Orenthal James " OJ " Simpson (born July 9, 1947), nicknamed The Juice , is a former National Football League (NFL) running back, announcers, actors, ad spokespersons, and convicted criminals.
Simpson attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he played football for the USC Trojans and won the Heisman Trophy in 1968. He played professionally as a run back in the NFL for 11 seasons, mainly with Buffalo Bills from 1969 to 1977 He also played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1978 to 1979. In 1973, he became the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a single season. He holds the record for an average of one yard-per-game yard, which stands at 143.1. He is the only player ever to rush for more than 2,000 yards in the regular 14-game NFL season format.
Simpson was inducted into the College of Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. After retiring from football, she began a new career in acting and broadcasting soccer.
In 1994, Simpson was arrested and indicted for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and friend Ron Goldman. He was released by the jury after a long and internationally published trial. The victim's family then filed a civil lawsuit against him, and in 1997 a civil court won a $ 33.5 million assessment against Simpson for the death of one of the victims.
In 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was charged with an offense of armed robbery and kidnapping. In 2008, he was sentenced and sentenced to 33 years in prison, with a minimum of nine years without parole. He underwent his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center near Lovelock, Nevada. On July 20, 2017, Simpson was granted parole. He was eligible to be released from prison on 1 October 2017, and was released shortly after midnight on that date.
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Initial life
Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Simpson is Eunice's son (nÃÆ' Â © e Durden), a hospital administrator, and Jimmy Lee Simpson, a chef and custodian bank. His father was a famous transvestite in the San Francisco Bay Area. Later, Jimmy Simpson announced that he was gay. He died of AIDS.
The mother of Simpson's mother came from Louisiana, and her aunt gave her the name Orenthal, which she said was the name of a French actor she liked. Simpson has one brother, Melvin Leon "Truman" Simpson, one surviving sister, Shirley Simpson-Baker, and a dead sister, Carmelita Simpson-Durio. As a child, Simpson develops rickets and wears a reinforcer on his feet until the age of five, giving him a bowing stance. His parents split up in 1952, and Simpson was raised by his mother.
Simpson grew up in San Francisco and lived with his family on a housing project in the Potrero Hill neighborhood. Early in his teens, he joined a street gang called Persia Warriors and was imprisoned in the San Francisco Youth Guidance Center. Marquerite wife candidate, her childhood sweetheart, described Simpson as "really a terrible person later"; after his third arrest, a meeting with Willie Mays in which the baseball star encouraged Simpson to avoid the problem of helping him persuade him to reform. At Galileo High School (currently Galileo Academy of Science and Technology) in San Francisco, Simpson plays for the school soccer team, Galileo Lions.
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College and athletic football
Although Simpson is an All-City footballer in Galileo, his mediocre middle school grades prevent him from attracting many college recruiters. After an injury of a childhood friend in the Vietnam War affected Simpson to stay out of the military, he enrolled at City College of San Francisco in 1965. He played football as a center-back and persisted and was appointed to Junior College All-Team America ran back. City College won the Prune Bowl against Long Beach State, and many colleges are looking for Simpson as a transfer student for football.
Simpson opted to attend the University of Southern California (USC), whom he admired as a young football fan, above the University of Utah and played back running for head coach John McKay in 1967 and 1968. Simpson led the nation in a second hurry under McKay : in 1967 with 1,543 meters and 13 goals, and in 1968 with 1,880 meters in 383 leads.
As a junior in 1967, Simpson was the second winner in the Heisman Trophy race to quarterback Gary Burden from UCLA. In this year's Victory Bell competition between teams, the USC dropped six points in the fourth quarter with eleven minutes remaining. On their own 36, the USC backup page, Toby Page, is referred to as a sound card in the third and seventh positions. Simpson's 64-yard touchdown runs a tied score, and an extra point gives a 21-20 advantage, which is the final score. It is the biggest game in what is considered one of the greatest soccer games of the 20th century.
Another dramatic touchdown in the same game is the subject of Arnold Friberg's oil paintings, O.J. Simpson Breaks for Daylight. Simpson also won the Walter Camp Award in 1967 and is the All-American twice-consensus.
Simpson is an aspiring athlete athlete; in 1967, he lost 100 m at Stanford against then-England record holder Menzies Campbell. Before playing soccer at Southern Cal, he ran on a USC sprint relay relay relay that broke the world record in a 4 x 110 yard relay at the NCAA track championships in Provo, Utah on June 17, 1967.
