Press treated Elvis like a ‘menace’ (Chicago Sun-Times)

WASHINGTON -- A new exhibit in the nation's capital on Elvis Presley's rise from third-tier country singer to superstar reveals how negative early press coverage was about the rocker."There's something about the press in the mid-'50s where they wanted to be arbiters of social values, and this man looked like a menace to many," said Newseum president Kenneth A. Paulson. That sentiment is ...

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