[Robert] "A friend who Ioveth at all times,
and a brother is born in adversity. "
Father, please, please, please have mercy on him.
Look after him, protect him.
For he is in pain
and he knows not what he is doing.
Just tell him Robert Shapiro is calling.
He'll know what it's about.
-[Gil] What do you want? -Gil.
| wish I could reach through this goddamn phone and strangle you.
I'm so sorry he did this to us.
I mean you know that I'm a ﬁxer of things.
I don't tolerate this kind of stuff.
How does a murder suspect disappear from a house full of people?
I didn't know that he was gonna run.
You've got to believe me, Gil. I'm the good guy here.
[Bob] Look, who brought Menendez, back from Israel, hmm?
Who backed your campaign?
Look, you even came to my 50th birthday.
You loved it. It was a great party.
Bob, ﬁnd your client and deliver him.
[door opens]
-Do you have a minute? -Of course. Drink?
No, thanks.
0.J. left a suicide note.
It's terrible.
I don't know what we're supposed to do with it.
Do we need to give it to the police?
Jesus Christ.
Who the hell signs a suicide note with a happy face?
[Tom Brokaw] One of the most stunning announcements
you're ever gonna hear on live television, 0.J. Simpson,
one of this country's best known personalities,
is a suspect in a double homicide, a terribly gruesome crime.
And he is at large tonight.
There is now a state-wide manhunt undemay for 0.J. Simpson
in California.
If it were our absolute goal,
could we look more incompetent?
This is the worst day of my life.
It's worse than the day l was diagnosed with cancer.
...failed to appear by 11:45, the Los Angeles Police Department...
It's friggin' Shapiro. He screwed all of us.
God forbid a celebrity should do a perp walk.
It's always the big cases that melt down.
McMartin, Twilight Zone, Menendez...
Why is it always the famous ones?
...that it would come to this,
with this man who was beloved in this country for so long. But now...
He can't hide forever.
Everyone knows his face.
[police sirens wailing]
We've received 110 tips so far.
He's with Magic Johnson.
He's in Atlanta.
He's eating lunch with Dionne Wanivick at The Ivy.
-Christ. -All right, look,
we have to weed out the crackpots, all right?
So make sure you put out the year and plate of the white Bronco. All right?
The guy he's with? Can anybody tell me who A.C. Cowlings is?
He's a fourth rate linebacker. He's sort of a poor man's 0.J.
-O.J., A.C., get it? -Would you two just quiet down?
| feel like I'm gonna vomit.
[cameras clicking]
[clears throat] Pardon me.
I want to say something to the entire community.
Mr. Simpson is a fugitive of justice.
And if any of you assist him in any way, you're committing a felony.
And I personally guarantee you will be prosecuted.
-[Gil] Today at the ofﬁce... -I hope they catch him.
-You know he did it. -You don't know that.
They're just tearing down another black man.
[Gil] ...Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman...
Want me to turn off the TV, Tell them to go back to work?
No, it's ﬁne. Let them watch.
Something big's happening here.
We are alleging special circumstances.
We are also alleging the murder weapon was a knife.
Mr. Simpson must face these charges and we will ﬁnd him.
-[Christopher] The TV on? -Of course I'm watching.
Picked a hell of a day to leave town.
How was I supposed to know that...
-What is that? -Arnold Palmer's last U.S. Open.
-He's retiring today. -Pops, come on.
Now you can tell I'm upset. It's, uh...
[Christopher] He looks horrible.
It's a very serious case.
Oh, my God. Marcia's dying up there.
-You know those people? -Shh.
And! think, perhaps, that some of us might have had empathy for him.
We saw the falling of an American hero.
And, to some extent, I viewed Mr. Simpson the same way.
[Gil] But let's remember; we have two innocent people
who were brutally murdered.
[reporter] But how could this happen?
The entire world was focused on this one man and he slipped away.
How can you answer that?
I can 't.
[reporters clamoring]
0.J. humiliated them.
He's dead meat.
[Bob] I don't like the subtext of this one bit.
There's an unspoken villain here.
Who, A.C.?
Hmm? No, me.
Everyone's blaming me for everything.
I've a very clean reputation. What we need is our own press conference.
[Bob] Are we good?
