Elvis Presley’s Funeral: Friday, 19th August, 1977

Another glorious day with the temperature ranging from a minimum of nine degrees Celsius to a maximum of twenty. Tiki apologised for her recent behaviour and we agreed that we are in need of a holiday to somewhere overseas. We plan to take one, as soon as our finances allow. “Willesee” screened from 7.00 p.m.; 8.00, “Mother Makes Five”, a British comedy series, starring Wendy Craig; 8.30, the 1971 movie, “Terror In The Sky”, with Doug McClure, Roddy McDowell, Kenneth “The Whirlybirds” Tobey, Keenan Wynn and Leif Erickson. Following a bout of food poisoning an ex-helicopter pilot is called upon to land a four-engined aeroplane with many passengers aboard. It’s a remake of a motion picture from 1957, which stars Steve Forrest’s older brother, Dana Andrews.

Fifty thousand people attended Elvis’s funeral in Memphis, at 5.00 a.m. A.E.S.T.

The hearse was followed by ten white Cadillacs.

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