MUCH OF THE ORION PICTURES EVIDENCE POINTING TO ELVIS’S INVOLVEMENT POST 1977 WAS FOUND AND SHARED BY ME. SO, I AM TO BLAME OR CREDIT FOR IT. DEPENDING ON EACH INDIVIDUAL’S SLANT ON THINGS.
This following question and answer, regarding the Orion Pictures material, from an interview between EIN and Phil Aitcheson prompted me to speak up.
I wish to make it perfectly clear that there is NO connection between me and The Presley Commission nor Mr. Aitcheson.
Also, I want to make it clear that I have NEVER said that Elvis appeared in any movie whatsoever. Those claims stem from others and not from me. Rather my movie material indicating that Elvis is involved behind the scenes is substantiated by company credits, crew credits, topics in plots, Elvis music used in the movies, Elvis’ friends appearing in movie or in credits, etc.
EIN: The whole Orion conspiracy thing appeared to get out of hand with theorists moving the goalposts beyond the singer Orion, and seeing Elvis connections in films released by the Orion Pictures organisation. To many disbelievers it seemed that all rational thinking had flown out the door and an ‘anything goes, conspiracy driven’ utopian mentality had taken over. What is your response to this perspective?
PA: The Commission was informed some years back about the “alleged” appearances in movies. Admittedly they do possess a certain air of mystery about such possibilities. More importantly, a recent appearance in another film, “Finding Graceland”, was examined. The subject was also discussed extensively in Gail Giorgio’s book, ‘Elvis Undercover’. Consideration was given to all reports.
I want to set the record straight about the much maligned Orion Pictures and Elvis material which I found and reported…with accompanying evidence to back up what I reported.
Beginning back in 1988, I followed a trail of circumstances and events which led me to believe that Elvis was involved with Orion the singer and from there left us a trail to his endeavor with the movie Industry…through Orion Pictures.
Before I published my newsletter beginning in July, 1990, I compiled a report consisting of all of the instances of Orion Pictures correlating to things “Elvis“…also tying into the Jerry Lee Lewis connection to Orion the singer and then leading from the singer over to Orion Pictures.
There was a trail of events which led up to Elvis’ culmination of his association with Orion the singer in the form of the album titled “The Killer, The King” in 1982.
Please do see my two pages devoted to this topic:
The point I wish to make here is that the Orion Pictures material was pretty much “my baby“. I shared much of what I found with Gail Brewer-Giorgio and she used much of it in her book. You will see references to me by initials, etc. credited with some of my material. Other uses of my material are credited to “he“, etc. rather than credited to me.
Gail phoned one day and asked if she sent a FedEx pickup order would I overnight a copy of my movie report to her. I immediately agreed. I was honored to be able to help Gail. I liked Gail. I supported her wholeheartedly…until Jesse told me otherwise years later.
Below I am going to insert a copy of the first page of my movie report. This seems like a lifetime ago and I look at it now and realize what “baby steps” I was taking then. But that does not change the facts which I was able to point out regarding Orion Pictures and Elvis.
The following is an enlargement of the most important portion of the above page:
The above is shown only to substantiate that I did much research for many years into Elvis and his possible involvement in a “behind the scenes” way in the movie industry. There were several other movie companies who were associated to Elvis and Orion Pictures also. I won’t touch on them here as that would just make the whole issue more complicated.
As you will see above and on my pages devoted to these topics, my findings have not changed nor wavered in the past 22 years. That is because the truth does not change. If you look up and see a blue sky and the president of the USA tells you that the sky is really orange…that does not change the color of the sky nor does it change the truth which you see for yourself. Same thing applies to all of my Elvis material. My truth will not change…ever.
