Gary James' Interview With
Linda Hood Sigmon



On August 16^th, 1977, the world was told of Elvis Presley's death. But you already know that story. What you don't know and haven't heard is what Linda Hood Sigmon will reveal in this interview.

She says Elvis is very much alive and has been talking with him since 1992. And by the way, this is Linda Hood Sigmon's one and only interview. She's turned down major media requests from around the world. Here then is Linda Hood Sigmon on Elvis Presley.

Q - Am I correct in saying that other people have approached you about doing an interview, but you decided to only talk to me?

A - Yes. I've been real skittish about doing interviews. So far, I've turned down each offer. You've been very respectful to me and I like the tone of where I had read you had done other interviews. I like the tone of your interviews and I thought I could trust you not to come at me in a combative way. (laughs)

Q - You can trust me. I first became aware of the whole Is Elvis Alive? story when I saw Gail Brewer Giorgio on The Larry King Show and I didn't like the way he treated her. He wouldn't let her finish a sentence. He interrupted her. He put her down. He mocked her.

A - That happened to her on so many shows and it was so unfair.

Q - And you know that through the years I've interviewed people on both sides of this issue. When you ask a person who tells you Elvis is dead, if he can possibly be alive, that person gets mad. If you ask a person who tells you Elvis is alive, if he can't in fact be dead, that person gets mad. So, I walk a fine line here.

A - I know.

Q - And I'm only asking the questions!

A - I won't get upset with you. (laughs)

Q - That is good to hear. Linda, have you read Dr. Nick's book?

A - Yes. I don't know how closely you've followed Dr. Nick's history with all of this. I know why he does what he does. I know why he says what he says and I respect him completely. He's been very loyal, a very loyal friend to Elvis. But if you followed his history and I posted a good bit of this on my website. He told me so many different stories. He did one interview a few years ago, and I don't have this on my website, in which he said he got a heartbeat on Elvis in the hospital. They were working on him and he said "Just stop. He'd be brain dead." It had been that long. They were obviously working on a 'live' body. Joe Esposito (Elvis' road manager) has said unequivocally that rigormortis had set in. Well, the EMTs came and worked on him. Nurse Trish Hensley I believe was her name, it was reported that she worked on him. Then Dr. Nick got there and they had him in an ambulance and Dr. Nick worked on him all the way to the hospital. At the hospital they reportedly worked on him for like maybe 30 minutes. Dr. Nick in that one interview said that he was alive, but he said to pull the plug 'cause he said he would be brain damaged. In another interview which I do have on my website, on A Current Affair Dr. Nick did a series of three interviews with them, three segments, one interview. Dr. Nick said he was murdered. Then if you notice in Dr. Nick's book, now think about this a little bit, Dr. Nick in his book, bless his heart, said that he started questioning himself, was Elvis already dead before they removed him from Graceland. He said he was going on what Joe said, the he heard him breathe one time. (laughs) Now Joe said it was a body with rigormortis. OK? Then in the book there's a paragraph, and I want to put this on my site, he started questioning himself, was Elvis already dead before he left Graceland? He said if he had been dead it would not have been legal for the paramedics to have removed the body. Anytime there's a sudden death, a dead body, the paramedics are required to notify the police and not move the body. Do you see where I'm going? None of it meshes. Dr. Nick says the autopsy did not show anything major wrong with Elvis, he had only prescribed something like four of the drugs. He didn't know where the others came from, but Dr. Nick reportedly by Dick Grob (Elvis' security) and Charlie Hodge said he was present when Dr. Nick came to Graceland and told Vernon (Elvis' father) in front of him that the autopsy showed that Elvis had bone cancer and that he would only have lived three more months. OK? In Dr. Nick's book he goes into great detail about the autopsy and nowhere in Dr. Nick's book does he mention bone cancer.

Q - As I recall, Dr. Nick said had Elvis lived, he would've had to have had his intestines removed.

A - Well, it wasn't so much that, it was his colon.

