
charities, and had friends

1040
00:57:15,331 --> 00:57:17,000
in law enforcement everywhere.

1041
00:57:17,434 --> 00:57:19,969
(upbeat music)

1042
00:57:22,806 --> 00:57:25,608
Overseas we were targets.

1043
00:57:25,608 --> 00:57:28,611
- Bomb went off in New York
City police headquarters.

1044
00:57:28,611 --> 00:57:31,514
- We no longer simply
resist the pigs,

1045
00:57:31,881 --> 00:57:34,350
we have gone on the defensive.

1046
00:57:34,350 --> 00:57:36,419
- [Elvis] In about early
1970 The Weatherman bombed

1047
00:57:37,253 --> 00:57:39,622
a San Francisco police
station and killed a Sargent,

1048
00:57:39,622 --> 00:57:40,156
who I knew.

1049
00:57:40,457 --> 00:57:41,324
- The device was filled

1050
00:57:41,791 --> 00:57:44,427
with heavy one inch
staples, the staple pierced

1051
00:57:44,427 --> 00:57:47,464
the skull of one policeman,
he is in critical condition.

1052
00:57:47,464 --> 00:57:51,000
San Francisco Police Sargent
Brian McDonald died today.

1053
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,102
The associated press
has received a letter

1054
00:57:53,102 --> 00:57:55,538
signed The Weatherman,
claiming the radical group

1055
00:57:55,538 --> 00:57:57,273
planted the bomb because

1056
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,376
"The pigs in this
country are our enemies."

1057
00:58:00,376 --> 00:58:02,545
- We will escalate our
attacks until imperialism

1058
00:58:02,545 --> 00:58:05,181
has been defeated, we
will escalate our attacks.

1059
00:58:05,181 --> 00:58:08,051
- [Elvis] I knew I couldn't
go on just singing.

1060
00:58:08,751 --> 00:58:11,387
If I did, I would
be an accessory.

1061
00:58:11,387 --> 00:58:14,858
Pacifying my audience with
music, while the bad guys

1062
00:58:14,858 --> 00:58:19,195
destroy our country, and
I realized The Weathermen

1063
00:58:19,562 --> 00:58:22,065
did not consider me part
of the establishment.

1064
00:58:22,765 --> 00:58:24,667
I felt I could help
America if I became

1065
00:58:24,667 --> 00:58:26,603
a Federal Drug
Enforcement Agent.

1066
00:58:29,772 --> 00:58:32,041
- [Joel] Now you were
the original cool.

1067
00:58:32,041 --> 00:58:35,311
With a look, the
clothes, the attitude.

1068
00:58:35,311 --> 00:58:39,249
The swagger are you saying
the man who invented cool,

1069
00:58:39,249 --> 00:58:41,618
wanted to become a narc?

1070
00:58:41,618 --> 00:58:42,819
- That's right.

1071
00:58:43,219 --> 00:58:47,357
I felt God wanted to use me
in a much more important way.

1072
00:58:47,857 --> 00:58:50,226
My family had lived
in public housing

1073
00:58:50,426 --> 00:58:52,328
at the Lauderdale
Courts in Memphis.

1074
00:58:53,162 --> 00:58:54,898
And I wanted to give
back to my country

1075
00:58:54,898 --> 00:58:57,600
that had done so much for me.

1076
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:00,169
When I was a child ladies and
gentlemen I was a dreamer.

1077
00:59:02,572 --> 00:59:05,808
I read comic books, and I was
the hero of the comic book.

1078
00:59:09,946 --> 00:59:13,082
I had always dreamed of
being an American hero,

1079
00:59:13,082 --> 00:59:16,920
like Captain Marvel Junior who
comes in and saves the day.

1080
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,189
Captain Marvel Junior he had
this fantastic dual image.

1081
00:59:20,189 --> 00:59:24,928
A normal everyday guy,
with a secret identity

1082
00:59:24,928 --> 00:59:26,095
as a crime fighter.

1083
00:59:28,965 --> 00:59:32,101
I played a hero in
all of my movies.

1084
00:59:33,002 --> 00:59:36,839
Now, I wanted to be
one in real life.

1085
00:59:36,839 --> 00:59:39,309
If I could help save
America maybe this

1086
00:59:39,309 --> 00:59:42,645
was my real destiny, that
God had prepared me for,

1087
00:59:42,645 --> 00:59:44,480
all this time.

1088
00:59:47,784 --> 00:59:50,687
(upbeat music)

1089
01:00:04,133 --> 01:00:06,970
President Nixon was starting
a national crusade against

1090
01:00:06,970 --> 01:00:10,406
drugs, so I went to
Washington, and took a letter

1091
01:00:10,406 --> 01:00:13,876
to the White House, and the
President agreed to meet me.

1092
01:00:15,244 --> 01:00:20,149
Dear Mr. President, first I
would like to introduce myself

1093
01:00:20,149 --> 01:00:23,052
I am Elvis Presley, I
admire you, and I have great

1094
01:00:23,252 --> 01:00:26,589
respect for your office,
I have a great concern

1095
01:00:26,589 --> 01:00:30,159
for our country, the drug
culture, the hippie elements,

1096
01:00:30,159 --> 01:00:34,631
the SPS, Black Panthers,
et cetera do not concern me

1097
01:00:34,631 --> 01:00:38,301
as their enemy or as they
call it the establishment.

1098
01:00:38,901 --> 01:00:40,603
I call it America and I love it.

1099
01:00:41,270 --> 01:00:45,274
Sir, I can and will be
of any service that I can

1100
01:00:45,274 --> 01:00:46,509
to help the country out.

1101
01:00:46,809 --> 01:00:50,313
I can and will do more good if
I were made a Federal Agent.

1102
01:00:50,980 --> 01:00:55,351
Sir, I am staying
at the Washington
Hotel, I am registered

1103
01:00:55,551 --> 01:00:57,820
under the name of Jon Burrows.

1104
01:00:57,820 --> 01:01:00,289
I will be here for
as long as it takes

1105
01:01:00,289 --> 01:01:02,792
to get the credentials
of a Federal Agent.

1106
01:01:03,459 --> 01:01:05,928
Respectfully, Elvis Presley.

1107
01:01:07,196 --> 01:01:10,099
(upbeat music)

1108
01:01:14,837 --> 01:01:17,740
- [Joel] What did you and
President Nixon discuss?

1109
01:01:17,740 --> 01:01:21,010
- [Elvis] First thing he
said was, you dress kind

1110
01:01:21,010 --> 01:01:22,245
of strange don't you?

1111
01:01:22,679 --> 01:01:27,216
So I said Mr. President,
you've got your show,

1112
01:01:27,216 --> 01:01:28,384
I've got mine.

1113
01:01:28,985 --> 01:01:31,020
(upbeat music)

1114
01:01:31,020 --> 01:01:34,057
Later I saw that I had
put on too much mascara.

1115
01:01:34,957 --> 01:01:37,093
But I showed him some
of my deputy badges.

1116
01:01:37,427 --> 01:01:40,663
And I gave him my
World War II Colt 45.

1117
01:01:40,863 --> 01:01:44,300
Then I told the
President I admired him.

1118
01:01:44,500 --> 01:01:47,070
That I had a great
respect for his office.

1119
01:01:47,437 --> 01:01:51,407
And I told him I wanted to
help people respect the flag.

1120
01:01:51,407 --> 01:01:53,242
Because it was getting lost.

1121
01:01:55,178 --> 01:01:57,980
I also said The Beatles
came to this country

1122
01:01:57,980 --> 01:02:01,818
with their filthy unkept
appearance and the drug music,

1123
01:02:01,818 --> 01:02:04,520
and promoted an
anti-America theme.

1124
01:02:04,987 --> 01:02:06,189
And he said I was right.

1125
01:02:07,256 --> 01:02:09,892
Then the President said the
drug users were the leaders

1126
01:02:09,892 --> 01:02:12,228
of the anti-American
protests and violence.

1127
01:02:12,995 --> 01:02:14,630
And he said dissent
is the result

1128
01:02:14,630 --> 01:02:16,365
of young people using drugs.

1129
01:02:17,066 --> 01:02:18,367
And I said that he was right.

1130
01:02:18,367 --> 01:02:19,001
- [Joel] Well wait, wasn't that

1131
01:02:19,368 --> 01:02:21,070
ironic that you were offering

1132
01:02:21,070 --> 01:02:24,440
to help to fight drugs, when
you yourself were a drug user?

1133
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,509
- [Elvis] No, no,
absolutely not.

1134
01:02:26,909 --> 01:02:29,812
I never used drugs, I
never even drank alcohol.

1135
01:02:30,012 --> 01:02:31,981
I took prescription
medications only.

1136
01:02:32,548 --> 01:02:37,019
Always from a doctor, for
the medical conditions I had.

1137
01:02:37,019 --> 01:02:38,721
- [Reporter] How much
sleep do you get?

1138
01:02:39,756 --> 01:02:41,090
- I average about four or
five hours a night I guess.

1139
01:02:41,090 --> 01:02:42,091
- [Reporter] Is that enough?

1140
01:02:42,391 --> 01:02:44,093
- It's really not,
but I'm used to it,

1141
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:45,828
I can't sleep any longer.

1142
01:02:47,063 --> 01:02:48,731
I was an insomniac.

1143
01:02:49,198 --> 01:02:51,768
I had a history of nightmares
and sleepwalking going back

1144
01:02:51,768 --> 01:02:55,037
to childhood, mama would
remove the doorknobs

1145
01:02:55,037 --> 01:02:58,040
so I couldn't walk out the house
in the middle of the night.

1146
01:02:58,407 --> 01:03:01,043
(upbeat music)

1147
01:03:02,445 --> 01:03:05,748
In the Army they would
issue us Dexedrine,

1148
01:03:06,415 --> 01:03:08,251
it was to help stay
awake when you had to.

1149
01:03:09,886 --> 01:03:13,689
The hippies were using
LSD, marijuana, heroine,

1150
01:03:13,689 --> 01:03:15,424
drugs that were killing people.

1151
01:03:16,425 --> 01:03:19,228
Jimi Hendrix and Janis
Joplin had died within

1152
01:03:19,228 --> 01:03:20,797
two weeks of each other.

1153
01:03:21,764 --> 01:03:24,801
Anyway, I told the President
I was just a poor boy

1154
01:03:24,801 --> 01:03:27,236
from Tennessee, who wanted
to serve his country

1155
01:03:27,236 --> 01:03:29,806
by taking down groups
like The Weathermen,

1156
01:03:29,806 --> 01:03:32,708
and the Black Panthers,
and that I could do it,

1157
01:03:32,708 --> 01:03:34,043
because they would trust me.

1158
01:03:34,710 --> 01:03:37,246
- [Joel] And how did
Nixon react to your offer?

1159
01:03:37,446 --> 01:03:39,348
- [Elvis] The President
got very excited.

1160
01:03:40,082 --> 01:03:41,584
And he said he was proud of me.

1161
01:03:42,618 --> 01:03:44,921
He called the Director of
the Bureau of Narcotics

1162
01:03:44,921 --> 01:03:47,156
and Dangerous Drugs,
told him to make

1163
01:03:47,156 --> 01:03:49,358
me a Federal Drug
Enforcement Agent.

1164
01:03:54,297 --> 01:03:57,900
It was the most wonderful
moment of my life.

1165
01:03:57,900 --> 01:04:01,838
I was finally starting my real
destiny as an American hero.

1166
01:04:01,838 --> 01:04:03,172
- [Joel] But wasn't you becoming

1167
01:04:03,172 --> 01:04:05,274
a Federal Agent
public knowledge?

1168
01:04:05,474 --> 01:04:08,311
- [Elvis] Yeah but
everyone thought I had just

1169
01:04:08,311 --> 01:04:11,848
liked to collect badges,
I mean who in the world

1170
01:04:11,848 --> 01:04:15,218
would ever suspect Elvis
Presley was a Federal Agent?

1171
01:04:15,218 --> 01:04:18,921
No one, never, and the
most effective agent

1172
01:04:18,921 --> 01:04:20,122
is the one least suspected.

1173
01:04:20,122 --> 01:04:22,058
Who has another job.

1174
01:04:22,959 --> 01:04:25,561
If anyone asked my opinion
about anything I said

1175
01:04:25,761 --> 01:04:26,896
I was only an entertainer.

1176
01:04:27,196 --> 01:04:29,465
- [Reporter] What is your
opinion of war protestors?

1177
01:04:30,199 --> 01:04:32,668
And would you today
refuse to be drafted?

1178
01:04:34,604 --> 01:04:36,873
- [Elvis] I just want to
keep my own personal views

1179
01:04:36,873 --> 01:04:39,575
about that to myself,
I'm just an entertainer,

1180
01:04:39,775 --> 01:04:40,910
and I don't want to say.

1181
01:04:41,310 --> 01:04:43,212
- [Joel] Did you get
any kind of training

1182
01:04:43,212 --> 01:04:44,680
to become a Federal Agent?

1183
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,516
- [Elvis] Federal Agents had
to do three kinds of weapons

1184
01:04:47,516 --> 01:04:49,285
training, and physical combat.

1185
01:04:50,419 --> 01:04:52,922
They let me have weapons
because of my Army service.

1186
01:04:53,589 --> 01:04:55,491
And I did martial
arts on my own.

1187
01:04:55,958 --> 01:04:58,895
That's why I became an eighth
degree karate black belt.

1188
01:04:58,895 --> 01:05:01,430
(upbeat music)

1189
01:05:04,934 --> 01:05:06,602
- [Joel] Why is your
favorite Federal Agent badge

1190
01:05:06,802 --> 01:05:08,437
not on display at Graceland?

1191
01:05:09,639 --> 01:05:10,806
- [Elvis] 'Cause it's here.

1192
01:05:11,807 --> 01:05:16,112
It's with me all the
time, man, check it out.

1193
01:05:16,712 --> 01:05:18,614
By the way, you're under arrest.

1194
01:05:18,814 --> 01:05:19,715
No I'm just kidding.

1195
01:05:20,650 --> 01:05:22,718
- [Joel] With the promise
of serving the country,

1196
01:05:22,718 --> 01:05:24,186
were you happy now?

1197
01:05:24,186 --> 01:05:26,088
- [Elvis] Very much so.

1198
01:05:26,088 --> 01:05:28,791
I had been serving the devil,
and the Hollywood machine

1199
01:05:29,091 --> 01:05:33,095
for such a long time, I
needed a higher calling

1200
01:05:33,829 --> 01:05:37,266
to put meaning in my life,
I hadn't done anything I was

1201
01:05:37,266 --> 01:05:41,737
proud of in 12 years, I felt
God had given me my talent

1202
01:05:41,737 --> 01:05:44,840
to arrive at this day
when America needed me.

1203
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:48,577
To stop the drug culture,
and keep the America

1204
01:05:48,577 --> 01:05:50,379
haters from destroying it.

1205
01:05:50,846 --> 01:05:54,283
Captain Marvel Junior, he
had fought and defeated them.

1206
01:05:54,583 --> 01:05:57,787
And now, it was my turn
to fight to save America.

1207
01:05:58,287 --> 01:06:01,223
My turn to fight for freedom.

1208
01:06:01,223 --> 01:06:03,659
I was going to be
America's secret weapon,

1209
01:06:05,061 --> 01:06:07,596
just like Captain
Marvel Junior was.

1210
01:06:11,233 --> 01:06:14,136
(upbeat music)

1211
01:06:25,348 --> 01:06:28,617
- [Joel] What was you first
assignment as a Federal Agent?

1212
01:06:28,617 --> 01:06:31,420
- [Elvis] They told
me to go on tour

1213
01:06:31,420 --> 01:06:33,055
and wait for instructions.

1214
01:06:33,255 --> 01:06:37,326
I was very excited, so first
thing I had stage costumes

1215
01:06:37,693 --> 01:06:40,329
made up so I would look
like Captain Marvel Junior.

1216
01:06:43,466 --> 01:06:45,968
I got jumpsuits made with capes.

1217
01:06:45,968 --> 01:06:49,071
Gold boots, and utility belts.

1218
01:06:49,071 --> 01:06:51,640
(upbeat music)

1219
01:06:53,676 --> 01:06:56,078
And I started practicing
all his moves.

1220
01:06:56,078 --> 01:06:58,080
(dramatic music)

1221
01:07:27,476 --> 01:07:29,011
And I had the Captain
Marvel Junior's

1222
01:07:29,678 --> 01:07:30,479
lightening bolt everywhere.

