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♪♪

A lot of people misunderstand me.

It's because they don't know me.

I mean, I guess that's true.

People believe a lot of crazy stories they read.

-Yeah. -Some is true.

Some is not and --

Reporter: Does it hurt when you see those crazy stories?

Sometimes, but it's part of the work, you know?

Reporter: Mm-hmm.

You ever want to lash out in any type of way and say,

"Hey, that's not true"?

Yeah, a lot of times.

♪♪

♪♪

Welcome to "How It Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.

He's the definition of a music icon,

a singer-songwriter whose catalog of hit songs

defined a generation,

his innovative dancing unmatched,

his videos classics, his style singular,

but Michael Jackson was also a father of three

whose life was dogged by scandals,

and then June 25, 2009,

many thought the biggest news story of the day

would be the death of Farrah Fawcett,

but how wrong they were.

Tonight, we examine the death of Michael Jackson.

How did he die? Why did he die?

Was something more sinister going on?

Did he, in fact, cause his own death?

We hear from those who lived through it

and find out how it really happened.

♪♪

I thought June 25, 2009,

was going to be pretty much of an easy day for me.

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop,

we're told by our affiliates in Los Angeles,

has been rushed to a local hospital.

I remember getting back to my office at "Inside Edition,"

and we were putting the Farrah Fawcett story together,

and we heard a news alert.

Reporter: Jackson only just recently signed a deal

to do a whole bunch of concerts in London.

Blitzer: We're covering this story for you,

the hospitalization of Michael Jackson,

the King of Pop.

I got a note from the president of the company

to jump on a plane and go to Los Angeles.

Both the Los Angeles Times

and CBS News are both now reporting...

Michael Jackson has died.

Let me just say this, and I believe this to be true.

This is not hyperbole.

I think the world stopped.

Everything stopped.

No one paid attention to politics.

No one paid attention to anything else.

Dimond: The demonstrations of mourning,

the candlelight vigils, the tears for this man,

it really underscored what a worldwide superstar he was.

Casarez: It was shocking because this was a young man.

This was someone that was about to begin a tour,

and so immediately, you wonder,

"Why? How? What happened? Something's not right."

How did he die?

Who killed him?

Moret: Who was with him?

Who saw him last? What was he doing?

It couldn't have been deliberate, could it?

Lemon: It just kept growing and growing and growing

until everything started to unfold and unravel,

and, boy, whew, what an avalanche.

You had some concerns about the --

the physicians and the people who were around him?

I can't get into that, but I don't like what happened.

The family, and rightfully so,

were very suspicious about what happened.

Morgan: How do you think he died?

You've been quoted as saying you --

you believe it may have been murder.

Do you still think that?

-Absolutely. -Why?

-Absolutely. -Why are you so sure?

I would never, ever think differently because,

first of all, Michael told me

that they were going to murder him.

He was afraid. -Who was --

-He was afraid for his life. -Who was going to murder him?

She suggested he was worth more dead than alive,

and consequently, people wanted him dead.

The death of Michael Jackson was a shock

to everybody across the world.

He was just 50 years old, the King of Pop,

but truth is the events that led to it began 25 years before.

Dimond: I am hard-pressed to think of a bigger star

than Michael Jackson was in the '70s and '80s.

I remember seeing him, like, on programs

like the "Ed Sullivan Show" and -- and whatnot.

♪ ABC ♪

Dimond: I always remember Michael Jackson as that little,

tiny kid singing "ABC" and doing those swirls around

and his brothers in syncopation behind him.

What a talent he was.

Duke: After "Off the Wall," Michael Jackson just exploded

a couple of years later with "Thriller."

It changed the sound of the '80s.

♪ Because this is thriller thriller night ♪

♪ And no one is going to save you ♪

♪ From the beast about to strike ♪

The most iconic moment

for me of Michael Jackson was the Motown 25 performance.

Michael Jackson was singing "Billie Jean,"

and something just happened.

What was that? He had done this moonwalk,

and it looked like there was a special effect that the --

that the stage was being pulled

because nobody had ever seen this before.

It was unbelievable.

He was the King of Pop,

and you know, you can just go, "Ee-Ee."

Everyone knew his -- if you did that,

you knew Michael Jackson.

