but the fireworks were only beginning in johnnie cochran's office.ips had been phoned in most were dead ends but one caught the attention of defense investigator, pat mckenna. little did he realize but mckenna would become a key player in the most explosive part of the case because of a cryptic phone message. >> fuhrman tapes n word, things like that t. >> the handsome confident cop who had discover the bloody glove at rockingham. so mckenna followed up with the man who left the message about fuhrman who led him to a screenwriter who consulted with fuhrman about a script about police work and their conversations were recorded. a few weeks later, the tapes arrived at cochran's office. johnny was care fall but the tapes. locking them in the safe where only he had the combination. because it was so explosive. >> this is mark fuhrman on the tape. i have heard it myself. it is his voice. and it is chilling. >> it was mind-boggling. what we had heard. he used the n word so much that became insignificant. >> are you guys like, hoisting champagne glasses whe

a few weeks later, the tapes arrived at cochran's office. johnnies, locking them in his safe, where only he had the combination. because it was so explosive. >> this is mark fuhrman on the tape. i have heard it myself. it is his voice. and it is chilling. >> it was mind-boggling. what we heard. he used the "n" word so much, that became insignificant. >> are you guys like, hoisting champagne glasses when you listen to the tapes? >> it was nana from heaven. >> fuhrman said the conversations were no more than a basis for a movie. >> is this really what the reality of a democracy is that we use a fictional screen play to prosecute one man for doing too good of a job on a murder case and acquitting another. i just think it's absolutely absurd. >> absurd to detective fuhrman, but it was live ammunition for simpson's attorneys. the defense maintained that fuhrman was a racist cop who in an effort to frame simpson planted the bloody glove at his estate. undermine fuhrman, is what they're thinking, and the entire lapd investigation would be in doubt. now, ju

the glove debacle gave johnny cochran a chance to steal the show. he was just one of simpson's "a" list defenders, dubbed the dream team. >> my mother was furious at me. she called it the o.j. phase of my life. and famed attorney, f. lee bailey as a racist. >> once he said never in ten years have i ever used the "n" word, i knew we had him. >> they did have him and the case. after the case, he left the lapd and became a best-selling author and fox news crime analyst. >> we are, all of us, profoundly disappointed with the verdict. >> and garcetti left. >> just look at those eyes. >> the former d.a. is now a globe-trotting photographer. but he has not strayed too far from the law or politics. he became a script consultant for tv drama's like "the closer." and his son is now the mayor of los angeles his dream team took many different paths. >> 20 years later do people still come up and say, you're the guy? >> people send me e-mails to this day damming me to held. >> today, he is a defense attorney and harvard defense attorney and author. f. lee bailey

she was like johnnie cochrane was in control.m all of the lawyers played to those cameras. the police were gagged, we weren't able to say anything. our chief had gagged us. but the court hadz to send a message they are in control. you don't do that by having everybody playing to cameras in the courtroom you don't do it with a gag order. >> thank you. 20-years later who would have guessed. 20-years goes pretty fast. >> the controversy oo surrounding the o.j. simpson trial are still being debated today. people argue about the evidence, the trial the jury's decision. but what is not in dispute is that two people nicole brown simpson and ron goldman were viciously murdered 20-years ago. as strange as it seems to date no one has spent a day in prison for the murder. i am greta van susteren. thank you for watching. upgrade to the philips norelco shaver series 8000 for the most advanced shaving experience. with gyroflex 3d technology, you can get to those hard to reach places for the ultimate shave wet or dry. guaranteed. visit philips.

