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♪ we are going to see the king >> the andre crouch choir sang as jacksons brothers carried his casket. >> the king of pop is not big enough for him. he is simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived. ♪ you find the life >> it was an emotional ceremony. >> i love you, buddy. ill miss you. >> with a heart-breaking ending. >> daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. and i just wanted to say i love him so much. >> im not going to see him anymore, but i feel him everywhere. i re...

Look into the final days of michael jackson. as the sun rose above the exclusive los angeles hills, inside michael jacksons mansion, the entertainer began the morning of june 24th, 2009, doing what he loved -- preparing for a show. >> now do it slow. he and i would start around noon, 1:00 at his home. wed dance a few hours and stretch. you have to have a full attitude. you have a half attitude. do the full one. >> reporter: michael payne was jacksons long-time choreographer. >> we were on a jo...

About concealing it. >> gotham chopra was a personal friend of jacksons. >> he knew endless doctors and he knew how to manipulate certain systems. he also had many doctors who were always willing to write new prescriptions and they just wanted to be around him and they wanted that aura of his attention. >> gothams father, physician deepak chopra, says michael once asked him to write a prescription for a narcotic. >> i said i wasnt going to write a prescription and when i confronted him, he start...

Pleading with murray to give him a powerful and dangerous drug called propofol. randy taraborrelli is a jackson biographer and a life-long confidant. >> he would have paid $1 million for a good nights sleep. thats not an exaggeration. he actually would have. >> michael jackson was plagued by insomnia for years. >> journalist jim moret spent years covering michael jackson. >> he was plagued with this horrible inability to go to slem and he would rely upon doctors to provide him with medication so...

As investigators began to unravel michael jacksons final hours, a timeline emerged. a time line in a sworn affidavit. this is what investigators believe happened based on evidence and eyewitness accounts, including those of jacksons personal physician, dr. conrad murray. on the last night of his life, jackson made his way from l.a. toward beverly hills. as he did, few really knew the dark secrets the pop legend carried with him to 100 north carolwood drive. michael jackson spent his final hours ...

For the children. >> according to the search warrant affidavit, murray asked jacksons eldest son, prince michael, to come upstairs, and then continued cpr. >> and if youre putting the pieces together from a prosecution standpoint, you could argue that conrad murray wanted witnesses to say they saw conrad murray trying to revive michael jackson. >> at 11:18 that fateful morning, police say dr. murray made a series of three cell phone calls, spanning 47 minutes. this timeline suggests more than an...

Was still awake, so murray told police he tried another drug, a sedative. that didnt work either. what jackson really wanted according to murray was the anesthetic propofol. murray told investigators jackson repeatedly asked for the drug that final night but insisted he repeatedly denied the singer. murray claims he was actually trying to wean jackson off of propofol at the time fearing he had formed an addiction. ed chernoff is murrays attorney. >> he doesnt have any specialized training in add...

>> reporter: on the afternoon of june 24th, jackson arrived at the staples center in downtown los angeles. rehearsals for "this is it" often ran late into the night. on the surface, the man many say was born to perform, never looked better. was his voice getting stronger over a period of rehearsals? >> absolutely. >> was his dancing getting stronger? >> absolutely. >> his body? everything? >> absolutely. >> reporter: michael bearden, the musical director for "this is it" was on stage that last n...

Saying on tv about uncle michael? i said, what are they saying? he said, he was rushed to the hospital and hes not breathing or something like that. i say, what? >> you called -- cnn called my wife and said do you know anything about michael being rushed to the hospital? i said, no. and i called my mother immediately. and she said she was on her way to the hospital. jermaines mother, katherine, confirmed his worst fears. >> she was already at the hospital, and i called her back, and i heard her ...

A few minutes later, murray says he returned to find his very famous patient no longer breathing. he began cpr. >> the cook at the house told me that there were certain things that seemed to happen every day. around 8:00, 9:00 in the morning. conrad murray would come downstairs for breakfast, often holding a canister of oxygen. on this morning, the morning of jacksons death, he didnt. it was much later, and he called for the children. >> according to the search warrant affidavit, murray asked ja...