In the early 1980s,

Michael Jackson was on top of the world,

and Pepsi-Cola hired him

to make this incredible music-video commercial.

It was going to be big.

Unfortunately, when you look back,

it's also what caused the downfall of Michael Jackson.

Richards: In 1984, the Jacksons were about to embark on the Victory tour

with of course, Michael Jackson as part of the stage show.

He didn't need any money. He didn't drink Pepsi.

In fact, he wanted nothing to do with Pepsi sponsoring the tour.

Part of the deal was that they had to shoot a Pepsi commercial.

Michael obviously didn't really want to do this

but was cajoled by his brothers into doing it.

On the 27th of January,

the Jacksons shot the commercial.

It was on the final take as Michael

was descending some stairs.

A pyrotechnic went off just beside his head

about 2 feet away, and his hair caught fire.

♪♪

Watching the video today, you can see his hair

starting to smolder,

people running on from the side from the side of the stage,

putting a jacket over his head to try and douse the flames

and throwing him to the floor.

What actually happened was that Michael had suffered

third-degree burns and was rushed to the hospital.

That was really the beginning of the end for him in the sense

that he was in so much pain that he had to take painkillers,

and he ended up becoming addicted to them.

There was so much damage to his scalp,

he started delving into plastic surgeries

and then got deeper and deeper into it.

Casarez: His appearance started to change.

His nose changed.

The color of his skin changed.

Duke: He looked different from album to album.

It looked like a transformation in front of your eyes.

He became a client of a guy

called Dr. Arnie Klein in Beverly Hills

who calls himself the father of dermatology

and cosmetic surgery,

and the rumors are that Jackson not only saw

Dr. Klein to have cosmetic treatments

but also to get access to Demerol,

which is one of the drugs that was used

as a painkiller at the time.

Why did you give Michael Jackson Demerol?

I said before because I rebuilt his face.

His face was -- had full scars.

His nose had totally -- had collapsed.

I had to rebuild his chin.

Casarez: Dr. Arnie Klein told me

that Michael Jackson was just -- had a compulsion.

Dimond: Thus we see the multiple nose jobs,

the jaw line, the dimple in the chin.

There came a time when they put actually

put some whiskers into his upper face

and around his chin line, and he then didn't like them,

so then they were taken out again.

He's the one who made the tattoo around the hairline

so it didn't look like Michael was losing his hair.

He tattooed the eyebrows and around the eyes

and the lips.

If you want to make the world a better place,

take a look at yourself and then make a change.

I think Michael Jackson's affinity,

shall we say, for plastic surgery

was borne out of the fact

that he didn't really have a childhood.

He didn't know who he was,

so he would look at the man in the mirror

and try to figure out, "Who is this man in the mirror?"

Reporter: When you look in the mirror, are you happy with what you see?

In -- in what way?

Reporter: Just when you look there in terms of that social philosophy.

I'm never totally satisfied.

While Michael Jackson is getting all this cosmetic surgery,

he is living at home with his parents.

Then in 1988, he got the courage to buy a ranch

he called Neverland, and he moved out,

and I think many people close to him would tell you

that's when he started making the worst decisions of his life.

We must all never forget that the children are our future,

and without them, mankind would become extinct.

To all the children, I love you.

Thank you.

[Applause]

♪♪

Announcer: Welcome to "Larry King Live."

Good evening from Washington.

Michael Jackson has been through endless press speculation,

but now there's a new shock,

and it's no tabloid tale about sleeping in oxygen tanks

or trying to buy the Elephant Man.

The famous pop star is at the center

of a Los Angeles Police Department criminal probe.

In 1993, totally out of the blue,

Michael Jackson faced some very, very serious

and potentially damaging child-abuse allegations.

King: Two of his homes in Southern California

were searched this weekend.

I was told the police were at his ranch

in Santa Barbara county and at his condo in Beverly Hills.

Figure out what's happening.

It didn't take me long to get a copy of the police report

and the child-welfare report, which said clearly,

"Allegations of sexual molestation."

I couldn't believe it.

After we broke the story, it seemed like a long, long time

that we heard no reaction from Michael Jackson himself,

and then, one day, there was a live satellite feed

that we were all told to tune

into at a certain time and record.

-I wish to convey my -- -Bring it up.

