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‘Moment of Truth’ asks: Did the right man take the rap for killing Michael Jordan’s father?

It’s hardly a surprise that Michael Jordan turned down an interview request from the filmmakers behind “Moment of Truth,” a stunningly revelatory five-part IMDb TV documentary series about the murder of Michael’s father James Jordan and the subsequent investigation and trial. We would imagine the last thing MJ would want to do is revisit such a dark and tragic period from his life. So, we see Michael only in archival footage, most notably an interview with Oprah Winfrey in which he’s asked if he’d ever want to ask his father’s killers, “Why?,” and Michael replies, “No, because I don’t want to know.