At 12:28 a.m. on August 16, 1977, a camera shutter clicked outside the gates of Graceland. The photograph it captured looked ordinary at first glance. A car easing through the darkness. A familiar figure in the passenger seat. No drama. No omen. Just another late Memphis night. Only later would the world understand that this was the final known image of Elvis Presley alive.
At 12:28 a.m. on August 16, 1977, a camera shutter clicked outside the gates of Graceland. The photograph it captured looked ordinary at first glance. A car easing through the…