like johnnie cochran was in control. part of that i think was cameras in the courtroom. the lawyers played to those cameras. the police were gagged. we weren't able to say anything. our chief had gagged us. but the court has to send a message they are in control. and you don't do that by having everybody play to cameras in the courtroom. and you don't do it with a lack of a gag order. >> gentlemen, thank you, 2 oyears later, who would have guessed, right? 20 years ago went pretty fast. the controversy surrounding o.j. simpson trial are still being debated today. people argue about the evidence, the trial, and the jury's decision. but what is not in dispute is that two people, nicole brown simpson and ron goldman were viciously murdered 2 oyears ago. and as strange as it seems, to date no one has spent a year in prison for the murders. i'm greta van susteren. thanks for watching. ♪ [ girl ] my dad, he makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ he can print amazing things, right from his computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] he makes trains that are fri

johnny l. cochran jr. >> we're ready to proceed to trial. we want to seek justice for o.j. to the prosecutors. from the outset, his strategy was simple. >> this was the kind of case where you attack the police and their credibility. >> especially in 1995. >> at that time, the only way to describe the situation between the black community and l.a. p.d. was a state of open warfare. >> connie christ is a civil rights attorney who lives in los angeles. >> the black community experienced l.a. p.d. as a hostile occupation force that viewed the black community with racist contempt. >> it was the perfect defense for -- perfect time for it that defense to be raised. >> the perfect time. >> but o.j. simpson, for years he lived on l.a.'s mostly white west side. he spent much of his time playing golf, dating white women and seemed to have little to do with l.a.'s black community. >> i'm not sure he knew how to get to south l.a. >> he didn't have to identify with the black community. the black community understood was that you are being targeted, you are back with us. >> cochran knew th

i saw johnny cochran's brilliant charisma at work, playing the race card but doing it so deftly. and now you come back 20 years later and tell me stuff i never knew and the jury never knew. tell us some of the highlights if people missed it last night. >> prosecutors were convinced that the blood evidence was going to make the day for them. you had simpson's blood at the crime scene, the victim's blood inside his car and his house. they didn't put on other parts of their case that they could have put on. there was a woman who came forward who had seen o.j. simpson just a couple of minutes after the murders were committed. and she saw him driving in between where the murder scene was and where his house was. no question it was h it was simpson. he was in a white bronco. he cut her off. she came forward. she testified before the grand jury then sold her story to "hard copy" a tv show on at the time and prosecutors decided that tainted her and they decided not to use her. >> but if she came across as credible to court and had something to sell to "hard copy" it would be even stronge

because what johnnie cochran was able to do is support mark fuhrman on trial rather than oj simpson.uld have gotten up from his chair with mark fuhrman was testifying and gone out to the burger king and got a bologna sandwich and came back and nobody would have known it. everybody was focused on mark fuhrman. so, and the "n" word. >> all right. and you know what? that's so true but we are out of time. i have got to tell you i don't know if they sell bologna sandwiches there. anyway, thank you both for joining us. and, we're following breaking news right now. sergeant bergdahl is on a military plane heading back to the u.s. test test did you know a ten-second test could help your business avoid hours of delay test test caused by slow internet from the phone company? that's enough time to record a memo. idea for sales giveaway. return a call. sign a contract. pick a tie. take a break with mr. duck. practice up for the business trip. fly to florida. win an award. close a deal. hire an intern. and still have time to spare. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now a

like johnnie cochran was in control. part of that i think was cameras in the courtroom.ice were gagged. we weren't able to say anything. our chief had gagged us. but the court has to send a message they are in control. and you don't do that by having everybody play to cameras in the courtroom. and you don't do it with a lack of a gag order. >> gentlemen, thank you, 2 oyears later, who would have guessed, right? 20 years ago went pretty fast. the controversy surrounding o.j. simpson trial are still being debated today. people argue about the evidence, the trial, and the jury's decision. but what is not in dispute is that two people, nicole brown simpson and ron goldman were viciously murdered 2 oyears ago. and as strange as it seems, to date no one has spent a year in prison for the murders. i'm greta van susteren. thanks for watching. [ woman ] i've always tried to see things from the best angle i could. it's how i look at life. especially now that i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. i was ta

knowing what happened with johnnie cochran afterward, knowing what happened with o.j.ward, but we are re-living the moment at that time as it unfolded. >> like the president of i.d. who is also my boss, i should point out said o.j. represented a watershed moment for this country's perception of the legal system and indeed a transformative event in the racial and social history of our nation as the person who put this documentary together and obviously like the rest of us who watched it all along, do you remember where you were when even the chase itself happened or the verdict? >> sure. sure. the verdict, in particular because that -- talk about a watershed moment. i was sitting in a room with a bunch of white people. i was in graduate school, and i remember, you know, having the sense of, like, how did that happen? that's one of the things that we wanted to revisit. hopefully you can watch this and see and come away with an understanding that -- that you might not have had at that time because -- just because it was too much. >> all right. it's an interesting document

