where were you when? ...

[isabeau]

monday marks the ten year anniversay of the oj verdict. where were you when the verdict was handed down? and more importantly did you agree or not? i watched most of this trial and have since learned the trial was handled very unprofessionally, with the judge allowing anything goes so to speak. however at the time i wasnt that up on court proceedings. anyway at first i was happy i had thought he was innocent, i couldnt picture him pulling off such a brutal killing with his two children upstairs in bed. but since that day thru the years i have changed my mind. and he himself changed it for me. his attitude in interviews, his defensive posturing and more importantly his not looking for the real killer as he said he would. what are your thoughts on this?

isabeau 😕

 

[toyou444]

I know where I was during the Bronco chase. I was returning from getting an FM transmitter back on the air! I went home and watched the news with my parents and future wife.

I do NOT know where I was during the verdict. I was probably either on the air or sleeping after my morning shift.

I still not conviced the guy was guilty...or that he did it alone if he did do it. There is more to this story than we may ever know.

But, let me reiterate: If I am ever charged with a crime and must go to trial I DO NOT WANT A JURY OF MY PEERS! I want a jury of well read, intellegent, thoughtful people.

~ toyou

 

[isabeau]

arent those your peers? lol anyway i forgot to answer my own question as to where i was. i was at home in bridgeport at that time, my husband was still home because he was getting ready for an overnight trip. i remember him being so shocked and i wont forget the look on ojs friends face he thought oj was guilty. he has since passed away, i cant remmeber his name but he was a lawyer.

isabeau

 

[unit5610]

I was at work. We had TV's set up in the office set up to monitor satellite photos and our own weather graphics, and to monitor (and make fun of) The Weather Channel. Anywho, we switched it to one of the regular channels when someone heard on the radio that the verdict was in and about 30 of us crowded around. Everyone was in total shock at the verdict and no one spoke for about 10 minutes. I know I was livid. My wife called immediately in similar shock. At work we never talked about it all that much even later...just sort of went back to our business.

 

[chickles_:)]

Hiya
Wow, OJ! I'd all but forgotten about that. Was it ten years ago? Wow! I'd have been a teenager at the time and I do remember the trial but i think i must have been in my deliberately uninterested cynical phase. I honestly haven't a clue where i was. I may not even have heard the verdict until a day or two later. I do remember feeling appalled at the attention this ONE murder case received when so many people are killed every day in many parts of the world and no one even mentions their names much less goes to trial over it.

Hmm, maybe i'm still in that rather cynical phase. Sorry.

It sounds like it meant a lot to you, Isabeau, and probably to many others and i have to respect that. I honestly don't mean to offend but I guess i found the whole experience disturbing in other ways.

Many blessings,
chickles

 

[steph]

Worst Verdict Ever....

I was at work too, at this ad agency. It was the one time the boss let us watch TV. We all gathered round like little kids. We were all mortified.
XOXO

I was at work. We had TV's set up in the office set up to monitor satellite photos and our own weather graphics, and to monitor (and make fun of) The Weather Channel. Anywho, we switched it to one of the regular channels when someone heard on the radio that the verdict was in and about 30 of us crowded around. Everyone was in total shock at the verdict and no one spoke for about 10 minutes. I know I was livid. My wife called immediately in similar shock. At work we never talked about it all that much even later...just sort of went back to our business.

 

[isabeau]

Hiya
Wow, OJ! I'd all but forgotten about that. Was it ten years ago? Wow! I'd have been a teenager at the time and I do remember the trial but i think i must have been in my deliberately uninterested cynical phase. I honestly haven't a clue where i was. I may not even have heard the verdict until a day or two later. I do remember feeling appalled at the attention this ONE murder case received when so many people are killed every day in many parts of the world and no one even mentions their names much less goes to trial over it.

Hmm, maybe i'm still in that rather cynical phase. Sorry.

It sounds like it meant a lot to you, Isabeau, and probably to many others and i have to respect that. I honestly don't mean to offend but I guess i found the whole experience disturbing in other ways.

Many blessings,
chickles

it didnt mean that much to me and chickles i agree about how many people are killed and no mention of them at all. same with missing people. why do a ffew get so much media atttention and so many others nothing at all. i know if i had a missing or murdered member of my familly and all this attention is paid to a choice few i would be very bitter. i just wanted to see if people remembered and where they were.

isabeau

 

[MrMacphisto]

I was in my school cafeteria when the verdict was revealed.

