it's robert shapiro. >> reporter: yes, that robert shapiro. the lawyer who represented o.j.otcom we put the law on your side. >> thank you very much. thank you. >> reporter: here was a true courtroom celebrity. robert shapiro had been practicing law for nearly 50 years, had represented scores of hollywood's rich and famous, including, of course, o.j. simpson. >> o.j. will do everything he can to cooperate with them to help solve this horrible murder. >> reporter: almost 20 years now since he helped engineer simpson's acquittal in the infamous "trial of the century." lynne's sister donna was well aware of shapiro's reputation. >> i certainly wasn't gonna be intimidated by robert shapiro. >> reporter: maybe she should have been. once shapiro stepped in, doug bradford was out on bail within hours, and the outlook for the trial? well, if there was a mountain of evidence against o.j., the circumstantial bits and pieces piled up against doug bradford amounted to a foothill, maybe. >> it'd be nice if we had a piece of physical evidence that would lock it in or a witness who can say

. >> however, defense attorney robert shapiro counters with a completely different image of o.j.impson. here he is with the brown family just hours before nicole's murder. >> we played for the jury the june 12th videotape, where you saw o.j. simpson at 6:00, 6:30 in the evening of june 12th. he was kissing the brown family, shaking hands with lee brown. he picked the son up. didn't look bitter and raging. >> so was simpson a warm family man or a violent attacker who cornered and killed two innocent people? the jurors and simpson take a field trip to his house, and the crime scene. >> it was very good for the jury, i think, to see the relationship of each of those locations to each other, as well as to get a much clearer idea of how very, very small the space was in which ron goldman was attacked and murdered by the defendant. and i think this really assisted the jury in being able to understand the evidence better, the testimony better, and how the victims were essentially cornered. >> what do you remember the most about visiting o.j.'s house, actually going to the crime scene? >

. >> rounding out the defense team, john travolta will play robert shapiro. the eyebrows.and finally kato kaelin. that's billy magnussen. >> kato. >> that's the best one. >> cato. >> that's the best one. . and get this one next. whoa! what are you guys doing? making sure nothing sticks. otherwise, we gotta scrub all this stuff off. huh, what? nobody thought of this before? what's wrong with people? dish issues? not with improved cascade platinum. it powers through... your toughest, starchy messes... better than finish's best... the first time. as if your dishes were non-stick. ar music playing ) - ( snaps, clatters ) that sounds awful. ( music stops ) but a lot better than last week. ( rock music playing ) ♪ we weren't born to follow. ♪ ♪ music throughout ♪ unlike ordinary diapers, pampers has three absorbent layers to stay up to three times drier. so your baby can sleep soundly all night. wishing you love sleep and play. pampers >>> well, as we head into the unofficial start of summer this weekend, we take a look back on the busy news week. >> what a week it was. biker ga

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and robert shapiro played by john travolta. big stars in this. big names.ne direction leaving us distraught and wondering if they were on good terms. the four remaining members stopped by the late late show posting this selfie with james gordon on the show. they admitted they zayn's departure wasn't necessarily a welcome one. i think we figured that out. take a listen. >> liam how did you feel when he said he was going to leave the group? >> well i mean you know it's like anything. at first we were a little bit angry and surprised. but i think we all kind of knew the general vibe that zayn was feeling. >> had you felt that for quite a while? >> yeah. from the outside, people could tell as well. and it was like the certain parts he liked and didn't. you've got to follow your heart and go where you need to go. there was no argument through that. like i say, we were angry at first but just more disappointed. we wish him luck and there's no hard feelings. >> i wished there was closed captioning for that. >> i just wanted to know what was going on with harry's h

invite you to tonight's event with beth shapiro and her book "how to clone a mammoth" this is one of the events we're hosting this spring. this friday's david roberts will join us with his new book the lost world of the old ones. and tickets are still available from david mccullough. to learn more about our grievance pickup eight cuppy -- a copy of the door this evening after words there will be a book signing we do have copies of "how to clone a mammoth" next to the register. as always books are 20 percent off that is our way to say thank-you to support the author series. and finally please silence your cellphone. we are very pleased to have booktv here please go you are recorded and wait for the microphone to come before you ask your question. i am pleased to introduce the author beth shapiro is an associate professor - - professor at the university of california's santa cruz in 2009 recipient of the macarthur award. articles have appeared in many publications including major, hands and molecular biology and evolution. she will talk about her new book. >> host: national geographic called a sharp and witty end to impeccably argued in "scientific a