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?
Watching on a mini TV in my office with my friend/employee. We kept it on everyday throughout the trial as we worked.
“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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Tattle tale!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why you can’t convict him for the murders of the two whites. THAS RAY-cess.
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.
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.
I will be passing by OJ’s current residence in a few hours. I always make it a point to flip him off.
Lovelock not Ely.
The only view from LLCC is from the guard towers.
Really? OK my bad. I thought it was Ely.
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.
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