As a senior in 1968, Simpson rushed for 1,709 yards and 22 goals in regular season, earning Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and Walter Camp Award. He still holds the record for Heisman's biggest victory, defeating LÃ © neroy Keyes with 1,750 points. At the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, USC # 2 faces Ohio State's top state; Simpson ran as far as 171 yards, including an 80-yard touchdown running in a 27-16 defeat.
Professional soccer career
Buffalo Bills
The first election of 1969 AFL-NFL Common Draft was held by Buffalo Bills AFL, after finishing 1-12-1 in 1968. They took Simpson, but he demanded what was then the biggest contract in professional sports history: $ 650,000 over five years. This caused a deadlock with the owner Bills, Ralph Wilson, as Simpson threatened to become an actor and soccer professional. Finally, Wilson agreed to pay Simpson.
Simpson entered professional football with high hopes but struggled in his first three years, averaging just 622 yards per season. Bill Bills John Rauch, not wanting to build an offense in about a run back, commissioned Simpson to do the blocking and accept the task at the expense of running the ball. In 1971, Rauch resigned as head coach and Bills proposed by Harvey Johnson. Although Johnson designed a new breach for Simpson, Simpson was still ineffective that year. After the 1971 season, Bills fired Johnson and brought Lou Saban as head coach. Unlike Rauch, Saban made Simpson the center of Bills offense.
In 1972, Simpson rushed for over 1,000 yards for the first time in his career, earning a total of 1,251-meter league lead. In 1973, Simpson became the first player to break the 2,000 yard record that is highly coveted, with a total of 2,003 yard total and 12 goals. Simpson broke the mark during the final game of the season against the New York Jets with a 7-yard rush. The same game also saw Simpson broke Jim Brown's singular short season record of 1,863 yards. For her performance, Simpson won the NFL MVP Award that year and Bert Bell Award. While other players have broken the 2,000-yard mark since Simpson, his record was established when the NFL has only 14 games per season, compared with 16 season games starting in 1978.
Simpson earned over 1,000 meter rushes for each of the next three seasons. He did not lead the league in a rush in 1974, but crossed a 1,000-yard barrier despite his sore knee. In game 11 of 1974, he defeated Ken Willard as a rushed leader among active players, a position he retained until his retirement for five seasons later. Simpson also made his first and only playoff appearance during the 1974 season. In a division game against Pittsburgh Steelers, Simpson rushed for 49 yards on 15 attempts and caught a touchdown pass, but Bills lost the 32-14 game.
Simpson won the title rushing again in 1975, rushing for 1,817 yards and 16 touchdowns. Simpson also has 426 careers receiving yards and 7 receiving touchdowns that season. Simpson once again led the league in a rush in 1976, rushing for 1,503 yards and 8 touchdowns. Simpson had the best game of his career during this season's Thanksgiving match against the Detroit Lions on 25 November. In that match, Simpson rushed for a record 273 yards on 29 trials and scored twice. Despite Simpson's performance, Bills will lose in game 27-14.
Simpson only played in seven games in 1977, as his season was cut by injury.
San Francisco 49ers
Before the 1978 season, Bills traded Simpson to his home town of San Francisco 49ers for a series of picks. Simpson played in San Francisco for two seasons, hurrying 1,053 yards and four touchdowns. His last NFL match was on December 16, 1979, the 31-21 defeat of the Atlanta Falcons at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. His last game was a 10 yard run at 3 and 10 for the first down.
Career summary
Simpson climbed 11,236 meters, placing him 2nd on the NFL list all the time when he retired; he now stands at 21st. He was named NFL Player of the Year in 1973, and played in six Pro Bowls. He is the only player in NFL history to pursue more than 2,000 yards in the 14-match season and he is the only player who ran more than 200 yards in six different matches of his career. From 1972 to 1976, Simpson averaged 1,540 yards per yard (14 games), 5.1 yards per carry, and he won the NFL title rushing four times. Simpson was inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985, the first year of eligibility.
Simpson played in just one playoff game during his 11th-century Hall of Fame career: a 1974 Division Playoff between Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers. Simpson held for 49 yards rushing, 3 receptions for 37 yards, and one goal, and the Bills lost 14-32 for the team which then won the Super Bowl IX.
Simpson got the nickname "Juice" as a play on "O.J.", a common abbreviation for "orange juice". "Juice" is also an everyday synonym for electricity or electric power, and hence a metaphor for a powerful entity; The Offensive Bills line at Simpson's summit was dubbed "The Electric Company".
