Florence Ballard - The first 6 minutes interview

...To the many thousands of Supremes fans, (click title to entry - thank you) the exhibition represents yet another sparkling tribute to the legendary girl group.

But to Florence Ballard's surviving family, the glamour and the glitter has long since worn off.

After the recent discovery of eight hours of taped interviews with Florence shortly before she died, in which she expresses fears for her safety, the Ballard family has raised its own concerns about the unexplained mysteries which still surround her death.

More than 32 years later, her sister, Maxine, now 65, firmly believes Florence did not die of natural causes and that she intends to have Florence's body exhumed in order to prove her case.

"We were told that my sister had died of coronary artery thrombosis, but she didn't have a history of heart disease," she said this week.

"There was no trace of alcohol or barbiturates in her system, but there was this brown cereal-type substance which was never identified.

"I believe she was killed because someone wanted to silence her."

But who? Maxine admits that she has privately confronted the man she suspects of being responsible for her sister's death....