Sound good? Roll? Okay.
I must make one thing perfectly clear,
I am as shocked as anybody is at this turn of events.
Over the past 25 years,
with the LAPD, with the District Attorney's office,
and Mr. Garcetti.
They have always kept their word to me,
and l have always kept my word to them.
In fact, I arranged the surrender
of Erik Menendez from Israel.
[Johnnie] What a prick.
Robert Shapiro is focused on his number one priority.
Robert Shapiro.
What would you be saying?
I wouldn't be falling back on the pronouns, me, myself and l.
People, when you take these jobs, you have only one role.
You are in service to your client.
Never betray that individual. Never.
He was always under a doctor's care.
In fact, we were concerned that he would take this avenue.
0.J., wherever you are,
for the sake of your children,
for the sake of your family,
please surrender immediately
to any law enforcement official.
What were the last words you heard from 0.J.?
Well, they were of a complimentary nature.
He thanked me for everything I did for him.
So now, I would like to introduce Robert Kardashian,
one of O.J.'s closest and dearest friends.
He will now read a note that 0.J. handwrote today.
Robert.
Oh, my God, it's Daddy.
[all exclaiming excitedly]
[Robert] This letter was written by 0.J. Simpson.
"To whom it may concern.
First, everyone understand I had nothing to do with Nicole's murder.
I loved her.
At times I felt like a battered husband."
Did I hear that correctly?
He feels like a battered husband?
Well, you know, he cut his hand while he was killing her.
[Robert] "Please think of the real 0.J.
and not this lost person.
Thank you for making my life special.
I hope I helped yours.
Peace and love, 0.J."
Who are you?
-Robert... Robert Kardashian. -Kazani?
[reporter] Mirkashian? Can you please spell that?
K-A-R-D-A-S-H-I-A-N.
[all] Kardashian! Kardashian! Kardashian!
Please, be respectful.
This is a very close friend of Mr. 0.J. Simpson's.
Robert Kardashian.
["Sabotage" playing]
J‘ I can't stand it I know you planned it J‘
I I'm gonna set it straight This Watergate J‘
Oh, my God there's a white Bronco behind us right now.
-You liar. No, there isn't. -Seriously, look.
[passenger] Hold on.
J‘ Oh my God, it's a mirage J‘
-0h, my God! -0h, my God!
Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Is that OJ. Simpson?
[driver] Hey! Hey!
Hey!
[horn honking]
Hey, over here!
-Hey! Hey! -Hey!
What are you looking at?
It's him. It's freaking him! I told you.
Oh, my God.
What?
[driver] Holy crap.
Yes, yes, it is them.
Yes, it's them.
They're going north on the 5, right before it merges with the 405.
I'm telling you, it's 0.J.
J‘ 'Cause what you see You might not get I
J‘ And we can bet So don't you get souped yet J‘
J‘ You're scheming on a thing That's a mirage J‘
J‘ I'm trying to tell you now It's sabotage J‘
[horns honking]
[tires screeching]
[siren blaring]
We've sighted a white Ford Bronco, North of Irvine Center Drive.
Mike, Whiskey, Papa, Charlie, Tango 4-0-3.
I think we got him.
Stay in your car, sir.
J‘ Whoa! I
Sir, step out of the vehicle.
No no. Hell, no.
Sir, you need to turn your engine off and step from the vehicle now!
Do you know what's going on here?
O.J.'s in the back seat with a gun to his head.
Can I speak with Mr. Simpson?
No, I ain't speaking to nobody!
I ain't speaking to nobody!
Tell 'em the gun's... Tell them!
I know, 0.J. 0.J., Iwill handle it, okay? I know.
We don't want a situation here! We don't want anybody get hurt!
-Let me go! -O.J., 0.J., 0.J.
Tell them! Tell them! Tell them!
-That's not happening. -Back off!
Do we shoot?
I'm not shooting at 0.J. Simpson unless somebody authorizes it.
[helicopter whirring]
[Gil] Mr. Simpson is a fugitive of justice.
And if any of you assist him
in any way, you are committing a felony.
And I personally guarantee you will be prosecuted.
Today, my office
filed murder charges against 0.J. Simpson
for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson
and Ronald Lyle Goldman.
I have some bad news.
These are very serious crimes.