-- my deepest gratitude for your love and support.

And there was Michael Jackson.

There have been many disgusting statements

made recently concerning allegations

of improper conduct on my part.

These statements about me are totally false.

Moret: It was simply Michael Jackson on camera saying that --

that he had settled these horrible allegations,

that there was no truth to them,

that he would never hurt a child,

that -- that he loved children.

I ask all of you to wait and hear the truth

before you label or condemn me.

Don't treat me like a criminal because I am innocent.

I have been...

The impression that everybody had was,

"Boy, that was weird."

Richards: What's crucial about that tape --

He's actually for the first time explaining --

almost apologizing for undergoing treatment

for some sort of chronic addiction.

After my tour ended,

I remained out of the country undergoing treatment

for a dependency on pain medication.

This medication was initially prescribed

to soothe the excruciating pain that I was suffering

after recent reconstructive surgery on my scalp.

Richards: In 1993, nobody thought anything about that,

but now, looking back, you can see

that that was the first time

that the alarm bells should've rung.

The family wouldn't let it drop.

Instead of going to court,

Michael Jackson offered them a $20 million settlement,

which obviously they accepted.

Halperin: He never wanted to settle.

He wanted to go the full distance to prove his innocence,

and unfortunately, a lot of people don't realize

he was forced to settle by his insurance company.

Richards: However, settling out of court did nothing

to prove Michael's innocence,

and in fact, people around the world were saying,

"Where there's smoke, there's fire."

♪♪

Reporter: In focus tonight, Michael Jackson's ranch is searched

in connection with an accusation of child molestation.

Casarez: In 2003, it was a shock.

All of a sudden, the accusation is Michael Jackson

has done it again. -How are you doing?

Sheriff's Department, we have a search warrant.

This time more serious, this time criminal,

this time, the Sheriff's department descends

on Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch and raids the ranch

looking for evidence of molestation.

Are there any secret rooms?

The family accused Michael of all kinds of stuff,

but the -- the --

the nub of the accusations were 12 counts of child molestation.

The whole thing turned into a media circus.

I love you, Michael.

Reporter: Michael Jackson was coming to the courthouse,

but it felt more like one of his concerts.

We're just waiting!

Most people will remember the arraignment

not for anything that happened inside of the courtroom.

Most people remember what happened

outside of the courtroom.

Who is our staff? Who's our camera people?

Geragos: And we went to the SUV and kind of pushed through the crowds,

and Michael was -- his security detail was leading him through.

I love my fans.

And the next thing I know, he's on top of the SUV.

[Cheering]

And I turned to Ben Brafman, who was my co-counsel,

and Ben's response was,

"If we don't get this under control, next thing you know,

he's going to show up in his pajamas."

Tonight, is that a pajama party? No way.

It's Michael Jackson and his entourage

showing up over an hour late to court and wearing his pajamas.

We called it Pajama Drama Day,

and I remember walking in, and I said to him,

"Mr. Jackson, are you okay?"

And he just looked over at me, sort of over my head,

and I thought,

"Wow, he must be on some sort of pain medication."

Just an incredible showdown between this 15-Year-old boy

and this world-renowned pop star.

Did not appear to me to be a case

that should've ever reached the criminal-justice system.

Woman: We the jury in the above entitled case

find the defendant not guilty.

[Cheering]

Blitzer: Michael Jackson will be walking out of this courtroom

a free man.

He was found not guilty,

but in the court of public opinion,

there was -- he was never really vindicated.

He quickly disappeared from America, went overseas,

and we didn't see him for a long time.

Halperin: He was deeply in debt.

He owed people money all over the place

to the tune of $400 odd million,

and that's what really fueled his drug addiction,

so that's why I made my prediction.

Unless Michael got people around him

who genuinely had his best interest at heart,

he was a house of cards.

He was going to die.

When Michael Jackson announced at that famous news conference

the "This is It" residency at the O2,

that day, that morning was a train wreck.

♪♪

Welcome back to "Showbiz Tonight."

I am A.J. Hammer in New York.

Tonight, Michael's big return, yes, the one-time King of Pop

came face-to-face with his fans today

to announce his big return to the stage.

In 2009, plans were put in place for Michael Jackson

to make a comeback tour.

