The Los Angeles memorial service will be aired on a giant video screen outside the Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building in upper Manhattan.
It starts at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday.
Tributes to the King of Pop were held last week at Harlem's Apollo Theater. Jackson first performed with his brothers at the Apollo when he was 9 years old.
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