Infamous OJ case Ford Bronco bound for Pigeon Forge museum

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10News reporter Jim Matheny has more on how an infamous car will make its way to East Tennessee. (6/16/16)

Jim Matheny, WBIR7:03 PM. EST June 16, 2016

The white Ford Bronco carrying O.J. Simpson on June 17, 1994. (Photo: NBC)

PIGEON FORGE - One of the most famous, and infamous, vehicles in United States history will soon have a designated long-term parking spot in Pigeon Forge.

Millions of Americans can tell you exactly where they were on June 17, 1994, by merely stating the vehicle"s color, make, and model: white Ford Bronco.

Friday marks 22 years since Al Cowlings drove the vehicle slowly along the interstate in California while his best friend, O.J. Simpson, reportedly contemplated suicide as dozens of law enforcement vehicles trailed a safe distance behind the white Ford Bronco.

Police slowly follow a safe distance behind the white Ford Bronco carrying O.J. Simpson on June 17, 1994. (Photo: NBC)

"You"ve got to tell the police to back off, he"s still alive, but he"s got a gun to his head," said Cowlings to a 911 dispatcher while continuing to drive.

The nation watched the slow-speed pursuit on live television as it continued for two hours and 60 miles before Simpson peacefully surrendered and was arrested on double-murder charges for the deaths of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

"I can tell you exactly where I was. I was in Orlando watching the chase at a bar and restaurant with a group of friends," said JanineVaccarello, chief operating officer of the Alcatraz East Crime Museum set to open this fall in Pigeon Forge. "I have not seen the Bronco yet, but I will very soon. It is really exciting that we"ll be able to have the Bronco on display at the museum. The O.J. chase in the white Ford Bronco is on lists with events like The Challenger [shuttle disaster] in terms of people being able to recall where they were when it happened."

Vaccarellosaid the museum will lease the vehicle from O.J. Simpson"s former agent Mike Gilbert. Gilbert is one of three people who co-own the white Ford Bronco after buying it from Cowlings in the1990s.

View of the white Ford Bronco through the sideview mirror of a vehicle in front of the slow-speed pursuit on June 17, 1994. (Photo: NBC)

If construction goes as planned,Vaccarellois hopeful the museum can open by the end of November 2016 at The Island commercial development in Pigeon Forge. As its name implies, the outer facade of the building will resemble the architecture of the famous Alcatraz prison in San Francisco. Inside Alcatraz East, the museum will tell the tales of crimes and investigations throughout U.S. history.

"I always say it"s America"s favorite subject. Most movies and most TV shows touch upon crime," saidVaccarello. "We"ll have artifacts from Al Capone, John Dillinger, and the car used in the Bonnie and Clyde movie. We also focus heavily on law enforcement, forensics, and crime fighting through the years."

Along with the white Ford Bronco, other O.J. Simpson items have been purchased.

"We have the Hertz golf set that was given to O.J. [by the rental car company]. As most people know, he was a spokesperson for Hertz," saidVaccarello.

Artist drawing of the upcoming Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge. (Photo: NBC)

Prosecutors, and even the title of a book written by Gilbert, claim Simpson got away with murder. His trial and acquittal put a national spotlight on forensics, changing how investigators and prosecutors collect and present scientific evidence.

"The L.A. Police Department changed a lot of their ways after that case. There was a public fascination with forensics after the O.J. trial. It really was a big part of history, not just because he was a famous football player."

The fascination with the O.J. Simpson case continues long after a verdict was delivered. This year several mini-series and documentaries on Simpson have garnered great ratings for television networks.

The popularity of Simpson topics this many years after-the-fact trial is also interesting considering the appeal to younger people.

O.J. Simpson leaves the LAPD after being questioned on June 13, 1994. (Photo: NBC)

For those who are old enough to remember the police pursuing O.J. Simpsons white Ford Bronco, consider this for a make you feel old moment: Most college seniors were not born when the chase took place June 17, 1994. A scan of the roster for the University of Tennessee football team shows there are only six players who were born before the chase. All of those players are 5th-year redshirt Seniors.