Now this was going to be done at the O2 venue in London,

a venue owned by AEG,

who were the promoters behind the concerts.

Duke: Michael Jackson had several motivations.

One of them, of course, was money.

He was desperately in need of cash flow,

but another was reputation and legacy.

He knew that Prince held the record for the most shows

in a residency at O2, and he wanted to break that.

Initially, they announced 10.

Eventually, they announced 50 shows,

and that would have set a record.

Hammer: The concert series is being called "This is It."

Atika, are we buying that?

Is this it for Michael Jackson onstage?

It doesn't seem like this is the absolute last chance

to see Michael Jackson live, but then again, you never know.

When Michael Jackson announced at that famous news conference

the "This is It" residency at the O2,

that day, that morning was a train wreck.

[Cheering]

Earlier that day, Randy Phillips,

who was part of the AEG Live team putting on the performance,

was holed up in a hotel with Michael Jackson.

Duke: Phillips said that Michael appeared to be drunk.

He couldn't get dressed. He couldn't go.

He couldn't hardly speak.

Phillips acknowledges that he physically slapped Michael

in order to get him to snap out of it,

and he threw him in the shower.

This is the King of Pop being thrown into a shower

in order to go and sober up.

♪♪

When they got to the O2, Michael Jackson

appeared somewhat shambolic, in a haze,

not really knowing where he was or what he was doing.

♪♪

[Cheering]

[Cheering continues]

It was very much ad libbed,

a lot of cases, "I love yous.

I'll be back. This is it.

This is the last time."

This is it. This is it.

This is it. This is it.

[Cheering]

And then he was gone.

[Cheering]

And there we go. Thank you very much.

One more time, ladies and gentlemen,

the King of Pop, Michael Jackson!

[Cheering]

Was that weird for you, too?

Four minutes it lasted, and he was gone,

leaving the stunned host, Dermot O'Leary,

to announce that the tickets for 10 shows,

and remember, it was 10 shows, would go on sale,

and the date of sale Friday the 13th.

Kai Chase joins us, personal chef to Michael Jackson

during the final months of his life.

Would you say just from observation

that he looked in good health

except for a little tired from rehearsing?

He looked very well to me in April.

Yes, he did.

King: Did he ever have any health complaints?

No, n -- n -- never anything like that.

I -- I remember one day, the third day I was there.

When he came back,

he had told me, you know, "They're killing me.

They're killing me because I'm working too much."

The problem was Michael Jackson had to be in shape

and had to be ready.

He had to be fit.

He had to be psychologically ready.

Michael Jackson made one demand.

"I want a doctor."

Richards: In 2006, Michael Jackson was in Las Vegas,

and his children weren't particularly well,

suffering from a bit of influenza,

so naturally he needed a doctor.

He wanted a doctor to look over them.

The doctor that turned up that night was Dr. Conrad Murray.

What do we know about Dr. Conrad Murray?

Cardiologist, offices he had in Las Vegas and Houston.

Kim: He was struggling financially in many ways.

He had four children

by three separate women outside his marriage,

and he was supporting all those children.

I guess through his interactions

with Dr. Murray, Michael Jackson said,

"You should be my personal doctor,"

and then influenced AEG to hire him to do

the "This is It" tour even though AEG

didn't want him to be hired.

Phillips: I said, "It's crazy to take a doctor with us

because you're in London."

He said, "You don't understand,

my body is the machine that fuels

this entire business venture, and I'm like Barack Obama.

I need my own physician on the road."

And he was so strong about it that I just backed off and said,

"This is a battle I can't win."

What the world didn't know at the time

but later came out in trial

is that primarily what he was looking for was to get sleep,

which he desperately needed

and had trouble sleeping for years prior to that.

Shortly after being hired by Michael Jackson,

Conrad Murray started ordering massive shipments of Propofol

to an acquaintance's home in California.

He actually told the pharmacist who he was ordering from that

he had a clinic in California

that he was using all this Propofol for,

but as far as we know, it was all meant for one person --

Michael Jackson.

He was addicted to Propofol,

which is a drug that really should be administered

only in a hospital setting, not in a residential setting.

Casarez: It is an anesthetic.

When you have surgery, usually light surgery,

it's the anesthetic they use to put you to sleep.

