LOL I can’t remember. It certainly doesn’t resonate in my memory like Kennedy assassination or first moon landing.
Anyway, I didn't have much time to really follow the trial. I do remember thinking he was guilty and wondering how the jury could conclude he wasn't.
Watched black people celebrate his acquittal on TV and was amazed at how their ability to deny the facts of the case.
This is ALL JUDGE ITO’s fault. He should have put a stop to the defense’s circus
Regardless of how anybody feels about the original murder charge, OJ is serving a bum rap right now, and the worse thing is that in order for the judge to sentence him to the long term he is now serving, she had to give a equally harsh sentence to one of OJ`s naive friends that had no record and was just helping out a friend.
Yes the guns should have been left at home, but this incident was treated more harshly than a sex offender raping a child.
OJ is in prison now only because the judge wanted to get him for the double murder in some fashion, this is not something that anybody should be happy about.
For those that disagree, see how you would like a judge doing that to one of your children who might have been acquitted of a serious crime, only to have her take that in to consideration on a different less serious charge down the road
That was 20 years ago? Man I feel old!
I was at work, and heard co-workers cheering in jubilation. I was stunned at how this case became such a racially divided issue. Either the evidence lead to his guilt or it didn’t. The races of those involved shouldn’t matter. We are talking about brutal murders. Has it really been twenty years? This set the model for many other long term, public trials. Back when most everybody watched the same five channels.
I was at Jacob Worth’s eating a beautiful Ruben on Dark Rye: http://www.jacobwirth.com/
Barry Sch(r)eck.
Dopey Dilldock couldn’t leave it be. He decided to strong arm the goods that legally belonged to Fred Goldman away from the selling collector.
What a maroon.
Stunned by the verdict, but perhaps not as stunned as Robert Kardashian (sp?)......the look on his face was priceless.
It was 7:30am in Hawaii, I had just opened my classroom, had the radio on, raising the blinds. Total utter disbelief and shock,
I was at work up here in Ottawa and me and a couple of guys stopped just in time to hear the verdict being read out. I felt saddened the rest of the afternoon from thinking about the Brown and Goldman families and how their lives have never been the same since losing their loved ones in such a horrible manner. Given that, I really found footage and images being shown on the news of black people celebrating the acquittal extremely repugnant.
Mind you, wasn’t that the same day that a major figure in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing was convicted? That is if my memory serves me properly.
After everything died down (relatively), I read all the pertinent facts of the case. O.J. was undeniably guilty. There was no way the cops could plant the great amount of incriminating evidence without being discovered or ratted out.
The Black community shamed itself that day.
Marine Corps Air Station, Tustin, California.
Still can’t believe it.
I was at a trade show in New Orleans. You could hear a pin drop...then someone yelled Bull$hit! And the place erupted in, “You got that right!” “You said it!”
I was working in an office, listening to other people’s reaction who had a radio playing. I remember the muted delight some of the black women there, and open disgust among most everyone else. This was all about getting back at the cops for the first Rodney King verdict. A non sequitur writ large.
We should congratulate O.J. for finally putting the real killer behind bars.