1223
01:07:31,313 --> 01:07:35,851
On my jewelry, on my jungle
room wall at Graceland.

1224
01:07:35,851 --> 01:07:39,255
And on my new airplane,
the Lisa Marie.

1225
01:07:39,255 --> 01:07:41,323
I was the only
entertainer to have his

1226
01:07:41,323 --> 01:07:42,758
own airplane at that time.

1227
01:07:46,962 --> 01:07:52,501
TCB, taking care of business,
was my way of saying

1228
01:07:52,701 --> 01:07:56,072
to bad guys, I am
going to put you away.

1229
01:07:56,072 --> 01:07:59,708
In a few weeks I got assigned
to an undercover operation.

1230
01:08:00,976 --> 01:08:03,312
Counterintelligence Program.

1231
01:08:03,512 --> 01:08:06,248
My job was to penetrate
The Weather Underground,

1232
01:08:06,248 --> 01:08:10,386
so the FBI could arrest Bill
Ayers, and Bernardine Dorhn

1233
01:08:10,619 --> 01:08:11,454
and put them away.

1234
01:08:11,987 --> 01:08:14,090
- [Reporter] The FBI has
been looking for the leader

1235
01:08:14,090 --> 01:08:16,358
of the terrorist Weather
Underground which claims

1236
01:08:16,358 --> 01:08:18,627
responsibility for
several bombings.

1237
01:08:18,627 --> 01:08:21,897
- [Elvis] In Captain Marvel
Junior number 24, he had

1238
01:08:21,897 --> 01:08:26,068
fought The Weathermen,
it made me realize

1239
01:08:26,268 --> 01:08:29,839
even more that being an
American hero was my destiny.

1240
01:08:29,839 --> 01:08:31,974
It could not be a coincidence.

1241
01:08:32,808 --> 01:08:36,011
- The Justice Department
began to send strike forces

1242
01:08:36,011 --> 01:08:38,180
into various cities,
first scene strike forces

1243
01:08:38,380 --> 01:08:39,748
have been established.

1244
01:08:40,182 --> 01:08:41,917
- [Joel] Can you give me
any details on how you

1245
01:08:41,917 --> 01:08:42,451
fought The Weathermen?

1246
01:08:43,119 --> 01:08:46,021
- [Elvis] My job was
to set up drug stings

1247
01:08:46,021 --> 01:08:47,756
on the Weather
Underground terrorists.

1248
01:08:48,290 --> 01:08:51,594
And The Colonel would book my
shows in the target cities,

1249
01:08:51,594 --> 01:08:53,395
and I'd run the strike force.

1250
01:08:56,499 --> 01:09:01,203
The first thing I'd put on my
Drug Enforcement Agency Staff

1251
01:09:01,403 --> 01:09:06,942
tracksuit, that was
like my official uniform

1252
01:09:06,942 --> 01:09:08,777
when I wasn't on the stage.

1253
01:09:10,679 --> 01:09:14,049
From there I'd get on
the Lisa Marie and fly.

1254
01:09:14,049 --> 01:09:16,585
From there I felt like I
was Captain Marvel Junior

1255
01:09:16,585 --> 01:09:19,421
flying in, you know,
to save the day.

1256
01:09:21,257 --> 01:09:23,959
I swear I could feel
Captain Marvel Junior

1257
01:09:23,959 --> 01:09:26,595
flying with me,
it was fantastic.

1258
01:09:28,898 --> 01:09:32,535
As soon as I landed I had FBI
agents set up surveillance

1259
01:09:32,535 --> 01:09:36,338
around my hotel, and
then informants would

1260
01:09:36,338 --> 01:09:37,773
put the word out on the street,

1261
01:09:38,507 --> 01:09:41,243
that Elvis' boys and the
Memphis Mafia were selling

1262
01:09:41,610 --> 01:09:43,279
pills and powerful drugs.

1263
01:09:46,115 --> 01:09:48,817
Dr. Nick wrote the
prescriptions for everything.

1264
01:09:48,817 --> 01:09:52,121
Sedatives, narcotics,
amphetamines.

1265
01:09:53,289 --> 01:09:57,359
The Weathermen were drug users
and were dealing to hippies.

1266
01:09:57,359 --> 01:10:00,796
So they'd send some
boys to buy it.

1267
01:10:01,297 --> 01:10:05,100
When the deal was done I
would call the FBI agents

1268
01:10:05,100 --> 01:10:07,169
on my my Federal
Agent Briefcase Phone.

1269
01:10:07,836 --> 01:10:10,940
The agents would follow them
back to their safe houses.

1270
01:10:10,940 --> 01:10:14,376
Identify them, and
wire tap their phones.

1271
01:10:19,114 --> 01:10:22,751
- Sources close to the
FBI say the radical group

1272
01:10:22,751 --> 01:10:25,788
The Weather Underground is
getting money from Cuba.

1273
01:10:26,956 --> 01:10:31,594
- [Elvis] The Weathermen
were not anti war protestors.

1274
01:10:31,594 --> 01:10:33,229
- Begin the fight.

1275
01:10:33,229 --> 01:10:36,031
- [Elvis] They were
radicals fighting to defeat

1276
01:10:36,031 --> 01:10:39,568
America, The Weatherman
had trained in Cuba.

1277
01:10:39,568 --> 01:10:41,303
And got money from
Cuban intelligence.

1278
01:10:41,503 --> 01:10:44,240
(dramatic music)

1279
01:10:50,045 --> 01:10:53,882
So Captain Nazi became
Bill Ayers FBI code name.

1280
01:10:54,516 --> 01:10:57,586
(dramatic music)

1281
01:10:57,586 --> 01:11:01,223
- [Joel] Did you get anything
other than the drug stings

1282
01:11:01,223 --> 01:11:02,057
against The Weatherman?

1283
01:11:02,625 --> 01:11:05,894
- [Elvis] Well, The Weathermen
were against monogamy.

1284
01:11:05,894 --> 01:11:11,000
So I recruited pretty
girls out of my audiences.

1285
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:14,136
It was like fishing, I'd
hook them with a scarf.

1286
01:11:14,737 --> 01:11:17,106
Then I'd ask them if
they loved America.

1287
01:11:17,606 --> 01:11:19,541
If they said yes, I'd introduce

1288
01:11:19,541 --> 01:11:21,343
them to the FBI after the show.

1289
01:11:21,543 --> 01:11:24,246
(dramatic music)

1290
01:11:25,681 --> 01:11:28,884
Beautiful women were easily
accepted by The Weathermen.

1291
01:11:29,618 --> 01:11:31,954
They would just hang around
outside and get invited in.

1292
01:11:32,821 --> 01:11:35,924
That's how we got their
safe houses bugged.

1293
01:11:35,924 --> 01:11:38,727
- New York police arrested
six persons described

1294
01:11:38,727 --> 01:11:40,729
as members of the
radical Weatherman group.

1295
01:11:40,929 --> 01:11:42,731
- The indictment alleges
that the group formed

1296
01:11:42,731 --> 01:11:44,900
a central committee to
direct plotting operations

1297
01:11:45,100 --> 01:11:48,337
in Chicago, Detroit, and
Berkeley, California.

1298
01:11:48,937 --> 01:11:49,938
- [Joel] Were all of
your efforts against

1299
01:11:49,938 --> 01:11:50,439
The Weathermen successful?

1300
01:11:50,739 --> 01:11:52,007
- [Elvis] Yes.

1301
01:11:52,007 --> 01:11:54,576
By about mid 1973, Bill
Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,

1302
01:11:56,111 --> 01:11:59,348
and 12 others were indicted
for murder and terrorism.

1303
01:11:59,748 --> 01:12:02,584
(dramatic music)

1304
01:12:06,055 --> 01:12:08,390
For the trial I would have to
testify and that would have

1305
01:12:08,390 --> 01:12:11,226
blown my cover, so the
FBI dropped the case,

1306
01:12:11,226 --> 01:12:15,497
they said for national security,
I was not happy about it.

1307
01:12:16,965 --> 01:12:20,769
But by now the FBI considered
mafia crime as the biggest

1308
01:12:20,769 --> 01:12:22,037
danger to our country.

1309
01:12:23,038 --> 01:12:26,141
For my next assignment they
ordered me to use my connections

1310
01:12:26,141 --> 01:12:29,345
with Frank Sinatra and
the Las Vegas casinos

1311
01:12:29,345 --> 01:12:30,779
to infiltrate the mafia.

1312
01:12:31,246 --> 01:12:33,615
It was called
Operation Fountain Pen.

1313
01:12:36,085 --> 01:12:39,254
- [Joel] Before I ask you
about that, was performing

1314
01:12:39,254 --> 01:12:42,524
for the fans as important
to you as the drug stings?

1315
01:12:42,524 --> 01:12:45,728
- [Elvis] I had
learned how important

1316
01:12:45,728 --> 01:12:47,696
it is to entertain people.

1317
01:12:47,696 --> 01:12:50,065
And to give 'em a reason
to come and watch you play.

1318
01:12:50,265 --> 01:12:52,534
So I made each song
sound like they played it

1319
01:12:52,534 --> 01:12:55,637
for the first time, and
the people loved it.

1320
01:12:57,639 --> 01:12:59,475
I mean my warm up
act Jackie Kahani

1321
01:12:59,475 --> 01:13:02,311
had to say I'd left or
people wouldn't go home.

1322
01:13:03,178 --> 01:13:06,315
- [Reporter] Elvis
has left the building.

1323
01:13:06,315 --> 01:13:08,817
- I was finally happy now.

1324
01:13:08,817 --> 01:13:12,187
I was performing for
the fans, and using

1325
01:13:12,187 --> 01:13:14,857
my secret identity
to help America.

1326
01:13:16,859 --> 01:13:18,026
Fantastic.

1327
01:13:19,928 --> 01:13:23,732
Still, the lifestyle
wasn't good for me.

1328
01:13:23,932 --> 01:13:26,835
In the hotels I'd stay up
all night, then I'd sleep

1329
01:13:26,835 --> 01:13:30,305
all day, then I had to
take Dexedrine to wake up.

1330
01:13:31,774 --> 01:13:33,842
I was fighting my
body and I knew

1331
01:13:33,842 --> 01:13:35,944
I couldn't keep it up forever.

1332
01:13:40,215 --> 01:13:43,419
And also, I missed mama, and
I knew my fame had killed her.

1333
01:13:43,419 --> 01:13:46,355
And the more famous I
got, the more it hurt.

1334
01:13:46,855 --> 01:13:49,425
So I started taking a
lot of pills for pain.

1335
01:13:50,959 --> 01:13:55,431
The most exciting show that
I ever did was from Hawaii.

1336
01:13:55,431 --> 01:13:58,033
The first satellite
telecast by any musician.

1337
01:13:58,867 --> 01:14:01,670
Still very hard
to comprehend it.

1338
01:14:01,870 --> 01:14:04,706
After 15 years it's hard to
comprehend that happening.

1339
01:14:05,441 --> 01:14:06,809
All the countries
all over the world

1340
01:14:06,809 --> 01:14:08,277
are running a satellite.

1341
01:14:08,877 --> 01:14:12,347
The people of Hawaii are
among the most friendliest

1342
01:14:12,347 --> 01:14:13,449
I ever met.

1343
01:14:14,983 --> 01:14:17,719
I made up an American
eagle costume to show

1344
01:14:17,719 --> 01:14:19,054
I was standing up for America.

1345
01:14:19,721 --> 01:14:23,392
It was seen in 36 countries,
by half a billion people.

1346
01:14:23,992 --> 01:14:24,693
Man it was a lot of people.

1347
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:28,096
- [Joel] Why didn't you ever
do an international tour?

1348
01:14:28,096 --> 01:14:30,165
- [Elvis] You know
I always wanted to.

1349
01:14:30,165 --> 01:14:34,369
The Beatles came here, The
Stones came here, why couldn't

1350
01:14:34,369 --> 01:14:35,404
I go over there?

1351
01:14:36,538 --> 01:14:39,441
The Colonel said he was getting
his United States passport,

1352
01:14:39,741 --> 01:14:41,109
but he never did it.

1353
01:14:41,677 --> 01:14:42,811
- Folks.

1354
01:14:45,414 --> 01:14:48,484
- [Elvis] I knew something fishy
was going on but I couldn't

1355
01:14:48,484 --> 01:14:49,418
put my finger on it.

1356
01:14:49,918 --> 01:14:52,988
- [Joel] Why didn't you accept
Barbara Streisand's offer

1357
01:14:53,188 --> 01:14:57,392
to be in A Star Is Born,
you made comebacks on TV,

1358
01:14:57,392 --> 01:14:59,194
in concerts, why not the movies?

1359
01:14:59,194 --> 01:15:00,028
- [Elvis] Two things.

1360
01:15:00,496 --> 01:15:03,866
Barbara's boyfriend
John Peters was nothing

1361
01:15:03,866 --> 01:15:06,468
but a hair dresser,
never directed anything.

1362
01:15:06,869 --> 01:15:09,571
And second the storyline
was my character

1363
01:15:09,571 --> 01:15:11,039
takes illegal drugs.

1364
01:15:11,406 --> 01:15:13,308
And that was not appropriate for

1365
01:15:13,308 --> 01:15:15,177
a Federal Drug
Enforcement Agent.

1366
01:15:15,844 --> 01:15:18,480
- [Reporter] Is your
wife Priscilla with you?

1367
01:15:18,480 --> 01:15:19,648
- No she's not.

1368
01:15:20,849 --> 01:15:23,585
- [Joel] When karate instructor
Mike Stone began dating

1369
01:15:23,785 --> 01:15:27,122
Priscilla is it true you
put out a hit on him?

1370
01:15:27,956 --> 01:15:30,125
- [Elvis] Cilla was
taking karate from him.

1371
01:15:30,692 --> 01:15:32,027
And then he started with her.

1372
01:15:32,227 --> 01:15:34,530
And she began posing
for nude photographs.

1373
01:15:35,631 --> 01:15:38,233
So I did set up a hit
on Mike Stone, with one

1374
01:15:38,433 --> 01:15:39,868
of Frank Sinatra's friends.

1375
01:15:41,203 --> 01:15:44,540
But the FBI picked up
the plan on a wire tap

1376
01:15:44,540 --> 01:15:46,575
and made me call it off.

1377
01:15:47,276 --> 01:15:49,444
But I wasn't upset
I was losing her.

1378
01:15:49,444 --> 01:15:52,447
In my mind I was upset
that something was being

1379
01:15:52,447 --> 01:15:53,615
taken away from me.

1380
01:15:54,182 --> 01:15:56,585
And I didn't like the way
it looked to the fans.

1381
01:15:57,719 --> 01:16:02,090
Sad thing is you can love
someone and be wrong for them.

1382
01:16:03,392 --> 01:16:06,295
I should've married a
southern girl, the country

1383
01:16:06,295 --> 01:16:10,899
is very different, deep down
I wanted to be a family man

1384
01:16:10,899 --> 01:16:12,167
like I promised mama.

1385
01:16:12,901 --> 01:16:14,903
But I was serving
too many masters.

1386
01:16:16,305 --> 01:16:19,575
(rockabilly music)

1387
01:16:29,685 --> 01:16:31,687
- [Joel] Let's talk about
your next assignment,

1388
01:16:31,687 --> 01:16:34,957
Operation Fountain Pen.

1389
01:16:34,957 --> 01:16:38,660
- [Elvis] Operation
Fountain Pen, the big mafia

1390
01:16:38,660 --> 01:16:43,031
crime families, Gambino,
Columbo, Bonanno, were extorting

1391
01:16:43,031 --> 01:16:45,834
millions and committing
crimes of all kinds.

1392
01:16:46,401 --> 01:16:50,305
They even made Jimmy Hoffa
hand over the Teamsters Union

1393
01:16:50,505 --> 01:16:53,275
pension money, and built
casinos in Las Vegas.

1394
01:16:53,942 --> 01:16:55,310
- [Reporter] Money
bought the Star Dust.

1395
01:16:55,310 --> 01:16:58,246
At least 15 million
dollars went to the Dunes.

1396
01:16:58,246 --> 01:17:00,048
Apparently through good
offices of alleged Senator,

1397
01:17:00,048 --> 01:17:01,783
gambler Frank Rosenthal.

1398
01:17:01,783 --> 01:17:04,219
- [Elvis] And the mafia was
taking over the music business.

1399
01:17:04,419 --> 01:17:06,355
They were paying off radio
stations to play records.