The Jackson-Murray fit was perfect for both of them.

Murray was providing Jackson with the drugs he needed.

Jackson was providing Murray with the money he needed.

What's interesting about Dr. Conrad Murray is AEG Live

seemed not to have vetted him prior to engaging his services.

In fact, Paul Gongaware of AEG Live said

they often hired people based on artist's recommendation.

What's interesting about Paul Gongaware

is he also worked with Elvis in 1977

when Elvis Presley died of a drug overdose.

Perhaps if anyone should've seen the warning signs,

it should have been Paul Gongaware.

Michael Jackson was so stressed out

about the possibility of not being ready,

not be able to perform the shows in London

that he told his son, Prince, that, "They want to kill me."

Welcome back to "How It Really Happened."

Dr. Conrad Murray accepted $150,000

a month from concert promoters AEG Live

to be Michael Jackson's personal doctor,

but what was his priority,

keeping Michael healthy or AEG happy?

Any crime show will tell you, you have to follow the evidence.

When it came to Michael Jackson's death,

the trail of evidence began months

before as he prepped for "This is It."

♪♪

This is it. I mean, this is really it.

This is the final curtain call.

When Michael Jackson announced his first 10 concerts here,

one question was asked a lot.

Can he do it?

Now he's planning 50 shows, but the organizers still insist

these fans won't be disappointed.

It appeared to be a ticking time bomb,

the whole "This is It" tour.

The rehearsals began in Los Angeles.

They rented a home for Michael Jackson in Beverly Hills.

In the weeks before he died,

they had moved the rehearsals to the Staples Center,

to a big space more like the O2 arena in London.

The truth was Michael Jackson was having a tough time

getting to rehearsal every single day.

He was exhausted. He was losing weight.

He didn't sleep.

That led to his dependence on painkillers and Propofol.

He was really a mess.

He was in no fit state to do 10 shows, let alone 50.

Karas: At one rehearsal, he had chills,

and they had to put a blanket around him.

He was losing weight.

The autopsy showed he was 136 pounds.

Michael Jackson was so stressed out

about the possibility of not being ready.

He told his son, Prince, that, "They want to kill me.

They're going to kill me."

What Michael feared and the reason he feared

it was he had been told this.

He said, "If you don't make these shows happen,

if you don't show up for rehearsal,

if you don't get up on that stage,

if you don't do these shows, you are ruined,"

because the contract Michael had with AEG put it on him.

If everything collapsed, it came out of Michael's bank.

The last couple of weeks at the rehearsal,

I mean, there's -- there's security-Camera video

that shows Michael looking like a ghost.

He's dressed in a blanket.

I mean, we're talking about June.

We found out only years later the Propofol infusions

that he had been getting for 60 days

almost every night for 2 months had robbed him of his sleep

because the expert testimony showed

that when you are put under on Propofol,

it may seem like sleep, but there's no REM sleep.

There is no documented case of any human

going that long without REM sleep.

It was like the old Judy Garland Hollywood days.

Instead of saying, "Stop the production.

Let's figure out what's wrong with our star,"

they just let it keep going.

AEG Live were concerned that Michael Jackson was missing

a number of rehearsals, so what they did is they held

a number of crisis meetings at Carolwood Mansion

with Jackson present and in fact,

Dr. Murray present as well.

During these meetings, Jackson was read the riot act.

He had to get his act together.

He had to turn up to rehearsals, and his career was on the line.

Duke: Randy Phillips told Conrad Murray,

"It's your job. You get him there."

Wass: Michael had used Propofol long before

Dr. Murray came on the scene, so when he was hired,

I think he was somewhat shocked that Michael was dependent on --

on Propofol to sleep.

And then, all of a sudden, towards the end, it got better.

Duke: In court, they showed two of the last performances

Michael Jackson ever did.

One of them was "The Way You Make Me Feel."

This was two nights before his death,

and it was great.

It -- it really reinforced everyone's confidence that,

"We're going to make these shows happen."

♪ Come on, baby ♪

One more time.

♪ You really turn me on ♪

It's what we've rehearsed.

And then the next night,

the one that will really make you cry

is the last song he sang, the "Earth Song."

