Can any oldfags here recall the O.J trial? Just how big was it? Was the coverage unprecedented for the time?

Can any oldfags here recall the O.J trial? Just how big was it? Was the coverage unprecedented for the time?

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I was in high school when it happened and during class the principal announced to the school the OJ verdict and I'm fucking Canadian, thats how big the trial was

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I skipped archery class in college (lol) to listen to the radio

There was nothing else on TV for 2 years. It sucked.

This. Literally every channel was playing the same thing. No cartoons, no funny shows, just that fucking courtroom

you were fucking a canadian? what in the toilet or something?
are you saying it was big because the principal announced it in the bathrooms or because he didn't notice two high schoolers fucking?

I was in 4th grade when trial was going on. The day the verdict was announced, my elementary school announced it over the PA system to every class.

Kinda strange looking back on it.

I'm 33 now and winter is coming.

I was a freshmen in highschool, they pulled every student into a room to watch the verdict live, small school. It was basically the center of most people's lives.

If it weren't for the O.J. trial we never would have gotten a blowjob in the white house scandal. If it weren't for that we'd never get George W. Bush. If it weren't for that, we'd never get 9/11, the Iraq and Afghanistan war, the Global Financial Crisis, and the following collapse of the economic system and its subsequent zombification that we're all living in now. It was extremely important. O.J. Simpson killing Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman is in many ways why the world is what it is today.

I was alive when it happened, but I only recall watching a few minutes of it.

Of course, it was a huge thing, culturally, but I just don't remember anything about it at the time.

You don't even need to ask, it was the trial of the century for a reason. I was living in Boston at the time and I remember it causing a big rift at the time because Boston was still pretty much segregated and the verdict caused a big uproar, I remember that day still. I think the verdict was announced in the daytime and I remember being at work but then coming home and seeing people into getting fights in the streets. Every bar, every block it was OJ, OJ, OJ.
Still can't believe he got away with it either.

Thanks, OJ.

This was the event that started creating a divide between american blacks and whites.

Based zoomer

I was in high school and instead of teaching anything that day, all the classrooms had their TVs on tuned to Court TV all day and we just watched that until they announced the verdict.

I went to high school in rural North Dakota in a town that was 100% white.

When he was found not guilty, I ran out into the hallway and shouted THE JUICE IS LOOSE and made a bunch of classmates laugh

You went to school in North Dakota with no native kids? I almost don't believe you.

>zoomer hasnt found his adult sense of humour yet
Being crass for no reason is pretty cringe, fuckboy. Try again.

lmao

same here was just about to post this I live in US though. I remember the look on my english teachers face when all the black/wigger kids cheered.

>You went to school in North Dakota with no native kids? I almost don't believe you.
Is there some reason why you think the native population is homogenously spread across the entirety of the state?

I'll be honest, my only real recollection of it was the nonstop Norm MacDonald jokes.
>Drama in the OJ Simpson trial today: Prosecutors showed photos of the murdered body of Nichole Brown Simpson, and OJ turned his head and wept, because it was at that moment he realized he could never murder her again.

I was in elementary and the teacher literally stopped class to watch the verdict.

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it was on for so long that most people got sick of it

IF CHEWBACCA LIVES ON ENDOR YOU MUST ACQUIT

Absolutely huge, nonstop on every news channel. The only bigger deal were the Rodney King chimpouts.

I remember being in the car with my Mother when they announced the verdict, my Mom lost it.