NFL Note
- The fastest player to earn 1,000 yards rushing in the season: 1,025 in 7 games in 1973 and 1,005 in 7 games in 1975 (tied with Terrell Davis).
- The fastest player to get 2,000 yards rushing in the season: 2,003 in 14 games in 1973.
- Almost every yard runs per game in one season: 143.1 per game in 1973.
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Even before his retirement from the NFL, Simpson began his film career with sections in films such as the mini-television series Roots (1977), and the dramatic movie The Klanman (1974), < i> The Towering Inferno (1974), The Cassandra Crossing (1976) and Capricorn One (1978). In 1979, he started his own film production company Orenthal Productions, which mostly dealt with TV costs such as the family-oriented film Goldie and the Boxer with Melissa Michaelsen (1979 and 1981), and Cocaine and Blue Eyes (1983), pilot for the detective series proposed on NBC. He also starred in comedy Back to the Beach (1987) and The Naked Gun trilogy (1988, 1991, 1994).
In addition to his acting career, Simpson worked as a commentator for Monday Night Football and The NFL on NBC. She also appeared in the audience Saturday Night Live during the second season and hosted an episode during the third season.
Frogmen
Simpson starred in a two-hour movie pilot that was not aired on television for Frogmen, an adventure series like [i] A-Team interviewed by Warner Bros.. Television in 1994, months before the assassination. NBC has not decided whether to order the series when Simpson's capture canceled the project. While searching for his home, the police obtained copies of recorded pilots as well as scripts and daily. Although the prosecution investigated reports that Simpson, who served as leader of the former US Navy SEAL group, received "a number" of military training - including the use of knives - for Frogmen, and there was a scene in which he held a knife to a woman's throat, this material was not introduced as evidence during the trial.
NBC executive Warren Littlefield said in July 1994 that the network probably would not broadcast a pilot if Simpson was found guilty; if he is released, however, a television journalist speculates that "Frogmen might be in the air before NBC's peacock could unfold the lump." Most of the two-hour pilots are shown as TV movies whether they are ordered as a series or not. Because - like the Los Angeles Times then report - "lust for all things OJ looks insatiable" during the trial, Warner Bros.. and NBC estimates that the Super Bowl television giant will have watched the movie Frogmen . One of Simpson's co-stars in the film commented that the studio's decision not to broadcast or even release it on home videos, and to spend about $ 14 million in profits, was "just about the only proof you have that there is some dignity in advertising and business television ".
Juiced
In 2006, Simpson starred in his own improvisation, hidden camera gag show, Juiced. Typical genre, Simpson will play a joke on ordinary people while silently filming them and at the end of every joke, he will shout, "You've been juiced!" Less typical, each episode opens with a topless stripper dancing around Simpson, who is dressed as a pimp. He sings his own rap song, which includes the lyrics "Do not you know nobody stops Juice/When I'm on the floor I'm like a lion on a loose/Better shoot me with an anesthetic arrow/Don '" I'm stupid, I'm not a Simpson named Bart. "In one episode, Simpson was in a used car park in Las Vegas where he tried to sell his white bronco (made famous during pursuit in Los Angeles before his capture.) A bullet hole in the front of the SUV was encircled with his signature, and he threw it to a prospective buyer by saying that if they "ever get in trouble and have to run away, he can run away." In another sketch called "BINGO.J.", Simpson pretends to have an affair with another man's boyfriend. an elderly white man whose dying wish is to call the bingo game. Juiced aired as a one-time special on te Pay-per-view levis and then released on DVD.
Movieography
Support
In 1975, the People magazine described Simpson as "the first black athlete to be a trustworthy media superstar." Chuck Barnes helped him establish a business relationship with Chevrolet and ABC early in his career. In 1971, New York wrote that Simpson was wealthy enough to, "retire this week if [he] wants to." His friendly personality and his natural charisma make Simpson a lot of support offers. From 1975, he appeared in advertisements with the Hertz car rental company, which in his ad he described running across the airport, serving as a speed manifestation; Simpson estimates that highly successful campaigns increase the level of recognition among people he meets from 30% to 90%. He is also an old spokesperson for Pioneer Chicken and has two franchises, one of which was destroyed during the 1992 Los Angeles riots; as well as HoneyBaked Ham, the pX Corporation company, and Calistoga Water Company Napa Naturals soft drink. She also appeared in comic book commercials for Dingo cowboy boots.