Q - That's right. His colon.

A - At that point in time, medically available at that time he would've required surgery. But Elvis did not want to have surgery. I have not asked him, I do not pry in his private, everyday affairs, but I believe since '77 they have come up with other means of treating that. I don't know if he finally consented to having the surgery after '77, or if they had treated it by other means. But in the years I've been friends with him, he has not mentioned any further problems about the colon.

Q - Joe Esposito has told conflicting stories about that day as well?

A - None of it meshes. And see, in my opinion they have put out mis-information, so many different stories that it just keeps everybody arguing and confused and nobody can decipher what really happened.

Q - Were you a fan of Elvis?

A - Oh, yes. Number one. (laughs) I saw him on TV in 1956 when I was nine years old and it was love at first sight. I have been this way ever since. Non-stop. I'm not a fanatic. I'm not one of these people that just goes out there and calls for everything that comes along. I have carefully, carefully, carefully researched and studied and I know what I'm talking about.

Q - So, I guess the main question that everybody wants to know is, is Elvis Presley alive?

A - Absolutely. I talked to him last Saturday. (May 7th, 2011). I have a nice letter laying in front of me from him, in his handwriting. He and I talk about once a month, sometimes more frequently.

Q - How did you first contact Elvis? Were you part of his fan club?

A - No. What happened was, and I'll just say this real quickly and I don't mean to sound like I'm off the wall or some kind of a nut case, other people have told me they had this same experience. When I heard that he had died at five o'clock in the afternoon on the 16th, I of course was just crushed, devastated. I went to bed feeling that way. When I woke up the next morning... I'm a spiritual person. I do believe God helps us with things. When I woke up the next morning I just knew he wasn't gone. I walked in the kitchen and said to my husband, "He didn't die. He just did this to get away." That's where I left it. I lived with that all the years until Gail Brewer Giorgio's book came out. Then I thought OK, now that she's got this book out, I'm gonna research, I'm gonna prove to myself that I'm right or not. That was where I started. I became friends with Gail. I visited in her home one time. I contributed to her newsletter. She used things that I contributed in her next book, The Elvis Files. Then when she stopped her newsletter, she gave me her approval to pick up where she stopped off and for me to do a newsletter, which I did in July of 1990 until March of 1991. It was all about Elvis being alive. I decided to put a section in my newsletter called Notes To Elvis. I allowed people to write in their thoughts, their messages to him to be printed in my newsletter. There was a major big-name public figure who I had written a fan letter to and I told him I believed he and Elvis were friends. He was so kind to me. He sent me back a beautiful autograph on his letterhead paper. Having done that, I took it upon myself to send him the copies of my newsletter. One of the first ones I sent him, I wrote him a letter and I said I do believe you're in touch with Elvis. If you are, would you please see that he gets my newsletters. I didn't hear anything back and each month I sent my newsletter because a lot of discord and back-biting and gossiping with the members of my subscription group. I was in tears the day I stopped because I didn't want to stop it. I just didn't need all that stress, all that aggravation. So, I was very hurt the day I stopped my newsletter and expressed that in my newsletter. I sent everybody refunds for their subscriptions and I thought that was the end of it. This is the end for me. About two weeks later, a gentleman that I had never heard of called me and asked me if I was Linda Sigmon who had the newsletter. I said yes. I thought he was somebody wanting to get back issues or something 'cause people do that sometimes. That wasn't the case. He just talked to me, I guess for close to an hour and indicated that he did know that Elvis was alive and people that were in touch with him and so forth and so on. Right at the end of the conversation he said "he really did like your newsletter." When he said that I was just so thrilled and I thanked him and we hung up and I thought, OK, well that's the end of that. I'm just so happy to know he got my newsletters.

Q - Did this man who called you identify himself?

