Elvis: The Siege of Graceland and Other Stories
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Robert Wells. Elvis: The Siege of Graceland and Other Stories
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Thanks to the information that has been passed on by the Colonel, Walter Cronkite is telling millions of TV viewers, “Is this what the United States of America has come to? I cannot believe it, and you, the viewers won’t either. But I am witnessing with my own eyes a terrible injustice. Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, a man who served his country with honour and dignity, a man who was awarded a medal, is to be arrested for what I am assured is a trumped-up minor misdemeanour. This is America’s Day of Shame.”
Dan Rather is telling his viewers that Elvis’s grandmother will link arms with Liberace, James Brown, and Hal Wallis to form a human shield to defy the military police. “I am reliably informed they will tell them: ‘Shoot if you dare, but you’re not taking Elvis’.”
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