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Omaha Steve

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Sat Oct 3, 2015, 02:30 PM Oct 2015

AP WAS THERE: 20 years ago OJ Simpson receives acquittal



Myung. J. Chun

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 1995 file photo, O.J. Simpson reacts as he is found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in Los Angeles. At left is F. Lee Bailey and at right Johnnie Cochran Jr. Jurors in the 8 ½-month-long murder trial in deliberated for less than four hours. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool)

http://www.omaha.com/news/nation/ap-was-there-years-ago-oj-simpson-receives-acquittal/article_8357d5b8-a085-5750-bdaa-6f18bbd49c76.html

POSTED: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015 4:28 PM | UPDATED: 4:45 PM, FRI OCT 2, 2015.
Associated Press |

LOS ANGELES (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE: If there was ever a murder case perfectly suited for media and public consumption it was the O.J. Simpson murder trial. It had it all: A former football star charged with killing his ex-wife and her friend. A slow-speed police chase seen by millions on TV that involved the defendant and a white Ford Bronco. And a defense attorney (Johnnie Cochran, Jr.) who famously said about a leather glove, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." And so Simpson was let go. No wonder the Los Angeles court spectacle was dubbed "Trial of the Century."

The trial lasted almost a year and was covered in its entirety by AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch. She had reported many sensational trials — Charles Manson, Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, Patty Hearst and the officers charged in the Rodney King beating — and so it wasn't a surprise that a judge made her the pool reporter. She appeared on television every day to summarize what had transpired. (After the trial ended, Simpson tracked down Deutsch while she was vacationing and called to give his side of the story. It was the first of several exclusive interviews over the ensuing years.)

Twenty years later after the trial ended in acquittal, the AP is making a version of the story available along with photos.
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O.J. Simpson went home a free man Tuesday, spared by an unpredictable jury to pick up a life of privilege instead of a life in prison. Acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend, he pledged to track down the real killers who are "out there somewhere."

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AP WAS THERE: 20 years ago OJ Simpson receives acquittal (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2015 OP
So was the rest of the world. Wilms Oct 2015 #1
Its shocking to read it was 20 years ago. Very strange. nt snagglepuss Oct 2015 #2
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