On a Tuesday afternoon in October 1971, Elvis Presley famously stopped outside Benson’s Pharmacy in Memphis after seeing 12-year-old Tommy Richardson playing a battered guitar to earn $17 for his sick mother’s medicine.
Upon learning the boy had only raised one dollar after three hours of playing, Elvis paid for the prescription himself, gave the boy $100 for groceries, and personally drove him home in his Cadillac.
