♪ -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the following is a cnn special report. 911, what are you reporting? >> this is ojc, i have o.j. on the run. >> the los angeles police department right now is searching for mr. simpson. >> and on the edge. >> he is still alive with a gun to his head. >> was that gun loaded? >> oh, yeah, a real gun, real bullets. >> and real drama. >> they are going through orange county. >> news helicopters hovering above as the bronco drives past stunned onlookers. >> people were jamming on the

brakes and jumping out of their cars sometimes in the middle of the car. >> think about everybody else, okay. >> i want to do it at the grave at my house. >> you are not going to do anything. too many people love you. you have the whole world. don't throw it away. >> two bodies butchered. one of, this o.j.'s wife. >> slash and one of them nearly decapitated. >> this is vicious. >> if you watched the o.j. simpson unfold, and i did as a tv reporter for kbls in l.a., it was a case you could not forget. two decades later -- >> i remember it as if it were yesterday. >> it is as raw and painful as it was 20 years ago. >> an extraordinary story of celebrity and murder. >> we saw perhaps the falling of an american hero. >> o.j.'s wild ride, 20 years

after the chase. on june 13th, 1994, at approximately 10 minutes after midnight, a witness discovered the body of nicole brown simpson. the presence of a second body, an individual who has now been identified as mr. ronald goldman, 25 years of age. >> the bodies were found on the sidewalk outside of nicole simpson's condominium a few miles from where o.j. simpson lives. >> terrible questions are hang manage the air around o.j. simpson today as investigators in l.a. probe the violent death of his ex-wife and another man. >> we will piece it together until we bring the responsible party to justice. >> and the question is, is o.j. simpson a suspect?

>> we obvious ly will not rule anyone out. >> orenthal james simpson and better known as o.j. or the juice. as the heisman trophy winner, hall of famer. >> we will do whatever it takes to stay together. >> as an actor and pitch man. >> hertz, the super star. >> everybody stand back. >> and it would not be the accolades or the celebrity that he would be most remembered for. instead, it would be his kon k connection to to a grisly double murder. >> he deserves to stay in jail for slaughtering two people, and not giving a damn about anything but killing them. >> tom lange was a detective with the los angeles police department. he could not tell me how he really felt 20 years ago, but he

sure can now. >> simpson is a sociopath, simple as that and it took us 30 seconds to figure that out. >> let's go back to june 13th, 1994. how brutal was that crime scene? >> slashed, stabbed, everything else. nicole was nearly decapitated. it was a bloody scene, and obvious that ron goldman had fought, and fought hard. >> the scene at nicole's condo didn't add up. who was ron goldman? why was he there? as the lapd inspected the crime scene at south bundy drive, they discovered a bloody glove. >> of course, the interesting thing is that it was a left glove, bloody trail tailing in conjunction with footwear impressions going west. >> officers were dispatched to o.j.'s home on north rockingham avenue, to inform him about his

ex-wife's murder. o.j. and nicole had met when she was a teenager, and were togethert for most of the next 17 years. a sometimes rocky are relationship with allegations of abuse. they divorced in 1992. it was at o.j.'s home where detective lange made the call to nicole'sle family to break the tragic news. >> nicole's dad answered. >> what did you say? >> i said, mr. brown, i regret to inform you that your daughter has died. she has been killed. and right away, i heard denise start screaming. >> i remember it. i remember it as if it was yesterday. >> nicole's sister, denise brown, was also on the call. she say ths that she had no dou that o.j. was the killer. >> i said, oh, my god, he finally did it. something inside of me just

knew. something inside of me just knew. >> what did she scream? >> that mf, and i knew that son of a bitch did it and screaming and completely out of control. that is when something told me that something was going on with the simpson guy. and it was at a that point that things started to come together. >> at rockingham, that they didn't find o.j., but what they did find appeared to be the match to the glove found at the crime scene. >> the sun comes up out front, and there is a blood trail from the bronco right on into the house. it is not tailing a wway from t house, but tailing into the house. >> so are you thinking at this point? >> you have a suspect, obviously. >> o.j. is the suspect? >> he is the suspect. it didn't mean he did it, but if he did it, we would prove it, because the blood would do it. the blood is at the core of the evidence in the case. >> the police finally reached