because what johnnie cochran was able to do is support mark fuhrman on trial rather than oj simpson. from his chair with mark fuhrman was testifying and gone out to the burger king and got a bologna sandwich and came back and nobody would have known it. everybody was focused on mark fuhrman. so, and the "n" word. >> all right. and you know what? that's so true but we are out of time. i have got to tell you i don't know if they sell bologna sandwiches there. anyway, thank you both for joining us. and, we're following breaking news right now. sergeant bergdahl is on a military plane heading back to the u.s. a live report next. >> o'reilly here, as thousands of foreign children flood into the u.s.a. why can't the obama administration control the southern border? also, our mad as hell segment on the next factor. so i can reach ally bank 24/7 but there are no branches? 24/7 i'm sorry- i'm just really reluctant to try new things. really? what's wrong with trying new things? you feel that in your muscles? yeah...i do... drink water. it's a long story. well, not having branches lets us give

johnny cochran was just an outstanding lawyer.gard to, if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. remember, o.j. was wearing a glove underneath that glove in the courtroom when he tried to put it on. he stopped taking his anti-inflammatory medications the day before so his hand had swelled up. the glove was blood soaked so it had shrunk. they should never have asked him to put on the glove. o.j. had no motivation to squeeze his hand into the glove as many of us do. that was an important moment in the courtroom. >> there was an understanding of how race played in the criminal justice. lisa bloom, no better person to talk about that, and the author of "suspicion nation" in which the defense outclassed the prosecution. the was a truly amazing day. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. for over 18 years we've helped people take care of the things that matter most. join today at angieslist.com new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is my philosophy is real simple am

johnny cochran. >> if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. >> dead of a brain tumor in 2005. prosecutor marcia clark still convinced of simpson's guilt. and of course, everyone's favorite slacker, the noncommittal witness part time actor kato kalin and finally oj last seen in the courtroom a year ago now serving a 33-year sentence guilty of stealing his own memorabilia at guy said it. >> reporter: jim avila, abc news, washington. >>> and also in the news today. a high spirited birthday adventure. president george h.w. bush turned 90 today. he tweeted it's a wonderful day in maine and the presidential adrenalin junky did it again. and the family watching below proud and nervous. >> reporter: now 90 years old, the former president still insisted on observing what's become a birthday ritual. although no longer able to walk because of parkinson's disease, he jumped from more than a mile high, in tandem with a retired army parachutist. the landing, four minutes later on a spit of land, was a little rough. you can see his shaken expression in this photo. >> it looks like he might h

s dream team of attorneys including the accomplished showman johnnie cochran.me up with the trial's most famous line after the prosecution invited o.j. to try on the bloody glove found in his home. >> if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. >> reporter: after only a few hours of deliberation, the jury did just that. >> orenthalj. simpson not guilty of the crime of murder. >> they called it the trial of the century 206789 years later, that judgment still stands. for "cbs this morning," i'm john blackstone. >> cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman and jack ford both covered the o.j. simpson trial. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> what changed in terms of the coverage of trial? >> i think what happened is this made public trials part of the cover. this kind of became the first reality show. everyone was plugged in. it had all the elements of great drama. you had o.j. simpson, a superstar allegedly fallen from grace. you had violence, sex, and celebrity. it launched the notion of reality shoes and it launched the notion of crimes and what happens insid

don't get mad at johnny cochran because he out-lawyered you or he was smoother and more seductive and if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. johnny cochran epitomized for black america what it means to have your back against the wall and no matter how famous you are, remember "time" magazine darkened o.j.'s face. >> the "time" versus "newsweek" covers, mr. fuhrman and the use of the n word and not being honest about it, those two things set a racial tone for this trial. >> absolutely. racial truth is simultaneous. things can be true at the same time. you can be a man guilty of murder and a police cop who is bad can try to frame a guilty man. >> certainly. >> one more piece of context especially for millenials to understand. just a couple years before -- >> gather round, children. >> in l.a. a couple years before was the rodney king beating. and the riots in l.a. >> the uprising. >> thank you, the uprising. so that's an important piece of context that shaped especially black americans' views of this trial, just a couple years later. >> great point. >> actually, so let's think about

