In this Oct. 3, 1995, photo, attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. holds O.J. Simpson as the not guilty verdict is read in a Los Angeles courtroom during his trial in Los Angeles. Defense attorneys F. Lee Bailey and Robert Kardashian look on. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76.Former football star and actor O.J.
Public interest was so high that ahead of the jury’s verdict being announced in October 1995, the Daily News ran a piece offering a “self-help plan for Simpsoholics.” In it, the tabloid suggested 12 steps for “overcoming the O.J. addiction,” including asking for orange juice when ordering at a restaurant instead of referring to the drink as “O.J.”
“The case’s place in history will be left to the historians,” then-Inquirer reporter Mark Davis wrote. “If it was insignificant, it had all the elements of a racially charged Hollywood melodrama.”
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