♪ Did you ever stop to notice ♪

♪ All the children dead from war ♪

♪ Did you ever not notice this crying Earth ♪

♪ This weeping shore ah ah ♪

Karas: He was in good spirits.

He said goodbye to the crew, to the staff.

He headed home.

Little did he know, he would never return to that arena.

Man: Hold for applause. Hold for applause.

Slow umbrella, fade out.

A few hours later, he was dead.

Michael was as a hamster, could not sit down,

could not rest, was restless,

and he cried and craved for sleep.

Mm-hmm.

What do you remember about that day?

The time he came home, which was the night before,

around 1:00 or just shortly after 1:00.

Mm-hmm.

And he just was not able to sleep.

♪♪

Karas: Michael Jackson gets home around 1:00 AM

on June 25, 2009, the last day of his life.

Conrad Murray is already at his house.

During the rehearsals for the tour,

Michael would come home late at night,

and Murray would meet him there,

and the first thing he'd do would be

put him on a saline drip because Michael would become

very dehydrated during rehearsals.

If Jackson couldn't go to sleep, he'd give him some sedatives.

Lemon: According to court records,

Conrad Murray tried a number of different things,

and then he wouldn't sleep.

Then hours later, he tried something else.

Conrad Murray said that he gave Michael Jackson

some Propofol between 10:40 and 10:50 A.M.

He said that Michael Jackson drifted off.

He went to sleep.

Then went for a toilet break himself

and came back into the room at around 11:02

to find Michael Jackson not breathing.

When did you realize he was in trouble?

Was what?

When did you realize he was in trouble?

-Michael? -Yes.

When I came back into the room.

Lemon: Conrad Murray said when he came back,

he noticed that Michael wasn't breathing

and that something was off with the IV tube,

and what he is saying is that Michael Jackson

did something himself to get more Propofol into his system.

Take me to that -- that terrible day.

Kai Chase, Jackson's personal chef,

was downstairs at the mansion that morning.

Around 12:00, 12:05, 12:10,

Dr. Murray comes down the stairs.

There's a stairwell that leads into the kitchen,

and he's screaming, "Hurry. Go get Prince.

Call security.

Get -- get Prince," so I... -Prince is?

Michael Jackson's eldest son.

So I -- I drop everything that --

that I'm doing, and I run into the --

the den, which is very close to the kitchen,

and I go get Prince.

Why do you think the doctor called for Prince?

Well, I think, you know, at that point,

he maybe may have panicked and...

The doctor panicked?

It -- it just seemed like he was in a panicked situ -- state.

You know, he called for Prince. He called for security,

just somebody that was allowed to go upstairs,

so the energy in the house had just kind of changed

from that happy kind of day

that we were having to just kind of eerie.

Casarez: He then reaches for his own cell phone,

and he calls Michael Amir Williams,

who is Michael Jackson's assistant,

and he said, "Send security to the bedroom,"

doesn't ask him to call 911, but security.

Woman: Please state your name for the record.

Alberto Alvarez.

Casarez: Alberto Alvarez, head of logistics

for Michael's security team,

he rushes to the house and up to that bedroom.

Alvarez: When I walked into the room and I turned towards my right,

I observed Mr. Conrad Murray

giving chest compressions to Mr. Jackson.

He said, "Alberto, hurry.

We have to take him -- get him to a hospital.

We have to get an ambulance," and I asked

Dr. Conrad Murray what happened, and he said, "He had a reaction.

He had a bad reaction."

So while I was standing at the foot of the bed,

he reached over and grabbed a handful of vials,

and then he reached out to me and said,

"Here, put these in a bag."

I looked towards my right, and there was a plastic bag

sitting on top of a chair. -Okay.

And so I proceeded to get the bag.

I opened it, and he placed the -- the vials in --

in the bag.

He then pointed to the IV stand, and he said,

"Now get that bag and put it in the blue bag."

The IV stand was at my eye level,

and I was able to notice that at the bottom of the bag,

there was what appeared to me

like a milky white substance. -Okay.

At that time, did Conrad Murray instruct you to call 911?

Yes, sir.

♪♪

That horrible day, Michael Jackson's team security member

Alberto Alvarez called 911, and right after he hung up,

Faheem Muhammad, the head of the security team,

arrived in the room and was right there

with Murray and Alvarez.