I shit you not when I say that all the black kids were cheering while the white kids just kind of froze in shock. Johnny Cockroach successfully turned the case into some racism bullshit story, and unfortunately, the jury and most of the black community bought it. Nowadays, most black people finally admit that the OJ case had nothing to do with race. Even Dave Chappelle made fun of it. I just hope that the black community isn't duped into believing this kind of thing again so that some sports star (who just happens to be black) gets off.

 

[General Zod]

At the time I had been out of the USAF less than a month I was living in Florida at the time After the verdict was read I thought "well,maybe he didn't do it" But then when they did a post trial interview he said he was going golfing with his friends I wonder why he didn't want to be with the children he and Nicole had 😕

 

[chickles_:)]

it didnt mean that much to me and chickles i agree about how many people are killed and no mention of them at all. same with missing people. why do a ffew get so much media atttention and so many others nothing at all. i know if i had a missing or murdered member of my familly and all this attention is paid to a choice few i would be very bitter. i just wanted to see if people remembered and where they were.

isabeau

Hiya

Yeah you're right about that Isabeau.🙂 Like i said, i hope i didn't offend anyone. I only meant to share my reaction at the time (and a little since) Actually there are other events in which i do recall where i was when i heard about it. And some others might consider my memorable moments to be quite banal (which a murder case isn't, of course).

Anyway, it's a good thread. The story certainly was a big event in the U.S. media coverage. I guess that still really bothers me though. Does that make sense?

Many blessings,
Chickles

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

Frankly I can't remember anything about the O.J. verdict. But I do recall the day I went to a local record store at 10am to buy Led Zeppelin's final record, "In Through the Outdoor". And that was like.....25 years ago?


Drew

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Drew, I remember the day I bought that album, too! I was working at Great Adventure in those days, and it was a sunny Saturday, and I waited at my local record store for them to stock the shelves...

Back to OJ...

It was a joke, a travesty from day one, and I figured the fix had to be in somehow, because I thought no Prosecution could possibly be that stupid, that incompetent; that no judge could be that much of a star-struck dingbat; that Gil Garcetti could be so much of a photogenic media hog; that no one like Kato Kaelin could possibly exist in an America outside Los Angeles; and that no jury of humans with an intelligence above that of a roto-rooter could buy what Johnnie Cochran was selling.

Later on, I kind of boned up on just what jury nullification is.

Today, I understand many of the jurors have a remorse, especially after having seen how OJ Simpson's lived his life in the ten years after the verdict. They're finally confronted with just how much of a scumbag he really is, how much of an evil human being this person is that they gave a free pass to.

I heard that there was a party recently in a swank Miami Beach hotel. One of the guests at the party was Jamie Foxx, flush from his winning Best Actor for Ray. Suddenly, there was a commotion at the door, and OJ walked in, with a small entourage of sycophants, flunkies, and bimbos. Jamie Foxx went to the DJ's corner, grabbed the microphone, stopped the music, and screamed, "yo, it's a killer party now! OJ's here!"

 

[asutickler]

That was a trial?



...I thought it was some sort sitcom marathon... 😕

 

[isabeau]

chickles hon makes perfect sense. and Knox lmao did jamie fox really do that? and what did the scumbag oj do then? i would love to know. and dont laugh, but i had a crush on kato. o well

isabeau

 

[Ticklee1973]

Wow, that seems like forever ago, lol. I was at work when the verdict was announced, I remember they had TVs set up and people were listening to verdict on their radios as well. I was sitting next to a woman who rejoiced when they found him not guilty but I just sat there in shock. I didn't watch everything about the trial but I still didn't feel he was completely innocent whether he did it by himself (which seems unlikely) or he had help or someone else do it. I usually can't watch interviews with him now or even after the trial without cringing at listening to him. It seems highly unbelievable especially how exaggerated he speaks about finding the "true" killer. Just my opinion.

Sandee

 

[milagros317]

I was in my office, listening to the verdict on the radio. Convinced that he was guilty, I found the verdict to be a rude shock.

Nothing since has changed my mind about his guilt.

