Jesse Garon Presley
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Jesse Garon Presley (stillborn January 8, 1935) was the identical twin brother of the American singer Elvis Presley.
His parents were Vernon Elvis Presley (1916-1979) and Gladys née Gladys Love Smith (1912-1958), and he was born in a shotgun house in Tupelo, Mississippi. Noted Presley biographer Peter Guralnick wrote that he was still-born.
Jesse Garon Presley was buried in a shoebox in an unmarked grave in the Priceville Cemetery in Tupelo. His parents could not pay the $10 doctor bill.
In 2006, musician Scott Walker released the song, "Jesse" on his album The Drift that uses Jesse and Elvis to comment on the September 11, 2001 attacks.[1]
In Unmanned, the first arc of the comic book Y: The Last Man, the protagonist Yorick Brown discusses Jesse briefly, using his death as an example of the power of destiny ("Why does fate choose one man over another, that sorta thing...?"). This is a counterpoint to the character's later status as the last human male on the planet.
A notable episode of the revived (mid-1980s) Twilight Zone series saw an Elvis impersonator accidentally travel back in time to 1954 where he meets the real Elvis, who convinces himself that the visitor is his long-lost Jesse (they end up having a fight in which the impersonator accidentally kills Elvis; he is thus forced to play out his role "for real" until he himself dies).