I was with 0.J. this morning. And he...
He was in pretty bad shape.
What do you mean?
He was in a lot of pain.
He left a note.
{gasps}
And we have reason to believe that he's killed himself.
Oh, my God!
I'm so sorry.
[sobbing]
He wanted you to know. He wanted all of you to know he loved you...
He loved you very much.
He loved everybody here.
0.J. is in a better place.
He's in a better place.
[sobbing]
No. Wait. Look.
Look.
[newscaster] 0.J. Simpson is sitting in the back seat
and he has a gun at his head.
And, presumably, the officers in those
four cars that are maintaining the pace...
[mellow music playing]
[news playing on TV]
Bob, where have you been?
Do you have any idea what is going on?
Yeah, I did a press conference and I ﬁlled the gas tank.
Bob, they found him.
0.J. is driving up and down the freeways
-with a police escort. -He's still alive?
[reporter] ...in front of him. However there 're
a number of highway patrol units
and Sheriff's vehicles sitting on the side of the road.
And that's a call code 100 and intercept.
and what they're doing is they're making sure no other vehicle...
Good for you, 0.J. Good for you.
We're still in the game.
Hello, everyone, I'm Bob Costas.
It is our professional obligation to cover the ballgame tonight.
We will do that in what we hope is an appropriate fashion.
We are, of course, mindful of the 0.J. Simpson situation.
And we will apprise you with any new developments.
...doctors have been treating Simpson...
Why don't we stop him? Shoot out his tires?
Don't want a shootout on live TV. We're on every network in the country.
What's the protocol?
Protocol? I don't know, Bill. What is the protocol?
For an armed celebrity fugitive being
chased by 12 police cars and 7 helicopters.
Christ!
I thought I was gonna run for Mayor.
[Brokaw] And we're told by the California Highway Patrol
that O.J. Simpson is in that car holding a gun to his head.
He has been in touch with a police highway dispatcher, saying
he wants to be taken to his mother. He wants to see her.
But we don 't know what the resolution of all of this will be.
There are nine black and whites...
[sirens wailing]
All right. What do you want me to do, 0.J.?
No, put the gun down, Juice.
I'm tired of you driving me around, A.C.
-Tell me what you need? -Take me to the cemetery.
No, man, we did that already.
I don't know what is happening. Why is this happening to me?
I don't understand.
I had such a beautiful family. Nicole and Sydney and Justin.
You still got the kids, Juice, all right? Think about the kids.
Just take me home. I wanna see Mama.
Brother, we got half the police in California in pursuit.
-They might not let us. -I want this to end!
[dialing phone]
[phone ringing]
[operator] This is 911. What is your emergency?
Hey, this is A.C. l have 0.J. in the car.
-[operator] Who is this? -You know who this is! Goddamn it.
I have 0.J. in the car!
You tell the police to back off!
He's got a gun to his head!
Hold on a moment. Where are you? Is everything else okay?
What? No! What kind of stupid ass question is that?
Everything is terrible! You just clear the freeway.
We're going to Brentwood.
Stupid ass.
Ready on chyron. Give me time.
They're clearing the freeway. There's nobody else driving on it.
What, you're kidding?
We've got to cut to O.J.
I can't, it's the NBA ﬁnals.
You do realize how much these spots are going for?
Put the game in the box.
-What? No! -You have to think clearly.
0.J. is news, entertainment and sports.
Jim, I can't. In 24 years, I've never done anything like this.
0.J. gets the big screen. I'm calling upstairs.
Ready two and take two. Ready uplink.
[fans cheering]
Come on!
[fans booing and shouting]
What?
[Brokaw] ...that makes its way along a freeway
in Los Angeles in the South Central part
of that area, and we are told by the California Highway Patrol
that 0.J. Simpson is in that car,
holding a gun to his head.
He has been in touch with a police highway dispatcher saying
he wants to be taken to his mother. He wants to see her.
[newscaster] Now, what we figure now, is that 0.J. Simpson
is sitting in the back seat and he has a gun at his head.
And presumably the ofﬁcers in those four cars...
I can't believe this is the 405 on a Friday night.
Where are all the cars?
The back up on Sepulveda must be unbelievable.
