 Was Elvis in a Memphis hospital for exhaustion when Altamont and the Sharon Tate killings happen? This is one of the film's odder constructions. In the movie, Elvis is recuperating in a Memphis hotel for exhaustion when he hears a news report about the Altamont Rock concert outside Livermore, California, at which four people died. Someone else in the room is reading a newspaper whose headline says, Sharon Tate and four others have been murdered, victims of the Manson family massacre in Los Angeles. Colonel Parker uses those events as a sign that the world is a dangerous place and Elvis should not travel outside of the US. However, that's interesting since they were deaths on American soil. The timing is suspect. Elvis was in and out of Memphis hospitals for the last several years of his life, but there don't seem to be any records of him being in one on December 1969 when Altamont took place. And Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson family in August 1969, so that would have to have been a four-month old newspaper article about the Tate murders, which seems to be unlikely reading material.