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Buffalo"s relationship with OJ Simpson these days? It"s complicated

O.J. Simpson Infamously Trying On Gloves At Trial

Until it was announced that Bruce Smith would join him on Sept. 15, Jim Kelly had been the only Buffalo Bills player to have his jersey number retired by the franchise. Some historic franchises such as the Chicago Bears have retired as many as 13 players numbers; others with rich traditions, such as the Dallas Cowboys and Oakland Raiders, have zero retired numbers.

But its impossible to write the history of the long moribund Bills franchise without the name Orenthal James Simpson somewhere on the first page. So even with five other Bills players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame who spent the majority of their careers in Buffalo its a bit stunning that Simpsons number was never retired at any point after his retirement from football.

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Before Smith and Kelly arrived, Simpson unquestionably was the greatest Bills player ever. He still might be to some. But those thoughts are somewhat hushed and often conflicted now.

Kelly and Smith can joke about it now. Even if its still a bit awkward of a punchline years later.

Bruce goes, You got your number retired and youre not even the best Buffalo Bill ever, Kelly said, via the Buffalo News. I said, I know, O.J.s in jail. I had to throw that at Bruce. I thought Thurman [Thomas] should have gotten his number retired before Bruce.

Kelly was kidding. The audience roared. But some might have cringed when reading the words.

You have to dig to find Simpsons name on the Buffalo Bills official website. Yet hes a member of the teams Hall of Fame and Wall of Fame. But you cant buy a Simpson No. 32 jersey either on the teams site or on the NFL.com shop.

Still, those Simpson No. 32 jerseys show up at Bills games every week and were considered hot collectibles at one point. But then again, O.J. wasnt named to the franchises fan-voted 50th anniversary team in 2009; Thurman Thomas was the pick at running back.

Its a complicated relationship for sure.

Its schizophrenic, said Gene DiFrancesco, a Buffalo native and lifelong Bills fan.One camp believes he did it and should be taken off the stadiums Wall of Fame. Another camp is in denial. And the last camp privately loves him, maintained relations and would invite him to their luxury boxes after the trial.

It, of course, was the double homicide of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994. And the trial that followed, O.J. Simpson being charged for their murders, has since been called the trial of the century. The fact that were talking about it more than 20 years later with such fascination, highlighted by FXs The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story and ESPNs O.J.: Made in America 30 For 30 series, which is showing this week, says a lot.

Simpsons celebrity had a few clear stages. The first came at USC in winning the Heisman Trophy. The second was his Bills career, launched to its height during his epic 1973 season. Then it was his fame on the big screen as a Hertz pitch man, an NFL analyst and also as a movie star. And, of course, the trial and everything since. It"s the last part that"s the trickiest to figure out especially now in his predominant NFL city.

But back in his Buffalo heyday, there were few bigger, more significant athletes to that region than Simpson.

He was a star, said Chuck Frawley, the treasurer and past president of the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. He was a big thing for this community. He took a team that was near the bottom and added a lot of life to this area.

A Buffalo resident the past 50 years, Frawley watched Simpson rise to stardom on an off the field and he was a no-brainer charter member for the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame in its first class back in 1991.

It was a slam dunk, Frawley said. There were a couple of absolutes our first year, and he was one of them. O.J. Simpson, Warren Spahn, Bob Lanier, Gilbert Perreault those were the Mt. Rushmore guys in Buffalo sports history.

Three years later, Simpsons ex-wife and companion were killed, changing the narrative for Bills fans. His spot in the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame is safe, but its not as if it wasnt up for debate.

We talked about removing him, yes, Frawley admitted. It wasnt something we agonized over, but it did come up before it was dismissed. We said, Hey, hes in based on his athletic achievements and thats what our organization is about. Does it tarnish it a little bit? Sure. But were not going to take him out.