[newscaster] ...situation play out. And hope they can
resolve it without anyone getting hurt.
The car is, again, on the 91 freeway. This is a white Ford Bronco.
This is the one that...
It's like the world's longest Ford Bronco commercial.
-Excuse me. -Look at this.
He said that O.J. Simpson was armed and dangerous.
He should be considered dangerous, and here, in the back seat of the car
with a gun to his head.
Phil, question, how is 0.J. back in his white Bronco?
-What do you mean? -I mean the Bronco
was full of blood, we impounded it.
How can he be driving it again?
Hold on a second. Tom, how's 0.J. back in the Bronco?
Believe it or not, there are two white Broncos.
A.C. Cowlings worships 0.J. so much,
he bought the identical car.
Unbelievable.
What's the situation at Rockingham?
SWAT's taking over.
All right.
Let's move.
We need a breast, chicken wings, we've got 20 pieces in the bag.
Somebody got to get it.
This is crazy, man. We are running out of cheese.
Come on, 0.J.
[Brokaw] ...and drama of Shakespearean proportions
being played out live on television
in Southern California.
We are told, as well, that 0.J. is sitting
in the back seat with a gun to his head.
That comes from the California Highway Patrol...
Juice?
Bob. Bob, I've been looking for you.
I called the house in Encino and you weren't there.
I don 't know if you heard what's happening.
Yeah, I heard, Juice. It's on every channel.
| just wanted to tell you, I love you, Bobby.
Bobby, you're the best.
You know I feel the same, Juice.
Remember how much fun we used to have?
Wow.
Remember the night the four of us went to that steak house?
Used to be on La Cienega. I forget the name.
You, me, Nicole, Kris.
We had some fun times together.
I want you to tell everybody that I love 'em.
Say goodbye from me.
Say goodbye to Don Omair,
Skip Taft, Wade Hughes,
Louis Marks, Marcus Allen, Cathy and Reggie.
If I'm forgetting anybody, please let them know.
[Robert] You're gonna tell them yourself Juice.
You're gonna see 'em all again.
No, ljust wanna go home and see my mama one last time.
Yeah, I'm not sure coming home right now is such a hot idea.
Juice?
0.J.
[dial tone]
[Brokaw] We continue to watch the white Bronco that is driven,
we believe, byAI Cowlings, longtime friend of O.J. Simpson.
0.J. Simpson is in the car.
Jason.
One point he said he had a gun to his head...
Where's your grandmother?
Oh.
She was having heart palpitations. She's in hospital.
[Brokaw] ...his home in Brentwood where his
mother is believed to be staying.
Hey, Uncle Bobby, is my dad gonna die?
...he wanted to see his mother.
He has also said, he could hurt himself.
[emotional music playing]
Gentlemen, the last I heard, the man was still alive.
[man] We've got to stay ahead of the news.
[Johnnie] Yes, it's a complex situation.
But we must remember that
he is a person not used to being arrested.
He's fragile, confused.
Whenever I see a black man being chased
by armed officers, my guard goes up.
With all due respect, this is a possible
killer who fled from the police.
Innocent, until proven guilty.
If the LAPD is involved, we should let history be our guiding principle.
Time after time, the police shoot first
and offer sloppy apologies aftenrvards.
Thirty years ago, a young man named Leonard Deadwyler,
was driving his pregnant wife to the hospital.
She was about to give birth to their child.
And that very same LAPD saw a black man driving too fast.
And they did what they do.
They shot and killed him.
I represented Leonard's family.
It was one of my very ﬁrst cases.
Unfortunately, the ﬁrst of many.
It was a terrible thing.
Leonard's only crime, the color of his skin.
[helicopter whirring]
[telephone ringing]
What? Who is this?
This is Detective Tom Lange with the Los Angeles Police Department.
[A.C.] How'd you get this number?
[Tom] You called 911.
You tell the cops to back off, all right? Stay away from us.
A.C., give me the phone.
Hey, this is 0.J.
ljust wanted to say how sorry I am.
I didn't mean for you guys to all have to come out like this.
I know it's late on a Friday, you guys work hard.
Probably wanna go home and see your kids.
[Tom] No, it's okay. We 're just doing our jobs.
So, I understand you have a gun.
[0.J.] Yeah, but it's not for you.
