Coming up on the anniversary of this event soon. Where were you when this happened (June 17, 1994)

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TwainVonnegut@reddit

Watching the Mel Gibson film “Maverick” in the theater with my girlfriend, I was 12 years old!

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nighteyes_fitz@reddit

What was the event? I have no idea what this picture depicts 😂 help an Aussie out 😂

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Watching the NBA playoffs - Knicks vs Rockets with my dad (was a huge Knicks fan back in the day). OJ verdict was in the dorm lounge when I was a college freshman. Thinking back on it now, and given the 24/7 insanity we deal with now, the chase almost seems quaint?

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AggravatingSignal129@reddit

Almost identical for me, except for the verdict I was a senior in high school. One of the cool teachers let a few of us watch in the teachers’ lounge.

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EsotericAbstractIdea@reddit

In 7th grade wood shop the teacher brought out the TV cart and we watched the verdict there.

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chrjohns21@reddit

Ditto. I stayed home that Friday night to watch the finals only to be interrupted constantly by the damn OJ saga.

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lnc_5103@reddit

At my friend's birthday slumber party. We were all hanging out in the living room when her mom ran in and told us she needed the TV. We all sat there very confused watching with her.

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clutzycook@reddit

I was just thinking is was such a simpler time. I feel like the trial itself was the beginning of the 24/7 news cycle that we all hate now.

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Seven19td@reddit

I was watching the NBA Finals and it cut to this. They ended up putting the chase on the big picture and had the game on the small picture-in-picture

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Chet_Phoney@reddit

90's were unbeatable. Was pretty rad that only one terrible thing seemed to happen at a time. Nothing is memorable anymore because we are flooded with constant bad news

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Competitive-Teach675@reddit

I have nothing to add, other than that I think it's totally rad that the only place I see words like "rad" is here.

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grover1233@reddit

My new bosses name is Tad. “Rad” is now in the kids lingo.

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djsynrgy@reddit

In my restaurant days I used to work with a dude named Tad; Tad was definitely a rad dude.

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Summerie@reddit

I dated a Tad, but Tad was bad.

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Majestic_Egg2291@reddit

The kids are appropriating our lingo?? I thought they were all about “ongod” (oddly religious, but may be a bad religion ref), and being deadasses (must be the new form of a deadhead)

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Blackbird136@reddit

Bet.

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No_Outcome_7470@reddit

We used ‘bet’ and ‘whip’ 20 years ago…. I recently had an argument about this with my 13 year old about this and am still feeling some animosity.

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DBPanterA@reddit

I have no idea what any of this means. That said, I have reintroduced “homie” back into the daily lexicon.

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humble_cyrus@reddit

F*ckin' rad.

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NoKatyDidnt@reddit

Exactly!

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Skitzafranik@reddit

Wasn’t that MJ’s last NBA Finals before his first retirement?

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BIGscott250@reddit

Same.

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le_gros_serpent@reddit

When they cut away the Rockets were losing, when the came back they were winning. I was upset, but not too upset. H Town's first title.

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mikeyd1276@reddit

Knicks fan here with the opposite feelings.

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Invulio@reddit

Yup, same here. I was 11. Didn’t grasp why it was important, just wanted to watch the damn basketball game.

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rojoshow13@reddit

I couldn't remember what I was doing because I was 13. I figured I was probably watching Raw but it wasn't a Monday so I was probably watching the NBA as well. I do remember going to the living room and asking my mom why OJ was being chased and she's the one who told me about his ex wife being murdered.

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Allureme@reddit

I was really mad at that point

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LineImpossible3958@reddit

Picture in Picture was so cool at the time

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Obi_Wan_Benobi@reddit

I was on my way back from the park playing basketball so I could catch the NBA Finals.

I had watched the press conference I think earlier that day when they said OJ was a fugitive. As soon as I came inside and walked into the living room I asked my mom and dad if they caught OJ and they just pointed at the screen.

There was the white Bronco and all of a sudden the NBA Finals weren’t as exciting to me (for that night).

