{"id":1966,"date":"2004-01-18T22:01:12","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T02:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/18\/uri-geller-declares-michael-jackson-in"},"modified":"2004-01-18T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2004-01-19T02:01:12","slug":"uri-geller-declares-michael-jackson-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/18\/uri-geller-declares-michael-jackson-innocent\/","title":{"rendered":"Uri Geller Declares Michael Jackson Innocent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2339'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/gellerjack.jpg\" width=\"409\" height=\"289\"><\/p>\n<p>JERUSALEM<br \/>\n        &#8211; Psychic Uri Geller defended his friend Michael Jackson (together, above) on Sunday,<br \/>\n        saying the pop singer denied under hypnosis three years ago that he had<br \/>\n        sexually abused children.<\/p>\n<p>Geller, best known for his claimed telekinetic ability to bend spoons, told Israel&#8217;s<br \/>\nArmy Radio that he hypnotized Jackson when the two were alone in a recording<br \/>\nstudio at an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I told him that that if he would let me, I would hypnotize him,&quot; Geller<br \/>\ntold the radio. &quot;He said, &#8216;Okay, let&#8217;s give it a try.&#8217;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He said he asked Jackson about persistent rumors that he had abused children. &quot;He<br \/>\nanswered me under deep hypnosis that he had never touched a child in<br \/>\na sexual<br \/>\nway,&quot; Geller said. &quot;He said &#8211; and here I&#8217;m using his exact words -&#8216;My<br \/>\nrelations with children are very beautiful.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=495&amp;ncid=762&amp;e=1&amp;u=\/ap\/20040118\/ap_en_mu\/psychic_michael_jackson\">the AP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM &#8211; Psychic Uri Geller defended his friend Michael Jackson (together, above) on Sunday, saying the pop singer denied under hypnosis three years ago that he had sexually abused children. Geller, best known for his claimed telekinetic ability to bend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/18\/uri-geller-declares-michael-jackson-innocent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}