1400
01:17:06,355 --> 01:17:07,055
Payola.

1401
01:17:07,623 --> 01:17:10,592
- A federal grand jury
in California will soon

1402
01:17:10,592 --> 01:17:13,528
investigate the multi-million
dollar record business.

1403
01:17:13,528 --> 01:17:16,064
Drug dealing, payola,
mob connections

1404
01:17:16,264 --> 01:17:18,367
and high living company expense.

1405
01:17:18,367 --> 01:17:20,702
- [Elvis] America
needed me again.

1406
01:17:22,671 --> 01:17:25,440
- The House Crime
Committee heard testimony

1407
01:17:25,440 --> 01:17:27,809
from an underworld crime
figure who linked the name

1408
01:17:27,809 --> 01:17:31,647
of Frank Sinatra with certain
organized crime dealings.

1409
01:17:31,647 --> 01:17:33,649
- Frank Sinatra points for.

1410
01:17:38,286 --> 01:17:40,656
And he points.

1411
01:17:40,656 --> 01:17:43,592
- [Joel] Was Frank
Sinatra a made man?

1412
01:17:44,359 --> 01:17:47,129
- [Elvis] Frank
wasn't a made mafioso,

1413
01:17:47,129 --> 01:17:49,197
but the mafia made him.

1414
01:17:50,832 --> 01:17:54,269
They set him up as owner of
the Calneva Lodge Casino.

1415
01:17:55,303 --> 01:17:59,007
And so with horse racing
tracks, Frank was the front man.

1416
01:17:59,007 --> 01:18:02,010
Those kinds of places
attracted politicians.

1417
01:18:02,010 --> 01:18:05,113
Who could be blackmailed
to keep the heat off.

1418
01:18:05,113 --> 01:18:09,317
Frank would set them up
with mafia mistresses.

1419
01:18:09,317 --> 01:18:12,387
So better to say
Frank Sinatra was

1420
01:18:12,387 --> 01:18:14,122
the mafia's insurance man.

1421
01:18:14,122 --> 01:18:16,858
- President Kennedy had
an intimate relationship

1422
01:18:16,858 --> 01:18:19,327
with a woman once
known as the girlfriend

1423
01:18:19,327 --> 01:18:21,329
of a Chicago mafia boss.

1424
01:18:21,329 --> 01:18:23,565
- We were introduced
by a mutual friend.

1425
01:18:24,232 --> 01:18:27,502
I was introduced to Sam
Giancana by the same friend.

1426
01:18:27,703 --> 01:18:29,771
- Giancana was murdered
last year while

1427
01:18:29,771 --> 01:18:31,339
eating spaghetti in his home.

1428
01:18:31,339 --> 01:18:34,242
(upbeat music)

1429
01:18:34,242 --> 01:18:35,610
- [Elvis] So The
Colonel booked me into

1430
01:18:35,610 --> 01:18:38,146
the Las Vegas
casinos, and I started

1431
01:18:38,146 --> 01:18:39,414
the drug stings again.

1432
01:18:40,449 --> 01:18:43,785
I put on my DEA tracksuit,
and I'd get on the Lisa Marie

1433
01:18:43,985 --> 01:18:46,421
and fly in like I was
Captain Marvel Junior,

1434
01:18:46,621 --> 01:18:49,791
coming to save the
day, it was fantastic.

1435
01:18:49,791 --> 01:18:52,360
(rockabilly music)

1436
01:18:57,265 --> 01:18:59,067
- [Joel] Wait let me
get this straight.

1437
01:18:59,067 --> 01:19:00,736
You're saying you
set up drug deals

1438
01:19:00,736 --> 01:19:04,339
between the Memphis
Mafia and the real mafia?

1439
01:19:04,539 --> 01:19:05,741
- [Elvis] Ironically, yes.

1440
01:19:05,741 --> 01:19:08,176
Exact same as we did
with The Weathermen.

1441
01:19:08,910 --> 01:19:12,314
I ran the drug stings on my
crews who were dealing drugs.

1442
01:19:12,814 --> 01:19:14,249
And they were all dealing.

1443
01:19:14,916 --> 01:19:17,452
The FBI tracked them
back to their safe houses

1444
01:19:17,452 --> 01:19:18,353
and bugged them.

1445
01:19:18,820 --> 01:19:22,290
- We had their wiretaps,
the conversations

1446
01:19:25,660 --> 01:19:28,463
- [Elvis] That's how
the FBI got the Italians

1447
01:19:28,463 --> 01:19:32,200
for some of everything,
killing, drugs, loan sharking.

1448
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:35,203
Kidnapping, arson, you name it.

1449
01:19:35,403 --> 01:19:37,939
(upbeat music)

1450
01:19:40,509 --> 01:19:43,345
- [Joel] What effect did
this have on the mafia?

1451
01:19:43,745 --> 01:19:47,015
- [Elvis] It was very effective
because the FBI was clever.

1452
01:19:47,516 --> 01:19:51,520
To confuse the mob, they took
down only one guy at a time.

1453
01:19:51,520 --> 01:19:55,690
They got so paranoid, they
started killing each other.

1454
01:19:56,224 --> 01:20:00,428
- [Reporter] Gunshots the
whole city's now near death

1455
01:20:03,465 --> 01:20:05,233
with a bullet in his brain.

1456
01:20:05,700 --> 01:20:06,768
- [Elvis] Everyone was.

1457
01:20:07,335 --> 01:20:11,339
They never dreamed
it was Elvis Presley.

1458
01:20:11,339 --> 01:20:15,677
One time in Las Vegas me
and Red West an airplane,

1459
01:20:16,711 --> 01:20:19,447
I flashed my badge and
a passenger saw me.

1460
01:20:19,447 --> 01:20:22,450
But they thought it must be
a guy mascarading as Elvis.

1461
01:20:24,085 --> 01:20:27,255
One time we did a
bust in Colorado.

1462
01:20:27,255 --> 01:20:28,957
And I got presents for the cops.

1463
01:20:29,257 --> 01:20:31,159
- Celebrate of the
assistance of three members

1464
01:20:31,159 --> 01:20:32,894
of the Denver Police
Department, he picked out

1465
01:20:33,094 --> 01:20:35,997
three Mark IV automobiles.

1466
01:20:35,997 --> 01:20:37,999
- [Elvis] When the
mobsters got arrested

1467
01:20:37,999 --> 01:20:39,835
they put their
wives on television

1468
01:20:39,835 --> 01:20:42,003
and those women
didn't look like much.

1469
01:20:42,003 --> 01:20:42,704
It was pretty sad.

1470
01:20:43,371 --> 01:20:45,540
- [Reporter] All of them
claim the FBI is harassing

1471
01:20:45,740 --> 01:20:46,508
their families.

1472
01:20:46,808 --> 01:20:50,345
- They think, they
bother my husband.

1473
01:20:50,545 --> 01:20:52,547
- The FBI doesn't gamble?

1474
01:20:52,547 --> 01:20:54,749
They don't drink, they
don't go out with girls?

1475
01:20:54,749 --> 01:20:56,585
What do they do?

1476
01:20:56,585 --> 01:20:58,320
How did they become priests?

1477
01:20:58,320 --> 01:21:00,121
- [Joel] What was
your most memorable

1478
01:21:00,121 --> 01:21:02,090
sting operation
against the mafia?

1479
01:21:02,591 --> 01:21:05,493
- [Elvis] The first one,
because I was so nervous.

1480
01:21:06,027 --> 01:21:09,297
While he was in prison,
Joey Gallo made a deal with

1481
01:21:09,297 --> 01:21:11,299
the Black Panthers
to sell heroine.

1482
01:21:11,299 --> 01:21:14,669
The FBI was terrified of
the muscle of the Panthers

1483
01:21:14,669 --> 01:21:16,571
and the smarts of
the mob teaming up.

1484
01:21:16,771 --> 01:21:19,140
So Bob Dylan introduced
me to Joey Gallo.

1485
01:21:19,140 --> 01:21:20,041
And I set him up.

1486
01:21:20,408 --> 01:21:22,210
- [Joel] How well did
you know Bob Dylan?

1487
01:21:22,210 --> 01:21:27,148
- [Elvis] We met only once,
when I recorded a song of his.

1488
01:21:28,250 --> 01:21:31,319
I told him I admired his
serious song writing.

1489
01:21:31,319 --> 01:21:33,989
And he told me my voice made
him feel like he was busting

1490
01:21:33,989 --> 01:21:38,426
out of jail, Dylan was a
conservative small town boy,

1491
01:21:38,426 --> 01:21:39,327
just like me.

1492
01:21:40,061 --> 01:21:43,398
I mean he did shows with
a giant American flag.

1493
01:21:43,965 --> 01:21:46,668
And he dumped that awful
Joan Baez when she tried

1494
01:21:46,968 --> 01:21:48,970
to push him into
righteous politics.

1495
01:21:48,970 --> 01:21:52,540
Anyway Joey Gallo got
killed in a contract hit

1496
01:21:52,540 --> 01:21:53,541
in Little Italy.

1497
01:21:55,577 --> 01:21:59,614
- [Joel] Did the mob
ever suspect that
you were a DEA Agent?

1498
01:22:00,348 --> 01:22:03,351
- [Elvis] One of my boys
messed up and gave a picture

1499
01:22:03,551 --> 01:22:05,987
of us wearing police
badges to the news papers.

1500
01:22:05,987 --> 01:22:10,025
Frank Sinatra called
me a but I assure you

1501
01:22:10,025 --> 01:22:11,626
it was only a joke.

1502
01:22:12,027 --> 01:22:15,397
Another time a wise guy
recognized my revolver

1503
01:22:15,397 --> 01:22:18,900
was issued only to Federal
Agents, so I told him

1504
01:22:18,900 --> 01:22:20,835
I got it from Frank Sinatra.

1505
01:22:22,137 --> 01:22:23,838
- [Joel] Were there
any big problems

1506
01:22:23,838 --> 01:22:25,307
with the mafia drug stings?

1507
01:22:25,307 --> 01:22:27,642
- [Elvis] The biggest
problem was The Colonel

1508
01:22:27,642 --> 01:22:29,177
was a degenerate gambler.

1509
01:22:29,744 --> 01:22:32,047
He gambled 12 hours at a time.

1510
01:22:32,047 --> 01:22:34,416
In fact The Colonel
was one of the top five

1511
01:22:34,416 --> 01:22:36,117
high rollers in Vegas.

1512
01:22:36,117 --> 01:22:39,421
He played roulette by dropping
chips on every number.

1513
01:22:39,421 --> 01:22:42,557
So even when he won, he lost.

1514
01:22:42,757 --> 01:22:45,393
Heck they helped him,
let him use two balls on

1515
01:22:45,760 --> 01:22:48,129
the roulette wheel,
and he still lost.

1516
01:22:50,231 --> 01:22:53,034
So The Colonel's debt
got bigger and bigger.

1517
01:22:54,903 --> 01:22:57,238
But all the time he was
writing IOUs to the casinos.

1518
01:22:57,238 --> 01:23:00,241
The Colonel was becoming
owned by the mob.

1519
01:23:01,176 --> 01:23:03,545
And that was dangerous.

1520
01:23:04,045 --> 01:23:06,614
I should've dumped
that son of a bitch.

1521
01:23:06,614 --> 01:23:08,950
But loyalty was my biggest flaw.

1522
01:23:09,417 --> 01:23:11,886
And that's why I did two
shows a night in Vegas.

1523
01:23:12,253 --> 01:23:14,322
On account of The Colonel
owning so much money.

1524
01:23:16,624 --> 01:23:20,061
- [Joel] The FBI files show
you began getting bomb threats.

1525
01:23:20,061 --> 01:23:23,098
Do you know who was
targeting you, and why?

1526
01:23:24,099 --> 01:23:26,301
- [Elvis] There was no
doubt in my mind that

1527
01:23:27,068 --> 01:23:29,671
and The Weathermen suspected
me of setting them up.

1528
01:23:30,338 --> 01:23:32,807
They wanted to assassinate
me with a pipe bomb,

1529
01:23:32,807 --> 01:23:36,277
so I could not
testify against them.

1530
01:23:36,277 --> 01:23:40,448
So I started so that I'd
avoid being an easy target.

1531
01:23:40,448 --> 01:23:43,184
I carried a gun
onstage at all times.

1532
01:23:44,019 --> 01:23:46,087
My boys had guns too.

1533
01:23:46,955 --> 01:23:48,390
And that's not the only thing.

1534
01:23:48,390 --> 01:23:50,658
Captain Nazi started
spreading rumors

1535
01:23:50,658 --> 01:23:51,626
that I was a drug user.

1536
01:23:51,926 --> 01:23:55,196
Thinking he'd get
the DEA to fire me.

1537
01:23:55,196 --> 01:23:56,998
I was so mad I
went off on stage.

1538
01:23:56,998 --> 01:23:57,899
Good evening ladies
and gentlemen.

1539
01:23:58,199 --> 01:24:01,569
The rumors you hear
about me are trash.

1540
01:24:01,569 --> 01:24:03,571
I'm an eighth degree
black belt in karate.

1541
01:24:03,571 --> 01:24:05,473
That I'm a Federal Agent.

1542
01:24:05,473 --> 01:24:07,042
I am, swear to God.

1543
01:24:08,576 --> 01:24:11,746
On the contrary I have to
be straight as an arrow.

1544
01:24:12,047 --> 01:24:13,882
I don't drink booze,
I don't take any.

1545
01:24:14,115 --> 01:24:16,217
Booze I'll whip your ass.

1546
01:24:18,586 --> 01:24:20,789
Thank you very much.

1547
01:24:20,789 --> 01:24:25,060
About mid '76 the FBI
overheard the Gambino's on

1548
01:24:25,060 --> 01:24:28,063
wire taps saying the
Memphis Mafia set them up.

1549
01:24:28,797 --> 01:24:30,799
So I had my daddy fire them.

1550
01:24:30,799 --> 01:24:32,867
Hoping that would
take the heat off.

1551
01:24:32,867 --> 01:24:35,136
And my boys played along.

1552
01:24:35,336 --> 01:24:37,539
- We were given three
days notice by his father

1553
01:24:37,539 --> 01:24:40,341
and a week pay, after 16
years, and he wouldn't

1554
01:24:40,341 --> 01:24:42,510
talk to us himself,
he flew out of town.

1555
01:24:42,510 --> 01:24:44,546
He had his father do it.

1556
01:24:44,546 --> 01:24:46,147
- [Joel] Were you
getting worried.

1557
01:24:46,147 --> 01:24:48,983
- [Elvis] Yeah, because
pretty soon the mafia

1558
01:24:48,983 --> 01:24:50,685
started cleaning
house to find the rat.

1559
01:24:51,619 --> 01:24:54,923
A Colombo wise guy named
Vinny I'd never met him,

1560
01:24:55,356 --> 01:24:56,791
come back stage for a drug buy.

1561
01:24:56,791 --> 01:24:59,828
I had a .22 revolver
sticking out of my boot.

1562
01:24:59,828 --> 01:25:01,896
Some cheap thing
I got at K-Mart.

1563
01:25:01,896 --> 01:25:05,533
And Vinny kept staring at
it, so to gain his confidence

1564
01:25:05,533 --> 01:25:07,368
I said, hey you want it?

1565
01:25:07,368 --> 01:25:08,636
And he said sure.

1566
01:25:08,636 --> 01:25:11,139
Next thing there were
20 inside murders.

1567
01:25:11,439 --> 01:25:13,208
And I come to find
they had used my gun.

1568
01:25:13,208 --> 01:25:17,479
- In recent months 20 people
who may have been FBI informers

1569
01:25:17,479 --> 01:25:18,446
have been murdered.

1570
01:25:18,746 --> 01:25:21,549
This is the type of gun
used for the executions.

1571
01:25:21,549 --> 01:25:24,018
Available at most
sporting goods stores.

1572
01:25:24,018 --> 01:25:26,554
Police say the mafia did
not use this kind of weapon

1573
01:25:26,754 --> 01:25:27,889
until recently.

1574
01:25:28,189 --> 01:25:30,425
- [Elvis] I was worried they
would be traced back to me.

1575
01:25:31,459 --> 01:25:35,563
Next thing, they thought Frank
Sinatra might be the rat.

1576
01:25:35,763 --> 01:25:38,133
They tried to kill Frank
by blowing up his plane

1577
01:25:38,133 --> 01:25:42,237
that he leased from a mafia
front company called Jet Avia.