I went up to my room and watched the rest of the chase. I remember another man coming out of the house where Al Cowlings had parked the Bronco. Turned out that was OJ’s oldest son.

In the years that followed there was a conspiracy theory that the song actually did it, but nah. OJ was guilty as fuck.

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TheBrownCouchOfJoy@reddit

Same. It was pretty funny watching my mother’s bf sweating over the Knicks getting cut over to the chase

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kathatter75@reddit

Same! I was pissed that I had to watch the Rockets in a tiny little box in the corner of the screen!

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Shortbus_Playboy@reddit

That shit pissed me off.

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Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit

Yep. They never recovered from the backlash

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motorcycleboy9000@reddit

Same. Trying to watch the damn Finals.

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Prossdog@reddit

Same here. We were watching the Finals at my uncle’s house.

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Express-Fennel-3564@reddit

My family sat at an El Pollo Loco and watched it all go down.

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WatersEdge50@reddit

I had just arrived in Oahu that morning. It was all over the TV.

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Positively_Eric@reddit

Trying to celebrate my birthday but everyone was talking about this.

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BostonGirl804@reddit

Probably pregnant with my third baby.

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SplakyD@reddit

I had been shopping with my grandmother (RIP) in the factory outlets of Boaz, AL that day and was excited because I'd bought an Athlon Sports SEC football preview magazine on the way home. When I got home, I turned on the NBA Finals game amd saw them interrupt Governor the chase, so I switched it over from NBC to ABC, where we always got our news from Peter Jennings, and watched it all unfold. I kept up with all the trial proceedings afterwards. It's probably one of the biggest reasons that I became a lawyer.

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txgax@reddit

If I recall correctly, I was going through my various sports trading cards and watching the NBA Finals Knicks vs Rockets.

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Positron14@reddit

No idea. I never watched it, just heard about it.

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EmoGothPunk@reddit

In my mother's stomach.

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Jairoglyphics1@reddit

Fun fact: NBC4 reporter Conan Nolan famously drove directly in front of O.J. Simpson's white Bronco during the infamous June 17, 1994, freeway chase. Along with his photographer, Nolan navigated into this position in an unmarked van, witnessing the surreal event firsthand, observing the thousands of onlookers, and reporting from a cell phone before allowing the pursuit to pass.

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serioperocabron@reddit

At home watching a show on fox and then it’s ruined to show this chase,hahaha

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kryptonitemind@reddit

In one of my high school classes.

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BeefSupremeeeeee@reddit

Went to baseball practice and he was missing. When I got home he was in the bronco....

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iambarrelrider@reddit

Ordering Dominos. So was everyone else.

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

Baseball practice

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Skitzafranik@reddit

Just got out for the summer of 8th grade…… started HS in August

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schizo1914@reddit

In Culver City, CA. Frantically grabbing my car keys at age 16 to get on the freeway and check it out!

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JohnnyKnifefight@reddit

OJ did not do it

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Quirin_Cottonbriefs@reddit

I watched the helicopters and heard the police sirens as it went down the 91, which was about 4 or 5 blocks from my house.

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TheSwissdictator@reddit

I seem to recall watching Mrs Doubtfire on the TV in my parents bedroom while my mom had a friend over and was watching something in the living room. When I turned the VCR off, it was the Bronco chase.

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LikelyLioar@reddit

I was twelve, and I only knew who OJ was because of the Naked Gun movies. My sister and I convinced our parents to let us stay up an extra half hour because we were sure they'd catch him by then. Spoiler: they didn't.

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DBPanterA@reddit

I was in my parent’s bedroom watching it on CNN. I remember watching it. At this time I was regularly watching the late night talk shows, so I was flipping between Letterman and Leno.

Still remember being in school when the verdict came in… 🤯🤯🤯

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humble_cyrus@reddit

Watching the game.

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Dry-Juggernaut-3936@reddit

12 year old wondering why Nordberg was on the wrong end of a car chase

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Happy_Confection90@reddit

I don't know. The school year had just ended and I was looking after my little brother, who at 11 was finally kind of fun to be around. I know that I heard about it that day, but probably not until my parents got home and turned on the news.

