Contemporary · North America · Culture
2009
Michael Jackson dies
June 25, 2009
The King of Pop, fifty years old and rehearsing a comeback concert series in Los Angeles, suffered cardiac arrest from a propofol overdose administered by his personal physician. The internet briefly buckled under the grief as news sites crashed worldwide. A childhood that the whole world had watched on Motown stages ended in a doctor's syringe.
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