OJ Simpson just died. He was 76.
In his time, he was a fine football player -- and that is about all I can say.
I was working at Quilter's Newsletter Magazine during Simpson's 1995 murder trial. If you were around in those days, you had to be living under a rock not to know that Simpson was accused of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. And there was a LOT of evidence pointing to that conclusion.
(What I didn't know: Kris Jenner was best friends with Nicole -- and her ex-husband, Robert Kardashian, was on OJ's defense team. Weird. What I also didn't know: Simpson went off his arthritis medicine a few weeks before the trial -- so when he 'struggled' to put on the indicting gloves, his hands were actually more swollen than normal. Yep, I'm sure that was just a 'coincidence.')
When his acquittal was announced, total silence in the lunchroom... and practically everyone on staff was there to watch. I remember this vividly.
Do I think he was guilty?
Oh yeah.
Obviously, I'm not the only one who believes this. Simpson's Wikipedia entry is telling: "American football player and felon." (He went to jail for other crimes, so they can get away with saying this.)
Do I think he's pleading his innocence, now that he's standing before the Great Judge?
What do you think?
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"Let's say I committed this crime. Even if I did do this, it would have to have been because I loved her very much, right?"
OJ Simpson, from a 1998 interview with Esquire...and
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