Family life
At the age of 19 on June 24, 1967, Simpson married Marguerite L. Whitley. Together, they have three children: Arnelle L. Simpson (born 1968), Jason L. Simpson (born 1970), and Aaren Lashone Simpson (1977-1979). In August 1979, Aaren drowned in a family swimming pool.
Simpson met Nicole Brown in 1977, when she worked as a waitress at the "The Daisy" nightclub. Although still married to his first wife, Simpson began dating Brown. Simpson and Marguerite divorced in March 1979.
Brown and Simpson married on February 2, 1985, five years after retiring from professional football. The couple has two children, Sydney Brooke Simpson (b 1985) and Justin Ryan Simpson (b 1988). The marriage lasted for seven years, in which Simpson begged no contest for the torture of a husband and wife in 1989. Brown filed for divorce on February 25, 1992, citing irreconcilable differences. In 1993, after the divorce, Brown and Simpson made a reconciliation effort, but according to Sheila Weller "they were a dramatic, broken, obsessed couple before they married, after they got married, after they divorced in 1992,. "
Legal history
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murder and trial
Criminal crime for murder
On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were found stabbed to death outside Nicole's condominium in the Brentwood area of ​​Los Angeles. Simpson is the one who is interested in their killing. Simpson did not surrender, and on June 17 he was subjected to a low-speed pursuit at a 1993 SUV owned by White Bronco owned and driven by Al Cowlings. TV stations interrupted the 1994 NBA Finals coverage to broadcast the incident directly. With an estimated audience of 95 million people, the show was described as "the most famous trip on the American coast since Paul Revere". Pursuit, arrest, and trial are among the most publicized events in American history. The court, often characterized as the Court of the Century for its international publicity similar to Sacco and Vanzetti and Lindbergh's abduction, peaked after eleven months on October 3, 1995, when the jury made an "innocent" verdict for the two murders. An estimated 100 million people across the country are tuned to watch or hear the announcement of the verdict. After Simpson's release, no arrests or additional convictions related to the murder were committed.
The immediate reaction to the verdict was notable for its split along racial lines: a poll of the Los Angeles County population showed that most African-Americans there felt that justice had been served by an "innocent" verdict, while the majority of whites and Latinos expressed the opinion that it was not. O. J. Simpson, an integrated defense adviser including Johnnie Cochran, Robert Kardashian, Robert Shapiro, and F. Lee Bailey. Marcia Clark is the chief prosecutor for the State of California.
According to a poll of 2016, 83% of white Americans and 57% of blacks believe that Simpson is guilty of the killing.
Incorrect civilian death hearing
After Simpson was released from criminal charges, Ron Goldman's family filed a civil suit against Simpson. Daniel Petrocelli represents plaintiff Fred Goldman (Ronald Goldman's father), while Robert Baker represents Simpson. High Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki led, and he banned television and camera, radio equipment, and court sketch artists from the courtroom. On October 23, 1996, the opening statement was made, and on January 16, 1997, both parties handed over their case.
On February 5, 1997, a civilian jury in Santa Monica, California unanimously found that Simpson was responsible for death and wrong battery against Goldman, and battery against Brown. Simpson was ordered to pay $ 33.5 million in damages. In February 1999, the Heisman Simpson Charter auction and other items netted nearly $ 500,000, which was awarded to the Goldman family.
The Goldman family also tried to collect Simpson's NFL $ 28,000 pension per year but failed to raise money.
In 1997, Simpson was expelled from a plantation where he had lived for 20 years, at 360 North Rockingham Avenue, after failing to pay the mortgage. In July 1998, the house was destroyed by the next owner, Kenneth Abdalla, an investment banker and president of the famous Deli chain Jerry. The property address has since been numbered back to 380 North Rockingham Avenue.
A Rolling Stone article 2000 reported that Simpson still gets significant revenue by signing autographs. He then moved from California to Florida, settling in Miami. In Florida, among some states, a person's home can not be confiscated to collect debts under various circumstances.
On September 5, 2006, Goldman's father brought Simpson back to court to gain control over Simpson's "publicity rights", for the purpose of satisfying the verdict in a civil court case. On January 4, 2007, a federal judge issued a restraining order prohibiting Simpson to spend any down payment that he might receive on a canceled book deal and a TV interview about the 1994 killing. This issue was dismissed before the court due to a lack of jurisdiction. On January 19, 2007, a California state judge issued an additional detention order, instructing Simpson to limit his expenses to "normal and necessary living expenses".
