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It was a cultural moment, sadly. The late night shows had parady songs and dancing Judge Itos.
The low speed Bronco pursuit overshadowed a David Hasselhoff pay per view concert live from Trump's Castle.
Somewhere there's a video clip of Rosa Lopez saying, 'El Bronco blanco.'
In a better alternative timeline Ron and Nicole are still alive, OJ is remembered for football and acting, and David Hasselhoff stardom was even greater.
I heard a young person describe the Depp–Heard trial as the Simpson Trial of their generation and, no. Not even close. Those who weren't around for it don't understand how big OJ was, because it's unlikely anything will again be as big for at least another few decades. I got about 50 channels at the time and the trial was always on 3 or 4 of the channels, and sometimes it was on most of the channels. Minor figures like Kato and Rosa Lopez were household names. I found a book about the murders in a garbage can within a month of them, seemingly not enough time for a book to be written let alone published, read, and discarded.
The only other crime in American history that generated a comparable level of interest was the Lindbergh kidnapping, and that was in the 30s. I think that after a media circus to that degree the media and public as a whole take a step back,.and it can only happen again once anyone old enough to have any real memory of such an event is too old to have had any involvement with the coverage. Maybe once everyone who covered the OJ trial is retired and the zoomers are running the media machine, we'll get a case of similar interest, but I think this is the kind of thing that can only happen once every 50 years or so.
Agree with this.
I know some people who point to the OJ chase or trial as one of their first concrete memories.
Nothing since comes anywhere close, not even any of the BLM adjacent trials.
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