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Screamer radio recording1/25/2024 ![]() ![]() The trial’s “not guilty” verdict, which made no sense at the time, becomes more understandable when you’re told that Jackson’s attorneys played the jury the entire uncut footage of Martin Bashir’s TV interviews with the singer. “I liked it when Janet was there – she’s so pretty,” she says. (Which is… weird.) In the penultimate episode we hear from a juror from the 2005 court case in which Jackson was accused of child abuse: Melissa Herard, juror No 8. In episode one, we meet a man who worked with Jackson on an unreleased 1990s film, where Jackson played a man accused of scaring children by his magic, who ends up being chased by their parents with pitchforks. ![]() Over 10 episodes it carefully tells a social history, as well as Jackson’s personal one – how did the world react to him at the time? – and it’s the better for it.Īnd God, there’s a lot in it: more than 100 interviews. Somehow, Think Twice manages to tackle these difficult topics without being judgmental, though both reporters conclude that they think Jackson was guilty of child abuse. He was a black man uncomfortable with his face and body a highly flawed star accused of the sexual abuse of children. As we all know, though, Jackson was not only that. ![]()
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