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given that same evidence again, i would find him not guilty again. the following is a cnn special report. >> this is 911. what are you reporting. >> this is a.c. i have o.j. in the car. >> o.j. simpson, on the run. >> the los angeles police department right now is searching for mr. simpson. >> and on the edge. >> he's still alive, but he got a gun to his head. >> was that gun loaded? >> oh, yeah. it was 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 their
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brakes jumping out of their cars. sometimes in the milling -- middle of the freeway. >> think about everybody else. >> i couldn't do it on the freeway. i can't do it in the field. i can't do it in the grave. i want to do it in my house. >> two bodies murdered. o.j. one of them o.j.'s exwife. >> stabbed slashes everything. nicole was nearly decapitated. >> if you watch the o.j. simpson case unfold, and i did as a tv reporter for kcbs in l.a., it's moment in time you could never forget. two decades later -- >> i remember it as if it was yesterday. >>ates 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.
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>> o.j.'s wild ride. 20 years after the chase. >> on june 13th, 1994, at approximately ten 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 a sidewalk outside nicole simpson's kmim conned minute yum a few miles from where o.j. simpson lives. >> investigators in l.a. probe the violent deaths of o.j.'s ex-wife and another man. >> we will piece this together until we bring the responsible party to justice. >> the question what is is o.j.
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simpson a suspect? >> obviously we're not going to rule anyone out. >> orenthal james simpson, better known as o.j., or the juice, had been in the spotlight for years, as a heisman trophy winner, an nfl hall of famer. >> we'll do whatever we have to do to stay together. >> and more recently as an actor and pitchman. >> hertz, the super store. >> you know it. >> everybody stand back. >> but it wouldn't be those accolades or celebrity that he would be most remembered for. instead, it would be his connection to a grizzly double murder. >> he deserves to be in jail for murder, for slaughtering two people. and not giving a damn one way or the other about anybody but killing them. >> tom lange was a detective with the los angeles police department. he couldn't tell me how he
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really felt 20 years ago, but he sure can now. >> simpson is a sociopath. simple as that. it took about 30 seconds for us 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 very bloody scene. it was obvious that ronald goldman had fought and fought hard. >> the scene at nicole's condo didn't add up. who was ronald goldman? and why was he there? as the l.a.p.d. inspected the crime scene at south bundy drive, they discovered a bloody glove. >> of course the interesting thing was 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
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ex-wife's murder. o.j. and nicole had met when she was a teenager and were together for most of the next 17 years. a sometimes rocky relationship with allegations of abuse. they divorced in 1992. it was at o.j.'s home where detective lange made the call to nicole's family to break the tragic news. >> nicole's dad answered. >> and what did you say? >> and 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. >> oh, i remember it. i remember it as if it was yesterday. >> nicole's sister, denise brown, was also on the call. she says she had no doubt o.j. was the killer. >> and i said oh, my god, he finally did it. something inside me just knew.
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something inside me just knew. >> what did she scream? >> that m.f. i knew that son of a bitch did it. she was screaming just completely out of control. that's when something told me that something was going on with the simpson guy. and it was at that point that things started to come together. >> at rockingham, they didn't fine oemg, but what they did find appeared to be the match to the glove found at the crime scene. >> the sun comes up. got the front, and there is a blood australia from the bronco right on into the house. it's not tailing away from the house. it's tailing into the house. >> so are you thinking at this point? >> suspect, obviously. >> o.j. is your suspect? >> he's a suspect. doesn't mean he did it. if he did it we're going to be able to prove it. . the blood is going to prove it.
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the blood is at the core of the evidence in this case. >> the police finally reached o.j. at a hotel in chicago. he had flown there less than two hours after the murders. when police informed him of his ex-wife's murder, he flew home. >> please move. let him go in. >> the media and police were waiting. o.j. was briefly handcuffed. lange knew he had to deal with the former football star carefully if he wanted only to cooperate. >> your goal was to get him to trust you so you could get your blood sample? >> of course. to get the blood -- just as importantly the finger and the frints and everything else. along the way, what's called an interview, where you attempt to glean inconsistencies in someone's statements. this is just hours after the murder. he doesn't have his head straight yet. >> surprisingly, o.j. agreed to an interview with lange and his partner, philip vannatter with no lawyer present. >> the date is june the 13th, 1994, and we're here with o.j.
