 Elvis killed JFK
The disturbingly well-documented tell-all that details the sordid, star-studded story of how Hollywood Republicans conspired and effectively manipulated the impressionable King of Rock n' Roll into taking the life of America's charismatic 35th President.
On November 22, 1963, Burke reveals, Elvis Presley acted merely as a pawn, a 'patsy' if you will, in this brilliantly scripted production starring JFK's chief political nemesis, Richard Nixon himself, and featuring confederate cameo appearances by some of the era's biggest names in show business: Frank Sinatra, the loathsome yet ultimately remorseful crooner; Howard Hughes, the murder's unwitting financier; John Wayne, Chief Assassination Strategist; Ed Sullivan, to whom celebrity blackmail was a 'rilly big shew'; a steamy scene starring deceased platinum goddess Marilyn Monroe; Colonel Tom Parker, Presley's desperately ruthless handler ... and a second rate second gunman from TV land who shall be named later.
Today, with the Murder of the Millennium nearly 40 years behind us, and as we mark the 25-year anniversary of Elvis Presley's untimely demise, Burke documents to the world for the first time, in candid detail, exactly what led up to the events in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The day America lost it's innocence.
"Burke is spot-on. I stand corrected" - Oliver Stone (Director of the film 'JFK')
Read an Extract:
The show was to be taped at Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel, where Sinatra was closing a three week engagement. During the train ride to Miami Beach for the videotaping of the Frank Sinatra Show, titled "Frank Sinatra's Welcome Home Party for Elvis Presley," Elvis and The Colonel stood on the train's rear platform to wave and sign a few autographs. It was like a whistle stop campaign, as if Elvis was running for President.
It was ironic that Elvis made his return debut on Sinatra's show, since back in 1957 Sinatra had said rock and roll "is phony and false, and sung, written and played for the most part by cretinous goons." There was however a motive for booking Elvis. This was the fourth and last Timex special for Sinatra. The third broadcast, a Valentine's Day tribute starring Juliet Prowse, a South African dancer who had dated Sinatra (and, not so incidentally, Presley), had been only average in terms of audience response. In his final show Sinatra was determined to better that mark, which is why he agreed to pay The Colonel the unprecedented $125,000 sum for Elvis' six minutes work. More than any other guest performer had been paid in television's brief history. And Sinatra made it no secret that he was infuriated by The Colonel's price.
The musical arrival of the former truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, had personally appalled Sinatra. Elvis Aaron Presley, the gyrating crooner who wiggled and shook as he sang his rockability songs, was driving young females into screaming nymphs of delight with his broken-stringed guitar and long sideburns. Elvis clamorous shouts and sexual moans unleashed a frenzy in teenage girls unmatched since The Voice of Sinatra himself had the bobby-soxers shrieking at the Paramount. Still, Frank viewed the twenty-four-year-old singer as a degenerate redneck and musical abomination. "His kind of music is deplorable, a rancid-smelling aphrodisiac," he said.
So incensed was he by Elvis the Pelvis, that he wrote a magazine article in Western world denouncing rock and roll and all its practitioners: "My only deep sorrow is the unrelenting insistence of recording and motion picture companies upon purveying the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear and naturally I'm referring to the bulk of rock and roll."
"It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people," he said. "It smells phony and false. It is sung, played, and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd - in plain fact - dirty lyrics, it manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth."
Elvis responded to Sinatra's charges one night to a roomful of reporters just prior to going onstage at Hollywood's Pan Pacific Auditorium in 1957: "I admire the man," said Elvis. "He has a right to say what he wants to say. He is a great success and a fine actor, but I think he shouldn't have said it. He's mistaken about this. This is a trend, just the same as he faced when he started years ago. I consider it the greatest in music."
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