The Kansas City Star
14 October 2015
May 25, 1956: An Elvis Presley fan is foiled
Reader Laura Willard shares a cherished family story
that might sound like a tall tale — but there really is a historical photo to
back it up. From Laura:
(My mother) snuck out of her
mom and dad’s house when she was a young teenager and took a bus across the
state line, all so she could go to an Elvis Presley concert that she was
forbidden to attend. The story that was passed down to us children and
grandchildren is that she thought she got away with it till she woke up the
next morning with the morning paper on her plate, with her on the front page,
instead of breakfast.
Laura found the clipping here, and showed it to her
uncle, who remembered it clearly and picked her mother out in the crowd.
Because The Star was an evening paper at the time, the photo ran at the top of
the front page of The Kansas City Times, which was labeled as “The Morning
Kansas City Star.”
YourHoustonNews.com
22 August 2005
By Sondra Bosse
[On 24 August 1955, Elvis Presley performed at a high
school football field in Conroe, Texas.]
[…] Wanda Sue Morgan, like all the other girls in
town, couldn't wait to see Elvis.
"But her mother, Jennie Mae Morgan, wouldn't
allow her to go because Elvis shook his hips in a manner that was too
provocative," said Stacy Morgan about her aunt Wanda Sue Morgan.
However, Morgan snuck out and went to the concert.
"Well as luck would have it, the next day on the front
page of the paper was a picture of Elvis on the flatbed trailer performing and
on the front row was my Aunt Wanda swooning over him," Stacy Morgan said.
"So she got busted." […]