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simpson. >> were you surprised that o.j. simpson agreed to an interview? >> it was a little surprising, especially when i looked at his hand and it was still bleeding and he had a band-aid on his left hand. >> how did you get the injury on your hand? >> i don't know. not the first -- i know i had it when i was in chicago. but at the house i was just running around. >> how did you do it in chicago? >> i broke the glass one of you guys had just called me and i was in the bathroom and i just went bonkers for a little bit. >> is that the cut? >> i think it was open before. i think i just open it up. >> did he screw up? >> many times. i think there was 16 or 17 in there. >> he was inconsistent? >> inconsistent about all these statements. lied about others. >> o.j., we've got sort of a problem? >> uh-huh. >> we've got some blood on and in your car. we've got some blood at your
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house. and it's sort of a problem? >> well, take my blood test. >> well, we'd like to do that. >> simpson allowed them to take a blood sample, fipnger prints, even a photoof his finger. this would be the first and only time l.a.p.d. investigators would speak with o.j. simpson without a layer. 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. but for people with copd, the world is filled with air. sometimes breathing air can be difficult. if you have copd, ask your doctor about once-daily anoro ellipta. it helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours. anoro ellipta is the first fda-approved product
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. ronald goldman, a 25-year-old waiter, with dreams of having his own restaurant, was very close with his sister, kim, and father, fred. >> we were just each other's safe haven. we knew we were each other's foundation and our comfort and -- it just was easy. >> he had a heart of gold. absolute heart of gold. >> they buried ron just days after the murders. >> my dad just kept saying, it should be me. it's not supposed to be him. it should be me. it should be me. >> any parent that's ever had to do that knows what a painful,
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horrify i horrifying gut tearing feeling it is. >> ronald goldman was a waiter at a restaurant that nicole frequented. and 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. and that's how i remember her. like this. fun, fun loving.
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>> her funeral, attended by friends, family, and the prime suspect, former husband, o.j. simpson. >> why would he even show up at her funeral? >> oh, god. you know what? you're going to have to ask him that. i don't even want to address that. >> how did that make you feel? how did that make the family feel? >> you know, honestly, i was numb. i just lost my sister. i didn't even see what was going on around us. >> the very next morning, the l.a.p.d. said 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.
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it didn't please me that he had to empty out that auditorium and get it checked, but it was the right thing to do. >> when commander david gascon finally stepped to the podium just before 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 ron lyle goldman. mr. simpson, in agreement with his attorney, was scheduled to surrender this morning to the los angeles police department. initially, that was 11:00. it then became 11:45.
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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 those gasps? >> it -- it was pretty interesting. i've heard a lot about that moment from a lot of 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 inside, and a gathering crowd outside. the first inkling of what would explode into a national obsession. at 3:00 p.m., los angeles district attorney gill gargetti delivered a certain mess amg. >> i want to stay something to the entire community. if you in any way are assisting
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mr. simpson in avoiding justice, mr. simpson is a fugitive of justice right now. and if you assist him in any way, you are committing a felony. >> o.j. simpson is a fugitive. >> a fugitive. >> what do you remember about that, hearing that? what were you thinking? >> oh, my god, i was mad. >> three hours later, there was another press conference. the first speaker, 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 surrender immediately. surrender to any law enforcement official at any police station, but please do it immediately. >> next, robert kardashian stepped to the micro phones to
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read a note from his close friend. >> this letter was written by o.j. today. to whom it may concern, first, everyone understand i had nothing to do with nicole's mrd. don't feel sorry for me. i've had a great life. great friends. 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 i just saw o.j. simpson on the 5 freeway. the staff at this beautiful resort . . .