1578
01:25:42,237 --> 01:25:44,939
But his mama got on the
plane instead of him.

1579
01:25:45,240 --> 01:25:48,576
- A snowstorm today hampered
the search for Nancy Sinatra

1580
01:25:48,776 --> 01:25:51,579
and three others who were
on a chartered jet plane

1581
01:25:51,579 --> 01:25:53,014
that vanished last night.

1582
01:25:53,481 --> 01:25:55,316
- [Elvis] Then somebody tried
to put a bomb on my plane

1583
01:25:55,316 --> 01:25:56,551
in Pittsburgh, but
the FBI stopped it.

1584
01:25:57,585 --> 01:26:01,156
So of course I was
worried, them boys believed

1585
01:26:01,156 --> 01:26:03,591
the only good witness
was a dead witness.

1586
01:26:03,591 --> 01:26:05,326
(upbeat music)

1587
01:26:10,165 --> 01:26:13,535
(soft country music)

1588
01:26:21,910 --> 01:26:23,611
- [Joel] What happened next?

1589
01:26:23,811 --> 01:26:26,347
- [Elvis] In January
of '77 the FBI told me

1590
01:26:26,347 --> 01:26:27,982
my life was in grave danger.

1591
01:26:28,816 --> 01:26:30,285
They had wire
tapped a meeting at

1592
01:26:30,285 --> 01:26:31,986
a mafia social club in Brooklyn.

1593
01:26:31,986 --> 01:26:36,157
Bill Ayers, and some Black
Panthers, and a Gambino mobster

1594
01:26:36,157 --> 01:26:37,992
named Paul Castellano was there.

1595
01:26:37,992 --> 01:26:42,931
They all agreed I must be a
Federal Agent, and they put out

1596
01:26:42,931 --> 01:26:44,265
a contract on me.

1597
01:26:44,265 --> 01:26:47,168
The Weathermen, the
Panthers, and the mafia,

1598
01:26:47,168 --> 01:26:48,169
a triple threat.

1599
01:26:48,369 --> 01:26:50,538
(upbeat music)

1600
01:26:50,538 --> 01:26:51,839
- [Joel] What did you do?

1601
01:26:51,839 --> 01:26:54,309
- [Elvis] Well I
was very nervous.

1602
01:26:54,842 --> 01:26:58,947
It would be easy for
anyone to shoot me onstage.

1603
01:26:58,947 --> 01:27:01,916
Bullets would not bounce
off me like they did

1604
01:27:01,916 --> 01:27:03,117
Captain Marvel Junior.

1605
01:27:05,853 --> 01:27:08,756
So I called President
Carter, and I asked him

1606
01:27:08,756 --> 01:27:10,291
for Secret Service protection.

1607
01:27:10,291 --> 01:27:13,294
But he said it was something
only the president can have.

1608
01:27:13,861 --> 01:27:15,964
So I told him I was
running for president.

1609
01:27:16,397 --> 01:27:19,400
He laughed, but said he
would recommend me for

1610
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:20,868
the Witness Protection Program.

1611
01:27:21,970 --> 01:27:25,940
But I realized if I was
alive that Lisa Marie

1612
01:27:25,940 --> 01:27:27,742
and daddy would be in danger.

1613
01:27:28,409 --> 01:27:30,478
And mama had died so young.

1614
01:27:30,778 --> 01:27:32,580
And I'd lost my twin brother.

1615
01:27:32,780 --> 01:27:36,584
I had to find a way
to live for them.

1616
01:27:37,619 --> 01:27:40,888
That's when I remembered
Master Comic's number 110.

1617
01:27:40,888 --> 01:27:43,458
Captain Marvel Junior
And The Hidden Death.

1618
01:27:43,791 --> 01:27:46,060
I must've read it
a hundred times.

1619
01:27:46,894 --> 01:27:49,530
It was where Captain Marvel
Junior faked his own death

1620
01:27:49,530 --> 01:27:50,932
to deceive his enemies.

1621
01:27:51,899 --> 01:27:55,169
Then he defeated them,
and came back as a hero.

1622
01:27:55,169 --> 01:27:57,005
That was my way out.

1623
01:27:57,005 --> 01:27:59,707
- [Joel] What about giving
up your music career?

1624
01:27:59,707 --> 01:28:03,811
- [Elvis] It was at a dead
end, and I couldn't make any

1625
01:28:03,811 --> 01:28:06,981
money selling records,
because in '73 The Colonel

1626
01:28:06,981 --> 01:28:10,885
had sold my royalties to
RCA to cover gambling debts.

1627
01:28:11,085 --> 01:28:15,256
By early of '77 The Colonel
was in to the Las Vegas Hilton

1628
01:28:15,256 --> 01:28:19,761
for 20 million, the FBI
tipped me off that he had sold

1629
01:28:19,761 --> 01:28:23,931
half my contract to Paul
Castellano to pay it off.

1630
01:28:23,931 --> 01:28:26,868
I wasn't working for an
Italian crime syndicate.

1631
01:28:27,669 --> 01:28:30,104
Since I got back from
the Army, my career

1632
01:28:30,104 --> 01:28:32,073
was kind of a
living debt anyway.

1633
01:28:32,373 --> 01:28:35,843
And all of those bad
movies, now I was just

1634
01:28:35,843 --> 01:28:37,712
an image in people's minds.

1635
01:28:38,212 --> 01:28:40,915
So why not just kill the
image and come back later

1636
01:28:41,215 --> 01:28:43,017
as my own damn self.

1637
01:28:43,851 --> 01:28:46,688
I could work undercover
to defeat my enemies

1638
01:28:46,688 --> 01:28:48,489
like Captain Marvel
Junior had done.

1639
01:28:48,489 --> 01:28:53,227
Then after a year or two, I
could return as an American hero

1640
01:28:53,227 --> 01:28:55,763
and restart my music
career, just like when

1641
01:28:55,963 --> 01:28:59,400
I came back from Germany,
it would be fantastic.

1642
01:29:00,435 --> 01:29:02,036
- [Joel] What did the
others think about

1643
01:29:02,236 --> 01:29:03,671
the fake death idea?

1644
01:29:03,671 --> 01:29:05,573
Colonel Parker, Dr. Nick?

1645
01:29:06,708 --> 01:29:08,609
- [Elvis] The Colonel
said it was a great move.

1646
01:29:08,609 --> 01:29:10,378
Public relations wise.

1647
01:29:10,778 --> 01:29:13,848
That'd it'd be a great way
to make money off the fans.

1648
01:29:14,349 --> 01:29:17,318
You see The Colonel couldn't
control me anymore in life.

1649
01:29:17,518 --> 01:29:18,619
I was sick of him.

1650
01:29:19,454 --> 01:29:21,789
I was more valuable to him dead.

1651
01:29:26,394 --> 01:29:29,063
Dr. Nick said it would help
me get off the prescriptions.

1652
01:29:29,263 --> 01:29:32,900
I had come to realize that
just because I was getting

1653
01:29:32,900 --> 01:29:35,636
it from a doctor, didn't
mean it was good for me.

1654
01:29:35,636 --> 01:29:40,074
Today entertainers admit it,
and they go to drug rehab.

1655
01:29:40,074 --> 01:29:41,442
And the fans don't mind.

1656
01:29:41,442 --> 01:29:43,478
But you couldn't
do it at that time.

1657
01:29:43,478 --> 01:29:45,380
- [Joel] How did you
put the plan together

1658
01:29:45,380 --> 01:29:46,347
to fake your death?

1659
01:29:46,647 --> 01:29:49,550
- [Elvis] We came up
with a fantastic design.

1660
01:29:50,017 --> 01:29:52,186
Just like Captain
Marvel Junior had done.

1661
01:29:53,187 --> 01:29:55,857
Dr. Nick had a terminal
patient with no family,

1662
01:29:55,857 --> 01:29:58,893
who was a big fan, and
he looked a lot like me.

1663
01:29:59,127 --> 01:30:00,728
My height, my age.

1664
01:30:01,295 --> 01:30:04,732
So Dr. Nick suggested that we
let him come to the pool house

1665
01:30:04,732 --> 01:30:08,836
at Graceland to live, then
when he expired we could

1666
01:30:08,836 --> 01:30:10,671
swap his body for mine.

1667
01:30:11,672 --> 01:30:14,041
And Dr. Nick gave him
some cosmetic surgery,

1668
01:30:14,041 --> 01:30:15,743
got him looking
even more like me.

1669
01:30:15,743 --> 01:30:16,911
- [Joel] What was his name?

1670
01:30:17,211 --> 01:30:21,115
- Roscoe Holloway, he was
from Germantown, Tennessee.

1671
01:30:21,949 --> 01:30:25,420
The only problem was
Roscoe was heavier than me.

1672
01:30:25,420 --> 01:30:28,589
He weighed about 250 and
I was only about 170.

1673
01:30:28,589 --> 01:30:31,759
So I ate a lot of ice
cream and fried foods.

1674
01:30:31,759 --> 01:30:33,594
Especially late at night.

1675
01:30:33,594 --> 01:30:36,431
So we would match up
when it came time.

1676
01:30:44,806 --> 01:30:46,974
- [Joel] But how could
you possibly pick a date

1677
01:30:46,974 --> 01:30:48,843
for Roscoe to pass away?

1678
01:30:49,510 --> 01:30:53,080
- [Elvis] August 15 was our
target date because I had

1679
01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:56,617
to testify for a grand
jury against Frederick Pro.

1680
01:30:56,617 --> 01:30:59,787
And he rain an air cargo
airlines out of Florida.

1681
01:30:59,787 --> 01:31:03,458
It was a mafia front company
for stealing aircraft.

1682
01:31:03,458 --> 01:31:05,526
I had sold him one of
my airplanes in a sting.

1683
01:31:06,861 --> 01:31:10,331
Dr. Nick was sure Roscoe
would expire in time.

1684
01:31:10,898 --> 01:31:13,100
And then he'd keep
him on life support.

1685
01:31:13,100 --> 01:31:16,370
So we planned the body
swap and everyone's job.

1686
01:31:16,370 --> 01:31:20,575
On August 15th I put on
my DEA Staff track suit.

1687
01:31:21,476 --> 01:31:23,578
I testified for the grand jury.

1688
01:31:23,578 --> 01:31:28,382
Then I went home, I went to
my dentist around 11:00 p.m.

1689
01:31:28,382 --> 01:31:30,718
Since I wouldn't be able
to see him for a long time.

1690
01:31:30,918 --> 01:31:33,287
And then I got everyone
out of the house,

1691
01:31:33,287 --> 01:31:35,556
my cousin Billy and
my girlfriend Ginger.

1692
01:31:35,556 --> 01:31:38,459
She looked just like
mama when she was young.

1693
01:31:38,459 --> 01:31:41,462
I'd call her, Little Gladys.

1694
01:31:41,662 --> 01:31:44,665
We went to play racquetball.

1695
01:31:45,766 --> 01:31:47,201
- [Joel] At what time?

1696
01:31:47,401 --> 01:31:49,036
- [Elvis] It was
around 2:00 a.m.

1697
01:31:49,036 --> 01:31:52,507
Once we left the house, Dr.
Nick went back to the pool house

1698
01:31:52,507 --> 01:31:54,542
and took Roscoe
off life support.

1699
01:31:55,510 --> 01:31:58,513
Then he and Joe dressed
Roscoe in my blue pajamas

1700
01:31:58,513 --> 01:32:01,215
and put his body in
my bathroom closet.

1701
01:32:03,684 --> 01:32:06,420
Ginger and I went back to
the house around 6:00 a.m.

1702
01:32:06,420 --> 01:32:08,923
And went to bed.

1703
01:32:08,923 --> 01:32:13,861
After awhile I told her I was
going to read in the bathroom.

1704
01:32:14,228 --> 01:32:17,231
Then I took a sedative
Dr. Nick had given me,

1705
01:32:17,598 --> 01:32:19,967
I went to sleep on
the bathroom floor.

1706
01:32:20,701 --> 01:32:23,237
At about 2:00 in the
afternoon Ginger woke up,

1707
01:32:23,237 --> 01:32:26,541
came into the bathroom,
and saw me lying there.

1708
01:32:26,807 --> 01:32:29,610
(scream)

1709
01:32:30,177 --> 01:32:32,613
I heard her holler to
Joe that I had fainted.

1710
01:32:32,813 --> 01:32:36,017
So Joe came running
upstairs, and put on a pretty

1711
01:32:36,017 --> 01:32:38,052
good show, and called 911.

1712
01:32:38,519 --> 01:32:40,054
Then Dr. Nick came running.

1713
01:32:40,988 --> 01:32:44,559
When the ambulance arrived
I slowed my breathing

1714
01:32:44,559 --> 01:32:47,562
for the medics, I learned
that in martial arts.

1715
01:32:47,562 --> 01:32:51,299
Dr. Nick ordered them to
put an oxygen mask on me,

1716
01:32:51,299 --> 01:32:54,902
and fetch the stretcher, that's
when we did the body swap.

1717
01:32:55,836 --> 01:32:59,540
I got in the closet, Dr.
Nick put the oxygen mask

1718
01:32:59,540 --> 01:33:01,742
on Roscoe, and set
him on the floor.

1719
01:33:01,742 --> 01:33:05,179
Then the medics came back and
put Roscoe on the stretcher.

1720
01:33:05,479 --> 01:33:08,549
And Dr. Nick went along with
the ambulance so he could

1721
01:33:08,749 --> 01:33:12,053
identify the body at the
hospital as Elvis Presley.

1722
01:33:13,421 --> 01:33:18,292
- Tonight August, 16th,
Elvis Presley died today.

1723
01:33:18,659 --> 01:33:21,762
He was 42, his doctor
pronounced him dead

1724
01:33:21,762 --> 01:33:23,397
at three o'clock this afternoon.

1725
01:33:23,397 --> 01:33:26,300
- [Joel] What did you do
next, what the plan for you?

1726
01:33:26,300 --> 01:33:28,569
- [Elvis] First thing
was, I had to bust out

1727
01:33:28,569 --> 01:33:31,305
of the bathroom closet because
they locked the door on me.

1728
01:33:31,772 --> 01:33:34,976
Then I went out the bathroom
window on to the rooftop.

1729
01:33:34,976 --> 01:33:38,446
(upbeat music)

1730
01:33:38,446 --> 01:33:43,317
The plan was for a DEA
helicopter to pick me up.

1731
01:33:44,318 --> 01:33:47,622
I was gonna fly to Argentina
until things blew over.

1732
01:33:47,622 --> 01:33:49,323
Then on to Kalamazoo, Michigan.

1733
01:33:49,523 --> 01:33:53,361
But the helicopter
saw a television crew
outside the gate.

1734
01:33:53,361 --> 01:33:54,462
And left.

1735
01:33:54,895 --> 01:33:57,231
So I shimmied down
the side of the house,

1736
01:33:57,999 --> 01:33:59,900
and I walked into
the pool house.

1737
01:34:05,172 --> 01:34:07,608
- It is a scene in Memphis.

1738
01:34:07,808 --> 01:34:11,078
Thousands of people milling
around outside the mansion

1739
01:34:11,078 --> 01:34:13,547
where Elvis Presley's body left.

1740
01:34:13,547 --> 01:34:16,350
- [Joel] Was it part of the
plan to have a public viewing

1741
01:34:16,350 --> 01:34:18,252
of the body the day after?

1742
01:34:18,452 --> 01:34:20,254
- [Elvis] No, no it wasn't.

1743
01:34:20,554 --> 01:34:23,290
As soon as my so called
death was announced

1744
01:34:23,290 --> 01:34:26,560
Colonel Parker got a call
from Paul Castellano who

1745
01:34:26,560 --> 01:34:28,896
screamed at him
this is bullshit.

1746
01:34:29,296 --> 01:34:33,300
The Colonel got scared, and
insisted on an open casket

1747
01:34:33,300 --> 01:34:35,102
to prove I had died.

1748
01:34:35,102 --> 01:34:36,737
There were no cameras allowed.

1749
01:34:36,937 --> 01:34:40,041
But the National Enquirer
paid my cousin Bobby Mann

1750
01:34:40,041 --> 01:34:40,908
to sneak one in.

1751
01:34:41,208 --> 01:34:43,377
- [Joel] Now at
the public viewing

1752
01:34:43,577 --> 01:34:45,012
people said you
didn't look real.

