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"KIIS-FM Jingle Ball"

Date confirmed in “Variety” (archived) (“Reviewed Dec. 19, 2001”)

Michael Jackson, speech transcript

To the public, to the fans, to the people of America I love you from the bottom of my heart. Merry Cristmas!

“Variety” (December 20, 2001) (archived)

Rick Dees and Magic Johnson took the stage next and set up Michael Jackson’s latest appearance by asking the crowd to watch one of those Jackson compilation vids that show him running with soldiers in uniform and causing young girls to cry and faint. When Dees and Johnson finally brought Jackson out into the light, he accepted a mysterious award from them, then he simply thanked the crowd for coming.