We may perhaps downplay him. We dont necessarily put him high on the list when were talking about who our Hall of Famers are. Hes not at the top of the list on our promotional items, lets put it that way.

After all, its possible that Simpson killed two people, even after he was found not guilty in a court of law (though later found guilty in a civil trial). Thats what ultimately has made his relationship with the Bills so complex.

As the ESPN feature has shown so far, Simpson was eventually viewed as a savior to long-suffering Bills fans. And as this quote from an NFL executive to Sports Illustrateds John Underwood at the end of the 1975 season showed, Simpsons impact on Buffalo and the Bills franchise even as he neared the twilight of his career there couldnt be overstated:

Simpson is the first athlete since Babe Ruth to have a stadium built for him [the 80,020-seat Rich Stadium in Buffalo], and when they filled it they filled it for Simpson, not the mediocre team the Bills had then. They still fill it for Simpson.

It can be a bit of a hardscrabble existence in western New York, and the 1990s were a strange time there. As the Kelly-led Bills reached unseen heights for the franchise (but never winning the big one), the area felt like a bit of a national dumping ground. Unemployment rates rose well beyond the national average in 1992, approaching 10 percent. Then came three national stories of ignominy with direct local ties that dragged the area even more into the dirt.

John Wayne Bobbitt, a resident of nearby Niagara Falls, had his p***s cut off by his wife in 1993 in an international joke of a story. Simpson took the national and international spotlight the following year. And in 1995, Timothy McVeigh (from nearby Pendleton, N.Y.) became famous after he was arrested and eventually convicted and executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and injured several hundred more.

Even with Simpsons acquittal that fall, this local infamy felt like something of a cruel joke. It wasnt exactly cool to be from Buffalo.

Weve had it hard. That city had has it hard, said Michael Krajacic, chapter president of the Bills Backers of Syracuse. "People suffer for so long, and it changes them. [It] changes how they see things."

Krajacic, 63, grew up watching every game, every play of Simpsons career. For the first 30 years of the franchise history, one name was above all others, he said.

We didnt have the Super Bowls yet, either, so he was what we were clinging to, Krajacic said.

But even with the teams success and with Simpsons trial in the early-to-mid 1990s, Krajacic said he and his closest of Bills fans only grew stronger in their support of their hero.

We were staunchly behind him in the trial, Krajacic said. Twenty years ago, we were a lot younger and he was an ultimate hero. To this point, we can still make the case that he was innocent of the murders and that it was a setup. We have investigated all kinds of theories, where drugs were involved and this and that.

I believe that theres still the possibility that hes not guilty.

The possibility loaded words indeed. Krajacic almost seems to personify the ambivalence that exists in many other Bills fans hearts, especially the ones of his generation. There are scores of Bills fans now who were not even alive when Simpson played; they only know him from the trial or from the recent TV series. But for those of a certain age, Simpson at one point represented a beacon of light in dark times.

When Simpson was arrested in 2007 and eventually convicted for his role in a Las Vegas robbery at the hotel room of a sports memorabilia dealer, Krajacics thoughts did change a bit, although not completely.

At this point in time, it seems like hes in jail for fighting for his reputation, Krajacic said. He just went a little bit overboard. Hes a hero, but hes a fallen hero.

Simpson does come up in discussion occasionally, Krajacic said, when he and his group meets weekly during the football season to watch games. Especially now, following the 20th anniversaries of the murder and the trial, and the big-production television series that have followed.

But even with the conflict in his and others minds, Krajacic stands behind the man who helped build Buffalo Bills football and he believes that most want to believe Simpson was innocent of the murders.

I think theres a desire to think that way for most of them. Some of them are more realistic than others, he said laughing, but I am not one of them.

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TV Review: "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" Season Finale

OJ Simpson -- Chris Darden Actor Supports OJ"s Parole, IF ....

Do not read on unless youve seen The Verdict, the season finale of The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.

We already knew the verdict, which you would think would drain the season finale of American Crime Story of tension and suspense. And you would be wrong. Confounding expectations has been this dramas strong suit from the start.

