Elvis Watched John Wayne Pay a Homeless Man's Bill in 1971 — Then Asked Him One Question Outside

In November 1971, Elvis Presley was in the next lane at a Ralphs on Sunset Boulevard when John Wayne stepped forward and told the cashier to ring it all together. The man at the register was a WWII veteran named Harold Fitch — sixty-two, a can of soup and a box of crackers and thirty-seven cents short. Elvis watched everything. When Wayne headed for the exit, Elvis stepped out of his lane and stopped him. He asked one question: does it bother you, when you see it? What Wayne said stayed with Elvis for the rest of his life.