Elvis Presley Body Guard Sam ThompsonThings you should know Interview
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- Elvis Presley Sam Thompson Interview by Joe Krein - A Talk Between Two Friends
This is a phone interview i did with my friend Sam Thompson in 2003
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Security guard at Graceland and one of Elvis, bodyguards in the 1970s. Thompson was a former police officer and the brother of Linda Thompson. It was Sam who delivered to Elvis, Linda's letter after the two had broken up.
Sam Thompson has had many jobs in his life, he's been a police officer, lawyer, judge and music producer but the job he remembers most fondly is the time he spent as Elvis Presley's 'baby-faced' personal bodyguard. Sam Thompson was a young Memphis cop when his sister Linda, the 1972 winner of the Miss Tennessee Universe Pageant, started dating Elvis Presley that year. Linda introduced him to Elvis and the pair became fast friends, with Thompson heading up security on several tours before finally becoming Elvis' personal bodyguard in July 1976.
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No exaggeration….. I can listen to Sam talk all day and all night long. He is a very smart, humble, no b.s type of a guy…when you ask Sam a question, he answers it with no hype, no this or that, he answers it exactly the way it is- honestly and truthfully, and happens to be the brother of probably my favourite of all the Elvis girls…… the talented and stunning Linda Thompson. Once again Joe….. fantastic interview. 💯💯💯
Sam is so articulate ..and very informative . Better interview than so many others have given over the years. No hype, no sensationalism.. just facts 👍
I totally agree! Sounds like a really good man. Salt of the earth kind of guy.
Educated with a good language! Good man!
Sam and Linda talk so much alike when they are trying to explain their time with Elvis. Both of them are genuinely good people that you can trust are telling you the truth..imo
Love this interview. Fantastic! I met Sam at the Nashville Elvis Festival in April. I have this autographed pic! He is a great guy. Thank you for this. He and Linda were great friends for Elvis. So glad he had them in his life. 💖💖💖💖💖💖
I agree 💯
Sam did well for himself after Elvis passed I didn't know much about him before. Impressive chap. You asked all the right questions you obviously know your Elvis.
Joe this interview with Sam was a goldmine of insight and information about the man, Elvis! I can’t even begin to tell you how much information I have in my mind about Elvis, but this interview was something totally different than all the rest! It gave information about how Elvis was in his everyday life, without being to personal. Sam gave a lot of information that was unknown to me about the day of, and the days following Elvis’s death, and the eventual burial at Graceland. Sam was the man who was there, but behind the scenes and you can just tell his honesty as he talks. I am so glad that I just happened across this interview! It is wonderful to know that Elvis had a good friend around and with him in those final years. Sam is a very intelligent man who really tells his story if his time with Elvis in such an understandable and believable manner! Thank you so much for putting out this interview for us fans to listen to!
So many more fans need to hear this interview!
Thank you i am so glad you liked them . They are collecting dust in my closet . Let others know and please subcribe so you know when others are up.
@@jkrein82 You say you have more collecting dust in your closet? You really need to put them out here, so that others can hear them. This was a great interview, seriously!! I personally would love to hear more and I’m sure others would also!! Thank you once again!!
Let people know about them please .@@donnap.c.886
You right,very good interview. I have seen an interview with Sam on youtube from ostjysk tv, its also was great.
Keep up the great work Joe just awesome 💯
This is one of the best interviews about Elvis I have heard. Thank you so much for making it available on CZcams ❤❤
Thanks for listening
@@jkrein82Thank YOU for posting ❤
Sam had a Full Life. Many Jobs and careers - that were all performed very well . Congrads Sam And stay Well
Sam is as kind and nice as his sister Linda. I am so glad that Elvis had these two wonderful individuals in his life. God Bless you Sam you were like a guardian angel just as was Linda.
AMEN ❤
Sam is a true friend, with unbiased facts.