Alvarez: Faheem was coming in through the foyer.

I believe I said, "It's not looking well,"

or "It's not looking good."

Then Dr. Conrad Murray asked if anyone knew CPR.

Faheem -- actually, we kind of looked at each other

for a split second,

and I turned and went to assist Dr. Conrad Murray to do CPR.

And what, if anything, did Dr. Murray

say as he was giving mouth-to-mouth?

After a couple or a few breaths that he breathed

into Mr. Jackson, he came up,

and he says -- he said, "This is the first time

I do mouth-to-mouth, but I have to,

he's my friend."

On June 25, 2009,

I was assigned to Fire Station 71.

♪♪

The alarm sound comes on over the system and says,

"50-year-old male, cardiac arrest, 100 North Carolwood."

As we approached the scene,

there were multiple security people,

and they were all signaling for us to go upstairs.

Walking into the room,

one of the first observations that I made

was that there was a doctor standing there.

The gentleman identified himself as such

and that there were IV poles and oxygen tanks.

This being the middle of the afternoon, very unusual,

made me think perhaps this patient has a chronic illness.

Karas: He wanted to know what medicines the doctor had given him.

I mean, there's an IV pole there,

and Conrad Murray said, "Nothing."

He said he didn't give Michael Jackson anything.

Then he admitted he gave him a low dose of Lorazepam,

one of the sedatives.

He never mentioned Propofol or any other drugs.

The paramedics believe that Michael Jackson was dead

for 20 to 60 minutes,

somewhere in there, before they arrive

because Michael Jackson was cool to the touch.

He was flatlined on the EKG.

The paramedics did not believe that it had just happened

the way Conrad Murray explained to them.

After I assisted in carrying the patient down the stairs,

I went back up the stairs to gather our equipment.

At that point, that's where I saw Dr. Murray picking up --

I couldn't tell what -- and putting them in a bag.

He was alone in the room at that time,

and the look on his face was that of obvious surprise.

When it was time to leave,

I went out the front door of the house

with Dr. Murray, and at that point,

I saw that our ordinary call had become extraordinary.

There was a double-deck tour bus with people standing on it.

There were people in the street, cameras,

phenomenal amount of chaos going on.

-Whoo-Hoo! -You are trespassing.

You need to move off of the property.

Our photographer that was on the scene

looked inside through the window of the fire truck

that had accompanied the ambulance,

and he saw on the screen it said,

"50-year-old male not breathing,"

and when I heard that, I knew Michael was 50 years old.

We started to think for the first time,

"Wow, this could be here for Michael."

After the gurney loaded into the ambulance,

the security kind of moved everyone away

from the gate area.

Senneff: Once we got backed up, I heard a thump against the side window.

I looked over, and someone had taken a camera

and was running down the street

with their camera lens against the window.

As it turned out,

it was one of the biggest paparazzi photos of all time.

[Siren blaring]

Senneff: When we arrived at the hospital and proceeded inside,

we went into one of the treatment rooms

where there was a large gathering of technicians,

nurses, the doctor who's in charge,

and the doctor in charge spoke with Dr. Murray.

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This is hard.

My brother, the legendary King of Pop, Michael Jackson,

passed away on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 2:26 PM.

There were a lot of questions raised

when he was in that ambulance

being taken to the hospital and after he was declared dead.

Who killed him? Was it an overdose?

Did he have a heart attack?

Casarez: How did this happen? How did Michael Jackson die?

Did he cause his own death, or was it caused by somebody else?

Crowd: Justice for Michael! Justice for Michael!

Dr. Conrad Murray's defense's theory

was that Michael Jackson had done something

while Murray was out of the room leading to his own death.

Jackson: This was not an O.D.

The coroners told me immediately that the only drug

that was in Michael's body

was the drug that was administered to him that night,

and that was it.

He was totally clean.

Do you think we'll ever find out the truth?

I'm going to make sure we do.

So what really happened that morning in North Carolwood?

Conrad Murray turned down our request for an interview,

but in a new book, he says that Michael Jackson

was still alive when he arrived at the UCLA Medical Center.

Is he telling the truth?

The twists and turns of the investigation

next time on Part 2,

"The Death of Michael Jackson: How It Really Happened."

Good night.

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