Death Threats to Jackson 5
BUFFAFO, New York — The Jackson Five were forced to cancel a show here on November 27th because of death threats to their lead singer, ten year-old Michael Jackson. Buffalo police said that the threats came from “young gang members” and were phoned into the brother’s hotel room on Thanksgiving evening.
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Death Threats to Jackson 5
BUFFAFO, New York — The Jackson Five were forced to cancel a show here on November 27th because of death threats to their lead singer, ten year-old Michael Jackson. Buffalo police said that the threats came from “young gang members” and were phoned into the brother’s hotel room on Thanksgiving evening. The station promoting the Five show, WBFK-FM, also received death warnings.
The program was called off at seven p.m. the next day by the groups’ father, after the band had rehearsed in the afternoon. Turnstiles were locked and roughly 5000 people turned away.
More than nine thousand tickets had been sold for the concert, said to have cost the J. Five over $10,000 in expenses anyway.