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Misfit_77@reddit

I was watching this shit with my family. Nothing else to watch since this was dominating the airwaves.

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481126@reddit

I was home from school and it was on the TV my Dad was watching it.

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DogAnusJesus@reddit

Where were you when you had school in mid June in the early 90s?

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Happy_Confection90@reddit

Northeast? I didn't graduate high school until June 16th.

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Miami_Mice2087@reddit

i think i was in school too, we went til like June 15th or 20th in PA

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James_Mays_Hair@reddit

I remember coming home on the last day of school to this. Southern California. We started school around Labor Day and went to mid June, but I believe they shifted to May end of year since then.

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Blackbird136@reddit

This was still a school day for us (WV). I was on a plane because we’d already paid for the vacation months before, but we had a bad winter that year and ended up with multiple snow make-up days tacked on to the end of school.

June 7-10 was a standard last day of school here in the 90s, before any make up days. It’s about two weeks earlier than that now; they start earlier than we did.

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demarisco@reddit

Not to op above,but i remember watching this after school's as well, I'm in Canada and our school lasts to the end of June.

I also remember that during the trial our school had it playing on TVs in the halls. Wild times.

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Automatic-Nature6025@reddit

That's what I'm saying. Summer was already underway everywhere in the northern hemisphere, that I'm aware of. Maybe summer school kids?

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Switchbladekitten@reddit

Same here. My mom was taping it. 😂

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Desikarma524@reddit

🤣🤣

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Desikarma524@reddit

Same.

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Bill-Huggins@reddit

I'm a hotel room in Branson, Missouri. The night before my 12th birthday. Just wanted to go drive go-karts instead of watching a slow police chase of a white Bronco of some football player.

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ForeignBarracuda8599@reddit

On the USS Essex during rimpac 94 in the chow hall

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TheRealTheSpinZone@reddit

Was working my after school/summer (though it was summer break) job at a tanning salon in Beverly Hills. People kept calling and cancelling their appointments making dumb excuses but we had a tv so I knew exactly why.

When they got back to his house and eventually they arrested him, the whole brigade drove right in front of me at my work. Literal stream of cop cars, news media, stringers....was wild

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No-Win-2741@reddit

I was in my husband's bar which was not far from here.

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Next-Honeydew4130@reddit

At home with family watching it on TV. In 9th grade or so?

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TehPaintbrushJester@reddit

Probably working at K-Mart trying to earn money for books for my first semester of college that fall.

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scrubber12@reddit

I just got back from taking my son to his hockey game. Turned on the news and there it was. Was mesmerized.

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Desikarma524@reddit

I was home, enjoying summer break from school. Watched the whole thing live.

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LastCookie3448@reddit

Watching it play out in real time on TV as the choppers flew overhead and everyone in town ran out to catch a glimpse. I had actually stumbled upon the crime scene (before we knew who/what it was) and that was far more jarring. The smell of the blood was overwhelming. This I thought was just a load of BS and him playing drama queen. He was guilty, everyone knew he was guilty, and when the verdict came down everyone in L.A. knew it was (misplaced but well deserved) revenge for Rodney King, why the media is pretending this is suddenly 'news' is beyond me.

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RevolutionAccurate@reddit

I was at Knotts Berry Farm for a Jr high event and missed it. 😩

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Boring_Week_9884@reddit

Working behind the bar and watched it go down with all the guys their since they made me turn the game off to see it

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Purfectenschlag@reddit

It was summer break. My buddy and I were taking turns driving his dirt bike for about 1 hour or more each go and we’d take turns while the other watched daytime TV inside. This broke into whatever was on and we both ended up watching it unfold from there.

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MoveToSafety@reddit

Nothing else seemed to be on that year. Was disappointed because I always heard he was a great runner.

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AdmirableTable1677@reddit

8th grade

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Sweetpee-426@reddit

Hiding in the third row seat

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cyclepoet77@reddit

At a friend's place, chilling and were going to play video games. Once this chase cut into whatever had been airing on the television (think it was the Knicks playoff game - neither of us were sports fans), video games were saved for another day.