o.j. at a hotel in chicago. he had flown there less than two hours after the murders. when the police informed him of his ex-wife's murder, he flew home. >> can you move. >> and the immediate grand police were waiting. o.j. was briefly handcuffed, and lange knew that he had to deal with the former football star carefully if he wanted o.j. to cooperate. >> your goal was to get him to trust you so that you could get your blood sample. >> yes, of course, and this is just as importantly the finger, and the prints and everything else, and along the way, we will do the interview to glean inkon s s sis ten sis after someone's statement, and this is hours after the murder, and he does not have the head straight yet. >> and amazingly o.j. a agreed to a interview with lange and his partner van gnattenagnat wi

lawyer present. >> were you surprised that o.j. agreed to an interview? it is surprising especially when i looked at his hand and he was still bleeding and he had a band-aid on his left hand. >> how did you get injury on the hand? >> well, i had it when i was in chicago, i had it, but at the house, i was just running around. >> how did you do it in chicago? >> i broke a glass. one of you guys had just called me, and i was in the bathroom, and i kind of went bonkers for a little bit. >> is that how you cut it? >> i am not sure. it was cut, and i just opened it up. >> did he screw up? >> yes, and i think that there are 16 or 17 of them in there. >> so he was inconsistent? >> yes. he was inconsistent and lied about others. >> o.j., we have some problems, we have blood in and on the car, and we have blood at your house, and sort of a problem. >> well, take my blood.

>> simpson allowed hem to take his blood, and fingerprints and even a photo of the finger, and this is the first and only time lapd investigators would speak with o.j. simpson without a lawyer. coming up, o.j. disappears. >> he was to surrender to police at 11:45 this morning. and murder turns into a manhunt. >> the los angeles police department right now is actively searching for mr. simpson. i know i have an 810 fico score, thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. and your big idea is hot dogs shaped like hamburgers? nope. hamburgers shaped like hot dogs. that's not really in our wheelhouse... you don't put it in a wheelhouse. you put it in your mouth.

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ron goldman, a 25-year-old, with dreams of owning his own restaurant was friends with nicole's father and sister kim. >> it was just comfortable, and ea easy. >> he had a heart of gold. absolute heart of gold. >> they had buried ron just day s after the murders. >> my dad just kept saying, it should be me. it is not supposed to be him. it should be me. it should be me. >> any parent who has had to do that knows what a painful,

horrifying, gut tearing feeling it is. >> ron goldman was a waiter at a restaurant that nicole frequented. that night, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. now, 20 years later, his sister, kim reveals in her new book, she still can't forgive the man she believes murdered her brother. >> this was deliberate, vicious. there is no act of forgiveness there. >> no. >> nicole brown simpson, a 35-year-old mother of two and sister of denise. >> tell me about the picture. >> oh. my favorite picture of me and my sister. that is how i will remember her, like this. fun. fun loving. >> her funeral attended by

friends, family. and the prior suspect, former husband, o.j. simpson. >> why would he even show up at her funeral? >> oh, god, you mow what, you will have to ask him that. i don't even want to the address that. >> how did that make you feel? how did it make the family feel? >> well, honestly, i was numb. i had just lot my sister, and i did not see what was going on around us. >> the very next morning the lapd said that there would be an announcement at noon regarding the murders. reporters and photographers packed the room at police headquarters. >> the bomb squad is still here. >> but the press conference would be unexpectedly delayed. >> we had multiple bomb threats in the auditorium that morning. it did not please me that i had

to empty out thatted a toirm, and get it checked, but it was the right thing to do. >> when commander david gascon finally step odd the podium at 2:00 p.m., no one was prepared for what came next. >> this morning, detectives from the los angeles police department after an exhaustive investigation sought and obtained a warrant for the arrest of o.j. simpson, charging him with the murders of nicole brown simpson and ronald wile goldm goldman. mr. simpson in an agreement with his h attorney was scheduled to surrender this morning to the los angeles police department initially at 11:00. it then became 11:45. mr. simpson has not appeared.

the los angeles police department right now is actively searching for mr. simpson. >> what were you thinking right there, all of those gasps? >> it was pretty interesting. i have heard a lot about that moment from people over the years, and no one seems to forget that moment. when they sucked the air out of the room with gasps. >> a media crush insooide, and gathering crowd outside. the first inkling of what would explode into a national obsession. at 3:00 p.m. los angeles district attorney gill garcetti deliver hed a stern message. >> i want to say something to the entire community, if you in any way are assisting mr.