special recapping her claim to fame as one of the primary reporters who dissected every outrageous johnnie cochranoutburst during the trial of the century yes because just in case you didn't get enough force that tabloid celebrity murder fodder the first time around here's your chance to really. have the good old days when our biggest problem was a psychotic football player that got away with murder so while the corporate media continues to read traumatize nicole simpson and ron goldman's families what incredibly important story is being missed on a huge victory for polluters the supreme court voted seven two in favor of a company called c.t.s. it's allegedly responsible for the mass release of toxic chemicals in the city of asheville north carolina c c.t.'s shut down its electronics plant in nashville back in one thousand nine hundred seven but according to north carolina state statute a company is no longer liable for its actions ten years after its initial contamination the problem is that the toxic release of c.t.'s is chemicals were discovered until one thousand nine hundred nine two years af

very own special recapping her claim to fame as one of the primary reporters to every outrageous johnnie cochranutburst during the trial of the century yes because just in case you didn't get enough force fed tabloid celebrity murder fodder the first time around here's your chance to relive the good old days when our biggest problem was a psychotic football player that got away with murder so while the corporate media continues to read traumatize nicole simpson and ron goldman's families what incredibly important story is being missed on a huge victory for polluters the supreme court voted seven two in favor of a company called c.t.s. it's allegedly responsible for the mass release of toxic chemicals in the city of asheville north carolina c.t.s. shut down its electronics plant in nashville back in one thousand nine hundred seven but according to north carolina state statute a company is no longer liable for its actions ten years after its initial contamination the problem is that the toxic release of c.t.'s is chemicals were discovered until one thousand nine hundred ninety two years after that

special recapping her claim to fame as one of the primary reporters who dissected every outrageous johnnie cochranutburst during the trial of the century yes because just in case you didn't get enough force that tabloid celebrity murder fodder the first time around here's your chance to relive the good old days of our biggest problem was a psychotic football player that got away with murder so while the corporate media continues to read traumatize nicole simpson and ron goldman's families what incredibly important story is being missed on a huge victory for polluters the supreme court voted seven two in favor of a company called c.t.s. it's allegedly responsible for the mass release of toxic chemicals in the city of asheville north carolina c.t.s. shut down its electronics plant in nashville back in one thousand nine hundred seven but according to north carolina state statute a company is no longer liable for its actions ten years after its initial contamination the problem is that the toxic release of c.t.s. is chemicals were discovered until one thousand nine hundred nine two years after that te

, prosecutor marcia clark and the dream team of attorneys including the accomplished show man johnnie cochran came up with the trial's most famous line after the prosecution invited o.j. to try on the bloody glove found at his home. >> if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. >> reporter: after only a few hours of deliberations, the jury did just that. >> orenthal james super simpson not guilty of the crime of murder. >> reporter: they called it the trial of the century. 20 years later that judgment still stands. i'm john blackstone. >> nearly 500 unaccompanied migrant children will be moved out of a detention center in arizona due to alleged abuse from border patrol officials. some of the children will be transferred to a naval base in ventura, california. coalition groups sent a 25 page complaint to officials at the department of homeland security saying many of the children are harassed and abused by officials. the complaint was filed on behalf of 116 immigrant children most of them from honduras, guatemala and el salvador. >>> a bay area veteran in the last stages of his own life is hoping the

