ELVIS 'THE KING IS DEAD’ 1977 hometown newspaper RARE ROCK’N'ROLL RELIC, FRAMED

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THE NORTHEAST MISSISSIPI DAILY JOURNAL
TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1977
The King Is Dead
Elvis Presley's hometown newspaper announces his death hours earlier.
This is the ULTIMATE
pop culture-rock ‘n’ roll relic.
ELVIS... from cradle... to GRAVE
THIS IS NOT A REPRODUCTION. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER
FROM TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI, BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING
In a black metal frame, under glass, 12 by 14 ½ inches
Ready to display in your office, home or place of business.
THE KING IS DEAD!  LONG LIVE ELVIS!
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On the evening of Tuesday, August 16, 1977,
Elvis Presley was scheduled to fly out of Memphis to begin another tour. That afternoon, Ginger Alden discovered him in an unresponsive state on a bathroom floor. According to her eyewitness account, "Elvis looked as if his entire body had completely frozen in a seated position while using the toilet and then had fallen forward, in that fixed position, directly in front of it. ... It was clear that, from the time whatever hit him to the moment he had landed on the floor, Elvis hadn't moved." Attempts to revive him failed, and his death was officially pronounced the next day at 3:30 p.m. at the Baptist Memorial Hospital.
President Jimmy Carter issued a statement that credited Elvis Presley with having "permanently changed the face of American popular culture." Thousands of people gathered outside Graceland to view the open casket. One of Presley's cousins, Billy Mann, accepted ,000 to secretly photograph the corpse; the picture appeared on the cover of the National Enquirer's biggest-selling issue ever. Alden struck a 5,000 deal with the Enquirer for her story, but settled for less when she broke her exclusivity agreement. Elvis left her nothing in his will.
Elvis's funeral was held at Graceland on Thursday, August 18. Outside the gates, a car plowed into a group of fans, killing two women and critically injuring a third. About 80,000 people lined the processional route to Forest Hill Cemetery, where Presley was buried next to his mother. Within a few weeks, Elvis's single "Way Down" topped the country and UK pop charts. Following an attempt to steal Elvis's body in late August, the remains of both Elvis and his mother were reburied in Graceland's Meditation Garden on October 2.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
is the largest daily newspaper in northeast Mississippi. It was first published in 1872.  It is based in Tupelo, Mississippi, and owned by Journal, Inc. (formerly known as Journal Publishing Company, Inc.) which also owns eight weekly community newspapers such as The Itawamba County Times, the Pontotoc Progress, the Southern Sentinel, the Chickasaw Journal and the New Albany News-Exchange.