simpson in avoiding justice, mr. simpson is a fugitive of justice right now sh, and if you assistm in any way, you are committing a felony. >> o.j. simpson is a fugitive. >> what do you remember about that and what were you thinking? >> h oh, my god. i was mad. >> and then there was another press conference, attorney robert shapiro made a plea to his client o.j. simpson. >> for the sake of your family, for the sake of your children, please sur reasoneder immediately. surrender to any law enforcement official at any police station, but please do it immediately. >> next robert kardashian stepped to the microphones to read a note from his close

friend. >> this letter was written by o.j. today. to whom it may concern. first, everyone, understand that i have nothing to do with nicole's murder. don't feel sorry for me. i've had a great life, great friends, and please think of the real o.j. and not this lost person. thanks for making my life special. i hope i helped yours. >> it sounded like o.j. was saying good-bye, a suicide letter. coming up, a white ford bronco on the run. >> i think that i just saw o.j. simpson on the 5 freeway.

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he assured us and aggreed to provide for the surrender, and that has not occurred. >> on june 17th, 1994, o.j. simpson became the most famous fugitive on the planet. >> everybody was on the alert looking for a wanted double-homicide suspect that happened to be a heisman trophy winner. >> david gascon the lapd chief spokesman at the time believed that o.j.'s whereabouts would not remain a secret for long.

>> i told them in the beginning, that you know how this is going to be be, someone is going to be see him, and someone is going to be seeing him out there on the freeway, and we are going to be getting a call. >> 911. >> yeah, i think that i saw o.j. simpson on the freeway heading north. >> and near nicole simpson's grave on the 5, at the wheel al couldings, o.j.'s best friend, and o.j. >> did you see him? >> yes, we saw him, and he stared us down like it was de h death. >> okay. we will be sending someone out there. >> and with the police in the rear view, couldings now calls 911 making sure they know that o.j. is armed and desperate. >> 911, what are you e reporting? >> this is a.c. i have o.j. in the car.

>> where are you? >> please, i am coming up the 5 freeway, and i am okay right now. and he is still alive, but he has a gun to his head. >> is everything else okay? >> everything else right now is okay, officer, and everything is okay, but he needs to get to his mom. he wants me to get to his mom. that is all we ask is that he has a gun to his head. >> okay. what is your name? >> my name is a.c., and you know who i am, god damn it. >> okay. >> and with the cavalcade of police car s s in pursuit, and helicopters swoop in to join the chase. >> i h will never forgett that night, and john madden was in sz i was anchoring "larry king live." i have to interrupt, and we are going to los angeles live on interstate 5. police believe that o.j. simpson is this in that car?

>> what do you remember from what was being said in your ear? are you thinking, oh, my god, o.j. is on the run? sh. >> we are saying that o.j. is in the car, and the driver is the former lineman, and the police are after him, and they are going up on i-5 and that is the busiest road in america, and this is the biggest story. >> and it is being driven by his former lineman a.c. could ining >> it reeled in 25 million viewers, including the lead detective in the case. tom lange was blindsided by the news. >> the nex thing that we hear, we are sitting in the squad bay, and people are saying, simpson is on the tv. and i said, what is he doing on tv? we flip it on and we have a slow

speed chase. >> what is going on in your mind? >> and you hear people say surreal. i didn't believe it, but it is. it is like you are in a daze. >> we are going to be staying with this, and obviously, the car is not exceeding the speed limit, and the california highway patrol has a helicopter, and it is trailing it, but nobody is pulling this car over, and we can only guess as to why not. >> victim fred goldman, ron goldman's father had his own ideas. >> quit following him on the freeway, and do what you would do with any other fleeing felon, he is a fugitive and run, and take him down, and i don't mean shoot him and kill him, but stop him and arrest him. >> when you were meeting with other members of the lapd, when this is going down, tell me how you were strategizing for the possible gun fight and shoot out or two surrender? >> well, when we had those

discussions, it was a dynamic situation of whether or not we we should do some type of intervention. it could have gone sideways instantly, and he could have jumped out of the car and it could have been a situation to require the officers on scene to protect themselves, and it could have resulted in a shooting. >> still free and leading the police on this bizarre slow-speed chase, o.j. does something unexpected. he calls his deceased ex-wife's family from the back seat of the bronco. >> did o.j. at any time call you? >> i did talk to him, and i said, listen, you have two kids, and i gave the phone to my dad. >> did your dad try to talk him out of it? >> yeah, he did. he did because of his children. >> the browns are not alone in reminding o.j. of his children. >> the kids need you. >> i have already said good-bye to my kids. >> listen, we are not going to