A - By his first name and the State he lived in. I thought I would never hear from him again. But then he did continue to contact me and to tell me a little bit more about Elvis and the people Elvis was in touch with, and some of the things he had been doing after '77 and so forth. And then after we had been in touch, I don't recall exactly how long, but probably I would say three or four months, he sent a letter of introduction to me and this other gentleman who was friends with Elvis who was in contact with him. He spoke with him on the phone and he exchanged letters with him. This gentleman and I just hit it off. We became friends and he sent me copies of the letters that Elvis had written to him, in his own handwriting. They were lengthy letters and I read them and mulled them over and looked at 'em and thoroughly digested everything and came to the conclusion that these letters were probably written by Elvis, everything, the way he phrased things, the thoughts, the things he said, the handwriting, all indicated to me that it really was Elvis. I never expected to be in touch with him. But I enjoyed my friendship with this gentleman that I had been introduced to. After awhile, in April of 1992, I got a postcard from Elvis. I was just thrilled, needless to say. He said this person who he called by their first name had asked him to drop me a line and that I'd waited long enough. He signed it "Elvis". It was postmarked and everything. It showed where he was when he sent it. There again, I didn't have a return address to him. I hadn't asked my friend for one. I didn't want to pry. I thought, OK, this is just tremendous. I have a postcard from Elvis! I'm holding something he wrote. I was of course thrilled and I thought, OK, that's the end of that. Then a little bit later I got another postcard from him. That time, if I'm not mistaken, he signed it Jon Burrows. It was the same postmark. He said "More later" at the bottom, which just thrilled me. And then I got a letter from him. I wrote him back and we corresponded for the rest of that year, right up through December.

Q - You wrote him back, which means he gave you his address?

A - Yes.

Q - How did he know you wouldn't show up at his doorstep?

A - He said he knew he could trust me. I guess it was because of my newsletter 'cause my newsletters were so respectful, so loving, never just trying to pin him down, never trying to find out where he is, which is why I disagreed with some people who were on a manhunt, like they had a right to track him down and find him. I never felt that way and don't to this day. Anyway, the gentleman who introduced me, he and I were still good friends and of course he was still good friends with Elvis and they were still writing. In December of '92 he wrote to this friend and told him for us not to mail any more mail to him because people were going through his mail. He said don't write me again at this address. And so I didn't. For a time, neither one of us heard from him. Then he got back in touch with our mutual friend and they were in touch. I was allowed to send mail to this friend who sent it to him on my behalf. Then it was a number of years before Jesse (Elvis) and I were completely back in touch full-time.

Q - At that point you had to call him Jesse rather than Elvis?

A - No. I just said that now 'cause I always call him Jesse now. He had not explained to me in '92 about being Jesse. He signed some of his letters to our mutual friend as Jesse, but he did not explain about being Jesse to me until 1997.

Q - What do Elvis fans say to you?

A - I have a message board. When I had a message board to Jesse back in December, some people would send him their Christmas greetings, birthday wishes. I never had a message board open on my site before because I knew what would happen, the attacks and everything. But Marty Lacker came on there attacking me. (Marty Lacker was part of Elvis' entourage known as the Memphis Mafia) I've never gone after Marty. I've never gone on another board and said a bad word about any of them. Marty came on there attacking me. I just went right back at him because he lied. In his first message on there he said that I was a nut case, that he was there, that he saw the body. I went right back at him and I said Marty, you were not there. You put in your own book that they called you in California to tell you when he died and you wrote in your own book that you did not even come to the funeral. Of course that set him off even more than when I gave him a black eye right off the bat. So Jesse (Elvis), I print off the pages on my website I sent to Jesse (Elvis) so he can see what I'm putting on there, so he can tell me if he wants me to take something off. Of course I sent him that. Well Jesse (Elvis) called me and told me to tell Marty Lacker for him an anecdote that happened that when Marty read it he would know it was Elvis. So, I tried to get to Marty through a personal e-mail, I didn't have his e-mail address. Anyway, long story short, Marty came back on and said "Just post on here." So I did and surprisingly enough, Marty came back; Jesse had told me an incident that had happened and I didn't give the details. I just said what Jesse (Elvis) had said to tell Marty that Marty would recognize. Marty came back and said "I think I know exactly what he's talking about, but I don't know if any of the guys (Memphis Mafia) had written about that." But do you know he changed his tone completely with me. He said "I wish you luck with your website, but you know my position." Before that he was cursing me. So, Marty is protecting his turf, because he's been out there all these years as an Elvis expert. Everybody kind of bows down to him and listens to what he has to say, even though he tells really bad things that he should not be saying. Marty doesn't want to give up his turf. That's why I say all the established world Elvis people that have come forth attacking me are doing so because they don't want to be proven they've been wrong all these years.

