“Elvis Presley put on his golden slippers last night, cuddled his guitar, gyrated, and turned the International Amphitheatre into a shrieking mass of 12,000 teen-age fans,” wrote reporter Louise Hutchinson. The story focused on the manic fans, including a girl who “swung her purse at a policeman, missed him and clouted an usher.” So hard, apparently, that he went to the hospital. “It was like a tribal rite, and Presley was the high chieftain.”
Interesting fact I never knew