August 16, 1977.  The first person to see Elvis Presley dead was his fiancée Ginger Alden.  It had been six hours since she had last checked on him.  (Elvis former girlfriend Linda Thompson would not have let this happen.)   Elvis was found face down in front of the toilet.  Ginger assumed he had fallen into a drug-induced sleep.  Turning his head to see his purple face and his tongue caught between his teeth proved otherwise.

The head of Elvis’s security force Joe Esposito was called in.  Turning Elvis over, a gasp of air escaped.  Joe, too, wrongly thought his boss might still be alive.  The fact was Elvis had been dead for over two hours.  Rigor mortis had already set in.

An ambulance was called.  Joe tried CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.  The household staff became alert to the emergency.  Worst of all, so did Elvis’s daughter Lisa Marie who tried to run in the bathroom.  Ginger blocked her, locking the door.

The ambulance team was told by Elvis half-brother Rick Stanley that it might be an overdose.  (He should know.  He, along with Elvis’s dentist administered the fatal medications.)  It took five men to place Elvis on the gurney.  The King had ballooned to 255 pounds.

Elvis’s doctor, Dr. “Nick” Nichopoulos and Joe Esposito boarded the ambulance.  Ginger, who had finally made up her mind to go, had the back of the ambulance door shut in her face.

Dr. “Nick” feverishly worked at reviving the corpse that rocked the world.

Meanwhile, back at Graceland, Ginger consoled eight year old Lisa saying that her Daddy would be all right.  Others prayed.

Adrenalin was injected into the heart in a futile attempt to resurrect the fallen King.  An ambulance worker said it looked like Elvis was already dead.  These desperate attempts at life soon faded.  Elvis Presley – the King of Rock and Roll was pronounced dead from cardiac arrhythmia at 3:30 p.m.

PostScript

Col. Tom Parker would continue to manage Elvis’s legacy, collecting 75% instead of 50%.  This would continue until Lisa Marie reached maturity; whereupon, it was revealed that the Colonel had been scamming the Presley family for over thirty years.

Ginger Alden was shut out from the Presley family after appearing in an exploitation film titled “Living Legend:  The King of Rock and Roll”.  In 2014, she would write a book about their affair titled “Elvis and Ginger”.

Elvis’s father Vernon Presley, age 63, died two years later from a heart attack.

Lisa Marie Presley, age 54, would die from a bowel obstruction, the end result of bariatric surgery.

Benjamin Storm Presley Keough, Elvis’s only grandson would die at the age of 27 from suicide.  (Death by gunshot.)

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