Like every other hour of this fantastic season, the writers, cast and directors dug into the characters and circumstances in ways that made the narrative come alive in powerfulways. The verdict may have been a foregone conclusion, but this set of specific and complicated responses from these fully realized characters were absolutely worth seeing. The crisp, wonderfully modulated finale felt fresh, important and vital, not least because even though that trial is over the reconstructed version of it, anyway the unfinished business of race still dominates American life today.

The verdict in the O.J. trial, as everyone knows, brought forth starkly different responses from African-Americans and white Americans, and the chasm between the two groups could have made for a cartoonish and predictable story. Any time an event elicits such polarized opinions, with people on each side of the debate looking at each other in helpless incomprehension, the chances of a fictional depiction of that dichotomy tipping into parody or heartless condescension are high.

That didnt happen here, As ACS has shown, week after highly entertaining week, walking ideologies did not battle each other during the O.J. Simpson trial. People did, and people are messy. Nobodys just one thing, and even though every character in this story came out the other side of the trial with some of their biasesintact, this was a story of people grappling with something massive and challenging. With cardboard characters, that would have gotten old, but with lively, complex people on display and sometimes changing right before our eyes, it felt like anything could happen, and that sense of energy never flagged during this excellent hour.

When it began, the case was a big deal, but fewof the people in this tale truly expected to become part of a national soap operathat lasted for months. The lawyers wanted to win, and each faction thought they were right but like every other human being on the face of the earth (aside from Robert Shapiro), each one of these people felt doubt at one time or another. And as Ryan Murphys supple direction made clear, most of them had to come to terms a gaping void in their lives when it was all over.

There were so many unforgettable moments in the finale. With the hindsight of history, we can say that it was delusional for Christopher Darden to speculate that he and Marcia Clark may well have won the case. But thats been the cautionary tale of this finely wrought season: Most people involved in this story were so invested in their own furious efforts to win or spinthe case, or so invested in the narrative they brought to it or their efforts to control public opinion, that they lost sight of the bigger picture.

Dardens tentative optimism was hard to watch, given how much tenderness and poignant pain Sterling K. Brown has brought to the character. In every single scene hes in, you want things to go well for Darden, and they rarelydo.

But few things in the last several episodes have been harder to look at than the face of David Schwimmers Robert Kardashian. The character never got a ton of lines, which was the right choice. In a team packed with strutting peacocks and towering egos, the guileless Kardashian was winning precisely because he never expected to speak, let alone be listened to. He was an attendant lord, one that will do/To swell a progress, start a scene or two/Deferential, glad to be of use.

In a weird way, though they were on opposite sides of the case, Darden and Kardashian emerged as the fulcrums on which the drama turned. Darden was seen as a turncoat by the African-American community, many of whom saw his participation in the prosecution ofO.J. Simpson as a betrayal. Darden himselfangrily made it clear to Clark in a previous episode that he knew he was on the team largely for P.R. purposes. The D.A. couldnt have an all-white team of lawyers try to take down a prominent black man, and yet aside from Clark, few people in the office ever really had Dardens back.

I wouldnt be as presumptuous as to equate their situations, because there are complexities within each and Darden faced many obstacles that Kardashian didnt. But the truth is, both ended upisolated and unloved. As the country came together to witness the reading of the verdict, both of them came to realize how alone they truly were. In this swarming mass of teams, sides, winners, losers, commentators and hangers-on, they were men apart.

As the lone black man on the prosecution team, Darden didnt fit in anywhere, and as a member of O.J.s loyal entourage who could not escape the idea that the Juice actually killed two people, Kardashian was also bereft. As such, both men serve as great examples of why this season of television was so gripping: It wasnt about assigning people into neat, predictable categories, it was about exploring the unpredictable situations that bubble up when your best efforts to be a good person and do the right thing run into the brick walls of fame, money, bias, ignorance and race. The results arent pretty, but as depicted here, they sure are fascinating.

