Today, on 23 December in Elvis History

Elvis, Scotty and Bill were stopped for speeding on their way home from Shreveport. Elvis recalled in a interview: " I thought: Here goes my Christmas money for a traffic ticket.. But the officer let us go with a warning. After the officer left, the 3 of us got out of the car and counted our money by the car headlights. The money was mostly in dollar bills, Man, that was the most money I ever had in my pockets at one time! I blew the whole bundle the next day for Christmas presents.

This was the last day on the set of Wild In The Country for Elvis, before he flew home for the week off. The Colonel had arranged this.

Elvis flew back to Memphis with Linda and Lisa Marie.