1st February 1968, Thursday

[Graeme]

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[Alan]

Priscilla leaves for hospital

      
Lisa Marie or John Barron will soon be born.
She checks in at the Baptist General at 10:38am
6 hours and 19 minutes later at 5.01pm Lisa Marie is born weighing 6 pounds and 15 ounces.

Elvis paced the waiting room just like any other expectant father, except the waiting room was a doctors' lounge specially set aside for Elvis and his entourage, and he had well over a dozen friends, family, and police security in attendance. Their arrival had been something of a comedy of errors. They had a carefully worked-out plan, with a decoy car to divert reporters, but when it came time to put the plan into action, someone forgot to tell the driver, Jerry Schilling, that they had switched hospitals, and Charlie had to convince him that it was Baptist General, not Methodist, where Priscilla would be having the baby. Elvis, too, was in something of a state of nerves. He was practically beside himself when Priscilla insisted on taking a shower and carefully applying her makeup after her waters broke, but then he wasn't ready himself even after she was standing at the door, and he had to be reminded by his grandmother that it was Priscilla, not he, who was having the baby. When the doctor came out and told him he was the father of a girl, he passed out cigars and declared himself to be the happiest man in the world