There are many things to be impressed by in this hour, but one that I kept coming back to was the way that Murphys direction evolved and changed to fit a series of very different moments that still workedwell as a whole. There was admirable cohesion to the visual narrative and the editing was marvelous; jaggedwhen things were spinning out of control and precise when depicting complex confrontations.

The emotional calibration of each moment in the finale was simply terrific; heart-rending scenes were spare and powerful, suspenseful scenes popped with visual and auditory energy, and the verdict scene made us wait for the big moment in an almost deliciously painful way. Much of the success of the hour had to do with the intelligentuse of sound, actually. Not a pin dropped in the courtroom during the closing speeches, and other moments echoed with things unsaid; silences and pauses reverberated with loss.

The closing argumentswere also case studies in suiting the movement to the moment. Murphys camera and the dialogue by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski perfectly captured the differing styles of each lawyer.

• Marcia Clarks summation was clipped, precise and underlined by the simmering, quietly controlled anger that Sarah Paulson brought to the role. She was framed with geometric precision and squared edges.
• The camera lingered on Chris Dardens face, which is always the smart thing to do, given how much compassion and taut internal conflict Brown brought to the role. His performance so often drew upon stillness and watchfulness, thus the camera was also quiet, the better to absorb his passionate focus.
• During Johnnie Cochrans speech, the camera bobbed and weaved and moved with the lawyer; his momentum could not be contained. The drivethat allowed him to fight the LAPD and not give up fordecades powered him through yet another fight and he clearly viewed that moment as a combination of dancing, preaching and fighting. And yet Ryan didnt overly amplify the If the glove doesnt fit, you must acquit line, which was depicted in a simple and straightforward manner. It was such a powerful moment, and viewers needed to see it sink into the jurys minds (some of which were already made up, of course).

It could be argued that the line of dialogue that Cochran had Thats the victory wasnt necessary in the post-verdict celebration scene, given the contents of his conversation with Darden moments earlier. But theres no denying that Courtney B. Vance will be nominated and probably win a lot of awards for his portrayal of Cochran. One simply hopes that the same is true for all three members of the central trio (Vance, Paulson and Brown). They were all smashing, and there are few things I want more than to see Paulson and Brown work together again.

If Darden Clark P.I. is not on offer any time soon (and to be clear, Id absolutely watch that show), then perhaps well see them pop up in the next iteration of American Crime Story, which will be set in New Orleans. The actors chemistry is too potent to never see them on screen together again.

I felt nothing when O.J. shed tears in his Brentwood bedroom, but thats because almost everything interesting about this series happened around the Juice. He was the self-absorbed center around which the story turned, and the lawyers, jurors, friends and relations in his orbit simply got more screen time than he did.

That said, Cuba Gooding Jr. acquitted himself well in the role, and was certainly interesting to watch O.J. realize that being declared not guilty was not the same as the world especially hiswhite friends from his pre-trial days thinking he was innocent. The Riviera Country Club would not be the last place to close its doors in his face. As he stalked through a series of camera flashes, you could see it dawn on him that even though he was out of jail, hed be serving a different kind of sentence from that moment onward.

Though the high quality of the rest of the season had prepared me somewhat for a strong finish, its astonishing that the finale was able to seamlessly weave such an enormous range of reactions. In file footage from the day of the verdict, we saw the joy of black onlookers and the head-shaking disapproval of whites; there were the stunned sobs of Ron Goldmans family in the courtroom and the louche vibe of O.J.s money-making acquittal party.

Woven into those bigger set pieces were small moments that told stories of their own: A black juror gave O.J. the black power salute, and at first O.J. was too stunned to even acknowledge it. A second later, Marcia shot an angry glare at O.J., who numbly but happily looked away. Earlier, Shapiros response to the presence of the Nation of Islam, who provided Cochrans security, was another tightly controlled moment that spoke to a deep and tangled history between groups that shared little except mistrust and suspicion.