1753
01:34:45,012 --> 01:34:47,648
- [Elvis] That's right,
the problem was as Roscoe

1754
01:34:47,648 --> 01:34:51,118
got sicker, then being on
life support he lost weight.

1755
01:34:51,118 --> 01:34:52,353
Well I gained weight.

1756
01:34:53,020 --> 01:34:55,589
So by now we didn't
look much alike.

1757
01:34:55,589 --> 01:34:58,759
But daddy remembered
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum

1758
01:34:58,759 --> 01:35:02,229
in London had sculpted
my head for a wax dummy,

1759
01:35:02,229 --> 01:35:04,131
and sent it to me for approval.

1760
01:35:04,331 --> 01:35:06,701
Daddy still had the
wax head in his office

1761
01:35:06,701 --> 01:35:08,335
back at the house.

1762
01:35:08,335 --> 01:35:10,971
(upbeat music)

1763
01:35:13,007 --> 01:35:15,976
So he glued on some
sideburns and hair.

1764
01:35:16,343 --> 01:35:18,579
I thought the
hairline was too old.

1765
01:35:18,779 --> 01:35:22,883
- When we viewed the
body, his nose looked

1766
01:35:22,883 --> 01:35:25,186
kind of puggy looking.

1767
01:35:25,186 --> 01:35:29,256
And his hair piece,
something glued on.

1768
01:35:30,458 --> 01:35:32,326
I just didn't
believe it was him.

1769
01:35:32,626 --> 01:35:35,262
(upbeat music)

1770
01:35:36,464 --> 01:35:38,999
- [Elvis] Another problem
was Madame Tussaud's

1771
01:35:38,999 --> 01:35:42,737
had made a 25 year old Elvis
head, so it looked too young.

1772
01:35:42,737 --> 01:35:46,006
But in show business you
work with what you have.

1773
01:35:46,006 --> 01:35:49,910
Then for the body we took
a wax mannequin from out

1774
01:35:49,910 --> 01:35:52,713
of my closet where
I kept my costumes.

1775
01:35:53,180 --> 01:35:55,850
And the wax head and body
caused another problem.

1776
01:35:55,850 --> 01:35:59,487
It was so hot in Memphis
in August we had to put

1777
01:35:59,487 --> 01:36:01,088
an air conditioner in the coffin

1778
01:36:01,088 --> 01:36:02,623
to keep the wax from melting.

1779
01:36:03,390 --> 01:36:05,459
- [Reporter] Afternoon
temperatures rose
into the '90's,

1780
01:36:05,459 --> 01:36:08,662
the scheduled viewing
of Presley's body
was delayed an hour.

1781
01:36:08,662 --> 01:36:10,197
People began fainting.

1782
01:36:11,031 --> 01:36:14,201
- [Elvis] So at the funeral
they buried a giant candle

1783
01:36:14,568 --> 01:36:16,570
and an air conditioner.

1784
01:36:16,570 --> 01:36:18,873
It took nine guys to carry it.

1785
01:36:19,507 --> 01:36:21,509
It looked a little suspicious.

1786
01:36:22,409 --> 01:36:24,678
- [Joel] Were there any
other major mistakes?

1787
01:36:24,678 --> 01:36:26,847
- [Elvis] Well Joe was
supposed to say I was

1788
01:36:26,847 --> 01:36:30,518
found in the bathroom, but he
messed it up with an earlier

1789
01:36:30,518 --> 01:36:33,721
story we discussed that
I was found in bed.

1790
01:36:33,954 --> 01:36:36,257
- He was upstairs in his
bedroom, I went upstairs to

1791
01:36:36,257 --> 01:36:38,626
talk to him and he
wasn't breathing.

1792
01:36:39,059 --> 01:36:39,627
When I got there.

1793
01:36:40,060 --> 01:36:41,128
- [Reporter] He
was lying in bed?

1794
01:36:41,128 --> 01:36:42,196
- Yeah.

1795
01:36:42,496 --> 01:36:44,799
- [Elvis] Another problem
was Dr. Nick had me fill out

1796
01:36:44,799 --> 01:36:46,500
my death certificate in June.

1797
01:36:47,234 --> 01:36:50,504
He was supposed to type it
up, but his secretary filed

1798
01:36:50,704 --> 01:36:52,673
the original that was
in my handwriting.

1799
01:36:53,808 --> 01:36:55,876
- [Joel] What about the
spelling of your middle name

1800
01:36:56,076 --> 01:36:58,279
on the gravestone,
why the extra A?

1801
01:36:58,279 --> 01:37:03,517
A-A-R-O-N instead
of just A-R-O-N

1802
01:37:03,517 --> 01:37:05,452
as on your birth certificate?

1803
01:37:07,655 --> 01:37:10,925
- [Elvis] That wasn't a
mistake, it was intentional.

1804
01:37:10,925 --> 01:37:13,460
Who wants to see their
name on their grave?

1805
01:37:13,460 --> 01:37:16,730
I had no intention of
putting a hex on myself.

1806
01:37:16,730 --> 01:37:18,899
- [Joel] And why didn't
they drape your casket

1807
01:37:18,899 --> 01:37:22,169
in an American flag,
as an ex Army officer?

1808
01:37:22,169 --> 01:37:24,538
- [Elvis] That would've been
disrespectful to the flag

1809
01:37:24,538 --> 01:37:27,007
and others who gave their
lives for our country.

1810
01:37:27,007 --> 01:37:30,110
- [Joel] Anything else to
add about faking your death?

1811
01:37:30,110 --> 01:37:32,913
- [Elvis] Well I feel
badly to this day.

1812
01:37:32,913 --> 01:37:38,552
Because I know Roscoe was
dying, but I suspect Dr. Nick

1813
01:37:38,552 --> 01:37:41,021
may have finished him
off to keep the schedule.

1814
01:37:44,859 --> 01:37:47,761
(upbeat music)

1815
01:37:54,602 --> 01:37:55,236
(lightening)

1816
01:37:56,337 --> 01:37:59,840
- Four Memphis men were arrested
this morning on suspicion

1817
01:37:59,840 --> 01:38:03,777
of trying to steal the body
of singer Elvis Presley.

1818
01:38:03,777 --> 01:38:06,580
- [Elvis] Paul Castellano
got even more suspicious

1819
01:38:06,580 --> 01:38:09,216
after the National Enquirer
published the photograph.

1820
01:38:09,950 --> 01:38:12,419
So he sent some boys
to check out the body.

1821
01:38:12,786 --> 01:38:15,522
They broke into the cemetery.

1822
01:38:15,522 --> 01:38:18,158
But the FBI had staked it out.

1823
01:38:18,158 --> 01:38:20,227
They gave the police
a cover story.

1824
01:38:20,227 --> 01:38:22,162
That they were gonna
ransom the body.

1825
01:38:22,162 --> 01:38:24,798
The charges were dropped
to avoid a trial where

1826
01:38:24,798 --> 01:38:26,967
people might ask
the wrong questions.

1827
01:38:27,368 --> 01:38:31,171
After that daddy had the
casket buried at Graceland.

1828
01:38:31,171 --> 01:38:33,707
(upbeat music)

1829
01:38:36,176 --> 01:38:38,879
- [Joel] So how long did
you stay in the pool house?

1830
01:38:38,879 --> 01:38:43,250
In January of 1978 a tourist
took an interesting photo

1831
01:38:43,250 --> 01:38:44,718
of someone in the door.

1832
01:38:45,386 --> 01:38:48,355
- [Elvis] Yeah that was me.

1833
01:38:48,355 --> 01:38:50,891
I was a homeless
ghost for few months.

1834
01:38:51,191 --> 01:38:53,560
I just read books and
watched the tourists.

1835
01:38:53,560 --> 01:38:56,196
(upbeat music)

1836
01:38:58,132 --> 01:39:03,437
I didn't realize the pain
my death would 'cause folks.

1837
01:39:03,837 --> 01:39:06,640
- I talk to him,
and I tell him that.

1838
01:39:11,946 --> 01:39:16,116
- He was so much for
us, we love him so much.

1839
01:39:16,116 --> 01:39:19,687
- [Elvis] I didn't understand
why people like me.

1840
01:39:20,754 --> 01:39:25,059
I mean, I hadn't done
anything special for 20 years.

1841
01:39:25,759 --> 01:39:27,761
Even then, all I did was sing.

1842
01:39:29,363 --> 01:39:31,598
After that photograph came out

1843
01:39:31,598 --> 01:39:34,034
I left for Kalamazoo,
Michigan, and started

1844
01:39:34,234 --> 01:39:36,036
in the Witness
Protection Program.

1845
01:39:36,770 --> 01:39:39,940
I worked in an old
hotel as a desk clerk.

1846
01:39:40,140 --> 01:39:42,977
It helped me get my
confidence up so I could deal

1847
01:39:42,977 --> 01:39:45,145
with people and
not be recognized.

1848
01:39:46,613 --> 01:39:51,051
By July of '78 I left
witness protection and went

1849
01:39:51,051 --> 01:39:53,387
back to work for the
drug enforcement agency.

1850
01:39:53,988 --> 01:39:56,457
At first I continued
working on the mafia.

1851
01:39:56,457 --> 01:40:00,728
I had Joey Gallo's
brother on a wire tap,

1852
01:40:00,728 --> 01:40:02,296
threatening Bob Dylan.

1853
01:40:02,896 --> 01:40:05,332
He accused him of
getting Joey killed.

1854
01:40:05,332 --> 01:40:08,168
And he told Dylan you
better come to Jesus

1855
01:40:08,168 --> 01:40:11,638
for Catholics, that
means you'll be forgiven

1856
01:40:11,638 --> 01:40:13,040
if you apologize.

1857
01:40:13,707 --> 01:40:16,076
But Dylan was Jewish
and he misunderstood.

1858
01:40:16,276 --> 01:40:20,080
So he went and got baptized
and made three gospel albums

1859
01:40:20,080 --> 01:40:23,717
before he came to find an
apology would of sufficed.

1860
01:40:24,451 --> 01:40:26,453
And that's when he went
back to being Jewish.

1861
01:40:28,222 --> 01:40:30,657
- [Joel] Why did you
wear the Star of David.

1862
01:40:30,657 --> 01:40:33,927
Also on your mother's
original gravestone header.

1863
01:40:34,928 --> 01:40:36,930
- [Elvis] I always
considered myself

1864
01:40:36,930 --> 01:40:38,098
as a Jewish entertainer.

1865
01:40:38,098 --> 01:40:41,001
According to Jewish
law I am Jewish.

1866
01:40:41,368 --> 01:40:43,537
'Cause mama descended
from Jewish females.

1867
01:40:44,471 --> 01:40:48,075
When I was growing up my family
told me not to say nothing

1868
01:40:48,942 --> 01:40:50,677
'cause people in the
south didn't like Jews.

1869
01:40:50,677 --> 01:40:54,848
Even daddy would
talk anti-semetic
and I'd get real mad.

1870
01:40:55,149 --> 01:40:58,419
I embraced many faiths, I
certainly didn't want to miss

1871
01:40:58,419 --> 01:41:00,220
heaven on a technicality.

1872
01:41:02,256 --> 01:41:04,558
- [Joel] Did you use
any special disguises

1873
01:41:04,758 --> 01:41:06,960
during those years?

1874
01:41:06,960 --> 01:41:09,129
- [Elvis] No not
really, everyone thought

1875
01:41:09,129 --> 01:41:11,298
I was a damn good
Elvis impersonator.

1876
01:41:11,799 --> 01:41:14,668
They would stare and
say, no it can't be.

1877
01:41:14,868 --> 01:41:17,504
- This weekend outside of
Chicago Elvis was there

1878
01:41:17,504 --> 01:41:18,405
a hundred fold.

1879
01:41:20,374 --> 01:41:24,511
[Reporter] Miles of sideburns,
acres of chest hair.

1880
01:41:24,511 --> 01:41:27,347
And the joint was
jumping with jumpsuits.

1881
01:41:27,347 --> 01:41:30,084
♪ Love me tender

1882
01:41:30,084 --> 01:41:31,618
♪ Love me true

1883
01:41:31,618 --> 01:41:32,786
- [Elvis] The impersonators
were fantastic.

1884
01:41:32,786 --> 01:41:33,520
It was a big compliment.

1885
01:41:33,987 --> 01:41:36,890
In fact I go to Elvis
look alike conventions.

1886
01:41:36,890 --> 01:41:39,259
It's the only place where
I can connect with the fans

1887
01:41:39,259 --> 01:41:40,694
and not be recognized.

1888
01:41:41,728 --> 01:41:46,733
Today I got more look alikes
than anyone on the planet.

1889
01:41:46,733 --> 01:41:48,569
No one even does a double take.

1890
01:41:48,569 --> 01:41:51,171
(upbeat music)

1891
01:41:54,908 --> 01:41:56,510
But once, a young lady saw me

1892
01:41:56,810 --> 01:41:58,912
in a supermarket and
kept following me.

1893
01:41:58,912 --> 01:42:01,748
Finally she said I
almost can't believe it,

1894
01:42:01,748 --> 01:42:04,818
but I think I know who you are.

1895
01:42:04,818 --> 01:42:07,187
And right then and there,
in the produce section

1896
01:42:07,187 --> 01:42:11,458
she started crying, and I
said honey, don't you cry.

1897
01:42:11,658 --> 01:42:12,860
And she put her arms around me

1898
01:42:12,860 --> 01:42:15,429
and she said I'll
always love you.

1899
01:42:16,096 --> 01:42:19,066
- For years fans of Elvis
Presley maintained that his

1900
01:42:19,867 --> 01:42:21,768
one time manager Colonel
Tom Parker took advantage

1901
01:42:21,768 --> 01:42:22,936
of him financially.

1902
01:42:23,770 --> 01:42:26,840
- [Joel] The Colonel once
said Elvis takes 50% of

1903
01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:31,478
everything I earn, why did
he get a 50% management fee

1904
01:42:31,478 --> 01:42:34,548
when the industry
standard was 15%?

1905
01:42:35,482 --> 01:42:38,152
- [Elvis] Tom Parker was
an egotistical, obnoxious,

1906
01:42:38,152 --> 01:42:39,953
old carnie hustler.

1907
01:42:40,154 --> 01:42:42,156
He treated me like
a carnival show.

1908
01:42:42,156 --> 01:42:44,591
Making money off me to
feed his gambling habit.

1909
01:42:44,591 --> 01:42:48,328
- [Reporter] Parker , he
said he himself would do

1910
01:42:48,629 --> 01:42:51,231
an interview for just $25,000.

1911
01:42:51,231 --> 01:42:54,801
- [Elvis] He did not care
for me as a human being.

1912
01:42:54,801 --> 01:42:57,504
As a carnie he viewed
people as suckers.

1913
01:42:57,871 --> 01:42:59,506
Only for what he
could get out of them.

1914
01:43:00,807 --> 01:43:03,710
The Colonel is the most
overrated person in

1915
01:43:03,710 --> 01:43:05,913
the history of show business.

1916
01:43:05,913 --> 01:43:08,549
There's more to him.

1917
01:43:08,549 --> 01:43:10,617
I wanted to tour Europe,
especially to Germany

1918
01:43:10,617 --> 01:43:13,187
to repay the people
for their hospitality.

1919
01:43:13,620 --> 01:43:14,688
And there were offers.

1920
01:43:14,988 --> 01:43:17,558
Even 10 million to sing
in Egypt at the Pyramids.

1921
01:43:18,158 --> 01:43:20,060
But The Colonel always said no.

1922
01:43:20,260 --> 01:43:23,263
So I figured he must
have a secret far worse

1923
01:43:23,263 --> 01:43:24,865
than being an illegal resident.

1924
01:43:25,532 --> 01:43:27,467
I mean he was friends
with Lyndon Johnson,

1925
01:43:27,467 --> 01:43:29,603
he could've fixed it
with one phone call.

1926
01:43:29,937 --> 01:43:34,474
I had to study about psychopaths
working with the FBI.

1927
01:43:34,474 --> 01:43:35,909
And it reminded me
of The Colonel's

1928
01:43:35,909 --> 01:43:37,544
Jekyll and Hyde personality.

1929
01:43:38,111 --> 01:43:41,081
He was kind and cruel,
stingy and generous,

1930
01:43:41,381 --> 01:43:44,918
reckless and conservative,
and The Colonel didn't have

1931
01:43:44,918 --> 01:43:46,687
an empathetic bone in his body.