Don 't worry, I would never hurt any of you guys.
-This gun's for me. -No, no, no, no.
You don 't wanna do that.
Things will get better.
You should just toss it out the window.
No, no.
I can't do that.
I gotta be with Nicole.
Just can't do it on the freeway. I can't do it in a ﬁeld.
I tried to do it at her grave.
Now, I'm just gonna do it at home.
0.J., we want to keep you alive.
[Tom] We 're not gonna bother you. We'll let you go home.
We know you wanna go there. We'll let you go there.
But the gun is scaring everybody. Please, can't you just throw it away?
No, I deserve to get hurt.
[man laughing]
-Go, 0.J. -Go where?
-Where's he gonna go? -Anywhere...
-Yo, Chris! -Yeah.
Get over here, man.
I thought you gonna give us a little play by play.
Please.
Woo! Look at O.J. go. That boy can still run.
Them goddamn cops ain't chasing him.
Remember his run in '67 against UCLA?
-Oh, yeah. -That was the best.
-That was pretty. -Nobody could catch the Juice.
I don't know what you guys are cheering for.
Jim Brown was a much better player.
-What? -Chris, go in the house, boy.
0.J. is local.
-He went to Galileo High. -So what?
0.J. never gave back.
You see any parks around here named for him?
Any children's centers?
See, now, Jim Brown cared about black people.
He was an activist. He spoke up.
Once 0.J. made his money, he split and never came back.
He became white.
Well, you got the cops chasing him.
He's black now.
[all laughing]
[music playing]
[woman] He got you there.
J‘ And we're on the move J‘
J‘ Nothing can stop us now J‘
[woman narrating] Orenthal James Simpson.
A grieving former husband, comforting his motherless children.
A celebrity...
Why does that sound like a eulogy?
...a movie star and a man wanted for double murder.
I want him to ﬁnish this day alive.
All of this in one week.
I want him to pay for what he's done.
...images of OJ. Simpson.
[rap music playing]
[people chanting] Go, 0.J.! Go, O.J.I Go, O.J.I Go, 0.J.!
Why are you guys rooting for him?
We are not cheering for 0.J., we're booing the LAPD.
It doesn't sound like you guys are booing.
We are doing both.
-O.J. is running 'cause he's innocent. -He's a black man being
hunted by the police. They pick you up for anything.
I'd run.
Hey, look, it's 0.J.
[people chanting] 0.J.! 0.J.! 0.J.! 0.J.!
[chanting continues] Go, 0.J.! Go, 0.J.! Go, 0.J.! Go, 0.J.!
[horns honking]
-[A.C.] Hear that? -[man] Go, baby, go!
Those people shouldn't be on the freeway. It's not safe.
They're out because they love you.
They still love you, Juice.
[game announcer] Sixty-four yards!
[crowd cheering]
Eighty yards!
Go, 0.J.! Go, O.J.I Go, 0.J.!
Well, you need to find him and get him down here right now.
Arnell!
Where're they going?
Don't leave, Arnell!
We need everyone off the property for you own safety.
No, I'm not leaving, this is my home.
Yeah, I'm not leaving either. I'm Mr. Simpson's attorney.
Hey, who are you?
Roger Sandler, Time-Life photography.
We have an arrangement with the West LA division.
Your funeral. Don't get caught in the crossfire.
[crowd cheering]
What the...
Come on! How do they expect us to get through?
Honk!
[honking horn]
Move! Move! Get out the way!
We love you!
[Brokaw] ...and OJ. Simpson, is almost back home.
He '3 in that car, we're told that he has a gun.
His mother is at his Brentwood estate. And apparently his...
[crowd cheering]
A.C., you gotta get me to my house.
Trying, Juice. Hey, let us in!
[horn honking]
Get me home, A.C.
[Brokaw] What happens when he gets to his home?
We cannot say. People are standing in the street.
All right, Juice, we're here, brother. Here we are.
All right.
-All right. We're home, 0.J. -Dad, please!
-Dad. -Jason, no, get back!
-Please. -Get back!
-Get in the house! -No!
Dad, put down the gun!
Get back, I'm handling this, okay!
-Get in the house! -Dad!
-Dad, please. -Get your ass in the house!