say good-bye to your kids. >> detective tom lange got o.j.'s cell phone number from a colleague. >> i said, what the hell, what if he picks up. nobody is in control of this situation, and what is it going to hurt. no reason not to call. >> i took lange wac to the heart pounding moment. take to a listen. >> we are not going to bother you, and let you go up there, and just throw it out of the window, and just do it -- >> it is for me. >> i know, but do it for the kids. think of the kids. please, just toss it out, you are scaring everybody. >> i know i am not going to hurt anybody. >> i know you are not, man. >> i am just going to go with everybody. >> i know, please, but you are scaring people. >> just tell them that i am all sorry, and you can tell them all today and tomorrow, that i am sorry, that i am sorry that i did it to the police.

>> he is apologizing to you, and saying to apologize to all of the police. why? >> again, you to argue that as guilt. it is not guilt, h he is a sociopath. he is playing this game. in the back of my mind, i know th that. >> next, the slow speed chase takes a frightening turn. >> think about everybody else, all right. >> i am on the freeway, and i can do it in a field or at her grave, i want to do it at my house.

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♪ >> at this point, we can only pray they can pull it off in a safe measure. >> distraught with a gun to his head, o.j. simpson is on the run, and threatening to end his emotional pain with a bullet. >> just throw it out a window. >> ugh. >> nobody is going to be hurt. >> i'm the only one who deserves to get hurt. >> you do not deserve to get hurt. >> detective tom lange is on the phone hoping to e prevent o.j. from committing suicide. was that gun loaded? >> yes, a real gun and real bullets. this is now a public safety issue. >> i love everybody, and i have

to show everybody that i love everybod everybody. >> and everybody loves you, especially your mother and your kids and all of your friends, and a.c., and everybody does. don't do this. >> lange is all that he can to try and keep things from escalating. >> what if he shoots himself, cowlings, and how about one of the dummies running up to the car. what he says doesn't matter. what i say doesn't matter as long as he doesn't shoot somebody. >> how did you know what to say? >> i didn't. >> it was just you and your gut. >> some people kept putting little notes in front of me, but i don't have time to read all of that crap, but it was what came up, and i kept thinking, family. he can with be the biggest sociopath in the world, but it does not mean that he hates the family. >> and so they are hoping that they can keep him alive. >> and when everybody is

yelling, shoot him, i am thinking, no, no, no, i need to know the truth. i was very nervous. >> and she was right to be nervous, because during the chase, o.j. sounds despondent. >> all i did was to love nicole. all i did was to love her. >> hey, it is going to be better tomorrow. get rid of the gun. toss it. please. too many people love you, man. don't give it all up, man. you are going to hurt everybody. >> i just want to leave. that is all i want to do. that is all i am trying to do. >> when tom lange and o.j. were talk manage the bronco, and he said, i just want to be with nicole and i just want to go to her grave, that is all i want to do. was that true. did you believe that? >> what does that mean, you want to go there and sit at her grave and you feel remorse for what he did. a lot of people thought he was going to take his life, no, sorry. >> you didn't think that he was going to? >> no. i just know that the people i know that have committed

suicide, they don't talk about it. they do. >> it is going to be a lot better tomorrow, believe me. >> please. we will let you go up to the house, but we need you to throw it out of the window. >> while o.j. is mulling over what to do, thousands of fans and spectators stop everything, including driving just to get a front row seat to o.j.'s bronco drama. >> people were jamming on the brakes, and jumping out of their cars, and sometimes many nidthe middle of the freeway to run over to the side to cheer o.j. on. >> air looin pi lline pilot bri was in his h flight when he heard that o.j. was on the run. >> i knew that he was traveling up the the north and i realized that i am only two blocks away from this. so i figured i might as well go

down there and document it for myself. >> cherkas, also an aspiring photographer, makes sure to bring the cameras at the scene, and he captured these photos of the riveting spectacle. >> i i remember going at the overpass and people were in droves, and people were holding up signs, go, o.j., signs, and people were spray painting signs impromptu on the freeway. it was a frenzy, and circus-like atmosphere. >> but those vibes would soon change as the bronco passes them by. >> people were jumping up and down and shouting and screaming. and then all of the sudden, it got quiet. i noticed that some people were actually crying at the time. i think the gravity of the whole

