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On June 17, 1994, the world stopped to watch one of the most infamous "car chases" in history -- that of football legend, O.J. Simpson. The car chase, which took place on Los Angeles' 405 freeway ...
On June 17, 1994, Los Angeles police gave chase to NFL Hall of Fame star O.J. Simpson, who was in the backseat of a white Ford Bronco driven by his friend/former teammate Al "A.C." Cowlings.
Friday is the 28th anniversary of the infamous slow-speed chase that fascinated California and the nation. 28 years ago today: The O.J. Simpson police chase that captivated L.A. and the nation ...
The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, who were stabbed to death outside Brown's condominium in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994.
Simpson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985, his first year of eligibility. [55] In 2019, he was named to the National Football League 100th Anniversary All-Time Team. [56] Simpson also occasionally returned kickoffs during his early career, finishing with 33 returns for 990 yards and a touchdown, an average of 30 yards per ...
He said Simpson and Cowlings, who grew up with Simpson in a San Francisco housing project and was his teammate in high school, at the University of Southern California and the Buffalo Bills, vanished before police arrived. “The Los Angeles Police Department is actively searching for Mr. Simpson,” Gascon said.
The events detailed in the documentary that occurred during the chase of Simpson are as follows. Arnold Palmer playing his final round at the 1994 U.S. Open (in a nod to the fact that 06/17/1994 had major events involving both Palmer and Simpson, a clip from a commercial that the two both-then-beloved athletes had filmed together in the 1970s for Hertz Global Holdings was shown).
OJ Simpson being chased by police in a low-speed pursuit was one of the most-watched moments in US TV history. Footage has resurfaced following Simpson’s death aged 76 on Wednesday, 10 April.