This is a great, informative interview. Very respectful and well done. Thank you…
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you very much for this interview with Sam Thompson. He's been a very successful, intelligent, gifted and is very blessed.
I wish many blessings and Love for Sam, Linda and for any other people that were affiliated with Elvis. That was so very nice that Sam shared alot with us about Elvis. 💕
May Your Beautiful Spirit Forever
✨ Shine ✨ Rest In Peace 🕊️ And Happiness 💞
Elvis Aaron Presley 💖 🕊️💫🌹
Amen 🙏🏻
From Lynette in
Illinois USA 🇺🇸
September 10, 2023
Amen and Amen.. So very well said ❤️
@@lindaf4369 Thank you very much Linda 🌹
Absolutely wonderful. Very informative, lucid and interesting Q&A. Great job at the interview Joe. 😊
Thanks so much!
@@jkrein82 You’re welcome. If you’re up for that phone call, I’ll be available. 😊
Stunning joe thanks 🙏 very much
Glad you enjoyed it
❤ I was willing to know he was for his sister.
🎉 I just love Sam, he's such a good story teller and I enjoy his memories with Elvis.
Great interview! Sam is a special man who was Elvis’ friend plus part of his family.
very nice guy
These interviews are so facinating
I absolutely love this guy..... I'm sure Elvis did too. ❤❤
He is a terrific interview. Smart, articulate and nice ability to tell a story!
I loved this interview! One of the very best ever! Thank you both for sharing your part in Elvis' s life! God Bless you!
Great interview. Really appreciate hearing his view of events.
Thank you so much. Thank God you have those southern traditions
Great interview
I wish there could have been a question about what he was going through while he sat with Elvis' body in state... I could not imagine how surreal that must have been....
Sometimes you can only so far. I mean it was his friend .
Nice interview, sounds like a nice dedicated guy. Always thought, that Elvis had a gang of friends and later bodygurads around him, to protect him, yet Elvis, in a way caused his own demise, with too much medication and fatty, unhealthy food. Sad really, to give so much in such a short time and remembered for so long.
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Fantastic!!!
Outstanding interview. Thank you!
Oh wow my question was covered from a previous question under this video that I just discovered. Again fantastic interview Joe😃
I'm glad Sam freely mentioned Elvis told him the morning he died that he was bringing a new girl on tour with him and her name was Alicia. I have heard so many people say they didn't believe this because Ginger had said they were engaged. Others who were in Elvis's circle have said the same thing, so Sam saying it is further proof he wasn't that dedicated to Ginger and the other guys weren't lying. Thank you, Sam.
Sam may have heard it from Billy Smith but it's still not true. Alicia Kerwin testified at Dr. Nick's first trial and she said she hadn't seen Elvis the month before he died, that she had no interest in him and only called Graceland to get papers she needed for the car Elvis bought her. It's also been researched in Elvis Decoded and there were no arrangements made for Alicia to go on tour with Elvis.
@@debra2700 Sam said Elvis told him she was going the morning he died. Other members of his group have said the same thing. Alicia was young and she may have said she wasn't going because she didn't want to be involved and have the press coming after her after his death. Who knows, I know I have heard it out of Sam and Billy Smith's own mouth and I have read where others in the know have said the same thing.
@@handmup Sam Thompson didn't see Elvis that morning. He said in an interview that when he came to pick up Lisa Marie to take her home, Elvis was dead. Billy Smith didn't hear about it until his cousin, Patsy Presley called to tell him when Elvis had been rushed to the hospital. Billy Smith is and always was a professional cousin and he and Jo hated Ginger and did everything they could, along with Dick Grob, to make Ginger look bad and make it look like she was on her way out. Alicia testified at Dr. Nick's trial that Elvis was too old for her and she had no interest in him at a time when everyone adored Elvis. She wouldn't risk the wrath of the fans if she didn't mean what she said. Sorry, but "others in the know" is not better than a woman testifying under oath.