event hit them that this is a guy charged with a double murder trying to escape police and obviously not going to be able to do it. that is when it hit them that this is a really sad situation. >> the slow speed procession is now winding its way closer to o.j.'s brentwood home, and though he is talking suicide, o.j. also seems afraid of the army of police that is waiting for him. >> you just tell them at my house, and i know they are all over the place with guns, and just let them know that i am not coming at any of them. >> they know that and they are not going to hurt you. >> did you think that he would hurt anybody else? >> at that point, i did mot think that he would hurt anybody else or hurt himself, but i thought that it was a matter of time before he would surrender. >> are you going to the house? >> you let the police know, and let all of them know that i was not running. >> i know that dlou were not running. >> i wanted to go to nicole's grave. >> as the bronco pulls off of the freeway and sunset

boulevard, it begins to make its way through residential streets, and o.j. is now blocks away from his home. coming up -- the chase becomes a standoff. >> the door is opening, and let's see what happens now. we will watch with you. i know i have an 810 fico score, thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. and your big idea is hot dogs shaped like hamburgers? nope. hamburgers shaped like hot dogs. that's not really in our wheelhouse... you don't put it in a wheelhouse. you put it in your mouth. get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions. listening to intriguing sounds

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running. >> the door is opening, and police believe that o.j. simpson is this in that car. >> for hours -- >> coming up on santa monica boulevard. >> the bronco has been slowly weaving its way through los angeles. >> listen, you been a man all of your life, and don't stop now, o.j. >> he keeps picking up, and keeps talking. you are tired, too, aren't you? i know. i know. >> and lapd detective tom lange is trying to keep o.j. alive and calm as he reaches what is clearly the final destination. >> he is getting close to the

house, and s.w.a.t. is waiting for him. >> a.c. is pulling me in my driveway. >> yes sh, just toss the gun. come on, man. just toss it, please. all right. just toss the gun. >> but it is not just police waiting for him. as soon as the car arrives to rockingham, o.j.'s 24-year-old son, jason, rushes to the br bronco. >> a lot of things are going on here. he has just pulled into the driveway and that is his son jason out there screaming and hollering, and he is definitely not acting. >> h what is going on with jason. >> he is emotion ally upset, because he knows what is going on in there, his dad is in there with a gun. >> he is just trying to helheld

man. >> and a.c. cowlings shoves jason. >> and police officers quickly intervene dragging o.j.'s son away. >> listen to me, o.j., lis own me. >> you can hear a.c. screaming at him. >> he and a.c. are very, very close. >> a.c. is as close as any family member. s.w.a.t. is yelling at him. and cowlings is involved and o.j. is yell iing at him, and a sorts of orders from the police, and they don't want to see him step out of that car with a gun. >> with the car now secured in the driveway, tom lange hands over negotiations to s.w.a.t. team. >> the kconversation is over, ad he didn't care about me anymore, because he had his hands over.

>> that is it for you, your job is done. you sit back, and what is going through your mind at this point? >> relieved. you are tired and thrashed, and tired anyway. i was tired before this began, and i mean, really tired. this is an emotional thing that thrashes you. fidz cli, m-- physically and me, completely thrashed. >> lange is done, but o.j. and a.c. remain in the kcar with a loaded gun. helicopters are swirling overhead, and the world watches, waiting for something, anything to happen. and then -- >> the door is opening, and let h let's see what happens now. >> a.c. exits the car and makes his way the the house. the police don't swarm to arrest him, and in fact, a.c. is a

middleman between the officers, and a despondent o.j. >> it is like he knew that there was no way out, and he is trapped by circumstances, and then literally trapped by law enforcement. there was no place to go. >> more than an hour of the stalemate would pass. >> no one rushing or standing around. >> al cowlings is having a conversation at this point with somebody inside of the car. >> according to the police scanners talking to o.j. on the phone trying to negotiate something. >> viewers are riveted to the tvs and the sunsets. o.j. is still hold up in the car. police don't approach the bronco though. they want to avoid a potentially violent end. >> there wouldn't be any mistakes. they would take him into custody without a shot being fired, and