There was the stunned look Gil Garcetti wore at that pained, muted press conference, especially when a reporter asked about when Garcettis office would begin looking for the real killers. There was the quiet interlude with the prison guard who tipped off O.J. about the verdict (not before trying to acquire an autograph, of course). The saddest moment had to be when Darden broke off his post-verdict speech and simply sobbed in the arms of the Goldman family.

What do I do now? was the post-verdict question that faced all the participants, who would be marked by their association with the trial forever. The Goldmans faced that stark, awful moment in their car, which was in a parking lot that was almost empty. Similarly, Darden and Cochran encountered each other in a hallway that held no one but themselves; for all the furor over the verdict, the framing of various scenes and Murphys use of silence and space emphasized how empty and lost most of these people felt without the framework of this overwhelming, at times incomprehensible trial.

O.J. began facing the truth about his post-trial life at a party one of his only true friends a former friend, actually couldnt wait to leave. But as this show has always known, the entire nation needed to face the deeper questions raised by the trial in a deep, sustained and urgent way.

Nothing would change for black Americans, Darden asserted; they would continue to be ground down by a system that would be forever rigged against them. Cochrans face, when he saw Bill Clinton talking about the verdict, told a different story: In that post-win moment, he clearly felt optimistic that America would finally begin to not just have another interminable conversation about race but begin to actually change.

Twenty years later, it looks like the verdicts offered by both men were right.

A few final notes:

• Part of the effectiveness of the finale came from the score of composer Mac Quayle; the use of his spare, haunting music helped set the tone of the finale and helped serve as a reminder that this entire story was, after all, about death and loss.
• As I wrote earlier in the season, I was highly entertained by John Travoltas performance as Robert Shapiro and I hugely enjoyed the actors big, bold choices, which worked well for thisshow. And the fact that he was able to invest Shapiros braggadocio with pathos, as he did in the hallway scene where once again, the super-lawyer couldnt quite connect with his supposed colleagues, is proof that Travolta always understood this larger-than-life character on a number of important levels. His Shapiro was an egomaniac, of course, but he was always a real person, never a cartoon.
• In a season full of devastatingly brilliant performances, Paulsons matter-of-fact recounting of Marcia Clarks rape was breathtaking. And it was so revealing of Darden that he asked if the rapist was ever punished. These two might not have truly understood where the other one was coming from in a variety of different ways, but they were well-matched in their burning desire for some kind of justice in this hopelessly complex world.
• The show did a fine job of finding the living, breathing human beings behind the caricatures associated with the case. No one was more in need of image rehabilitation than Judge Lance Ito, who may have had his faults, but he comes across in ACS as an intelligent man trying to make the best of an impossible situation. Kenneth Choi did a fine job in the finale and in other episodes of portraying a resigned man who knows that no matter what he does in a wide array of trial situations, hes going to make someonevery angry. And as the where are they now closing images noted, Itos the only major person associated with the case who never wrote a book about it, which makes him look like one of the classier players in this particulargame.

The most recent episode of the Talking TV podcast is devoted entirely to The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story and its season finale; its here,on iTunesand below.For Varietysextensivecoverage of the show, including interviews and recaps, look here.

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How the Kardashians are tied to O.J. Simpson"s infamous murder trial

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Jason Merritt/Getty Images for InStyleBefore the Kardashian family had their own reality-TV show and fashion line, they were known for theirclose ties toO.J. Simpson and his slainex-wife, Nicole Brown.

Robert Kardashian, Kris Kardashian"s ex-husband and the father of Kourteny, Kim, Khlo, and Rob, was close friends with Simpsonwhen he was arrested and tried for the murder of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.

Robert Kardashian, who died in 2003, was an attorney and served on Simpson"s legal team during his 1995 murder trial.

Kim was13years oldand living with her father when Simpson moved in for a time and stayed in Khloe"s room after the killings in Los Angeles in 1994. In a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, Kim said the experience wasbizarre.

"It was surreal, with Johnnie Cochran and Robert Shapiro and all these guys having meetings at my dad"s house," Kim said. "I definitely took my dad"s side [believing in O.J. Simpson"s innocence]. We just always thought my dad was the smartest person in the world, and he really believed in his friend."

