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Happy Anniversary OJ! (Vanity)

Posted on 10/02/2015 11:36:43 AM PDT by YourAdHere

October 3rd, 1995. Twenty years ago, OJ Simpson was found not guilty in the murder of his wife and Ron Goldman. Where were you when the verdict came down?


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To: YourAdHere

Watching on a mini TV in my office with my friend/employee. We kept it on everyday throughout the trial as we worked.


21 posted on 10/02/2015 12:18:18 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“An assistant manager I was working with then went to the office, grabbed the intercom mike, and announced to the entire store “O.J. Simpson has been found not guilty. The jury gave its vedict and he is not guilty!”


No wonder they’re out of business if this guy/gal was in management.

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22 posted on 10/02/2015 12:23:04 PM PDT by Mears
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To: greyfoxx39

Tattle tale!


23 posted on 10/02/2015 12:34:02 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: YourAdHere
I was in a windowless server room at "Big Insurance Company West" rebuilding an OS/2 server (yes, it was that long ago). A black co-worker came in and asked me if I wanted to know the OJ verdict. It wasn't like a football score, so I said of course. The "not guilty" wasn't surprising - but the co-worker who told me didn't like it, either.

I knew another black guy in San Francisco who had grown up in OJ's neighborhood and was around the same age. He had nothing good to say about OJ - apparently he had a reputation for violence going way back.

Black support for OJ got a lot of media attention at the time of the verdict, but it was by no means universal.

24 posted on 10/02/2015 12:47:34 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: miss marmelstein

Working in an outpatient surgery center in a suburb of Chicago. Waiting room tv was on and everyone crowded around to see the verdict.

Most of us just shook our heads. A couple were happy, but most were just disgusted.


25 posted on 10/02/2015 12:48:01 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: YourAdHere

I was home watching and I cried for our country... I cried that we let a murderer run free... I cried for the victims and their families... I cried for Nicole’s beautiful children... I cried that our judicial system converted a murder trial into a racism circus... and I cried about the clear black/white line that was so clearly visible. After that, I just went numb... truly a sad day in American history!


26 posted on 10/02/2015 12:51:06 PM PDT by GizzyGirl
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To: Mears
No wonder they’re out of business if this guy/gal was in management.

One of the major reasons I got out of that business. I was beginning to feel like Casey Stengel. "Can't anyone here play this game?"


27 posted on 10/02/2015 12:52:41 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: YourAdHere

I was having a late lunch in the busy cafeteria of a major financial firm in Newark, NJ.

I recall the time as being sometime around 1:00 pm EST.

The lunch was a mixture of whites and blacks.

Every black screamed in approval as the verdict was announced.

Every white person, me included, sat there dumbfounded that he got away with it.

The racial divide that we thought we had conquered by 1990-1991, was revealed to be still wide open.


28 posted on 10/02/2015 1:01:04 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: forgotten man

Dittos to that! Hopefully it will be very painful and at least long enough for him to know the true horror of what is happening to him......just as the horror his victims must have felt.


29 posted on 10/02/2015 1:04:30 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: YourAdHere

Don’t know and didn’t care at the time. I don’t watch television.

But I had a friend who was obsessed over the story. He thought OJ was innocent UNTIL OJ got off. Then he flipped sides.
My aunt would call my mother several times a day to discuss the story. When the trial was over, she went into mourning.


30 posted on 10/02/2015 1:07:53 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: forgotten man
More importantly, I know where O.J. is right now. Hopefully he will die in that Nevada prison.

If OJ dies behind bars, someone needs to organize scene where a college lecture hall full of white people, upon hearing the news, jump up and down and lose their minds as if they just won the lottery.
31 posted on 10/02/2015 1:08:16 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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To: YourAdHere

I was working as a secretary on the trading floor of a New York bank. All the traders had the latest news updates on their screens, and as the verdict came in, everything on the trading floor came to a dead stop. No phones rang. There was complete silence for the first time all day. I had never seen anything like it. And when the not guilty verdict came, there were some angry mutters and curses. One trader, who had a reputation for being a clown, yelled, “They’re gonna be rioting in Greenwich tonight!” That got a few laughs, but in general the mood was very gloomy.


32 posted on 10/02/2015 1:19:57 PM PDT by Rainbow Rising ("If America was a house, the left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: YourAdHere

Why you can’t convict him for the murders of the two whites. THAS RAY-cess.


33 posted on 10/02/2015 1:30:23 PM PDT by patriot08 (4th geneneration Texam (girl type))
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To: YourAdHere

I was at home getting ready to go to work.

I admit that I thought OJ was going to be found guilty. I was pretty surprised at the not guilty verdict. My co-workers were disgusted at the verdict. I was more stunned than anything.

I did think that OJ would sooner or later screw up again and land up in prison. On that point, I was right.


34 posted on 10/02/2015 1:30:40 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34
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To: YourAdHere

I was at work and someone had brought in a small TV. We all gathered around to watch the verdict. I remember the phone ringing and someone saying, “Who would call us now?!” I don’t remember any of the blacks celebrating when the verdict was announced, but one black lady said, “Oh...so what happens now? Are they going to look for the real killer?” She thought a “not guilty” verdict meant he definitely didn’t do it.

I went back to my desk. A white guy came up to me and jokingly said, “Well, I suppose we whites should riot now, huh?”

On the way home, for my sanity, I listened to Larry Elder on the radio. He really got me through the OJ trial. I’d have pulled my hair out if not for him.


35 posted on 10/02/2015 1:37:11 PM PDT by Nea Wood
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To: YourAdHere
In a pizza joint in Fremont, CA.

I will be passing by OJ’s current residence in a few hours. I always make it a point to flip him off.

36 posted on 10/02/2015 1:41:49 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Section 20.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Lovelock not Ely.


37 posted on 10/02/2015 1:42:29 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Section 20.)
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To: vette6387

The only view from LLCC is from the guard towers.


38 posted on 10/02/2015 1:43:50 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Section 20.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Really? OK my bad. I thought it was Ely.


39 posted on 10/02/2015 1:45:08 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: greyfoxx39

Apparently yes. It’s a major cultural point. And amazing to think it was 20 years ago. The low speed chase was when I really internalized the fact that Frank Zappa was dead. I remember watching it on TV thinking “Frank would have had a field day with this”. He probably could have based a whole album on the OJ trial.


40 posted on 10/02/2015 1:48:36 PM PDT by discostu (dream big and dance a lot)
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