@@debra2700 Did you even listen to Sam's interview above at 29:59 he begins telling about Elvis telling him the morning he died about Alicia going on tour with him. Elvis had asked George Kline to make the arrangements for her to go. Elvis also told Billy, who he was very close to him, and has told this on his video show. Others in the group also knew about her going. Elvis said she was going and told all these people so I believe them. Now, if you don't want to believe what these men have said that is fine. I do believe them and we will have to agree to disagree.
@@handmupElvis and Sam and whoever may have said that Alicia was going on the tour but Alicia didn't want to go. She didn't like the way all of the guys around Elvis would laugh at his jokes even if they weren't funny and she felt they were a bunch of users who did his bidding and it disgusted her. Alicia was a young girl and didn't want to have to take care of a man more than twice her age the way Ginger was willing to do and the way she understood she would be expected to do. I respect what you're saying, that Elvis and the guys said Alicia was going on tour but it didn't matter. Alicia was asked at Dr. Nick's 1981 trial about her observations of Elvis' drug use those last few months of his life. She said she didn't see him and only called Graceland because she needed some papers for the car that Elvis bought her in the Spring.
Wow I love this !
That's our Elvis (not baz' version, or the exwife's slander) thank you.
Great interview and such a genuinely great guy ❤
ELVIS 😇❤️ bought a house 🏡 several vehicles 🚙🚜 Harley Davidson motorcycles 🛵 expensive jewelry 💎💍 and other valuables for Sam Thompson 🤩 Linda Thompson 🤩 and Linda and Sam parents 🤩 ELVIS 😇💜 was A GIVER 🤑🏡🚙💎💍💵💰 WITH A VERY BIG HEART ❤️ TOWARDS SO MANY PEOPLE 😈🤩 OF VARIOUS ETHNICITY 🤩 AND TOWARDS. A LOT OF CHARITIES 🤑 Elvis great grandma 💕💟 was Cherokee American 💐 Indian 🌈. Inspiring stories of Elvis 😇 ❤️ who grew up dirt poor 😢 very poor rags to riches story. Elvis 😍 gave most of his fortune 🔮 🤑 away when he was alive.
I'm sure some of those recipients, would give those tings up to have Elvis back to all of them/us now.
No wonder Elvis Presley had hardly any money left when he died. He bought houses and cars for Linda, Sam and their parents! Incredible! Elvis paid for the funeral of Linda's grandmother! Thompson paid his lawschool fees with the guitar he got from Elvis.
Elvis did that for all the guys not just Sam
@@angelaneihoff8303 I presumed. Sadly, Elvis did not get the appreciation, loyalty and support he deserved. I know Jerry and Red West got a house but I am not sure about the others: Lacker, Fike, Hodge, Esposito, Sonny West, Hebler, Geller, Dean Nichopoulos, Gleave and Fortas?
Graceland. I think that’s the reason Graceland became such an intriguing location for ppl to start visiting after he died. Because unlike most big celebrities Elvis did not continuously move. An average celebrity usually moves to about 4 different mansions and in entirely different locations/cities. All the stories and facts about Elvis revolve entirely specifically around Graceland. And nowhere else. And we know, today it’s unfortunately Grave-land. As alot of young ppl today don’t even know who Elvis is, or his music, so hopefully Lisa Marie’s daughter can ensure Graceland evolves Graceland into something modern music associated. I really hope so. I love Graceland stories.
I don’t think there are any young people today, in the western world certainly, who don’t know the name Elvis Presley!
I don't consider Graceland odd for having people buried there.
It always seemed such a family oriented place because of that.
They did it because they wanted to protect Elvis and his mama from weirdos.
I think it's touching that it's there and the fans can visit him anytime they want.
If only everyone valued their family that much the world be a better place.
Elvis needed to let Linda take care of him. He should have listened to her.
