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cardiac arrest. Paramedics attempted to revive him during transport here to the hospital, and they continued
     to attempt to revive him inside the emergency room. Obviously, they were not successful. But as you see the photo—I don’t
     know if you have the photo up there, Larry. They’re attempting to revive Michael. His eyes are closed.
    KING: How did you get that photograph?
    ANDREWS: I don’t know, Larry. You’ll have to ask my executive producer.
    KING: That’s a heck of a job of reporting. We’ll be checking back with you.
    Also that night, Larry interviewed Randy Jackson from
American Idol
, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and actor Corey Feldman. Two Jackson fans named Cheryl and Melvin came on the air,
     and musicians Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Sheryl Crow, and Kenny Rogers called in. It was an impressive lineup as we checked in
     with people from all over the country and the world who were devastated and shocked by the sudden death of the self-declared
     King of Pop.
    Cher called in and said, “You know, I was just sitting here listening to you talk. And I’m having a million different reactions.Things that I didn’t expect I would feel. When I think of him, I think of this young boy, that teenager that I first met.
     This adorable boy that I met who, you know, loved to look at my beaded socks. Yes, he was a great singer. You know, it’s like
     God gives you certain gifts. And some people he gives different gifts, and some people he gives more gifts. And this child
     was just an extraordinary child, touched by this ability to have people feel him and feel people. And he just had that sense
     that you get, and you don’t get it from a living person. You get it from someplace else. He had it.”
    Céline told Larry on the phone, “I am shocked like the rest of the world. It doesn’t sink in right now. I’m overwhelmed by
     this tragedy. I have to say that Michael Jackson’s been an idol for me all my life. I remember being in my house when I was
     very, very young and having his posters above my bed. He’s been my idol all my life, I looked up to him, and my goal was to
     be maybe doing the same show business world as him.”
    And Liza Minnelli called in and said, “Oh, Larry, I couldn’t believe it, honey. I got a call at two o’clock in the morning
     from a lawyer telling me that he’s gone into cardiac arrest. They said he had been complaining of chest pains, you know? He
     changed show business. He hit with a force that was spectacular as he started to grow up. And then he grew and grew and grew.
     All the time. He grew all the time.”
    Talk about flying by the seat of our pants, we were actually booking guests while the show was on the air. Larry would say,
     “We just got this person on the phone,” and he would launch into an interview with no preparation whatsoever. Michael’s death
     finally felt real to me when I saw the live picture of the helicopter that was transporting his body to the morgue. And the
     news just kept on coming.
    As the story unfolded, I noticed a rhythm that is oftenpresent when we are dealing with breaking news. It actually takes on a whole different feel than a prepared show has when
     you know exactly what you are covering and with whom. With breaking news, you are constantly getting new information and an
     energy takes over as the story unfolds in a natural way. That was the case with the Michael Jackson story as we began to let
     the incoming news items guide us.
    Somewhere in the midst of all of this, I went to tuck my kids into bed. Then it was back to my office, but now I was using
     my large office in another portion of the house that had been converted into a state-of-the-art newsroom with a dozen screens
     that allowed me to check breaking news on all the cable and broadcast networks, national and international. The news about
     Michael was spreading fast all over the world, and global reactions were pouring in about the shocking and untimely