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Jehovah's Witness (and other 1960 Stories)

Date range confirmed in Katherine Jackson’s autobiography “My Family, the Jacksons” (“It wasn’t until 1960, however, that I found a religion that I felt I could devote my life to, a religion that has filled my life with an underlying sense of peace to this day.”)

 

Katherine Jackson, mother, “My Family, the Jacksons” autobiography (November 1990)

It dawned on me that Michael was no run-of-the-mill kid one day in 1960. I was standing in front of my washing machine, checking the load, when I happened to turn around and see my one-and-a-half-year-old son practically under my dress tail. He was holding a bottle and dancing .... dancing to the rhythmic squeak of my washing machine.

“Dateline” (June 25, 2010) (archived)

We had a Maytag washing machine, and it was rickety when the agitators would go, you know how they go [imitates sound]. This one was so rickety that it had a [imitates sound] kinda like that, and Michael was there on the floor wearing his diaper and his little bottle, and he just was dancing to the rhythm of what the washing machine made.