OJ
October 5, 2005 @ 10:49 amTen years yesterday since the OJ verdict. I had a low media day and missed the coverage until now. At the time, LA was consumed by it - half the daytime TV lineup was shuffled later or cancelled on the 133 days of the trial - I still know all the courtroom actors by name and I didn’t watch. Was it like that in the rest of the country?
The aquittal came in the morning, during my first period 8th grade English class (in the Valley). I think they were worried everyone would stay home to watch - because TVs were brought in and class didn’t start until the verdict had been read. Afterwards LA felt shell-shocked, looking back maybe less because of “not guilty,” and more because we had become accustomed to the tension and saturation of the trial. And the drama ended and lives had to continue without that defining point.
What a bad set of years for LA - April 1992 Rodney King riots - January 1994 Northridge quake - then from OJ’s chase in June 1994 to his aquittal in September 1995.
