NEW YORK—A dog’s plaintive wail. A courtroom couplet-turned-cultural catchphrase about gloves. A judge and attorneys who became media darlings and villains. A slightly bewildered houseguest elevated, briefly, into a slightly bewildered celebrity. Troubling questions about race that echo still. The beginning of the Kardashian dynasty.
Members of the news media watch live television coverage of the O.J. Simpson slow speed chase on Los Angeles freeways during Game 5 of the NBA finals on June 17, 1994, at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
Simpson’s death Wednesday, almost exactly three decades after the killings that changed his reputation from football hero to suspect, summoned remembrances of an odd moment in time—no, let’s call it what it was, which was deeply weird—in which a smartphone-less country craned its neck toward clunky TVs to watch a Ford Bronco inch its way along a California freeway.
Then came the saga, beginning with the killings and ending—only technically—in a Los Angeles courtroom more than a year later. The most epic of American novels had nothing on this period of the mid-1990s. Americans watched. Americans talked about watching. Americans debated. Americans judged. And Americans watched some more.magazine’s decision to tactically darken Simpson’s mugshot on its cover for dramatic—and, many said, racist—effect.
“There was a sense that it’s only justice for a rich Black man to get off when a rich white man would,” said John Baick, a professor of history at Western New England University.
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