Q - Wouldn't it be a big story if someone in the Memphis Mafia were to come forward and say Elvis really is alive!

A - Well see, that's the thing of it, I know you didn't expect all of the details and I apologize.

Q - That's quite alright. I love details. I'm a detail guy.

A - Marty Lacker and Billy Smith and Lamar Fike in Alanna Nash's book... I don't know if you've read Alanna Nash's book about the Memphis Mafia.

Q - I did read that book.

A - Near the back of that book there's a part of that interview where they said Elvis told them he was going to do this. It even went so far that the guy who Elvis had found to take his place to be the body called Billy Smith and talked to him. Well, that was one story in Alanna Nash's book right there in black and white. Then the three of them again did an interview with a magazine in London called People. It's not People Magazine. They went into great detail and told the complete story of what Elvis did. Then they came back and when people started questioning them about it, Marty backed down and said "Oh, well it was just a joke." You don't go out there and tell a perfectly straight story in an interview with an author of a book and then go a step further and do a newspaper interview about it and turn right around and say oh, well it was just a joke. Somebody got to Marty and said "Would you rather be rich and alive or, you know..." (laughs) People will do anything to stop this story.

Q - Now, you say Elvis has called you.

A - Oh, yes.

Q - When I interviewed Sonny West (Elvis' bodyguard) I talked to him about people who are getting phone calls from Elvis. I asked "what's going on here?" He told me some guys can imitate Elvis' voice. They're almost there, but not quite. So Linda, how do you know it's really Elvis?

A - Oh Gary. First of all, I've been friends with him since 1992.

Q - That's what people would like to know.

A - Oh, sure. Absolutely. I understand completely. It's not just his voice, although he does use a voice distortion machine, which he did not do until after people were taping his calls after '77 and selling them. I think the last time that I know of where he called someone without the voice distortion machine was when he called Gail Brewer Giorgio in October of 1988. She was asked before he got on the phone not to tape the call. She did anyway. Then she sold that tape with her next book, The Elvis Files. OK. The way I know it's him is like I told you, I was a life long Elvis fan. The thing about my being a fan of his was not so much the superstar image or any of that. I felt a bond with the person, not the exterior image. I tried to read everything I could about what he liked, what he believed. I bought books that I knew he had read so that I would better understand him. I've read about everything I could get my hands on about him. The books I've read are like Wanda June Hill's books. She was a personal friend with him and the things he talked about with her, unguarded, private conversations. I know how he thinks. I know how he phrases things. I know what his inner thoughts and feelings are about things. I know him. Nobody can fool me for nineteen years. The man I talk to is Elvis Presley, period.

Q - Have you ever asked Elvis why he did what he did?

A - I haven't needed to because he's told all of us.

Q - One person I interviewed said if Elvis were really alive, and he came back, he would be hit with lawsuits.

A - No. That's not the reason he won't come back. I can't tell you the details of the reason he won't come back. There were times, over the years, back in the '80s when he did want to come out, and was trying to make plans to come out and he was not allowed to.

Q - By who? Was he in a government witness protection program?