On March 13, 2007, a judge prevented Simpson from receiving further compensation from dead book deals and TV interviews, and the judge ordered the rights of the books bundled for auction. In August 2007, Florida bankruptcy court granted the Goldman family the right to the book, to fulfill part of an unpaid civil assessment. Originally titled If I Did It , the book was renamed If I Do It: Confessions of the Killer , with the word "If" minus its size to make the title appear read Do it: Confessions of the Killer . Additional materials were added by members of the Goldman family, investigative journalist Dominick Dunne, and author Pablo Fenjves.
Other legal issues
The State of California claims that Simpson owes a $ 1.44 million tax. The tax lien was filed in his case on 1 September 1999.
In the late 1990s, Simpson attempted to register "OJ Simpson", "OJ", and "The Juice" as trademarks for "various goods, including statues, trade cards, sportswear, medals, coins, and prepaid phone cards. "A" concerned citizen ", William B. Ritchie, is required to oppose federal registration on the ground that doing so would be immoral and embarrassing. Simpson surrendered in 2000.
In February 2001, Simpson was arrested in Miami-Dade County, Fla., For simple batteries and robbery of occupied vehicles, to pull glasses from other riders during a traffic dispute three months earlier. If convicted, Simpson could face 16 years in prison, but he was tried and quickly released on a second charge in October 2001.
On December 4, 2001, Simpson's home in Miami was ransacked by the FBI on suspicion of ecstasy and money laundering. The FBI has received a tip that Simpson was involved in a major drug trafficking ring after 10 other suspects were arrested in the case. Simpson's house was actually searched for two hours, but no drugs were found, and no arrests or official demands were filed after the search. However, researchers found equipment capable of stealing satellite television programs, which ultimately led Simpson to be sued in federal court.
On July 4, 2002, Simpson was arrested in Miami-Dade County, Florida, as water drove through the manatee protection zone and failed to comply with proper boating rules. The cost of the fighting offense rule was dropped, and Simpson was fined for a speeding offense.
In March 2004, DirecTV's satellite television network, Inc. accusing Simpson in a Miami federal court of using illegal electronic devices to hijack his broadcast signals. The company then won a $ 25,000 valuation, and Simpson was ordered to pay an additional $ 33,678 in lawyer fees and fees.
Las Vegas Robbery
On the night of 13 September 2007, a group of men led by Simpson entered a room at the Palace Station hotel casino and took sports memorabilia at gunpoint, resulting in Simpson being questioned by police. Simpson claimed to take the items, which he said were stolen from him, but denied entry to the hotel room; he also denied that he or anyone else was carrying a gun. He was released after interrogation.
Two days later, Simpson was arrested and initially detained without any guarantees. Together with three others, Simpson was charged with several criminal charges, including criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, assault, robbery, and using deadly weapons. Warranty is set at $ 125,000, provided that Simpson has no contact with the defendants and that he submits his passport. Simpson did not submit a request.
At the end of October 2007, the three defendants together with Simpson had filed a lawsuit to court in Clark County, Nevada. Walter Alexander and Charles H. Cashmore accepted the defense agreement in exchange for the reduction of charges and their testimony against Simpson and three other defendants, including testimony that weapons were used in robberies. The defendant along with Michael McClinton told the Las Vegas judge that he would also plead guilty to reducing the charges and testifying against Simpson that the weapons were used in a robbery. After the hearing, the judge ordered Simpson to be put on trial for the robbery.
On November 8, 2007, Simpson conducted a preliminary hearing to decide whether he would be tried on the charge. He was detained for trial on all 12 counts. Simpson pleaded not guilty on November 29, and the trial was reset from April to September 8, 2008. Court officials and lawyers announced on May 22, 2008, that a long questionnaire with at least 115 questions will be given to a jury of 400 people. or more.
In January 2008, Simpson was taken into custody in Florida and flown to Las Vegas, where she was imprisoned in a county jail for violating her terms of guarantee by attempting to contact Clarence "C. J." Stewart, a joint defendant in the trial. District Attorney David Roger of Clark County gave Jackie Glass District Court Judge with evidence that Simpson had violated the terms of his guarantee. The trial took place on January 16, 2008. Glass raise Simpson's guarantee to US $ 250,000 and ordered that he remain in the county jail for up to 15 percent paid in cash. Simpson posted a bond that night and returned to Miami the next day.
