[laughter] involved in the murder of rosenbaum and acidic visiting students because there was an accident in the parade and wrapped crown heights, and in the midst of it, nelson is caught with a bloody knife, seen running away from where rosenbaum was laying dying. they bring nelson over, the dying man identifies nelson as the one who stabbed him. later in the police station, nelson confesses to the crime. a mostly black jury acquits him to have the crime, and the "new york times" editorial was we will never know who killed nelson. [laughter] this is the sort of thing we went through in the 70s and 80s, and the arc of my book, the exciting middle part is when it all changed overnight with the oj verdict at 10:03, october 3rd, 1995, when white america thought a majority black jury acquit a black celebrity, and blacks across america cheered that verdict. americans said, that's it, the white guilt bank shut down. it just happened overnight. [applause] it was not only a wonderful thing that happened to discourse in america and to race relations in america, but it was a wonderful thing that ha