A - No. He chose not to go into the witness protection program because, I'm telling you things he told me, because if he had, he could never have been in touch with anybody. The way it is now, he's only in touch with a handful of us. I only know of two other people that he calls, and one of them is my dearest, dearest, closest friend who I introduced him to, maybe, I don't know, I'd have to go back and count the years, maybe eight years ago. She is just such a fan and totally trustworthy. I asked him would he please contact her and he has done that over the years and he still calls her and writes her and sends her gifts for special occasions. He's proven to her time and time again that he's Elvis. The other person I know is the person who channels our mail to him. Of course he speaks with him on the phone. That's the only two people I know who he calls anymore.

Q - Elvis told you the reason why he faked his death?

A - Oh, yes.

Q - Have you ever seen Elvis face-to-face?

A - No, and I never asked for that. I don't need to. You have to understand that I never, in all these years, pried, asked questions. I've never put any demands at all on him. I told him up front that if he asked me a question I would always answer him honestly. There were no strings attached to my friendship except heartstrings. I never, under any circumstances, would ask him to do anything that would in any way make him uncomfortable or put him in a position where he felt I was trying to set him up. He has mentioned coming to see me and of course I haven't said don't do that! But I always said I would not ask you to do that. He's told me before if he ever came to see me, he would just have to show up because he could never tell anyone where he was gonna be in advance.

Q - Have you ever been in the music business or show business in your life?

A - No.

Q - So, here's Elvis, one of the biggest singers of all time, what do you two talk about?

A - Oh my. We talk about everyday stuff. (laughs) We talk about our aches and pains. Last time we talked, we talked about the floods in Memphis. He wanted to go to Memphis. Of course Mother's Day was the next day. He said he wanted to go to Memphis, but he didn't know if he could because of the floods. We talk about things like the people attacking me on my website, who they are, what they're doing. (laughs) Would you like me to read you his letter to you?

Q - Sure. Go ahead.

A - This letter is postmarked March the 31st. He starts out, "Honey, I must hurry with this letter after talking with you last week. I understand your frustration. I would like to wring the necks of the people who harass you. My phone is a constant problem and my handwriting is horrible. Some letters I will print so they can't copy my handwriting." This was written long hand just like all of his letters. "First let me say that I cannot thank you enough for all the things you send. It really keeps me alive and I wish I could call you more often." He says again the phone is a constant problem. "Anything you want me to do, I will for your website. Please remember you have nothing to be sorry for my little sister." He calls me his sister. "One word for all these people who harass you", and he printed this in quotation marks, big letters, "Lies shall be your only response to them. Must hurry. With love, your brother Jesse." I have two good sized fireproof boxes full of letters and gifts and cards, all in his handwriting, and all of the letters are lick sealed. I was just appalled that Eliza would take the one time he wrote her a letter and lick sealed it, that she took it for DNA. Are you aware that Jesse's (Elvis) DNA matches the DNA of his first cousin on both sides of the family?

Q - I hadn't heard about that.

A - Eliza had been obtaining DNA samples by hook or crook for years. She thought at first she was Elvis' daughter. She finally went to Fox 8 after somebody urged her to. I spoke with Suzanne Stratford. She and I are familiar. I don't speak to her anymore, we don't have cause to. In years past we spoke. Eliza went to her with the DNA of herself and Donna Presley, who was the first cousin on the Presley side and Brenda Smith, who was his first cousin. Fox 8 sent off Jesse's (Elvis) DNA, which he gave them in 2002 and had come from Elvis Presley, as Jesse. Eliza took her three samples. Fox 8 sent them off. Jesse's (Elvis) DNA from the letter to Eliza, really was a letter from Elvis Presley to Eliza, did match Jesse's (Elvis) DNA from 2001 and Jesse's (Elvis) DNA from both years, 2002 and 2008 did show that Eliza is Elvis' half-sister. That was proven by the fat that she matched Jesse's (Elvis) as being a half sibling and she matched Donna Presley as being a first cousin. And Jesse's (Elvis) DNA matched, as I told you earlier, the first cousins on both sides of the family. I can't offer any more proof than that!

Q - What would happen if Elvis did come out?

