'' Bubba Ho-Tep '' is a 2002 American comedy horror film written , co-produced and directed by Don Coscarelli . It stars Bruce Campbell as Elvis Presley &mdash; now a resident in a nursing home . The film also stars Ossie Davis as Jack , a black man who claims to be John F. Kennedy , explaining that he was patched up after the assassination , dyed black , and abandoned
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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