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ahe assured us and agreed to provide for the surrender, and that's 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 who happened to be a heisman trophy winner. >> david gascon, the l.a.p.d.'s chief spokesperson at the time believed o.j.'s whereabouts
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wouldn't remain a mystery very long. >> i remember having a conversation, and i told him directly, i says you know how this is going to end up. somebody is going to see o.j. simpson out here. somebody is going to see him on the freeway or somewhere we're going to get the call. >> highway patrol. >> i think i just saw o.j. simpson on the 5 freeway. he is heading north. >> near nicole brown simpson's grave south of los angeles, the white bronco is spotted. at the wheel, o.j.'s best friend and former teammate, al cowlings. >> did you see him? >> yeah, we believe so. and we looked at him, you know, and he like stared us down. i've got a cop coming up right now. >> okay we'll put it out. >> thanks. >> with police now in his rear view, cowlings calls 911 making sure they know o.j. is armed and desperate. >> 911, what are you reporting?
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>> this is a.c. i have o.j. in the car. >> okay, where are you? >> please i'm coming up the 5 freeway. >> okay. >> >> right now, we are okay. but you've got to tell police just to back off. he's still alive but he got a gun to his head. >> is everything else okay? >> everything else is okay right now. officer. everything is okay. he wants me to get him to his mom. he wants me to get him to his house. >> okay. >> that's all we ask,s' got a gun to his head. >> what's your name -- >> my name is a.c. you know who i am, goddamnity. >> tv helicopter swoop in to join the chase. >> i never forget. >> the money that athletes are being paid today. >> i'm going to have to interrupt this call. i understand we are going to go a live picture in los angeles. is that correct? this is interstate 5. police believe that o.j. simpson
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is in that car. >> what do you remember from what was being said in your ear? were you thinking oh, my god, o.j. is on the run? >> we were saying o.j. is in the car. he's got a gun. the driver of the car is his former football linemen. the police are going slow behind him. s that crazy and they are going up on the i-405, which is the busiest road in america. nothing was bigger than this story. >> we're viewing a car apparently being driven by al cowlings, one of o.j.'s best friends. they could be heading to l.a. police headquarters. >> the spectacle reeled in 95 million television viewers, including the lead detective on the case, tom lange was blindsided by the news. >> next thing we hear -- we are sitting in the squad bay, and somebody says, citizenship's on the tv. >> tv? what's he doing on tv? and we flip it on, and we have this slow-speed chase.
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>> what was going through your mind at that point. >> you hear people say surreal. well, there is such a thing. i didn't believe it, you but tlts. it's kinds of like you are in a daze. >> we're going to stay with this. obviously the car is not exceeding the speed limit. the california highway patrol has another helicopter, could be a police helicopter, that's trailing it. but nobody is pulling this car over. we can only guess as to why not. >> victim ronald goldman's father, fred goldman, had his own ideas. >> i thought, quit following him on the freeway. do what you would do with any other fleeing felon. he's a fugitive. he's running. take him down. i don't mean take him down, shoot him and kill him. stop him. arrest him. >> when you were meeting with other members of the l.a.p.d. as this was going on, tell me how you were preparing and strategizing for number one, possible gunfight, shootout, or number two, surrender.
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>> when we had those discussions it was a dynamics discussion whether or notway should do some time of intervention. it could have gone sideways instantly. he could have jumped out of the car and there could have been a situation that required the officers on scene to protect themselves. it could have resulted in a shooting. >> still free and leading 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've got two kids. and then i gave the phone to my dad. >> did your dad try to talk him out of it? >> he did. yeah. yeah, he did. because of his children. >> the browns are not alone in reminding o.j. of his children. >> the kids need you. >> i've already said good-bye to
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my kids. >> listen, no. we're gott not going to say good-bye to your kids. >> detective tom lange got o.j.'s cell phone number from a colleague. >> i'm thinking what the hell? what if he picks up? nobody is in control of this situation. what's it going to hurt? no reason not to call. >> i took lange back to that heart-pounding moment. let's take a listen. >> we're not going to -- we're going to let you go up. throw it out the window. please you are scaring everybody. o.j., are you there. >> this is for me. >> i know it's for you. >> this is from me, for me. >> i know that. but do it for the kids, too, will you. >> no. >> think of your kids, please, toss it out, you are scaring everybody. >> i'm not going to hurt anybody. i'm just going to go with me. >> please, you are scaring everybody, though. you are scaring them. >> just tell them i'm all sorry. you can tell them later on today and tomorrow that i was sorry. and i'm sorry that i did this to the police.