A - He can't come out, Gary. He has been told; he wrote this letter to the Attorney General of Missouri, which is on my website, and stated that if he gave any more proof out, he would be eliminated. He wrote to me in a personal letter. It's the only letter he's ever written to me that he marked "Personal And Confidential" and wrote to me the same sentiment and told me who was behind it. If people understood who's behind this, it would be like a light bulb moment and they would say "Oh, I see."

Q - Would it be someone from organized crime?

A - No.

Q - It's not the Gambino crime syndicate?

A - It's not the Mafia. Gail (Brewer Giorgio) made such a big issue about the plane fraud. I don't touch on that because Jesse (Elvis) has never brought that into mention as his reason for what he did, although those indictments were being handed down the day that he went away (August 16th, 1977). I have never gone into that. I don't know how factual Gail is about her information about that. But he has never mentioned that as being a factor in what he did. The day (August 16th, 1977) that he chose to leave, if you know how into numerology he always has been and still is, if you look at the day he chose to leave, it is absolutely the work of genius. I don't know any other way to put it and I've gone into great, great, great detail on my website about the intricacies of that day. 8-16-77. He was born on the eighth of the month and he mentions the sixteenth because he said if two people were born on the eighth then it would stand to reason that two people would depart on the sixteenth. If you take that date, you've got one times eight, two times eight, three times eight. Three times eight is twenty-four, which is 1977, digits added together. Then if you add all the numbers in that day, I know you've seen this in other places, it equals 2001, which was his number. Twenty-four is significant. If you take the one eight, the two eights, the three eights, those three eights is twenty-four, which is the reverse of forty-two, which in numerology forty-two and twenty-four have the same meaning.

Q - You have really taken this to an exact science, haven't you?

A - Oh, listen. I have Gary. I know what I'm talking about. I promise you. The number 24 is also fortunate. It promises the assistance and association of those of rank and position with one's plan. Is that not cool? It's a favorable number when it comes out in relation to future events. He's still very strongly follows numerology. He still uses that in his decisions, in his timing.

Q - Would a lot of people have been involved in helping Elvis get away on August 16th, 1977?

A - He said that six people were at Graceland one night and took a hand on hand oath that they would never tell the secret.

Q - Six people?

A - Six people, including him.

Q - I assume the six people would include bodyguards.

A - Not all bodyguards.

Q - Maybe Colonel Parker?

A - I can tell you that because he said Colonel Parker was the mastermind behind it. There's just so, so much. I could go on for days telling you stuff.

Q - Colonel Parker? If I had been Elvis, I would've wanted to end any business relationship with that man. He was taking a lot of Elvis' money.

A - No. People have misconstrued their relationship. Jesse (Elvis) has said that Colonel Parker was a true friend and took the secret to the grave. OK, I will tell you this about Colonel Parker; I don't have this substantiated, but several people have seen this and told me it did happen. In fact, it was reported back when it did happen. A lady who saw it on TV in California wrote Gail (Brewer Giorgio) and told her that she saw this. Back when Gail's book came out and all this was hitting the fan, Colonel Parker was interviewed there on a local California TV news show, like the morning shows. They asked him if Elvis committed suicide and he said "No, he did not. He wanted a way out and I showed him how to do it." That I wish I did have on tape. That was back before VCRs were a common, everyday thing like we have now, and DVRs. But aside from that I can give you more proof of what Jesse (Elvis) said in his book about Colonel Parker is the truth. He wrote in one of the letters in the book that Colonel Parker, Herb Wolf and Howard Hughes helped him to pull this off. That might sound kind of off the wall at first blush, but there has been a book written that came out about a year ago that is based upon the fact that Howard Hughes faked his death and not only faked his death but had a derelict off the streets, who they kept drugged out, was the person people saw with the long fingernails, the long hair and the incoherent type behavior. That was his stand-in. When his stand-in died, they reported publicly that Howard Hughes had died, but Howard Hughes was happily living his life in Alabama. This book is based on a friendship that one of the authors had with his wife for thirty-some-odd years after he quit being Howard Hughes. You'd have to read the book, it's so complicated! But the thing about it is this; recently there's a YouTube video of an interview done with a gentleman who came to a book signing of the book. It's titled Boxes, about Howard Hughes faking his death. This gentleman worked for Howard Hughes on his ranch in Nevada and guess who called him to come to work for Howard Hughes? A man named Herb Wolf. Then Elvis is probably one of the very few people alive who would know that Howard Hughes did not die in April of 1976. So, when he (Elvis) wrote his book and said Howard Hughes helped him, he knew Howard Hughes had to still be alive in August of '77. I've become acquainted with Major General Miller, who researched that book and was friends with Howard Hughes' wife. He and I have e-mailed back and forth and talked on the phone. That book is for real.