1932
01:43:50,157 --> 01:43:53,827
So I pulled The Colonel's U.S.
Army records and found out

1933
01:43:54,561 --> 01:43:57,231
he was discharged for
being a psychopath.

1934
01:43:58,065 --> 01:44:00,934
That's how we classify murders.

1935
01:44:01,301 --> 01:44:02,236
And then I read about an
unsolved murder in his

1936
01:44:02,769 --> 01:44:07,140
hometown in Breda, in
Holland, a 23 year old woman

1937
01:44:07,140 --> 01:44:10,410
named Anna Van Den-Enden was
beaten to death in her kitchen

1938
01:44:10,410 --> 01:44:13,146
on May 17, 1929.

1939
01:44:13,146 --> 01:44:17,351
That evening Andreas Cornelis
Van Kuijk, that's The Colonel

1940
01:44:17,351 --> 01:44:19,319
jumped on a ship for America.

1941
01:44:19,319 --> 01:44:22,356
Without saying goodbye to his
family or taking any money.

1942
01:44:22,356 --> 01:44:24,124
Any clothes or ID.

1943
01:44:24,725 --> 01:44:27,961
And that's why he spent his
life denying his family,

1944
01:44:27,961 --> 01:44:29,029
and his home country.

1945
01:44:29,329 --> 01:44:32,266
And I ended up paying the price.

1946
01:44:36,003 --> 01:44:38,905
(upbeat music)

1947
01:44:48,015 --> 01:44:51,084
In 1980 I was assigned back
to The Weather Underground.

1948
01:44:51,084 --> 01:44:53,553
(rock music)

1949
01:44:55,389 --> 01:44:58,425
We got a wiretap from a secret
meeting with The Weathermen

1950
01:44:59,259 --> 01:45:01,361
that they decided to
split into two parts.

1951
01:45:01,361 --> 01:45:06,266
Bill Ayers, and Bernardine
Dohrn would come above ground.

1952
01:45:07,200 --> 01:45:09,469
- Here today from the 1960's
the leader of the violent

1953
01:45:09,469 --> 01:45:11,838
Weather Underground
radicals came out of hiding

1954
01:45:11,838 --> 01:45:13,473
and surrendered to authorities.

1955
01:45:15,208 --> 01:45:16,276
Bernardine Dohrn of
1980 sounded a lot like

1956
01:45:16,576 --> 01:45:18,578
Bernardine Dohrn of 1969.

1957
01:45:19,379 --> 01:45:21,014
- The is inevitable
and continuous.

1958
01:45:21,014 --> 01:45:24,484
Resistance by every means
necessary is happening

1959
01:45:24,851 --> 01:45:27,120
and will continue to happen
within the United States

1960
01:45:27,120 --> 01:45:30,057
as well as around the world,
and I remain committed

1961
01:45:30,057 --> 01:45:31,325
to the struggle ahead.

1962
01:45:34,428 --> 01:45:36,229
- [Elvis] And they were
filtered back into society,

1963
01:45:36,229 --> 01:45:39,866
and get university jobs, and
find candidates for national

1964
01:45:39,866 --> 01:45:42,402
office to force
socialism on America.

1965
01:45:43,236 --> 01:45:46,039
The others will stay
underground and continue

1966
01:45:46,039 --> 01:45:48,508
the violent revolution
to destroy America.

1967
01:45:48,508 --> 01:45:52,012
(rock music)

1968
01:45:52,012 --> 01:45:54,247
- [Joel] You mean a
political and military wing

1969
01:45:54,247 --> 01:45:55,248
like the IRA?

1970
01:45:55,449 --> 01:45:57,784
- [Elvis] Yeah it was
a long term strategy.

1971
01:45:57,984 --> 01:46:01,421
Their first operation was
to assassinate Dr. Nick.

1972
01:46:01,421 --> 01:46:04,891
They shot him at a football
game at the Liberty Bowl,

1973
01:46:04,891 --> 01:46:07,327
but he was wearing
a bullet proof vest.

1974
01:46:07,327 --> 01:46:10,364
Captain Nazi thought if they
killed Dr. Nick and I was

1975
01:46:10,364 --> 01:46:13,700
still alive I'd go to
the funeral and they
could get me too.

1976
01:46:13,700 --> 01:46:17,437
Remember Bill Ayers was
afraid of me, I haunted him.

1977
01:46:18,004 --> 01:46:20,374
He was paranoid I'd
find him, and shoot

1978
01:46:20,374 --> 01:46:22,008
him dead on the spot.

1979
01:46:22,008 --> 01:46:23,377
And I would have.

1980
01:46:25,545 --> 01:46:28,081
And Ayers was an
arrogant son of a bitch.

1981
01:46:28,081 --> 01:46:30,751
Thought he was some
kind of a rock star.

1982
01:46:32,285 --> 01:46:36,623
And now, The Weathermen took
money from Libya and Cuba.

1983
01:46:37,090 --> 01:46:39,659
And filled up apartments
with guns and explosives

1984
01:46:39,659 --> 01:46:41,395
for a new communist revolution.

1985
01:46:41,395 --> 01:46:44,030
They had plans to
assassinate judges.

1986
01:46:44,030 --> 01:46:45,399
The governor of New York.

1987
01:46:45,399 --> 01:46:48,201
Former President Nixon,
and building plans

1988
01:46:48,402 --> 01:46:51,104
on New York City police
precincts to murder cops again.

1989
01:46:51,104 --> 01:46:53,407
I was hollering for the
DEA to bust the gang.

1990
01:46:54,341 --> 01:46:55,942
'Cause they were so dangerous.

1991
01:46:56,309 --> 01:46:59,312
But they insisted on watching
them to build their case.

1992
01:46:59,312 --> 01:47:00,280
And sure enough.

1993
01:47:00,781 --> 01:47:03,150
- [Reporter] Police booked two
men and two women on charges

1994
01:47:03,150 --> 01:47:05,685
of armed robbery and the
killing of two policeman

1995
01:47:05,685 --> 01:47:07,120
and a Brinks truck guard.

1996
01:47:07,320 --> 01:47:11,491
Barbara Edson is in fact Kathy
Boudin, a 38 year old member

1997
01:47:11,491 --> 01:47:13,493
of the radical
Weather Underground.

1998
01:47:13,493 --> 01:47:15,862
- They will kill people,
and what are their ends?

1999
01:47:15,862 --> 01:47:19,332
Their ultimate ends
have to the overthrow

2000
01:47:19,332 --> 01:47:20,700
of the democratic government.

2001
01:47:20,700 --> 01:47:22,502
- [Elvis] And at at the
end of 1983 they bombed

2002
01:47:22,702 --> 01:47:24,304
the capital again.

2003
01:47:25,071 --> 01:47:27,507
- [Reporter] Police said the
bomb was planted in an alcove

2004
01:47:27,507 --> 01:47:29,876
along the hall behind
the senate chamber.

2005
01:47:30,076 --> 01:47:32,579
- [Elvis] I was so disgusted
that I quit the DEA.

2006
01:47:33,146 --> 01:47:36,249
I mean I caught Captain
Nazi twice, just like

2007
01:47:36,249 --> 01:47:39,886
Captain Marvel Junior had,
but they let him get away.

2008
01:47:40,187 --> 01:47:42,355
Anyhow it was becoming dangerous

2009
01:47:42,355 --> 01:47:44,224
for me to work in the field.

2010
01:47:44,424 --> 01:47:46,493
'Cause rumors were
flying that I was alive.

2011
01:47:46,827 --> 01:47:49,463
- Now you saw Elvis where?

2012
01:47:49,463 --> 01:47:52,232
- [Caller] In the grocery
store in Vicksburg, Michigan.

2013
01:47:52,532 --> 01:47:54,267
- I believe he's till alive.

2014
01:47:54,267 --> 01:47:57,170
I just believe he had a
break down, and he got upset

2015
01:47:57,370 --> 01:47:58,371
and he had to get away.

2016
01:47:58,738 --> 01:48:01,908
- I firmly believe that he
is alive, I have seen him.

2017
01:48:01,908 --> 01:48:03,009
- How does he look these days?

2018
01:48:03,376 --> 01:48:06,112
- [Caller] He looked pretty
good, he did have his hair.

2019
01:48:06,112 --> 01:48:08,014
And he looked healthy.

2020
01:48:09,115 --> 01:48:11,117
- [Elvis] I felt
like a wanted man.

2021
01:48:12,686 --> 01:48:16,556
- [Joel] Gail Girogio wrote
that book Is Elvis Alive?

2022
01:48:16,556 --> 01:48:19,025
- [Reporter] Gail Brewer-Giorgio
with her book about

2023
01:48:19,025 --> 01:48:21,228
all the people
who've seen Elvis.

2024
01:48:21,228 --> 01:48:24,130
- I can't ignore what I'm seeing

2025
01:48:24,130 --> 01:48:25,332
I certainly can't ignore

2026
01:48:25,599 --> 01:48:28,568
people that are very credible
that say they have seen him.

2027
01:48:28,568 --> 01:48:32,038
- [Joel] And TV specials
aired that you didn't die.

2028
01:48:32,038 --> 01:48:33,573
- [Elvis] Bill
Bixby did his show.

2029
01:48:33,773 --> 01:48:37,110
- Inside these FBI files
is dramatic evidence

2030
01:48:37,310 --> 01:48:40,947
that Elvis Presley may have
had a life or death reason

2031
01:48:40,947 --> 01:48:42,849
for disappearing
from public view.

2032
01:48:42,849 --> 01:48:45,585
- Why the misspelling
of a name on a grave?

2033
01:48:45,785 --> 01:48:48,154
Why the moving of a grave?

2034
01:48:48,154 --> 01:48:50,123
- [Elvis] All that
made me very nervous.

2035
01:48:50,690 --> 01:48:53,426
Ms. Georgio went on Larry
King and Geraldo and got

2036
01:48:53,426 --> 01:48:55,428
everyone thinking.

2037
01:48:55,428 --> 01:48:57,397
Then a man opened the
Elvis Is Alive Museum.

2038
01:48:57,597 --> 01:49:03,603
- On August 16, 1977
Graceland buried a wax figure.

2039
01:49:03,603 --> 01:49:04,871
Not Elvis Presley.

2040
01:49:05,171 --> 01:49:08,408
An air conditioner was in
the casket blowing cold air.

2041
01:49:08,608 --> 01:49:10,877
- [Elvis] After that
they came out with

2042
01:49:11,177 --> 01:49:13,013
the Elvis Commission Report.

2043
01:49:13,880 --> 01:49:18,919
Then DNA tests, even a
newspaper photograph.

2044
01:49:21,187 --> 01:49:22,722
I'd been a boxing fan ever
since I did Kid Galahad.

2045
01:49:24,457 --> 01:49:26,359
And was friendly
with Muhammad Ali.

2046
01:49:27,027 --> 01:49:29,062
I'd been to his training
camp in Deer Lake, Michigan,

2047
01:49:29,629 --> 01:49:31,197
when I lived in Kalamazoo.

2048
01:49:32,098 --> 01:49:33,967
And I had a robe
made up for him.

2049
01:49:34,668 --> 01:49:37,470
So I went to see Ali when
he was in the hospital.

2050
01:49:37,470 --> 01:49:40,373
We left out a back
exit but somebody got

2051
01:49:40,373 --> 01:49:44,110
a photograph anyway,
so the FBI suggested

2052
01:49:44,110 --> 01:49:46,179
a misinformation campaign.

2053
01:49:46,479 --> 01:49:47,681
My step brother Rick said

2054
01:49:47,681 --> 01:49:50,984
I suffocated in
the shag carpeting.

2055
01:49:50,984 --> 01:49:54,487
While my other step brother
David said it was a suicide.

2056
01:49:54,487 --> 01:49:57,057
And Joe argued against
them, it worked.

2057
01:49:57,057 --> 01:50:00,260
Because the public started
to focus on how I died,

2058
01:50:00,760 --> 01:50:02,696
instead of if I was dead.

2059
01:50:03,763 --> 01:50:06,232
- [Joel] Why didn't you come
back and restart your music

2060
01:50:06,232 --> 01:50:07,667
career at that time?

2061
01:50:08,134 --> 01:50:10,870
- [Elvis] I miss my
singing career very much.

2062
01:50:11,071 --> 01:50:13,306
My first problem was
Elvis Incorporated.

2063
01:50:13,306 --> 01:50:16,309
- Even though Elvis Presley
is dead his legend lives on

2064
01:50:16,309 --> 01:50:17,744
and it's worth a lot of money.

2065
01:50:18,044 --> 01:50:21,748
- And Elvis Frisbee,
and Elvis knife.

2066
01:50:22,048 --> 01:50:24,351
If you can print Elvis
Presley's name and picture

2067
01:50:24,351 --> 01:50:26,720
on it, they've mad a
souvenir out of it.

2068
01:50:26,720 --> 01:50:29,789
They've even got an
Elvis Presley $1.00 bill.

2069
01:50:29,789 --> 01:50:31,358
It sells for $3.95.

2070
01:50:32,626 --> 01:50:34,894
- [Elvis] My estate had
made millions of dollars.

2071
01:50:34,894 --> 01:50:36,730
Fans were buying up everything.

2072
01:50:36,730 --> 01:50:39,399
Colonel Parker said
that if I came back,

2073
01:50:40,066 --> 01:50:43,336
the fans would feel I deceived
them and burn my records.

2074
01:50:43,336 --> 01:50:46,373
Just like they did
with The Beatles.

2075
01:50:46,373 --> 01:50:48,708
The bigger problem
was two young girls.

2076
01:50:48,708 --> 01:50:51,645
Fans who were standing
in line to see the casket

2077
01:50:51,645 --> 01:50:53,613
got killed by a drunk driver.

2078
01:50:53,913 --> 01:50:56,650
- In Memphis early today a
car smashed into the crowd

2079
01:50:56,650 --> 01:50:59,986
outside of the Presley home,
two teenage girls were killed.

2080
01:50:59,986 --> 01:51:01,888
A policeman said the
driver had been drinking.

2081
01:51:02,088 --> 01:51:04,457
- The Colonel said if
I didn't stay dead,

2082
01:51:04,457 --> 01:51:06,092
I would be charged with murder.

2083
01:51:09,295 --> 01:51:12,999
So I went to see President
Regan, it was great

2084
01:51:12,999 --> 01:51:17,137
to be back at the White
House after so much time.

2085
01:51:17,137 --> 01:51:20,974
I liked Regan he had
strong American principles.

2086
01:51:20,974 --> 01:51:24,210
I felt he defeated
the communists.

2087
01:51:24,210 --> 01:51:26,746
President Regan encouraged
me to come back.

2088
01:51:27,147 --> 01:51:29,382
He said it would
uplift the country,

2089
01:51:29,582 --> 01:51:31,751
and he would pardon me
when he left office.

2090
01:51:34,154 --> 01:51:37,457
But by then Regan was
starting to forget things,

2091
01:51:37,757 --> 01:51:39,359
and I felt I could
not rely on him.

2092
01:51:40,060 --> 01:51:43,730
So next, I got a full
time desk job at the FBI.

2093
01:51:44,330 --> 01:51:46,132
Working in intelligence.

2094
01:51:47,434 --> 01:51:49,035
- Memphis Tennessee is about to

2095
01:51:49,335 --> 01:51:53,440
get a new tourist attraction,
public tours inside Graceland.

2096
01:51:53,440 --> 01:51:55,508
- [Paula] My name is
Paula and I'm gonna

2097
01:51:55,508 --> 01:51:57,043
tell you about Elvis' den.

2098
01:51:57,043 --> 01:51:59,412
- You can just
picture him there.

2099
01:51:59,612 --> 01:52:01,247
Having fun watching television.

2100
01:52:01,247 --> 01:52:01,881
- [Reporter] If
you've ever wondered

2101
01:52:02,248 --> 01:52:04,317
Elvis Presley Enterprises takes

2102
01:52:04,617 --> 01:52:06,619
in 75 million dollars a year.

2103
01:52:06,619 --> 01:52:10,990
- [Joel] How do you feel
about the Elvis Presley

2104
01:52:10,990 --> 01:52:12,792
merchandising, and what
they've done to Graceland?

2105
01:52:12,992 --> 01:52:14,627
They sell Elvis
Presley everything,

2106
01:52:14,627 --> 01:52:17,097
bobble heads, statues, mugs.

2107
01:52:17,097 --> 01:52:19,733
(upbeat music)

2108
01:52:26,406 --> 01:52:28,875
- [Elvis] I blame this
on The Colonel and Cilla,

2109
01:52:29,542 --> 01:52:31,277
they turned my life
into a cartoon.