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>> he's apologizing to you, he's saying please apologize to all the police. >> yeah. >> why. >> you would have to argue that as a guilt. it is not a guilt. he is a sociopath. est he's playing this game n. the bakt of my mind, i know that. >> next, the slow-speed chase takes a frightening turn. >> think about everybody else, all right. >> i could shoot anybody on a freeway. i want to do it in a field. i want to do it at a grave. i want to do it at my house. ♪ ♪ (vo) you can pass down a subaru forester. (dad) she's all yours. (vo) but you get to keep the memories. love. it's what makes a subaru,
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at this point, we can only pray that they will be able to pull this off in a safe measure. >> distraught w a gun to his head, o.j. simpson is on the run and threatening to enhis emotional pain with a bullet. >> just throw it out the window. and nobody's going to get hurt. >> i'm the only one that deserves -- >> no, you don't deserve that. >> i'm going to get hurt. >> you do not deserve to get hurt. >> detective tom lange is on the phone hoping to prevent o.j. from committing suicide. >> was that gun loaded? >> oh, yeah, it was a real gun, real bullets. this is now a public safety issue. >> i love everybody.
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i tried to show everybody my whole life that i love everybody. >> we know that. and everybody loves you. especially your family. your mother, your kids. all your friends. a.c. everybody does. don't do this. >> lange is doing all that he can to try and keep things from escalating. >> what if he shoots himself? cowlings? how about one of these dummies running up to the car? what he says really 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? >> yeah, basically. some people kept putting little notes in front of me. but i don't have time to read all that crap. so it just whatever kind of came up. and i figured family. he can be the biggest sociopath in the world. doesn't mean he hates his family. >> kim goldman also hopes detective lange's pleas can keep
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o.j. alive. >> so when everybody else was yelling shoot him, just end this. i was like, no, no, no. i want to know what happened. i wanted the truth. and i was very nervous. >> and she was right to be nervous. during the chase o.j. sounds despondent. >> don't do this. >> all i did was love nicole. all i did was love her. >> hey, it's going to be better tomorrow. get rid of the gun. toss it, please. >> wow. >> too many people love you, man. don't give it all up. you are going to hurt everybody. >> i'm just going to leave. i'm going to go with nicole. that's all i'm trying to do. >> listen. >> when tom lange and o.j. were talking in the bronco and he said i just want to be with nicole. i just want to go to her grave. that's all i want to do. was that true? did you believe it? >> honestly, no. what does that mean, you want to be there? you want to sit at her grave? you feel remorse for a what you did. a lot of people thought he was going to take his life i'm like
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no, sorry. >> you didn't think he was going to. >> no >> why not? >> i know with the people that i know that have committed suicide, they don't talk about it. they do. >> it's going to be a lot better tomorrow. believe me. please. we'll let you go up to the house but we need you to throw that out the window. >> while soej 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 their brakes, jumping out of their cars. sometimes in the middle of the freeway, to run over to the side to cheer o.j. on. >> airline pilot brian c herks erkis was lifting his parent in l.a. when he learned the juice was on the run and coming his way. >> it was a play by play action. i knew the bronco was traveling
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north up the 405 and i realized i'm only two blocks away from it. i might as well go down there. >> also an aspiring photographer, he makes sure to bring his camera to the scene. he took these photos, capturing the riveting spectacle. >> it was about 6:00 p.m. as far as i can remember on the palms overpass. and people were just meeting in droves on the overpass. there were people holding signs up. go o.j.! signs. there were other people spray painting signs impromptu on the highway itself. the vibe was a frenzy. it was a circus-like atmosphere. >> but those brief moments of frenzied energy would soon change as the bronco pass them by. >> people were jumping up and down still shouting, screaming. and then all of a sudden it got quiet, and i noticed some people were actually crying at the time. i think just the gravity of the
