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June 17th 1994 - OJ Simpson Slow Speed Chase
Anyone who is old enough to remember 1994 will undoubtedly remember exactly where they where during the OJ Simpson chase. It captured the attention of the entire country and interrupted every major network’s broadcast.
To get to that faithful evening in Los Angeles, we need to rewind the clock. On June 13th 1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found murdered outside of Simpson’s apartment in Los Angeles. 4 days later the layers and the LAPD agreed to let OJ Simpson turn himself into authorities for questioning, as OJ was Nicole’s ex-husband.
That should have been all. But it wasn’t. Over 1,000 reporters waited for OJ Simpson at the police station, but he never showed up. At 5PM Robert Kardashian, friend and lawyer, read a letter by Simpson to that sounded like a suicide note: “First everyone understand I had nothing to do with Nicole’s murder … Don’t feel sorry for me. I’ve had a great life.”
Just after 6PM OJ Simpson’s white 1992 Ford Bronco was spotted (which was being driven by his friend Al Cowlings). At 6:45 PM, a police officer saw the Bronco going north on Interstate 405. When the officer approached the Bronco with sirens blaring, Cowlings yelled that Simpson was in the back seat of the vehicle and had a gun to his own head. The officer backed off, but followed the vehicle at 35 miles per hour with up to 20 police cars participating in the chase. It was at this point, that event became a spectacle.
Very quickly, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN well as local news outlets interrupted regular programming to show the chase NBC, which was covering the NBA finals (NY Knicks vs the Houston Rockets), continued showing Game 5 game in a small box in the corner while Tom Brokaw as covered the chase.
The slow speed chase ended at 8:00 p.m. at his Brentwood home. OJ remained in the Bronco for 45 minutes before going into his house for about an hour. A spokesman stated that he spoke to his mother and drank a glass of orange juice. His lawyer,Shapiro, arrived and a few minutes later, OJ surrendered to authorities. In the Bronco the police found:
- $8,000 in cash
- a change of clothing
- a loaded .357 Magnum
- a passport
- family pictures
- a fake goatee and mustache
The effects of the chase were seen for years. In 1996 Ford discontinued the Bronco because too many people had negative association with it. The chase was parodied on Seinfeld, Murphy Brown, The Simpsons, SNL and dozens of other television shows.
Watch a 9 Minute CNN segment called OJ on the Run: The Bronco Chase -
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(Photo: EPA/Jason Bean/Reno Gazette-Journal)
After nearly nine years in prison, O.J. Simpson will soon be a free man. Again. A four-member parole board in Carson City, Nev., voted unanimously to curtail his 33-year prison sentence for kidnapping and armed robbery, stemming from a confrontation over sports memorabilia in Las Vegas in 2007.
(Photos: Sal Veder and AP, File)
Simpson rose to prominence for his athletic talent and record-breaking football career. He became the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a single season. After the 1979 season, he retired from football and was later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, beginning careers in acting and football broadcasting.
(Photo: AP/ Joseph Villarin, File)
In 1994, Simpson became embroiled in controversy and media scrutiny after he was accused of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ron Goldman. The two were found stabbed to death in Los Angeles near Brown’s condominium. Police treated Simpson as a person of interest, and after failing to turn himself in, began a low-speed pursuit of him along Interstate 405 in California, while he was riding in the backseat of a white Ford Bronco SUV.
(Photo: AP Photo/Vince Bucci, Pool, File)
Simpson was acquitted of charges in a lengthy and widely publicized trial that culminated on Oct. 3, 1995, in a jury verdict of “not guilty.” Millions of people tuned in to watch or listen to the announcement. The crime remains unsolved, but many saw his nine-year service in prison as a place he should have been since his murder trial.
(Photo: AP Photo/John Locher, Pool, File)
He faced other legal troubles throughout the early 2000s that included arrests, FBI searches and lawsuits. Attention returned to the Hall of Fame running back and former actor for his 2007 ill-fated bid to retrieve sports memorabilia and again, ten years later, when he became eligible for parole. This Sept. 9, 2008, file photo shows O.J. Simpson arriving at the Clark County Regional Justice Center on the second day of jury selection for his trial in Las Vegas. Nevada parole board officials cited good behavior in prison as factors for his upcoming, early release on Oct. 1.
Read more here: O.J. Simpson granted parole and could be released from prison as soon as Oct. 1
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Do you ever feel like you manifested this?
Like, intellectually I understand more or less the process of… capitalism and poor decisions and whatnot that led us here. But do you ever feel that way?
1999, I was sitting in a college classroom debating… something. I don’t remember. All I remember is some smarmy jock-type guy setting my hair on fire with his ignorance, and losing my temper at him, saying something like he felt that way because he had no perspective, that all our parents and grandparents remembered where they were when Pearl Harbor and D-Day happened, when JFK was shot, when we landed on the moon, when the draft was announced for Vietnam, and “What does our generation remember? When the OJ Simpson verdict came down?”
(I was in high school, but I was home sick, laying on the couch. The “special report” cut into, IIRC, one of the Beastmaster movies. Something of that ilk, anyway. At my school, someone was running down the hall screaming “NOT GUILTY! NOT GUILTY!” but I wouldn’t know that ‘til later.)
(I remember 9/11, watching the towers come down over and over and over again, thinking about that class and thinking to myself I did this even though I knew rationally I hadn’t.)
Ok so I had a dream where Shrek was on trial for shooting Fiona and the court was painting him as this monster and going crazy but he was so calm and when it was his turn to talk he asked for the gun and put it in his hand but it was so small that his ogre hands couldn’t use it so he proved he couldn’t have been the one to pull the trigger so he was released
If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit!