2110
01:52:32,212 --> 01:52:34,080
But what could I do about it?

2111
01:52:38,685 --> 01:52:41,488
I love Graceland so I
make my house here look

2112
01:52:41,488 --> 01:52:43,089
like Graceland as much as I can.

2113
01:52:43,089 --> 01:52:45,658
(upbeat music)

2114
01:53:04,444 --> 01:53:07,480
But the Elvis Presley postage
stamps were a real honor.

2115
01:53:07,480 --> 01:53:10,316
- [Reporter] A person has
to be dead for 10 years

2116
01:53:10,316 --> 01:53:13,486
in order that a stamp can
be issued, but Elvis keeps

2117
01:53:13,486 --> 01:53:16,222
popping up in the
Kalamazoo supermarket.

2118
01:53:16,222 --> 01:53:18,658
- [Elvis] They even recognized
my service by placing a small

2119
01:53:18,858 --> 01:53:20,627
DEA badge on my collar.

2120
01:53:20,960 --> 01:53:23,696
(dramatic music)

2121
01:53:26,833 --> 01:53:28,668
- [Joel] Did you ever remarry?

2122
01:53:29,068 --> 01:53:31,671
- [Elvis] No but,
I had a girlfriend.

2123
01:53:31,971 --> 01:53:34,808
Someone at the bureau
for a long time.

2124
01:53:34,808 --> 01:53:37,644
When you're not in
love you're not alive.

2125
01:53:37,644 --> 01:53:39,345
I always loved Cilla.

2126
01:53:39,345 --> 01:53:41,247
So I've watched over her.

2127
01:53:41,548 --> 01:53:44,350
An unlicensed cosmetic
surgeon messed up her face.

2128
01:53:44,350 --> 01:53:45,919
So I helped send him to prison.

2129
01:53:49,022 --> 01:53:51,257
- [Joel] What do you
think of today's music?

2130
01:53:51,257 --> 01:53:54,093
- [Elvis] It's been all
down hill since about 1977.

2131
01:53:54,828 --> 01:53:56,262
- [Joel] Have you been
involved at all in

2132
01:53:56,262 --> 01:53:59,165
the entertainment business
in the last 34 years?

2133
01:53:59,165 --> 01:54:01,167
- [Elvis] Well there's no
way I can perform my music

2134
01:54:01,167 --> 01:54:03,069
live, or star in a film.

2135
01:54:03,469 --> 01:54:05,905
But you know, it's like
the old song, there ain't

2136
01:54:06,105 --> 01:54:09,642
no business like show business,
so I wrote a movie script

2137
01:54:09,843 --> 01:54:14,848
called finding Graceland, and
Cilla produced it in 1998.

2138
01:54:14,848 --> 01:54:17,350
It was about myself trying
to get back to Graceland

2139
01:54:17,650 --> 01:54:20,553
to go home, I had a
production company called

2140
01:54:20,553 --> 01:54:25,191
Boxcar Productions, so Cilla,
she let me play the tramp

2141
01:54:25,191 --> 01:54:26,926
in the boxcar at the
end of the picture.

2142
01:54:28,228 --> 01:54:32,532
Then I was in Avatar, I got
to be one of the warriors.

2143
01:54:32,932 --> 01:54:35,401
I was fighting the bad
guys all over again.

2144
01:54:35,401 --> 01:54:37,136
(upbeat music)

2145
01:54:37,136 --> 01:54:39,205
- [Joel] I thought you
didn't like making movies?

2146
01:54:39,572 --> 01:54:41,207
- [Elvis] No I
just said I didn't

2147
01:54:41,207 --> 01:54:42,876
like starring in bad movies.

2148
01:54:45,778 --> 01:54:48,147
- [Joel] How did you
feel when Michael Jackson

2149
01:54:48,147 --> 01:54:49,482
married Lisa Marie?

2150
01:54:49,782 --> 01:54:51,951
- [Elvis] I thought it was
silly, I wanted to slap

2151
01:54:52,151 --> 01:54:55,922
the crap out of both of them,
Michael Jackson had an agenda.

2152
01:54:56,689 --> 01:54:58,057
He certainly should
not have used

2153
01:54:58,057 --> 01:54:59,792
my daughter to repair his image.

2154
01:55:02,629 --> 01:55:05,431
- [Joel] What did you think
of the film Honeymoon In Vegas

2155
01:55:05,431 --> 01:55:06,900
with the flying Elvis'?

2156
01:55:08,534 --> 01:55:12,538
- [Elvis] Nick Cage was also
a huge Marvel Comics fan,

2157
01:55:12,538 --> 01:55:15,975
in fact he changed his last
name from Coppola to Cage

2158
01:55:16,175 --> 01:55:19,078
after the Marvel Comics
super hero Luke Cage.

2159
01:55:19,979 --> 01:55:22,448
One day he confronted
Lisa Marie and said

2160
01:55:22,448 --> 01:55:26,586
he had read all the Captain
Marvel Juniors, The Hidden Death

2161
01:55:27,020 --> 01:55:28,321
and he figured it out.

2162
01:55:28,888 --> 01:55:32,158
He said he was gonna make a
movie about me faking my death.

2163
01:55:32,659 --> 01:55:35,929
So to protect me Lisa
married him and then filed

2164
01:55:35,929 --> 01:55:37,997
for divorce to get all
his financial records.

2165
01:55:38,998 --> 01:55:41,901
She handed me the file
and I gave it to the IRS.

2166
01:55:42,468 --> 01:55:43,469
That put an end to it.

2167
01:55:46,105 --> 01:55:48,308
- [Joel] Have you ever
tried to come back again?

2168
01:55:48,308 --> 01:55:50,643
- [Elvis] Yeah I've been
desperate to come back,

2169
01:55:50,843 --> 01:55:52,578
but I always needed a pardon.

2170
01:55:52,578 --> 01:55:57,050
In 1977 I went to the White
House to see President Clinton.

2171
01:55:57,050 --> 01:55:58,751
♪ You know I can be found

2172
01:55:58,952 --> 01:56:00,586
♪ Home all alone

2173
01:56:00,920 --> 01:56:02,956
My message to the
New York press.

2174
01:56:02,956 --> 01:56:05,758
♪ Don't be cruel

2175
01:56:05,758 --> 01:56:07,460
- [Elvis] I had
information on him.

2176
01:56:07,961 --> 01:56:10,596
At the FBI we knew the
Chinese Embassy had tapped

2177
01:56:10,596 --> 01:56:13,499
into his phone
calls with Lewinsky.

2178
01:56:13,499 --> 01:56:15,601
And had blackmailed
him into giving China

2179
01:56:15,601 --> 01:56:18,604
the most favored nation status.

2180
01:56:18,604 --> 01:56:21,975
And that's how America lost
it's manufacturing industry.

2181
01:56:23,076 --> 01:56:24,978
Clinton was surprised
to see me 'cause he had

2182
01:56:24,978 --> 01:56:26,746
been to my funeral
as a young man.

2183
01:56:27,046 --> 01:56:30,683
- Whether you're black or
white, whether you're country,

2184
01:56:30,883 --> 01:56:34,520
red neck or a freak, Elvis
Presley will still be

2185
01:56:34,520 --> 01:56:35,488
the king of rock and roll.

2186
01:56:35,788 --> 01:56:37,323
- [Elvis] He said
he would pardon me.

2187
01:56:37,323 --> 01:56:41,060
But within a few days the
Lewinsky thing went public.

2188
01:56:41,060 --> 01:56:42,261
And I gave up.

2189
01:56:45,264 --> 01:56:48,267
(dramatic music)

2190
01:56:56,676 --> 01:57:00,079
- [Joel] What do you think
of President Barrack Obama?

2191
01:57:01,014 --> 01:57:03,349
- [Elvis] I've been
following Barry Soetoro,

2192
01:57:03,349 --> 01:57:06,085
or Barrack Obama as
he calls himself now

2193
01:57:06,285 --> 01:57:10,023
on FBI wiretaps since
the early 1980's.

2194
01:57:10,023 --> 01:57:11,391
- [Joel] Really, how is that?

2195
01:57:11,391 --> 01:57:14,627
- [Elvis] Remember Bill
Ayers is a terrorist,

2196
01:57:15,561 --> 01:57:18,731
so he's been legally wiretapped
for a very long time.

2197
01:57:19,198 --> 01:57:21,367
And Obama became friends
with Captain Nazi

2198
01:57:21,367 --> 01:57:25,104
when he was a student
at Columbia University.

2199
01:57:25,104 --> 01:57:27,106
They met at an SDS rally.

2200
01:57:27,106 --> 01:57:28,441
The two had a lot in common.

2201
01:57:29,108 --> 01:57:31,310
They were both ashamed of
their white, middle class

2202
01:57:31,310 --> 01:57:34,614
upbringing, and they both
hated American values.

2203
01:57:35,148 --> 01:57:37,750
Bill Ayers immediately
recognized Obama as someone

2204
01:57:37,750 --> 01:57:39,952
with ambition who was electable.

2205
01:57:40,686 --> 01:57:42,755
So he became Obama's mentor.

2206
01:57:44,357 --> 01:57:47,960
Captain Nazi felt Obama
could one day be the ultimate

2207
01:57:47,960 --> 01:57:49,328
Manchurian candidate.

2208
01:57:49,328 --> 01:57:52,131
For the radical left
to destroy America.

2209
01:57:53,066 --> 01:57:56,069
Get rid of it's Christian
values, and replace it

2210
01:57:56,069 --> 01:57:57,437
with national socialism.

2211
01:58:05,111 --> 01:58:07,680
Then Captain Nazi lost
Obama's state Senate

2212
01:58:07,880 --> 01:58:10,249
campaign in Illinois.

2213
01:58:10,249 --> 01:58:11,717
And Obama agreed to implement

2214
01:58:11,717 --> 01:58:13,219
the Weather
Underground's agenda.

2215
01:58:13,619 --> 01:58:14,787
The further he got.

2216
01:58:15,254 --> 01:58:18,191
- [Joel] But communism,
and socialism have failed

2217
01:58:18,191 --> 01:58:20,526
all over the world
again and again.

2218
01:58:21,260 --> 01:58:23,729
- [Elvis] The left thinks
national socialism can work

2219
01:58:23,729 --> 01:58:26,799
in America if they have
the right person forcing

2220
01:58:26,799 --> 01:58:27,867
it down our throats.

2221
01:58:28,734 --> 01:58:31,904
The next thing, because
Obama couldn't write

2222
01:58:32,105 --> 01:58:34,807
he asked Bill Ayers to
author his book for him.

2223
01:58:35,174 --> 01:58:36,642
Dreams Of My Father.

2224
01:58:37,009 --> 01:58:40,379
It's not Obama's story, it's
concocted by Captain Nazi.

2225
01:58:40,379 --> 01:58:42,248
Based on his own experiences.

2226
01:58:43,182 --> 01:58:45,451
- [Joel] You mean like a
co-writer or a ghost writer?

2227
01:58:45,751 --> 01:58:50,356
- [Elvis] No, no, Bill Ayers
is the author plain and simple.

2228
01:58:50,923 --> 01:58:54,827
Obama is a literary neophyte,
he's not articulate.

2229
01:58:55,394 --> 01:58:57,497
He can barely put together
two sentences without

2230
01:58:57,497 --> 01:59:00,566
a teleprompter,
Captain Nazi created

2231
01:59:00,566 --> 01:59:02,668
the Obama we know today.

2232
01:59:06,072 --> 01:59:07,573
- [Joel] Well then can
I ask what you think

2233
01:59:07,573 --> 01:59:09,575
of Barrack Obama as president?

2234
01:59:10,309 --> 01:59:12,578
- [Elvis] He is a socialist
thug just like his mentor,

2235
01:59:12,578 --> 01:59:16,782
Captain Nazi, for Bill Ayers
compared to the pipe bombs

2236
01:59:19,986 --> 01:59:22,188
he used to make
with The Weathermen,

2237
01:59:22,788 --> 01:59:28,694
Obama is the ultimate
weapon of mass destruction.

2238
01:59:28,694 --> 01:59:32,064
And there will be nothing
left of the United States

2239
01:59:32,064 --> 01:59:34,133
if Obama is reelected.

2240
01:59:34,433 --> 01:59:36,802
And The Weather Underground
will have succeeded

2241
01:59:36,802 --> 01:59:42,175
in their mission to destroy
America as we know it.

2242
01:59:42,175 --> 01:59:45,611
And the media circle their
wagons to protect the radical

2243
01:59:45,611 --> 01:59:48,814
left agenda every time.

2244
01:59:48,814 --> 01:59:51,517
Captain Marvel Junior had
fought the Amoeba Men,

2245
01:59:51,517 --> 01:59:53,619
and that's how I think
of the leftist media.

2246
01:59:55,354 --> 01:59:58,558
As the Obama Men, but
at the core of it,

2247
01:59:58,558 --> 02:00:00,259
leftists hate themselves.

2248
02:00:00,259 --> 02:00:03,262
They suffer from
self consciousness.

2249
02:00:03,462 --> 02:00:05,097
They think that society
looks down on them

2250
02:00:05,298 --> 02:00:06,799
even though it doesn't.

2251
02:00:07,466 --> 02:00:09,669
So the only way to feel
better about themselves

2252
02:00:09,669 --> 02:00:11,270
is to destroy society.

2253
02:00:11,270 --> 02:00:15,141
Being leftist is a personal
self image problem.

2254
02:00:15,575 --> 02:00:18,778
A mental disorder, not
political philosophy.

2255
02:00:19,378 --> 02:00:21,180
- [Joel] What about
the republican party?

2256
02:00:21,480 --> 02:00:23,883
- [Elvis] They are for the most
part, corrupt and ignorant.

2257
02:00:24,550 --> 02:00:26,919
Both the democratic
and republican parties

2258
02:00:26,919 --> 02:00:28,788
have been useless
for many years.

2259
02:00:29,488 --> 02:00:33,025
America needs another principled
leader like Ronald Regan.

2260
02:00:33,025 --> 02:00:37,663
- [Regan] Mr. Gorbachev
tear down this wall.

2261
02:00:37,863 --> 02:00:40,132
- [Elvis] I don't support
any political party.

2262
02:00:40,132 --> 02:00:41,400
Just love America.

2263
02:00:46,906 --> 02:00:49,875
(upbeat music)

2264
02:00:59,285 --> 02:01:01,587
- [Joel] Are you still
working for the FBI?

2265
02:01:02,688 --> 02:01:05,691
- [Elvis] Actually I just
retired in 2004, just before

2266
02:01:06,359 --> 02:01:08,894
I turned 70.

2267
02:01:08,894 --> 02:01:12,164
I investigated Middle Eastern
terrorists after 9/11.

2268
02:01:13,532 --> 02:01:16,802
I helped stop the
spread of nukes.

2269
02:01:16,802 --> 02:01:19,438
And then after I retired I
went back into the witness

2270
02:01:19,438 --> 02:01:20,506
protection program.

2271
02:01:20,806 --> 02:01:23,309
- [Joel] So what do you do
now that you're retired?

2272
02:01:23,709 --> 02:01:27,346
- [Elvis] Well I like to drive
around in my '57 Cadillac

2273
02:01:27,346 --> 02:01:29,749
and listen to eight
tracks of my old songs.

2274
02:01:29,749 --> 02:01:32,351
Those recordings from the
Sun label boy I tell you,

2275
02:01:32,351 --> 02:01:35,288
they got a lot of echo on 'em.

2276
02:01:35,288 --> 02:01:38,557
And I still like to read
poetry and some philosophy.

2277
02:01:38,557 --> 02:01:40,893
And I go back to the
scriptures a lot.

2278
02:01:41,727 --> 02:01:43,629
I always had thirst for
knowledge, since I didn't

2279
02:01:43,629 --> 02:01:44,630
get a college education.

2280
02:01:44,930 --> 02:01:49,068
You know I had over 300
books I'd take on tour.

2281
02:01:49,769 --> 02:01:51,470
I read about the supernatural

2282
02:01:51,771 --> 02:01:54,307
and The Warren
Commission Report.

2283
02:01:54,307 --> 02:01:56,342
I always felt it
was a fiction novel.

2284
02:01:57,109 --> 02:02:00,579
And working at the FBI
I found out that Oswald

2285
02:02:00,946 --> 02:02:04,050
was only a patsy,
just like he said.

