Dust is settling at a Santa Maria Courthouse,
but it's not stopping Michael's mission of reaching out to children.
This is beautiful.
This is a wonderful occasion.
I thank everybody who came tonight.
Wearing shiny silver boots, there's no place like home.
There's no place like home.
Michael Jackson kissed the heads
of several small children looking more like a politician on a campaign trail than
a guy on trial for alleged child molestation.
Jackson was feeling the love from the African Ambassador's spouse's
association, accepting an award for his humanitarian efforts in Africa.
I want you to know that I've
been going to Africa since I was 12 years old, and I love it very much.
People have expressed a little concern
with why Michael is in Washington, DC, and what are his motives.
And really, Michael has to live.
He has to continue to live.
He cannot just stay at home and be
bombarded by the media all this negative press.
Eric Roberts, Charlie Sutter, and Michael Jackson.
Miss Cast Away
The world is depending on you.
I'm depending on you.
I bought all your albums.
God bless you.
This case is about one thing only.
It's about the dignity, the integrity, the decency, the honor, the charity,
the innocence, and the complete vindication
of a wonderful human being named Michael Jackson.
I would like to thank the fans around the world for your love
and your support from every corner of the Earth.
My family has been very supportive.
My brother Randy who has been incredible.
I want to thank the community of Santa Maria.
I want you to know that I love the community of Santa Maria very much.
I will always love this community from the bottom of my heart.
That's why I moved here. Thank you very much.
Just look into the man's eyes. He loves children.
Look at what he built in Neverland.
That's someone who loves kids.
He's a child that never grew up.
I'll travel to the other ends of the earth to support Michael Jackson.
In a sea of 600 screaming fans
and in front of eyewitness news cameras, Michael Jackson made his way through
Memorial City Mall last night to do a little shopping.
The popstar was actually in Houston
to visit with one of his attorneys about some music contract issues
but made the surprise visit to the delight of his fans.
Even people that are 85 years old, thatdon't even ever...
not into pop culture at all, don't even...
They have a thing about Michael Jackson.
Everybody has a thing, because it's Michael Jackson.
Sources close to the Jackson family report
that the newborn is referred to as blanket, which isn't much better.
What's up? She's on again.
You see what they're doing?
Now they've been making fun of my kid's name.
He's like a blanket, a blanket of love.
That's why we call him that.
Everybody knows that.
Well, not everyone.
Call Bashir,
I'm doing the documentary.
ABC News accompanied Michael Jackson for a rare public appearance as he joined
Sunday worshipers at Los Angeles's first AME Church.
Michael, our prayers for you during your time of travail.
What brought you here today?
To worship and to see the children.
Did you enjoy the service? I loved it.
This is one of the nation's most prominent African American congregations.
And here, Jackson found unconditional
support on the eve of a crucial legal face off.
The majority of the people are just on watch, looking to see that there's
a level playing field, looking to see that it is not his
celebrity on trial, nor his color, but just the facts of the case.
Jackson will get even more support today
as his brothers, sisters, Janet and La Toya, and his parents join him
in court to watch the questioning of Tom Sneddon.
Mr. Jackson has been repeatedly advised by those who stood to make fortunes in his
business affairs to pay money rather than face certain false allegations.
As a result, many years ago, he did pay money rather than litigate two
false allegations that he had harmed children.
Mr. Jackson now realizes that the advice he received was wrong.
He should have fought these actions to the bitter end and vindicated himself.
Do you think the facts of that previous case and the settlement of that previous
case should be admitted into the current trial?
Well, I think some of the facts should be,
of course, it's up to the judge, but there was some very damaging evidence.
That, of course, is the reason why Michael Jackson settled.
He likes to claim that he just wanted to get on with his life.
But as I detail in my book, piece by piece, evidence by evidence,
there was a mountain of evidence which finally made him.
Right now in Times Square,
there is a pro Michael Jackson rally as fans of the King of Pop protest Eminem's
new video that pokes fun at Michael Jackson in a very personal way.
Called 'Just Lose It',
the video is a savage, even racist, parody of the King of Pop,
and it's so bad that black entertainment
television and some other media outlets have decided to yank it.
MTV, though, is resisting.
I made my feelings clear about the Eminem video.
I think that it's demeaning and that it's is respectful.
But I also want to make it clear that it's not just about Michael Jackson,
but a pattern of disrespect that he has shown to our community.
He needs to stop it and he needs to stop it now.
Hundreds of people have been enjoying
Michael Jackson's hospitality today at Neverland Ranch,
the very place where prosecutors say Jackson broke the law by molesting a boy.
Michelle, they came by the busload.
Dozens and dozens of children
by invitation only from churches and church schools from Compton
to Santa Clarita to Santa Barbara, visitors to Michael Jackson's Neverland
Ranch, and their host was here to greet them.
Michael Jackson personally welcomed some 200 kids to his Neverland Ranch today.
Even as trial on child molestation charges looms for Jackson, parents bringing their
children in this morning were not concerned.
I was thinking about it,
and then I was like, Oh, well, it's the chance of a lifetime.
I'm here to monitor what goes on.
So I just took them up on the offer.
I didn't really look at it like that.
It's just exciting to be here.
The kids are excited.
They love Michael Jackson, and they don't know about all that type of stuff.
So what do you know about Michael Jackson?
I know he's a singer and a dancer.
The kids are here at Neverland just
a few days before a major evidence hearing in the criminal case.
The media invited in as well and offered a train ride to the festivities.
But what a Jackson spokeswoman says is not an out of the ordinary event at Neverland.
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