if a shot needed to be fired, it would probably be one. >> until finally -- >> this is larry king in washington. we have greg lamont on the phone with us. greg, can you confirm that o.j. simpson is arrested? >> yes, sir, he is in custody. >> hidden p by nightfall from prying cameras, o.j. simpson is out of the bronco, and he holds on to family photos, and staggers into the arms of the officers. >> how did the s.w.a.t. negotiators do that, get him out of the broncos and into the officers? >> well, they just kept talking to him. >> what was it that clicked inside of o.j.'s head that said, all right, i'm getting out, and putting my hands up, and going out? >> from his perspective, it is inevitable, and nothing else

heel could have done, it is over. >> and he figured it out? >> he saw it in front of him. there was no place else to go. >> in cowlings' pockets, police would find almost $9,000 in c h cash. in the bronco, a fake goatee, mustache, a bottle of makeup adhesive and receipts from a beauty supply store, along with o.j.'s passport and the gun. >> he had all of the disguise kit and all of this stuff, and maybe in the back of his muddled mind he was thinking, i'll cross the border, and i'll lay low for a while. i don't know. >> o.j. is brought down to the police head quarterers as the crowds gathered. with o.j.t in custody, the lapd has one more press conference that night. >> he was searched, and then he was allowed to call his mother, and visit the restroom and have a glass of orange juice.

>> the chase was over. but the nation's obsession was just beginning. coming up -- >> 9 111 emergency. >> could you get someone over here now. >> police release a chilling 911 recording from nicole. >> he's back. please. >> okay. what does he look like? >> he is o.j. simpson and i think that you know his record. >> can you stay on the line? >> i don't want to the stay on the line. he is going to to beat the [ bleep ] -- but to get from the old way to the new, you'll need the right it infrastructure. from a partner who knows how to make your enterprise more agile, borderless and secure. hp helps business move on all the possibilities of today. and stay ready for everything that is still to come.

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o.j. simpson, the juice, charged with being a vicious knife-wielding murder. a adoring fans couldn't or wouldn't believe it, because the o.j. they loved in movies and on tv was so charismatic -- >> nobody does it better than hertz. >> and so likable. ♪ nobody does it better ? and he seemed to have it all -- the smile, the charm, the beautiful wife, but that wholesome image would be hard to maintain. first, to a arrest for a double-murder. then, days later, police would release a shocking recording.

>> we have to be in compliance with the law to release this material. >> it was a 911 call made by nicole brown simpson in in 1993. >> 91. 1 emergency. he's back. please. >> what does he look like. >> he's o.j. simpson and i think that you know his record. >> can you stay on the line? >> i can't stay on the line, he is going to beat the [ bleep ] out of me. >> wait a minute. just stay on the line so we can know what is go g ing on. does he have any weapons? >> i don't know. >> okay. >> he went home and now he's back. the kids are upstairs sleeping and i just don't want him back. >> okay. >> o.j., could you please leave? >> seven months later, nicole brown simpson was dead. >> i miss nicole terribly.

i know she is here. i know that she is with me. i just remember myself being so angry, and it took me 13 years to get over that anger. i want to be able to remember nicole as we were, the fun times that we used to have. the good times, the joking around, horsing around times. >> and it is as raw and painful as it was 20 years ago. ron is in my thoughts every single day. there's not a day that goes by that i don't think about him. not buried somewhere inside. it is right at the surface. >> the lives of the brown and goldman families shattered, and so, too, the iconic image of o.j. simpson. >> we saw perhaps the falling of an american hero.

>> in his court appearances, o.j. went through a dramatic transformation. >> please speak up so you may be heard. >> a grim first arraignment to to a kon pi dent super star one month later. >> 100% not giuilty. >> a rocky romance. a double murder, a super star on the run. all leading up to what many people would call the trial of the century, a long-running tv drama, every minute broadcast live. the cameras turning every lawyer and every witness into a celebrity. >> nine months of craziness. nine months of theater. nine months of acting.

>> and nine months of debating every detail. >> how much hair do the people need? >> nine to ten hairs from each area which usually amounts to ten hairs. i am surprised that mr. thshapi never heard of that request, because it is standard. >> and two people were dead and a super star had been charged with murder. >> mr. simpson, would you stand and face the jury. >> and the entire country was captivated.

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the following is a cnn special report. the shocking crime. >> ron and nicole were butchered. >> the riveting car chase. >> 911, what are you reporting? >> this is ac. i have o.j. in the kcar. >> and now, o.j. simpson on trial for murder. >> this was the perfect soap op oper ra. >> the characters like kato kaelin. >> it seems like you are pretty much misunderstood for a long time. >> and vy