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whole event hit them, that this is a guy charged with a double murder trying to escape police. and is obviously not going to be able to do it. and i think that's when it hit them that this is really a sad situation. >> the slow-speed procession is now winding its way closer to o.j.'s brentwood home. though he is talk suicide, o.j. also seems afraid of the army of police that's waiting for him. >> you just tell them at my house -- i know they are all over the place with guns and stuff. >> they are not going to do. >> let them know i'm not coming there to hurt any of them. >> i'll let them know. they know that. >> do you think did you think he was going to hurt anybody else. >> i didn't think he was going to hurt anybody else. i just thought it was a matter of time before he surrendered. >> you let them all know. i wasn't running. i was trying to go to nicole's grave. >> i know you weren't. >> as the bronco pulls off the
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freeway and onto sunset boulevard, it begins making its way through residential streets. o.j. is now just blocks away from his home. >> coming up -- >> hey! >> -- the chase becomes a stand off. >> the door is opening, and let's see what happens now. we'll watch with you. can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought. can a business have a spirit? can a business have a soul? can a business be...alive? ♪ the staff at this beautiful resort . . . will stay with you forever. ♪
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police believe that o.j. simpson is in that car. >> for hours -- >> coming up on santa monica boulevard. >> -- the bronco has been slowly weaving its way through los angeles. >> listen, you've been a man all your life. don't stop now, o.j. >> he keeps picking up. keeps talking. you are tired, too, aren't you? huh? >> i'm so tired. >> i know. i know. >> l.a.p.d. detective tom lange is trying to keep o.j. alive and calm as he reaches what is clearly his final destination.
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>> we are getting close to the house. s.w.a.t. is waiting for him. >> a.c., pull me into my driveway. >> i see you. i see you. please, toss the gun. juice, just toss it. come on, man. just toss it. please. all right? juice, just toss the gun. >> but it's 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 bronco. >> a lot of things are going on here. he has just pulled into his drive waechl that's his son jason out there screaming and hollering. he was definitely not acting. >> what was going on with jason. >> he was very emotionally upset because he knows what's going on. his dad is in there with a gun.
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>> who is that out there? just toss it, juice. he's just trying to help. he's just trying to help, man. >> a.c. cowlings, who is still in the bronco, shoves jason. >> hey, pick it up -- are you there? >> and police officers quickly intervene, dragging o.j.'s son away. >> juice? >> please, listen to me, listen to me o.j. listen to me. >> you hear a.c. screaming at him. >> yeah. a.c. and he were very, very close. he's -- to a.c., as close as any family member. s.w.a.t. is yelling at him. cowlings is involved at this point. jason is yelling at him. he is getting all sorts of orders from police. they do not 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 the s.w.a.t. team. >> the conversation was over. he didn't care about me anymore. he got his hands full.
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>> so that was it for you. >> oh, sure. >> your job was done? >> yeah. >> you sit back. what was going through your mind at this point? >> just relieves. it was -- you are tired. you are thrashed. you are tired any waechl i was tired before this began. i mean, really tired. this is an emotional thing that thrashes you. physically, and mentally, i was completely thrashed. >> lange is done, but o.j. and a.c. remain in the car with a loaded gun. helicopters swirling overhead, and the world watches, waiting for something, anything to happen. and then -- >> the door is opening. and let's see what happens now. we'll watch with you. this is the driver's side. >> a.c. exits the car and makes his way to the house. but police don't swarm to arrest him.
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in fact, a.c. seems to become a middleman between officers and a despondent o.j. >> it's like he knew there was no way out. he was trapped by circumstances. and then he was literally trapped by law enforcement. there was no place to go. >> more than an hour of the stalemate would pass. >> there is no one rushing or standing around. >> al cowlings is having a conversation at this point with somebody inside -- >> they are according to the police scanners talking to o.j. on the phone trying to negotiate something. >> viewers stay riveted to their tvs. and the sun sets. o.j. is still holed 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.
