Eclipse Panic: Online Personality Commits Tragic Murder-Suicide Fearing the Apocalypse – USA Herald
Aftermath of the Murder
On June 12, 1994, Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, were brutally stabbed outside of the Nicole’s home in Brentwood.
Days later police asked the former football star to turn himself in for the murders.
An estimated 95 million Americans watched as Simpson’s white Ford Bronco led police on the 405 for a two hour 60-mile televised chase through Los Angeles.
Simpson’s friend Al Cowlings was driving the low-speed chase with Simpson in the back seat with a gun, threatening suicide.
O.J. Simpson Trials
It was one of the first courtroom events shown on TV to a national audience. The world was captivated by the live televised drama. And LA experienced intermittent rioting of people upset that he was being accused of the murder.
Royal Oakes, the media attorney who convinced the judge to let TV news cameras into the courtroom would later recount, “We were fortunate to convince Judge Lance Ito to keep the cameras running in spite of the showboating, but we certainly paid a steep price. For years after the Simpson trial, it was extremely difficult to get judges to give a green light to cameras.”