 

[isabeau]

Hiya

Yeah you're right about that Isabeau.🙂 Like i said, i hope i didn't offend anyone. I only meant to share my reaction at the time (and a little since) Actually there are other events in which i do recall where i was when i heard about it. And some others might consider my memorable moments to be quite banal (which a murder case isn't, of course).

Anyway, it's a good thread. The story certainly was a big event in the U.S. media coverage. I guess that still really bothers me though. Does that make sense?

Many blessings,
Chickles

chickles hon you didnt offend me or anyone. every one is entitled to their opinion and what you say makes perfect sense to me. thanks about the thread, actually i had forgotten the anniversary was approaching, i heard it mentioned on john boy and billy which i listen to and thought out of the blue, why not ask the forum what they remembered and thought about it. and btw cute siggy i've always liked it.

take care
isabeau

 

[General Zod]

chickles hon you didnt offend me or anyone. every one is entitled to their opinion and what you say makes perfect sense to me. thanks about the thread, actually i had forgotten the anniversary was approaching, i heard it mentioned on john boy and billy which i listen to and thought out of the blue, why not ask the forum what they remembered and thought about it. and btw cute siggy i've always liked it.

take care
isabeau

John Boy and Billy fan? Cool I like Marvin Webster's take on the OJ trial he said there was a new type of OJ sandwich It's full of baloney,hard to swallow and a lot of stupid people are buying it
That was said during the trial 😀

 

[isabeau]

John Boy and Billy fan? Cool I like Marvin Webster's take on the OJ trial he said there was a new type of OJ sandwich It's full of baloney,hard to swallow and a lot of stupid people are buying it
That was said during the trial 😀

are you kidding i love john boy and billy the married man, the gay guy, the crocodile hunter looking in the wilds of georgia for the runaway bride lmao, and the well well well guy. so much more entertaining than tv. and haha gen.zod that sounds funny however back during the oj trial i didnt know about john boy and billly alas.

isabeau

 

[Tickle Fiend]

every white person in america was "livid". but i was in the 3rd grade and my teacher asked me to go to another teacher to find out the verdict from a teacher who had a tv and watched it with her class. when i told her it was not guilty she sent me back to make sure. when i told her it was not guilty again she herself went to find out the same thing. all i can say is that people are full of BS. i've seen people on tv, white people, crying and so upset because OJ got off the hook. but for 100's of years when white people were getting off with the same thing they werent so angry, livid, and all the other BS people felt.

 

[Aachen1983]

in response

In response to the original question (this is going to show my age...) I was in my 6th grade geography class. The whole class exploded with cheers and I festered with hate.... Anyway, I have actually met Mr. Simpson believe it or not. He's an ass. Just thought you might like to know.

 

[ticklkitten]

I was in 10th grade and was in my history class.

 

[giggleygirl25]

god i dont' even remember where i was...probably watching on tv like everybody else...i was abit shocked that he was found not guilty (i think i was 18 at the time...just starting college..omg, seems like another lifetime ago), but not surprised.

 

[isabeau]

every white person in america was "livid". but i was in the 3rd grade and my teacher asked me to go to another teacher to find out the verdict from a teacher who had a tv and watched it with her class. when i told her it was not guilty she sent me back to make sure. when i told her it was not guilty again she herself went to find out the same thing. all i can say is that people are full of BS. i've seen people on tv, white people, crying and so upset because OJ got off the hook. but for 100's of years when white people were getting off with the same thing they werent so angry, livid, and all the other BS people felt.

not to start an argument, but i am a white person and i was not livid. in fact at the time i was glad, i was so sure he couldnt possibly do such a horrible crime. however i have changed since then and it aint because hes black. to me this case wasnt or shouldnt have been about race, but thats what it became.

isabeau

 

[Knox The Hatter]

I had read somewhere that during the trial, Orenthal James arranged for someone to change the pictures on a mantlepiece in his house. The pics were of him posing with famous financiers and entenpreneurs and politicians, all with something in common: a profound absence of melanin. Down went these pictures; up went ones of him posing with the likes of Maxine Waters. Bill Cosby. C. Vernon Mason. On and on.

He may have been exonerated by a jury (and not of HIS peers, certainly not socially, or financially, or athletically, when you really think about it), but the truth is, in the arena of public opinion, he's tainted.