Simpson and his co-defendants were found guilty of all charges on October 3, 2008. On October 10, 2008, Simpson's advisers moved to a new trial (trial de novo) on the basis of a judicial error and insufficient evidence. Simpson's lawyer announced he would appeal to Nevada Supreme Court if Judge Glass rejected the motion. The defense lawyer with Simpson, C. J. Stewart, filed a petition for a new trial, accusing Stewart of being tried separately and mentioning possible mistakes made by the foreman jury.
Simpson faces the possibility of a life sentence with parole on charges of kidnapping, and mandatory jail time for armed robbery. On December 5, 2008, Simpson was sentenced to a total of thirty-three years in prison, with the possibility of parole after nine years, in 2017. On September 4, 2009, Nevada Supreme Court rejected a guarantee request during Simpson's appeal. In October 2010, the Nevada Supreme Court confirmed its conviction. He served his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center where his prisoner ID number is # 1027820.
A Nevada judge agreed on October 19, 2012, to "reopen the armed robbery and kidnapping case against O. J. Simpson to determine whether the former soccer star is so well represented by his lawyer that he should be released from prison and get another trial." The hearing was held from 13 May 2013, to determine whether Simpson was entitled to a new trial. On November 27, 2013, Judge Linda Bell rejected Simpson's offer for a new trial on a robbery charge. In his verdict, Bell wrote that all of Simpson's quarrels were not worth it.
Released from prison
On July 31, 2013, the Nevada Parole Board granted Simpson parole on some convictions, but his detention continued on the basis of weapons and conviction of the attack. The Council considers the previous simpson notes of criminal convictions and good behavior in prisons in making decisions. At a parole hearing on July 20, 2017, the council decided to grant parole Simpson. He was released on October 1, 2017, after serving nine years.
Popular culture
Movies and TV
Movies
- In the Fox TV networking film, The O. J. Simpson Story (1995), Simpson is described as a teenager by Bumper Robinson and as an adult by Bobby Hosea; his close friend Al Cowlings was described as a youth by Terrence Howard and as an adult by David Roberson.
- BBC TV documentary, O.J. Simpson: The Untold Story (2000), produced by Malcolm Brinkworth, "reveals the clue that some believers pointed away from Simpson because the killer was dismissed or ignored and highlighted two other clues that could give new clues to the case."
- The documentary of TV Inventory Investigation, OJ: Trial of the Century (2014), beginning on the day of the murder, ends in the reading of the verdict, and comprises real media footage of events and reactions, as they open.
- Documentary Film Investigation of TV Discoveries, O.J. Simpson Trial: The Real Story (2016), all of which consist of news archives of murders, Bronco pursuits, trials, decisions, and reactions.
Series and miniseries
- In the CBS TV miniseries American Tragedy (November 15, 2000), Simpson is played by Raymond Forchion.
- The documentary mini series, OJ: Made in America (released January 22, 2016, in Sundance), directed by Ezra Edelman and produced by Laylow Films, is a 5-part American, 7.5 Film-hour previewed at Tribeca and Sundance Film Festivals, and aired as part of a series of 30 to 30 that aired on ABC and ESPN sister networks. The film adds "a rich contextual layer to the case, including exploring the history of Los Angeles race relationships that play a central role in his release." As observed by James Poniewozik in a June 20, 2016 review, New York Times : "director Ezra Edelman pulls back, as far back as chopper news on the road chase Before you hear about the trial, the documentary says , You need to hear all the stories - race stories, celebrities, sports, Americans - that it is part of. "The film won the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Features.
- In FX cable TV miniseries The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story (February 2016), based on Jeffrey Toobin's book The Run of His Life: The People v. OJ Simpson (1997), Simpson is described by Cuba Gooding Jr.
Exhibition
- The bronco from Simpson's pursuit is on display at Pigeon Forge's Alcatraz East Crime Museum.
See also
- The NCAA list of major college leaders rushing every year
References
External links
- O. J. Simpson in Pro Football Hall of Fame
- O. J. Simpson at the University Football Hall of Fame
- O. J. Simpson on the official Heisman Trophy website
- Career and player information statistics from NFL.com Ã, Â · Pro-Football-Reference
- O. J. Simpson on IMDb
- O. J. Simpson in the TCM Film Database
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