In 1970 LAPD Chief Ed Davis met and got all hand-shook up with Elvis Presley. A few years later, while working a joint LAPD/FBI taskforce, I had the opportunity to read the FBI files on The King...Talk about your Suspicious Minds...
By 1940, The LAPD had stopped issuing
honorary badges and was not about to present an actual police badge to
performer Elvis Presley. But Presley – who collected real badges from as many big
cities as he could – did wind up being presented with something close to the item
he coveted.
According to lore, Presley met with the Los Angeles police
chief in December, 1970. The following year, Elvis received a Los Angeles
Police Commission badge, and ultimately landed an actual LAPD lieutenant
detective badge.
Presley insisted on secrecy in connection with presentation
to him of badges by public officials, and secrecy breeds fables. What parts of
the tale are true?
To read the Metropolitan-News
Enterprise article by Roger M. Grace and get briefed on the truth vs. tall
tales of this meeting CLICK HERE
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