johnnie cochran who coined the famous phrase if it doesn't fit, you must acquit, he died in 2005 of a tumor. now kyra phillips has the stories of some other famous faces from that trial. >> this is interstate 5. police believe that o.j. simpson is in that car. >> reporter: it's been 20 years since nfl hall of famer o.j. simpson led police on a low speed chase that unfolded live on national television. >> all along sunset boulevard there are people stopped as well ahead of the chase. >> reporter: what followed transfixed millions of viewers and was dubbed the trial of the century. >> and it became a national obsession because it was a perfect storm of media, 24-hour cable news, celebrity, murder, a beautiful woman, a young man with so much promise, killed in such a personal way. >> i'm jim moran in los angeles. >> reporter: jim moret covered the phenomenon for cnn. >> the o.j. simpson murder case was the first true reality show for the country. >> reporter: in a rarcially charged courtroom lined with tv cameras, a cast of characters surfaced as a real time soap opera unfolded. >> if it

it launched the johnnie cochrans. >> turned everybody into celebrities. >> at the same time, it feltleft unturned. there was not one detail that we didn't know about this whole situation, the trial, the circumstance, the crime. but there is more. there's stuff that has never been talked about. >> it's true. i go back many, many years. two decades with a lot of my sources. one of whom i called and said, do you have a contact to a.c. cowli cowlings? this is the guy people want to talk to. it's been such a long time. so i got a phone number. dialed it. and let me tell you, it took about ten minutes for him to get past the anger of chewing me out, leave me alone, i have nothing to say, i don't want to talk about this. just for a second, a.c., can you tell me -- he wanted to cut me off, he said, i just want to be left alone, i'm an old man, i'm not going to talk, i'm never going to talk. it's interesting. he is one individual that did not become a -- didn't write a book, didn't become an analyst, didn't do a tv show. >> didn't become a cato kaelin. >> he's in our special as well. it was v

you see johnny cochran in church. he goes to this african-american church in l.a.lessed by the congregation. at that point you realize how -- you know, how seriously that community took this. how justice here, we learned this from the outcome of the trial, there's black justice, there's white justice and there's celebrity justice, and they all kind of came together. >> how did the trial change the media landscape? >> oh, this was the mother of them all, right? we talk about where we all were when the verdict was read. everybody remembers that. but think about as americans, what else do we remember? we remember if we're old enough the jfk assassination, 9/11 certainly, "challenger" if you're old enough, and the o.j. verdict. and what does that say about how we value our entertainment. this is the thing that established for the media that people will tune into this, they will consume it voraciously. now these celebrity trials and stories like this, i hate to say it, kind of like a dime a dozen. it's constant fodder for a public that keeps demanding more. >> there's s

. >> two mens of simpson's famous dream team have died, johnnie cochran, known for the phrase if it doesn't, you must acquit. he wrote the memoir called a lawyer's life before he passed away in 2005 from brain tumor, you know robert kardashian head of the famous reality family, died from cancer in 2003. f. lee bailey recently dis barred in massachusetts and florida for conduct in handling a client's case. >> behind the bench now, whatever happened to judge lance eto. man did he take heat for this trial. he is still on the ben in los angeles, superior court. eto has presided over more than 500 trials since the o.j. simpson case. now, in 2009, he took his name plate off the door, because it was constantly stolen. yes, he hasn't talked about the simpson trial, but has said this. that he's going to retire next year and he's then going to talk about what happened. and we'll almost 18 years ago in that courtroom. >> this guy, kato kaelin, he was staying in simpson's house on the night of the murder. and he is currently launching a line of lounge wear called kato potato. i'm not cutting. the line

if you didn't understand dna on anything you would, and johnnie cochran used that to his advantage ina lot of people -- it's become a joke in some regards that he got off easy, because a lot of people believed hem to be guilty, but this is an interesting nugget. according to a new cnn poll, a majority of african-american respondents now today believe that the charges against o.j. were not true. what do you say to that, jim? >> well, i mean, look, you saw this case go down on racial lines, no question about it. the issue of race was introduced by the defense and allowed in by judge lance ito. i didn't really view this as a race case based on the facts, but that was irrelevant, because it was established as a race case. the defense effectively made mark fuhrman as the villains, the rogue cop. that's all that mattered. even 20 years later, people are still passionate about their views. >> jim moret, great work then, great work now. so good to see you then. thank you. >> we're back in just a moment. pretty difficult thing to do. but, manufacturing in the united states means advanced techn