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ee mm we me rg ere Beet A we me eee ~ . mo, - oe en — - = - | oor “ LA CROSSE REGIS. gy Ts ¥ Bir, Renrt Nr. Ble: WE MOST REV. JOH P. TREACY. 9.0. went Orr ics fas. S’as 4 Qiswor OF La TResse. Paes secant 427 MOESCHLER BUlUoT REV. THCY ©. GADENER, so 1708 @MIAL 2-029, Mr. Bern. PATRICK 3 DELAN assistant co1t)s ws mat. ine spares, Tir. Rem BEROY ABT WCER ODVERTIC(NG mee. 4 ta Gnossere scons1x Mr. Winteo May 16, 1956 Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Director Federal Bureau ot nvestigats on oC. = Washington 25, . , - Dear Mr. Hoover, — f 7-4 - Elvis Presiey, press-asented as a singer and entertainer, tes piayed to two groups of teenagers numbering several thousand se at the city auditorium here, Monday, May 14. : As newspaper man, parent, and former member of Army intelligence Service, I feel an obligation to pass on to you my conviction that Presley is a definite danger to the security of the United States. . \{ Although I could sot attend myself, I sent two reporters to : cover his second show at 9:30 p.m. Sesides, I secured the opinions of others of good judgment, who had seen the show or had heard direct reports of it. Among them are a radio station * manager, ea former motion picture exhibitor, an orchestra player, and @ young woman employee of a radio station who witnessed the “< show to determine its value. All agree that it was the filthies : and most harmful production that ever came to la Crosse for oe exhibition to teenagers. ' £2 E ae When Presley came on the stage, the youngsters almost mobb spe him, as you can judge from the article and pictures enclosed from ees May 15 edition of the Ie Crosse TRIBUNE. The audience could not a heer his “singing” for the screaming and carrying on of the . ] ENcunsuneteenagers. ; _ r] But eye-witnesses have tld we that Presley's actions end : motions were such as to rouss the sexual passions of teenaged \ youth. - One eye-witness cescribed his actions as "sexual self- gratification on the stage,” - another as "a strip-tease with €lothes on." Although police and auxiliaries were there, the ehow went on. Perhaps the bardened police aid not get the eS Smport of his motions and gestures, like those of masturbation or - Fiding a microphone. (The assigtant disty ct attorney and Captain . William Boma also stopped in for a few utes in response to " womplaints about the first .qhow pt hes found no reason to halt @bhe show.) » iy LD ‘ : Zag ; : és: 4 - {7 . = ~<- 4 f aw After the show, more than 1,000 teenagers tried gans into sca" Y) -Presley's room at‘the auditorium, then at the StoAdard =r - ‘All org e re PON eee, ea RD Tes of me BR ce