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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 now confirm that o.j. simpson is arrested? >> yes, sir. he is in custody. >> hidden by night fall from prying cameras, o.j. simpson emerges from the bronco. clutching family photos, he staggers out of the car and collapses into officers' arms. how did the s.w.a.t. negotiators do it? how did they get him out of that car and into his house? >> well, they just talked to him. they were able to talk him out into submission. >> what do you think it was that clicked in o.j.'s head, all right, i'm getting out. this is over. i'm going inside. put my hands up? >> i just thought it was -- from his perspective, it was
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inevitable. there was nothing else he could have done. it was sneefr and he figured that out? >> saw it right in front of him. there was no place else to go. >> in cowlings pacts, police would find almost $9,000 in cash. in the bronco, a fake goatee, mustache, a bottle of makeupped a here heesive, and receipts from a beauty supply store, along with o.j.'s passport and the gun. >> he had all this disguise kit and all this stuff -- maybe in the back of his muddled mine, 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 police headquarters as crowds gathered. with o.j. in custody, the l.a.p.d. has one more press conference that night. >> he was searched. and then he was allowed to call his mother, visit the rest room, and had a class of orange juice.
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>> the chase was over. but the nation's obsession was just beginning. coming up -- >> 911 emergency. >> can 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's o.j. simpson. i think you know his record. >> you just stay on the line. >> i don't want to stay on the line, he's going to beat the [ bleep ]. >> wait a minute. out plenti, thw rewards program. i did. in fact, i'm earning plenti points right now. but you're not doing anything right now. lily? he's right. sign up, and you could earn plenti points just for being a wireless customer. in the meantime, i just kick back and watch the points roll in. where did you get those noodles? at&t cafeteria. you mean the break room... at&t - the only wireless carrier to be a part of plenti, now when you add a new phone line to your wireless plan you get 5,000 plenti points to use in lots of places.
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we've just increased the speeds on two of our most popular plans. o.j. simpson, the juice, charged with being a vicious, knife-wielding murderer. 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. he seemed to have it all. the smile, charm, beautiful wife. but that wholesome image would be hard to maintain. first, the arrest for a double
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murder. then days later, police would release a shocking recording. >> we have to be in compliance with the law and release this material. >> it was a 911 call made by nicole brown simpson in 1993. >> 911 emergency. >> could you get someone over here now? he's back. please. >> okay. what does he look like? >> he's o.j. simpson. i think you know his record. >> okay. just stay on the line. >> i don't want to stay on the line. it's going to beat the bleep. >> stay on the line so we can know what's going on until the police get there. okay? does he have any weapons? >> i don't know. he went home and now he's back. the kids are upstairs sleeping and i don't want anything to happen. >> okay. just a minute. >> o.j., could you please leave. please leave. >> i leave when i'm good and ready to is when i'm leaving. >> seven months later, nicole brown simpson was dead. you. >> know, i miss nicole terribly.
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i know that she's here. i know she's with me. because 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 we used to have, the good times, the joking around, horsing around times. >> and it's as raw and painful as it was 20 years ago. ron is in my thoughts every single day. there is not a day that goes by that i don't think about him. it's not buried somewhere inside. it's right at the -- it's right at the surface. >> the lives of the brown and goldman families shattered. so, too, the iconic image of o.j. simpson. >> we saw perhaps the falling of
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an american hero. >> in his court appearances, o.j. went through a dramatic transformation. >> please speak up so we can hear it. >> yes. >> morphing from a grim, depressed defendant at his first arraignment. >> not guilty. >> to a confident, super star, just one month later. >> absolutely 100% not guilty. >> 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.
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nine months of acting. >> and nine months of debating every detail. >> how much hairdo the people need? >> five to ten hairs from each area, which usually amounts to about 100 hairs. >> i never ever heard of such a request. >> i'm very surprised that mr.in shapiro has never heard of the number of hairs being required before because that is a standard thing. >> but this much was beyond dispute. two innocent people were dead. a super star had been charged with murder. >> mr. simpson, would you please stand and face the jury. >> and the entire country was captivated.
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the following is a cnn special report. >> tonight, aaron hernandez. he was a rising nfl star racing toward greatness. >> what's the meaning on your forearm. >> if it is, to it is up to me. basically saying my life is in my hands. whatever i want my life to be, it's up to me to make it out that way. >> and what did he make his life out to be? 12 massachusetts jurors made to decide. was he a bystander or a brutal murderer? after hearing the evidence, finally, the answer. >> what say you, madam
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