2286
02:02:04,583 --> 02:02:07,386
- Now very quickly back to
Dallas police headquarters.

2287
02:02:07,586 --> 02:02:09,021
- [Reporter] Did you
shoot your president?

2288
02:02:09,021 --> 02:02:10,222
- [Oswald] I didn't
shoot anybody, no sir.

2289
02:02:10,222 --> 02:02:11,390
I'm just a patsy.

2290
02:02:11,390 --> 02:02:14,026
- [Joel] Really,
then who killed JFK?

2291
02:02:14,026 --> 02:02:16,228
- [Elvis] The best
analogy I can give you is

2292
02:02:16,228 --> 02:02:19,398
the Senate in Rome, they
all had a hand in killing

2293
02:02:19,398 --> 02:02:23,502
in Julius Cesar, for JFK
it was the joint chiefs.

2294
02:02:23,502 --> 02:02:28,240
Lyndon Johnson, Herbert Hoover,
the anti Castro CIA groups,

2295
02:02:28,240 --> 02:02:31,777
and the mafia families,
everyone who wanted Kennedy gone

2296
02:02:31,777 --> 02:02:32,578
was in on it.

2297
02:02:33,245 --> 02:02:36,415
- [Joel] So are you
happy now, any regrets?

2298
02:02:36,615 --> 02:02:38,517
- [Elvis] I believe
the keys to happiness

2299
02:02:38,517 --> 02:02:41,787
are someone to love,
something to do, and something

2300
02:02:41,987 --> 02:02:43,022
to look forward to.

2301
02:02:43,689 --> 02:02:46,425
Unfortunately I don't
believe that I've ever had

2302
02:02:46,625 --> 02:02:48,427
all three at the same time.

2303
02:02:48,828 --> 02:02:53,065
Son I've experienced a lot of
different phases in my life.

2304
02:02:53,265 --> 02:02:56,602
I've experienced
happiness, and loneliness.

2305
02:02:57,169 --> 02:03:00,005
The wealthy side,
not having anything,

2306
02:03:00,840 --> 02:03:02,842
and of course tragedy.

2307
02:03:02,842 --> 02:03:05,644
(soft music)

2308
02:03:05,644 --> 02:03:08,681
My life went south
the day mama died.

2309
02:03:09,382 --> 02:03:10,983
I thought I had nothing left.

2310
02:03:11,550 --> 02:03:14,820
In a way I was right,
I still think of her

2311
02:03:14,820 --> 02:03:16,822
every single solitary day.

2312
02:03:16,822 --> 02:03:18,724
There are times I
dream about her.

2313
02:03:19,024 --> 02:03:19,892
She's always happy and smiling.

2314
02:03:20,192 --> 02:03:23,329
And if I could have
one wish granted,

2315
02:03:23,729 --> 02:03:25,498
it would be to
talk to mama again.

2316
02:03:25,498 --> 02:03:28,200
♪ Fate my take you away from me

2317
02:03:28,200 --> 02:03:31,103
♪ They can't take our memory

2318
02:03:31,404 --> 02:03:34,073
- [Elvis] Mama and daddy got
to be extras in Loving You.

2319
02:03:34,740 --> 02:03:36,342
Now I watch it all the time.

2320
02:03:36,675 --> 02:03:40,079
♪ For you are everything.

2321
02:03:40,746 --> 02:03:42,581
- Here came Elvis with a
heart stomping, steaming,

2322
02:03:43,883 --> 02:03:47,887
sexy, kind of music, that
turned people on as pop music

2323
02:03:47,887 --> 02:03:49,221
never had before.

2324
02:03:49,688 --> 02:03:52,057
- [Elvis] I've always looked
at myself as a young man

2325
02:03:52,057 --> 02:03:53,759
who's been extremely fortunate.

2326
02:03:54,693 --> 02:03:57,129
A man is just a child
wearing a man's body.

2327
02:03:57,897 --> 02:04:00,232
I never expected to
be anybody important.

2328
02:04:01,066 --> 02:04:04,437
But God gave me my voice,
and whatever I became

2329
02:04:04,437 --> 02:04:05,738
God chose for me.

2330
02:04:06,705 --> 02:04:09,508
I feel he's watching and
in a way it's good for me.

2331
02:04:09,508 --> 02:04:12,411
If I ever turn my back
on him, I'd be finished.

2332
02:04:12,778 --> 02:04:14,447
- [Joel] Do you feel good
about this interview,

2333
02:04:14,447 --> 02:04:15,414
for this film?

2334
02:04:15,714 --> 02:04:18,217
- [Elvis] I always
knew that someday

2335
02:04:18,717 --> 02:04:23,155
the secret would come
out, your picture is gonna

2336
02:04:23,155 --> 02:04:24,256
be the key to it.

2337
02:04:26,559 --> 02:04:30,162
I'm hoping that a lot of
people out there are not

2338
02:04:30,162 --> 02:04:33,799
disappointed with me, I
was always deeply concerned

2339
02:04:33,799 --> 02:04:36,469
about people suffering, and
wanted to bring happiness

2340
02:04:36,469 --> 02:04:38,804
into people's lives.

2341
02:04:38,804 --> 02:04:43,542
To uplift them, I didn't
mean to put anybody

2342
02:04:43,542 --> 02:04:45,077
through anything.

2343
02:04:45,644 --> 02:04:48,113
It's taken a lot to
do what I had to do,

2344
02:04:49,215 --> 02:04:51,450
but the Lord has helped
me through everything.

2345
02:04:51,917 --> 02:04:53,986
And I don't see how this
should be any different.

2346
02:04:54,286 --> 02:04:57,122
But I'm looking forward to it.

2347
02:04:57,122 --> 02:05:01,560
Many times we despair and
we think that life has

2348
02:05:01,560 --> 02:05:06,866
somehow passed us by, but
dreams can still come true.

2349
02:05:06,866 --> 02:05:08,667
I hope this movie helps folks

2350
02:05:08,667 --> 02:05:10,970
understand why I did what I did.

2351
02:05:11,871 --> 02:05:15,040
And that my story
will inspire folks.

2352
02:05:16,408 --> 02:05:20,679
Everyone can be a
super hero for America.

2353
02:05:23,048 --> 02:05:25,584
- [Joel] Do you still read
Captain Marvel Junior comics?

2354
02:05:25,784 --> 02:05:27,086
- [Elvis] Yeah, I do.

2355
02:05:27,686 --> 02:05:28,921
I have some of them right here.

2356
02:05:29,588 --> 02:05:30,689
Sometimes I read them just
to find out what's going

2357
02:05:31,423 --> 02:05:33,526
to happen to me next.

2358
02:05:35,794 --> 02:05:38,330
- I just wish he
would come back.

2359
02:05:38,697 --> 02:05:41,800
- [Reporter] Elvis fans like
Irene Mowetti of San Jose

2360
02:05:41,800 --> 02:05:44,537
concede it's probably
wishful thinking.

2361
02:05:44,803 --> 02:05:45,971
But,

2362
02:05:45,971 --> 02:05:48,173
- I know his fans
would just love

2363
02:05:48,173 --> 02:05:49,942
to have that man
come back again.

2364
02:05:50,609 --> 02:05:51,977
- [Joel] So when
this film comes out,

2365
02:05:52,177 --> 02:05:53,612
will you make a comeback?

2366
02:05:53,812 --> 02:05:55,347
- [Elvis] I need the
permission and the protection

2367
02:05:55,347 --> 02:05:58,183
of the U.S. government to do so.

2368
02:05:58,183 --> 02:06:00,519
The U.S. administration
has been preventing it

2369
02:06:00,519 --> 02:06:03,789
because of what I know about
Obama and Captain Nazi.

2370
02:06:04,356 --> 02:06:07,192
But if Obama's not
reelected I'll do it.

2371
02:06:08,027 --> 02:06:09,728
- [Joel] Thank you Mr. Presley.

2372
02:06:09,728 --> 02:06:11,830
- [Elvis] Until we meet again.

2373
02:06:11,830 --> 02:06:15,000
May God bless you as
he has blessed me.

2374
02:06:15,200 --> 02:06:16,268
- [Joel] And may
God bless you sir.

2375
02:06:16,569 --> 02:06:18,904
- [Elvis] It's nice to
have a friend who listens.

2376
02:06:18,904 --> 02:06:21,540
You don't know how much
I need that at times.

2377
02:06:22,107 --> 02:06:23,576
- Do you remember
we talked about

2378
02:06:23,576 --> 02:06:24,677
Live A Little, Love A Little?

2379
02:06:24,677 --> 02:06:25,477
- [Elvis] Sure.

2380
02:06:25,844 --> 02:06:29,114
- Well Celeste
Yarnall is in my crew.

2381
02:06:29,114 --> 02:06:30,816
She's been here the whole time.

2382
02:06:31,483 --> 02:06:32,851
- [Elvis] How are you
doing my little lady?

2383
02:06:32,851 --> 02:06:33,919
- Oh my gosh.

2384
02:06:37,856 --> 02:06:41,126
I can't believe it,
it's really you.

2385
02:06:44,597 --> 02:06:48,300
You look fabulous, I'm
so happy to see you.

2386
02:06:48,300 --> 02:06:50,669
(soft music)

2387
02:06:53,606 --> 02:06:56,041
- Mr. Presley can
we take one photo?

2388
02:06:56,041 --> 02:06:58,510
(soft music)

2389
02:07:10,789 --> 02:07:12,391
Any final word?

2390
02:07:12,691 --> 02:07:14,259
- Well as I once
said without a song.

2391
02:07:14,259 --> 02:07:15,527
Without a song.

2392
02:07:15,527 --> 02:07:16,328
The day would never end.

2393
02:07:16,328 --> 02:07:17,429
The day would never end.

2394
02:07:17,429 --> 02:07:19,798
Without a song, a man
ain't got a friend.

2395
02:07:19,798 --> 02:07:20,966
Without a song a man
ain't got a friend.

2396
02:07:20,966 --> 02:07:22,701
Without a song, the
road would never bend.

2397
02:07:22,701 --> 02:07:23,769
Without a song, the
road would never bend.

2398
02:07:23,969 --> 02:07:24,803
Without a song.

2399
02:07:24,803 --> 02:07:25,337
Without a song.

2400
02:07:25,638 --> 02:07:27,439
So I keep singing songs.

2401
02:07:27,439 --> 02:07:28,340
So I keep singing a song.

2402
02:07:28,340 --> 02:07:29,908
You want me to sing something?

2403
02:07:29,908 --> 02:07:31,810
(applause)

2404
02:07:31,810 --> 02:07:35,447
♪ And now after loving you

2405
02:07:37,216 --> 02:07:41,086
♪ What else is there to do

2406
02:07:43,389 --> 02:07:47,259
♪ And my whole heart aches

2407
02:07:47,459 --> 02:07:51,296
♪ With every step you take

2408
02:07:51,296 --> 02:07:52,498
- [Joel] What do
you think of this,

2409
02:07:52,765 --> 02:07:55,100
how would you like to come
to my recording studio,

2410
02:07:55,300 --> 02:07:56,068
we'll make a record?

2411
02:07:56,368 --> 02:07:58,671
- I've always liked challenges.

2412
02:07:58,671 --> 02:08:00,739
♪ You want to be
starting something

2413
02:08:00,939 --> 02:08:04,209
♪ Mama say mama saw mama mu saw

2414
02:08:04,209 --> 02:08:08,147
I would like to prove that I'm
better than I was yesterday.

2415
02:08:08,147 --> 02:08:11,216
♪ Let's take a walk
down lonely street

2416
02:08:11,216 --> 02:08:14,386
♪ To heartbreak,
heartbreak, heart

2417
02:08:14,386 --> 02:08:16,755
In fact every time that
I'm think I'm getting old,

2418
02:08:16,955 --> 02:08:20,125
gradually going to the grave,
something else happens,

2419
02:08:20,325 --> 02:08:21,660
so let's do it.

2420
02:08:21,660 --> 02:08:24,229
♪ For a moment

2421
02:08:25,531 --> 02:08:29,601
♪ Wasn't I the king

2422
02:08:29,601 --> 02:08:34,873
I been gone a long time, but
now I'm back Elvis is back.

2423
02:08:34,873 --> 02:08:37,042
♪ You will know who I am

2424
02:08:37,876 --> 02:08:42,047
♪ When the time comes
you will know who I am

2425
02:08:46,085 --> 02:08:47,352
♪ Yeah baby

2426
02:08:54,560 --> 02:08:56,829
(rock music)

2427
02:08:56,829 --> 02:08:59,331
I had a feeling this
mascarade was over.

2428
02:09:00,365 --> 02:09:01,800
- [Joel] What's your
favorite after shave?

2429
02:09:02,000 --> 02:09:03,001
- [Elvis] Brute.

2430
02:09:03,001 --> 02:09:04,737
- [Joel] What's
your favorite book?

2431
02:09:04,737 --> 02:09:05,537
- [Elvis] The bible of course.

2432
02:09:05,537 --> 02:09:08,006
(rock music)

2433
02:09:09,374 --> 02:09:11,443
- [Joel] Is global warming real?

2434
02:09:11,443 --> 02:09:14,646
- [Elvis] I don't know, the
last few winters have been

2435
02:09:14,646 --> 02:09:17,916
very cold if you ask me,
even here in California.

2436
02:09:17,916 --> 02:09:19,918
(rock music)

2437
02:09:21,053 --> 02:09:22,821
- [Joel] Leno or Letterman?

2438
02:09:22,821 --> 02:09:23,522
- [Elvis] Letterman.

2439
02:09:23,822 --> 02:09:25,157
- [Joel] Coke or Pepsi?

2440
02:09:25,457 --> 02:09:27,826
- [Elvis] Pepsi, don't you
have a harder question?

2441
02:09:28,026 --> 02:09:29,828
(rock music)

2442
02:09:32,297 --> 02:09:34,099
- [Joel] What do you
think the solution is for

2443
02:09:34,099 --> 02:09:35,100
the Middle East conflict?

2444
02:09:35,400 --> 02:09:37,035
- [Elvis] Folks in that
part of the world need

2445
02:09:37,035 --> 02:09:39,571
to solve their own problems,
and we need to let them.

2446
02:09:39,571 --> 02:09:43,041
(rock music)

2447
02:09:43,041 --> 02:09:45,110
- [Joel] What do you
think of American Idol?

2448
02:09:45,310 --> 02:09:46,478
- [Elvis] Karaoke contest.

2449
02:09:46,478 --> 02:09:49,848
- [Joel] Fox News,
CNN, or MSNBC?

2450
02:09:49,848 --> 02:09:51,784
- [Elvis] All of them
are full of ignorance.

2451
02:09:51,784 --> 02:09:54,153
(rock music)

2452
02:09:57,456 --> 02:09:58,891
- [Joel] Favorite food?

2453
02:09:59,258 --> 02:10:01,527
- [Elvis] Mashed potatoes and
sauerkraut mixed together.

2454
02:10:01,527 --> 02:10:03,962
(rock music)

2455
02:10:07,633 --> 02:10:09,067
- [Joel] What's your blood type?

2456
02:10:09,067 --> 02:10:10,035
- [Elvis] O positive.

2457
02:10:10,335 --> 02:10:12,171
- [Joel] Favorite
movie of all time?

2458
02:10:12,171 --> 02:10:14,540
- [Elvis] Probably
the Dirty Harry films.

2459
02:10:14,807 --> 02:10:18,343
(rock music)

2460
02:10:18,343 --> 02:10:21,146
- [Joel] What do you think
of rap and hip hop music.

2461
02:10:21,146 --> 02:10:23,348
- [Elvis] It's not music
or talent, many can.

2462
02:10:23,348 --> 02:10:25,717
(rock music)

2463
02:10:28,754 --> 02:10:30,789
- [Joel] Do you think
Paul McCartney was killed

2464
02:10:30,789 --> 02:10:33,926
in 1966 and replaced
by an imposter.

2465
02:10:33,926 --> 02:10:36,528
- [Elvis] No of course not,
that whole thing was just

2466
02:10:36,528 --> 02:10:38,630
a joke, British
humor or whatever.

2467
02:10:38,630 --> 02:10:41,099
(rock music)

2468
02:10:44,937 --> 02:10:46,438
- [Joel] Any UFO connection?

2469
02:10:46,638 --> 02:10:50,676
- [Elvis] It would be
fantastic, thank you very much

2470
02:10:51,310 --> 02:10:54,313
ladies and gentlemen,
Lord have mercy.