# The 25 March 1961 Bloch Arena USS Arizona memorial benefit is a documented charity concert

Date: 1961

## The fact

On 25 March 1961 [Presley](/people/elvis-presley) performed a benefit at Bloch Arena for the USS Arizona memorial fund.

It is one event.

## Context

A benefit can be PR and can raise a memorial. Store the dated fund mechanism. Do not invent a unique dollar total not in the cited institutional files.

Elvis Presley’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

On 25 March 1961 Presley played a benefit at Bloch Arena, Pearl Harbor, directed at the USS Arizona memorial fund. The Navy and local organisers shared the instrument. Documented philanthropy, not a slogan about generosity.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Graceland/EPE’s public chronology and National Park Service USS Arizona memorial history independently date the 1961 benefit in the memorial’s fundraising story.

Official or archival record: Graceland / Elvis Presley Enterprises (https://www.graceland.com/; Elvis Presley Enterprises).

## Significance

A dated memorial-fund concert is a humanitarian-access path with institutional lag.

A 1961 benefit is not 1970s polypharmacy.

A dated memorial-fund concert is a humanitarian-access path with institutional lag.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 25 March 1961 Bloch Arena Arizona memorial benefit. Not established: that he designed the memorial.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Elvis Presley.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Elvis Presley: https://factrail.ai/people/elvis-presley

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.nps.gov/
- https://www.graceland.com/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/elv-arizona-1961