Primary Sources: People - The 1960s: Presley, Elvis

Snippets from interviews with various people about Elvis Presley.

Images available online from the Library of Congress related to Elvis Presley.

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"The above clip, from “Hy Gardner Calling!” is from 1956, the year Elvis became a huge sensation with a #1 single (“Heartbreak Hotel“) and a #1 album (“Elvis Presley“). Here, he admits to Gardner that, while he has plenty of Cadillacs...he doesn’t own a single tuxedo."

Includes photographs, letters and memos about the meeting between Elvis Presley and President Richard Nixon.