Q - Did Elvis leave Graceland by helicopter on August 16th, 1977?

A - No.

Q - That's what I've been told.

A - Everybody's been told that. I've never asked him. I've never made that a part of my proof. To me it sounds a little incredulous. Maybe it happened. I guess I could ask him. But that's something I've never delved into because I don't make that as part of my evidence.

Q - Was this fellow Major Bill in contact with Elvis?

A - I never believed he was. I had his book. I had his records. I never could make up my mind about him. He was kind of a corny like guy like Colonel Parker, back in his carnival days. I was skeptical about Major Bill until I heard the interview that Major Bill did, the patched through call that he did with Elvis with a radio DJ that I think you've heard. When I heard that call, I changed my mind about Major Bill and I thought, well yeah, maybe so, because at that time Elvis mentioned in that phone call about a Deason who taught him how to play the guitar. He said not many people knew that. Well, that has since then come out publicly that yeah, there was a guy there at Lauderdale Courts that who did help him learn to play guitar. But you have to remember that interview was done a long, long time ago, in like the '80s. Since then I have seen where that name has come out as being someone who was there who helped him learn to play the guitar.

Q - Is Elvis living in the United States?

A - Yes.

Q - Is he moving around.

A - Yes.

Q - Someone must be funneling money to him.

A - Yes. He does not have cash money, like he can just go out and give $1,000 away or write checks to this person or that person. He has the money for all of his needs and most of his wants.

Q - What happens if he get sick? Where does he go?

A - He goes places to be seen.

Q - What does Elvis do with his time?

A - When he said in his letter that he appreciates all the things I send him because they keep him alive, he gets bored and depressed. He does have problems with depression. He'll tell me the titles of DVDs and CDs that he would like to have and I find them and get them for him. He collects coins. He has a coin collection. He doesn't read as much, or that's the impression I get. His eyes bother him some. He went fishing last year a good bit until his fishing rod broke. (laughs) And he does travel every once in a while. When we were first friends he told me he still had horses and still rode 'em. He hasn't mentioned that in a number of years. He had to have hip surgery at one point, which he recovered from just fine. When we talk, I always let him choose the topic 'cause I never want him to feel like I'm asking questions, like playing 20 Questions with him. He's told me so, so, so much and I always just let him tell me. He'll tell me things he wants me to know. And of course most of what he tells me I keep confidential. He does give me things I can put on my website. When we talked last Saturday, May 7th (2011), he gave me two anecdotes to put on there, two things that happened in his dressing room, backstage. The reason he did that he said is when and if the people with him back then read those, they would know that it really is him. One of them had to do with Sammy Davis Jr. and the other one had to do with Evil Knieval. I've got them on my website. It was things that nobody would have known unless they were there with Elvis.

Q - Does Elvis know about the interview you're doing with me?

A - This morning I mentioned you in the letter to him. I told him I finally agreed to do my first and probably only interview. I told him your name and I told him you and I had corresponded and that you had been very kind and respectful to me and I thought I could trust you and that I would let him know how it turns out and I will send him a copy of the interview when it's published.

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