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Dr. Murray: Why I Didn't Call 911

Plus: Michael Jackson's last words

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 9, 2011 2:22 PM CST

(Newser) – In a Today interview airing tomorrow and Friday, Dr. Conrad Murray finally explains why he didn’t call 911 as soon as Michael Jackson stopped breathing—although his explanation may still leave you with a few questions. Emergency responders wouldn’t have been able to come through the gate, the doctor claimed: "No one is allowed to come upstairs except for Mr. Jackson." When Savannah Guthrie pointed out that Murray could have called Jackson’s bodyguard and asked him to meet them at the gate, Murray said he didn’t want to "leave a full explanation on the phone" and started CPR instead.

Murray’s interview coincides with the release of the MSNBC documentary Michael Jackson and the Doctor on Friday. Australia’s News Network reports that the documentary reveals Jackson’s last words to Murray: “Let me have some milk,” a reference to the white-colored propofol. "He was pleading, and begging me, to please, please, let him have some milk," Murray says in the documentary. "That was the only thing that would work. He really could not sleep." In other morbid Jackson news, the AP reports that the contents of Jackson’s last home—including the bed where he died—will go up for auction.

Dr. Conrad Murray reacts after the jury returns with a guilty verdict in his involuntary manslaughter trial Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 in a Los Angeles courtroom.
Dr. Conrad Murray reacts after the jury returns with a guilty verdict in his involuntary manslaughter trial Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 in a Los Angeles courtroom.   (AP Photo/Al Seib, Pool)
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JustMe2
Nov 13, 2011 2:38 AM CST
His excuses do not hold water at all. If you dial 911 from a land line (one reason to have one in your house, cell phones are not always the best choice) you do not even have to talk to anyone. The dispatcher will get the address on their computer within seconds and will dispatch fire, police and EMS automatically.
Barack_Must_Go
Nov 10, 2011 6:46 AM CST
Face it ....... technically Michael Jackson had been dead for the preceeding twenty years ...... just no one in his sick inner circle had the heart or desire to part with his cash, to tell him.
HappyHabenero
Nov 10, 2011 2:59 AM CST
that excuse is more full of shit than a porta potty at an ex-lax party

 
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