Divisive as it might have been, it was truly a historic year and made for great edge of your seat entertainment, an utterly interesting national trauma (IMO) in some ways on par with Watergate in the way it captured the nation's interest that IMO nothing like it since really has.

I did not miss it, I watched what I could on television here.

Sadly I was only a baby when it all went down! >:( BUT if I had been my current age back then oh man  :D, that would have been exciting to witness! But yeah the whole OJ thing was crazy. The guy was seen as beloved figure, and then with a snap of a figner his legacy is DESTROYED! He should have NEVER have ran from the police! The Houston rockets/New York Knicks series was interrupted becuase of the car chase!

Sadly I was only a baby when it all went down! >:( BUT if I had been my current age back then oh man  :D, that would have been exciting to witness! But yeah the whole OJ thing was crazy. The guy was seen as beloved figure, and then with a snap of a figner his legacy is DESTROYED! He should have NEVER have ran from the police! The Houston rockets/New York Knicks series was interrupted becuase of the car chase!

Something I remember all too well... I was watching maybe the last 30 minutes of the chase on TV.

Divisive as it might have been, it was truly a historic year and made for great edge of your seat entertainment, an utterly interesting national trauma (IMO) in some ways on par with Watergate in the way it captured the nation's interest that IMO nothing like it since really has.


"If It Doesn't Fit, You Must Acquit".

Something I remember all too well... I was watching maybe the last 30 minutes of the chase on TV.
The car chase was even shown live on UK news channels.

The car chase was even shown live on UK news channels.

I also watched what happened after the chase ended; that is, after O.J. arrived back at his home, waited a long time to come out of his car and surrender to the cops who were waiting for him.

"If It Doesn't Fit, You Must Acquit".


Is that a quote from Cinderella?  ;D

I was in kindergarten in 1994/1995. Every morning on the 8 o' clock news, it was OJ this, OJ that. It was really interesting if you were old enough to get it, but I was way too young to understand why it was important at the time.

I was 8-9 during that time, but I don't remember it. That's maybe because I was in Germany then, but if it was also on UK Television, so it was probably also a big deal over here. It seems, it didn't really touch me.

The OJ Simpson Car Chase

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I was in kindergarten in 1994/1995. Every morning on the 8 o' clock news, it was OJ this, OJ that. It was really interesting if you were old enough to get it, but I was way too young to understand why it was important at the time.


What year were you born?

What year were you born?

He was born in 1989 I think. :-\\

I also watched what happened after the chase ended; that is, after O.J. arrived back at his home, waited a long time to come out of his car and surrender to the cops who were waiting for him.


Then they arrested him afterwards.

Is that a quote from Cinderella?  ;D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH-VuP_5cA4

Here is the closing argument of what Johnny Cochran had to say ↑

I didn't watch purposely. I was not interested. Unfortunately, they preempted my soaps for it which p!ssed me off. I recorded my soaps so when I got home from school (college) I could watch them only to see the trial was recorded. Didn't watch it.



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A woman was killed and an NFL Hall of Famer was the suspect.  Why would I be nostalgic for that?

"Remember when that woman was killed?  I wish I could see that all over again"

::)

A woman was killed and an NFL Hall of Famer was the suspect.  Why would I be nostalgic for that?

"Remember when that woman was killed?  I wish I could see that all over again"

::)
Yesterday I watched "Autopsy: The OJ Simpson Murder Case". Documentary in which forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd re-examines the murder of the notorious American football star's ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman. With the aid of the autopsy report, forensic evidence, and those who knew them, he pieces together the last few days leading up to the killings and considers who was really responsible.

At the end he gave his theory on who did the murder, and it seems plausible.

A woman was killed and an NFL Hall of Famer was the suspect.  Why would I be nostalgic for that?

"Remember when that woman was killed?  I wish I could see that all over again"

::)


I think she was being sarcastic.

We watched it in our fifth grade class live.  After watching all these crime shows I change my verdict.

The OJ Simpson trial left a HUGE ripple through pop culture time.  After all, America met Robert Kardashian because of the trial and the rest is history.

Lord no, I was bored stiff by it. (I was only 8 in 1994)

But I do have a vivid memory of putting a Black Ken doll in my Barbie Jeep and having him run over a White Barbie and my mom saw and asked what I was doing and I said "Playing OJ and Nicole" and my mom stopped watching the trial coverage after that.

I remember hearing about OJ Simpson and the first thing my idiot brain thought about was how weird it was that there was a lot of coverage on Orange Juice.

Miss?  ;D

I remember hearing about OJ Simpson and the first thing my idiot brain thought about was how weird it was that there was a lot of coverage on Orange Juice.


His first initials stand for Orenthal James

Miss?  ;D


I don't miss it.

The long term negative effect of the OJ trial (along with, to a lesser extent, the Clinton impeachment mess from a few years later) is that the mass media has spent the last two decades latching on to court case after court case in a vain attempt to turn one of them into the next "Trail of the Century". I think it was would do them well to accept that the OJ trail bonanza was caused by a unique confluence of events that can probably never be recreated. I'm pretty confident that I will never again in my lifetime see 200 million people stop what they are doing in the middle of the day to watch a trial verdict.

His first initials stand for Orenthal James


I soon realized this after embarrassing myself by asking "Why is everyone talking about orange juice?" Fun times.

I soon realized this after embarrassing myself by asking "Why is everyone talking about orange juice?" Fun times.

Some people still refer to him as "Orange juice" even though that's not what his initials actually stand for. ;D



His first initials stand for Orenthal James

I actually knew that. ;)

I soon realized this after embarrassing myself by asking "Why is everyone talking about orange juice?" Fun times.


That's what I thought at first too.

That's what I thought at first too.


I don't know why the kids at my middle school thought it was so funny that I thought Orange Juice was on the news. Worst of all, some girls laughed at me and that's never fun!


Some people still refer to him as "Orange juice" even though that's not what his initials actually stand for. ;D


Haha, isn't his nickname The Juice or something?

I don't know why the kids at my middle school thought it was so funny that I thought Orange Juice was on the news. Worst of all, some girls laughed at me and that's never fun!

Haha, isn't his nickname The Juice or something?

Yep, I think you're right.

People often forget that the basis for gavel-to-gavel coverage of high profile case started with the Pamela Smart trial in March 1991. I recently acquired a videotape that was taped off of a local New Hampshire station that consists of three hours of trial coverage. Unlike OJ, Pam was ruled guilty and has been serving her life in prison term ever since. She may not have been nearly as famous being just a teacher and her trial didn't even last three weeks, but this was a landmark trial that paved the way for continuous coverage that we saw with OJ's a few years later. Still, I was too young to remember that OJ was an important football player and just was awed from the police chase to pleading to opening arguments to trial to closing arguments to decision. Unfortunately, this trial is an important reason why daytime soap operas in America are just a dark shadow of their former popularity.

Haha, isn't his nickname The Juice or something?

Yes, It is.