[A.C.] Get your ass back in the house.
0.J., put the gun down. You're scaring me, man!
Put the gun down, Juice.
[O.J. sobbing]
[yells]
[SWAT ofﬁcer] O.J.? 0.J.? How can I help you?
Leave us alone!
[SWAT ofﬁcer] I wanna speak with Mr. Simpson.
0.J. .7
There is a guy in the tree with a gun. This is a trick.
[SWAT officer] No, no, no tricks.
We want 0.J. safe.
There's guns in my face everywhere.
Kill the lights.
I said, tell the choppers. Kill all the lights, now!
[newscaster] All right, we're sorry for the dark picture,
but no light has been allowed there. Part of the early negotiations...
They don't want us to see.
[newscaster] ...get the helicopters up and away.
And that they get the lights on, even the police cars turned off.
So, it's been very dark.
[newscaster] If 0.J. attempted to take his own life,
to be able to get in there quickly enough...
0.J., we wanna get you out of the Bronco.
We want to get you safely into your house.
[SWAT officer] 0.J.
O.J., will you open the door, so that we can talk?
He doesn't wanna talk to you! Go away!
All right, Juice. What do you want me to do, man?
I should have killed myself this morning.
-I can't... -Juice! No! Juice! Juice
Put the gun down, please. Juice!
Juice, I'm begging you, man.
[phone ringing]
-Hello? -O.J., it's Bobby.
Oh, Bobby, help me, man. Help me, Bobby.
We are all inside here. We love you.
Your whole family's here. Juice, please.
Just come on inside.
ls Mama here?
Yeah, she's on the phone. She's waiting.
[Robert] She's on the house phone, waiting to talk to you, Juice.
ljust wanna come inside, man.
Just wanna come inside.
[Robert] That's a great idea.
Just come on in and we just sit down.
We just sit down and relax.
I'm sorry, man. All these people here, all the cops,
You gotta tell 'em I'm sorry.
I didn't mean for them to have to come out like this.
No, no, they just want you to be safe.
Juice, they wanna make sure nothing bad happens.
Nothing bad is gonna happen. Just come inside.
I can't be on the TV again, man.
In the handcuffs, I can't do it with them.
Okay, what do you need? What do you want?
Maybe come inside.
[Robert] You mean do it in here?
Yeah, maybe.
Okay, okay, that's easy. That's easy.
Just give me one second, okay, okay, Juice?
He doesn't wanna be arrested outside.
You got to do it inside the house, away from the cameras.
Gun's gotta stay inside the vehicle.
Okay, Juice, we're good to go. They'll do it inside the house.
You just gotta make sure that the gun stays inside the car.
You can't bring the gun outside, do you understand me?
That's real important.
-All right, man. All right. -Okay?
Okay, good, stay with me, yes?
Okay, come on in. Come on in.
He's about to exit the vehicle, subject will not be armed.
No hot heads. We're on TV.
No firing unless you're ﬁred upon ﬁrst.
[helicopter whirring]
[police siren wailing]
Sorry, you guys.
-He's got a gun. -No! Those are pictures.
Those are framed pictures of his kids!
I'm sorry, guys.
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
Okay. Okay?
All right. All right.
All right. We got you. Come on.
-I got you. -I'm sorry, Bobby.
No, no, you're home now. You're home, Juice.
Come on. Here we go.
Can I speak to my mama?
-Can I get some orange juice? -Of course, O.J.
Hello, Mama. Yeah. Yeah.
I know, Mama.
Okay.
I know, Mama. Okay.
I love you too, Mama.
Right now, we'll wrap up this live coverage.
So you can tune into your late global news,
which will have plenty about how all this unfolded.
Right now, Dan Rather, Connie Chung, John Blackstone
and our colleagues at KCBS in Los Angeles.
We are taking him to trial.
[reporter] The conﬁrmation now that that the arrest has taken place...
Too bad you're not working on this case.
What? You better not. He got framed.
l was thinking the same thing.
Come on, I can guarantee you 0.J. was not framed.
Sure, he was.
[reporter] ...Iocation. Ihaven't identified the location yet.
You stay the hell away from this.
[reporter] ...hundreds of teenagers out there, we're told.
Many now shouting...
Shouting OJ. '5 name.
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