I think any woman who didn’t want him to take drugs wasn’t going to last with Elvis. Reason he courted Ginger she was still young and didn’t know any better than just go along with whateverElvis did. Unfortunately she couldn’t care less Elvis was laying on the bathroom floor dying, while she slept.
Little younger than Elvis, that's funny.
I appreciate the interview and insight he offers during that time. Unfortunately, through all these is the sheer willingness to turn a blind eye to the excessive drug use. This in particular however with a former police officer who obviously was aware of what Elvis was doing. To be fair, what could he have done. The perks obviously outweighed the obvious issue (until he died) and then gifts, cars and houses disappeared. What people call genorosity was certainly an internal feeling that he needed to buy loyalty as he didnt really have true friends. He had to have known that and probably was very depressed by it. The real tragedy is Elvis surrounded himself with yes men & enablers, not friends and died alone.
Just sad. Personally I feel he had simply given up, wasn't happy and was just in a routine of living in survival mode.
Sam was like Family with Elvis Love Sam an Linda ❤️❤️ I look at Linda as wife she’s classy Women an so Beautiful 😍
How could he have had Mrs. Thompson buried near Ms. Gladys?
I thought they moved her grave to Graceland
so quickly.
I guess I don't know at all when your mother passed though, Mr. Thompson.
I thank you for this interview, I find you very sincere.
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The reason Elvis wore sunglasses indoors was most likely because he suffered with glaucoma not because he was trying to be cool.
I have always wondered why Elvis is not next to his Mom? I find that very odd! RIP: Presleys
Because he's still Alive! Look up Pastor Bob Joyce. God has called him to Change His Life.
God gave him A NEW HEALTHY LIFE, where he could live a Normal Life! He went back to his Gospel roots, and is a Pastor of his own Church in Benton Arkansas! He's also been Married to Willena, the OTHER GIRL THAT HE LEFT BEHIND IN Germany, while serving in the ARMY. DON'T TAKE MY WORD... JUST research just as I have for almost 8 years.
MANY PEOPLE ARE IN THE KNOW...
GID IS GOOD! He's 88 years old. TONS OF EASY TO FIND FACTS!
ENJOY THE TRUTH IN YOUR REASEARCH😊
Your want we call a weirdo! and some would call you a troll! I like weirdo better!@@robynroman4079
@@robynroman4079lol bullshit Elvis died Aug. 16 1977. Bob Joyce is in his 70s
Larry, you have been in the Dark.
Everyone knows the truth.
Things are not always what they appear.
Enjoy the Truth, like many others do.
@robynroman4079 your pathetic please don't Rey back
I wish you could have asked Sam if Elvis in his casket looked like that National Enquirer picture. There seems to be some controversy about that.😊
Do you have the book Elvis Decoded? There is a huge section in that book on that. I interviewed him on that but iIdid not think people would be interested.
@@jkrein82 No I don't have the book. What did he say?
To much to write - but i do suggest it. I may post the audio. It deals with the allegation of Vernon having the guys still the body and Elvis alive
@@jkrein82 Elvis Decoded also debunks the Alicia Kerwin story as did her testimony at Dr. Nick's trial where she said she had no interest in Elvis and there were no plans made for Alicia to go on tour with Elvis. Billy Smith made that up because he and Jo Smith adore Linda and hated Ginger. Sam should have stayed away from that type of gossip.
I remember an interview he did after Elvis died where he said he got 9 year old Lisa Marie to ring Linda and tell her that Elvis was dead. Since then I have no respect for this man. Seems nobody was taking care of that little girl. Lisa didn't chose to ring Linda, he got her to. The whole mess is very sad.
He just said he went looking for Lisa and she was in with the grandmother room already on the phone with Linda
He said she remembered it.
I heard that someone else called Linda and then put Lisa on the phone.
What's wrong with that?
@@saphireblue3563 Nothing if Linda hadn't continued to spin the narrative that she was more important to Lisa Marie than her own mother was to her.
