It was one of those news bulletins you hear but can’t quite believe. At 42. it was all over for Elvis Presley. The dream was gone. The king was dead!
It was his road manager. Joe Esposito, who found his body lying face down, fully-clothed on the bathroom floor in his ornate 18-room mansion August 16th. It was believed that he had collapsed and died after a vigorous game of recquet ball earlier in the day. “The people in the house with him were asleep and were not aware that anything abnormal had traspired” according to family physician. Dr. George Nichopoulos.
Elvis has visited dentist the night before, then returned to Graceland to play racquet ball with his entourage until 6 A.M. Though his body was not found until 1.30 P.M. doctors say he could have been dead as early as 9. A.M. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by Esposito and by Dr. Nichopoulos, were unsuccessful. as were attempts by technicians using cardiopulmonary resuscition machine during the seven-minute ambulance ride to Baptist Hospital where , an hour later, doctors gave up the fight to revive the world-famous singer.
Medical Examiner, an autopsy indicated Elvis had died of “cardiac arrythmia” or “severly irregular heartbeat”. He said Elvis suffered from high blood pressure combination could have the cardiac arrythmia.
An anguished Vernon Presley waited hopefully at Graceland. putting off as long as possible telling 9-year-old Lisa Marie, Elvis’ only child, who was visiting him at the time of his death, and “Dodger” Presley, the singer’s 82-year-old paternal grandmother. Both Vernon and his mother suffer from heart conditions and had sedated. They look the news of Elvis’ death “very hard.” Also waiting at the sprawling mansion was Ginger Alden rumored the soon-to-be second wife of Elvis.
As the shock waves brought on by announcement of his death spread around the world, eulogies and special memorial programs sprang up everywhere. Cars moved bumper-to-bumper down Elvis Presley Boulevard in front of Graceland, gathered in silent vigil outside his home, and thousands viewed his remains before Elvis was laid to test beside his mother in Memphis’ Forest Hill Cemetery
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