As she"s gotten older, she said, "It"s weird. I just try not to think about it."

Khlo opened up about the experience during an episode of her show, "Kocktails with Khlo," onWednesday.

My sisters [Kourtney and Kim], who are older than me, they would be in the courtroom with my dad all the time, she said. They have more information, but even if I would get pulled over the cops hated us "cause my dad was defending O.J. Simpson.

The sister revealed the family had bad experiences with the community in LA at the time.

[Our] cars [would] get keyed, like, with guilty all over it," she said. "People would not allow us to eat at their establishments ... But cops hated us. Like if they would run our plates, we would get pulled over for anything and everything.

Ryan Murphy"s new FX show, "American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson," focuses on the murder trial and features David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian. Actors portraying the Kardashian children have appeared in a few episodes.

In one particular episode, Robert begs Simpson not tokill himself in "Kimmy"s bedroom."

According to an interview Robert did with Barbara Walters in 1996, this confrontation did occur, though Kim wasn"t in the house at the time. The interview resurfaced during a 2014 interview Kris didon "The View."

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OJ Simpson Frenzy Back in Full Force After Surprising Discovery

Knife Found In OJ Simpson’s Backyard

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We move on to new questions in the murder case that captivated a nation, Los Angeles police confirming they are examining a knife found buried on O.J. Simpson"s former estate. But even if it turns out not to be the missing murder weapon, as ABC"s Matt Gutman reports tonight, the O.J. Frenzy is back in full force. Reporter: Sometimes a knife is just a knife. Tonight, law enforcement sources telling ABC news the mud-encrusted folding knife -- held by a LAPD officer for nearly two decades -- is likely not connected to the O.J. Simpson case. Still, police say they"ll continue with DNA testing on the knife. We will look at anything that we believe has any validity to either assure people that this investigation was done appropriately. Reporter: The blade, investigators believe, is too small to have savagely butchered Nicole brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994. A lawyer for George maycott, tells ABC news a construction worker handed his client the knife in 2002 or so when he was working security on a movie nearby. Maycott allegedly alerted the LAPD about the knife, but was told the case is closed. It wasn"t. This is a double homicide that it is still open and ongoing. Reporter: The murder weapon has never been found. Police scouring the neighborhood in 1994. We did a search from the Rockingham home to the Bundy home with 150 people. We searched all the streets, the gutters, the trash, the lawns. Reporter: So, the case remains in limbo. On one side, it remains open. On the other investigators tell me, they arrested the only plausible suspect back in 1994 -- O.J. Simpson and they can"t charge him because of double jeopardy. Is Cecilia.

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Buried Knife Found Outside OJ Simpson Estate

LAPD: Knife Found On OJ Simpson’s Former Property | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC

Once again, a crazy story revolving around the O.J. Simpson Murder has emerged. As reported by TMZ, aconstruction worker found a knife buried on the perimeter of the former O.J. Simpson Estateestate several years ago and turned it into a LAPD officer he saw on the street.

The knife is a folding buck knife.

Sources within LAPD told TMZ that the officer who worked in the traffic division was off duty at the time, working security for a movie shoot at a house across the street on Rockingham. The officer took the knife home and kept it.

In late January of this year, after the officer retired, he contacted a friend who worked in LAPDs Robbery Homicide Division. The officer told the friend about the knife and said he was getting it framed to put on his wall. He wanted his friend to get the DR (Departmental Record) number for the Nicole Brown Simpson/Ronald Goldman murder case, which he planned on engraving in the frame.

The friend was indignant, and told his superiors. The brass was outraged and demanded that the retired officer turn the knife over, which he did.

Sources say the knife is currently being tested for hair and fingerprints. It will be moved to the Serology Unit next week, where it will be tested for DNA and other biological evidence.

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Source: http://lawofficer.com/2016/03/04/buried-knife-found-outside-o-j-simpson-estate/

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