Did Elvis feel he had to buy people’s loyalty?
So tired of hearing the same story from him n Linda trying to stay relevant as we all know Evis had numerous relationships while he was with her and what she was ok with it ? Her brother was to ? Nah they were in it fir the gifts
Never heard of him
Brother to Linda . You have seen photos of him if you are a die hard fan
I did not mean my post as a hostal post. I meant a person that read listen and watch his moves all the time. So i apoligise iff the post upset you.
@@jkrein82 Joe, I found an article in the Commercial Appeal where after Elvis died, Linda and Sam were notified that the Estate could no longer continue to pay the rent on a house that Elvis had purchased and allowed their parents to rent from him. Instead of being grateful that Elvis had allowed them to stay there even after he broke up with Linda, they sued the Estate. Sam was making money and Linda was appearing on Hee Haw and the Presley Estate wasn't responsible for Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, Sam and Linda were or the Thompsons should have taken care of themselves. Either way, it definitely made me think less of Linda and Sam because "the Estate" was Vernon, little Lisa Marie and Minnie Mae. Linda and Sam lost because there was no written rental agreement between Elvis and the Thompsons, the same way there was none between Elvis and the Aldens.
@@debra2700Priscilla was kicking out Linda's elderly parents for revenge. Priscilla had a big salary for doing little. She lived in Los Angeles. Also, Priscilla was collecting on a $450,000 lien she had put on Graceland in 1976 when she saw Elvis was becoming too sick to perform.
@@buymiamitopalmbeachh I can't stand Priscilla and I agree with you about her but the article I read in the Memphis Commercial Appeal was during that 1977-79 time period when Vernon was struggling to keep things going and it was apparent that the Estate was in financial trouble. Linda also lived in Hollywood making great money on Hee Haw and her parents and their wellbeing was Linda and Sam Thompson's responsibility, not any member of the Presley family. It was little Lisa Marie who was going to inherit Graceland so Linda can't go on and on about how close she was to Lisa Marie and not acknowledge that she expected Elvis' Estate to let her parents live rent free in a house Elvis owned.
Tom Parker appears to have begun to indulge in gambling in Las Vegas after signing an international hotel deal. By making his manager addicted to gambling, tying Elvis to long-term slave contracts for Las Vegas shows, and subjecting him to grueling performances on stage and on tour, one wonders who ultimately benefited from all the money Elvis made. The answer is RCA and MGM.
Bull she got Linda's number from the room who was inside
A new girlfriend??? But what about marrying Ginger?
I was told by different people that worked with Elvis 'that he asked all of them . It was kinda his pickup line . But he had no intentions to marry any of them .
Supposedly Mr. Elvis was involved with a couple of other women while he was with Ms. Alden.
I don't believe he just outright proposed to a lot of ladies, it seemed he more often co habitated.
I believe because he thought that it would be a smart idea to give the relationship a trial run.
Though we can never really be sure of what he said or did in private.
And he certainly cannot refute nor confirm it.
Some of the people that was with Elvis said she was messing around with Ricky Stanley. It was also mentioned in some book.
@@jkrein82 You mean Priscilla right?
Joe, I appreciate the poignant and impressive interview’s. I realize what you’re goal is in each interview, but just out of respect for Elvis Presley, could you pronounce his last name correctly. It is Presley not PREZLEY. Thanks for the interview.
Do you think that was a nice thing to say? I have a speech impediment at times .
@@jkrein82 I think it was a very appropriate request. You’re not a fan of Elvis Presley, hence the reason you do it. Normally
I told you why
@@robmiller3464 Ive been doing an Elvis Show for 23 years without pay . Ive been collecting since i was 12. How dare you.
Joe, it’s not a big deal to pronounce his name properly. You’re hilarious, usually people with a speech impediment have no trouble with most consonants. The letter S in one. I do appreciate your program but still feel you’re not a fan and don’t have a speech impediment. My opinion sir.
Great interview