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Effective_Play_1366@reddit

Working in a grocery store. My boss grabbed me and we went to the smoking lounge to watch it on a 13 inch tv. It was color.

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Available_Reward_799@reddit

I remember I was getting ready to go to work

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jbug671@reddit

I was babysitting. They had satellite tv (with the gigantic dish in the yard). It was on every channel. The kids were in bed at this point and the parents came home tipsy with friends. I had to explain that: the football player slash hertz guy killed his wife and was running from the cops, but because he’s famous they’re doing it in slo-mo? They paid in cash and practically double than normal, and I split.

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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

Watching the NY Rangers victory parade.

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CaydeTheCat@reddit

Working second shift on the line at Honda Marysville Auto #1. They would call out updates to us on their floor over the PA. It was kinda surreal.

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WickedlyAvocado@reddit

As a 10 year old, all I remember is “if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”

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longhwy18@reddit

Trying to watch the NBA finals between the Knicks and Rockets, and wondering why the hell my basketball game was being interrupted because a rich guy didn’t want to be arrested.

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rakkquiem@reddit

My family went to see Siegfried and Roy in Las Vegas. Flipped on the tv when we got home and went WTF did we miss.

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Ill-Definition-2943@reddit

At a friend’s house, I was 11. We watched it on the tv in her basement, not really understanding what was going on but intrigued by seeing a car chase like this.

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TeacherLady3@reddit

I was working on lesson plans and closing in on the end of my first year of teaching. Now, I'm working on lesson plans and counting the 6 weeks until retirement.

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javaper@reddit

I watched this on a little TV attached to the wall at a Taco Bell in Laredo, TX.

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gwhh@reddit

Playing with my friends in the backyard. My mom called us all in to watch it.

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FletchMom@reddit

I was only 13 when this happened, so not working a job other than babysitting, but I also worked at a Sears service center later on, lol. I scheduled technicians for home visits for larger appliances when was 18-19. I mention Sears Service now and people are like “what?”

Anyway, I was home, it was summer break and I had the TV on watching something when the news broke. The continued to sit in front of the TV with my dad for forever.

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digawina@reddit

At work at a movie theater. People gave us updates throughout the evening as they stopped in, and as events unfolded.

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schminkles@reddit

Trying to move out of my parents house but my van was broken so i had to order parts for it

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big_ringer@reddit

I just finished 8th grade when this happened.

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keiththekid1@reddit

This must be where the term white privilege came from. A white bronco. I get it now.

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Blackbird136@reddit

I was on a plane and missed the whole thing. I’m still bitter tbh.

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ren986@reddit

At my parent’s house. I remember eating a Shwan’s brownie.

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sm_rollinger@reddit

At Target with my mom, woulda been 11

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they-walk-among-us@reddit

I was in New Zealand and have no clue what this is all about

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Worth_Specific3764@reddit

He did that shit.

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MuleGrass@reddit

On the bus home from junior high prom, got home and it my parents had it on the tv

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BuggerPie81@reddit

Sleeping over my Friend's House I think there was four of us. We were in the shed / pool house and happened to drag a TV with antenna out there. Who knew that's what we were in store for.

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foozebox@reddit

Brian Antonelli’s basement, duh!

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

I was watching a mystery show and it cut out for this crap right when they were about to reveal who the criminal was

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burnitalldown321@reddit

I was at my aunts apartment visiting, we watched it live on cnn. We even skipped Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune!

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TheGem20031@reddit

I ironically was at the movies watching Speed (The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down) & missed the whole chase.

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Skipper0463@reddit

I watched on tv in my parent’s bedroom. I didn’t know who OJ Simpson was at the time.

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pook1029@reddit

At work in Sacramento. We watched on the internet. Later we saw the NBA playoffs were paused to show the chase on Jumbotrons!

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VectorJones@reddit

Had just graduated high school a week or so before, during which I got the worst case of the flu of my life. I was still bed-ridden at this time, but was recovering.

I turned on the TV in my room that afternoon and all the channels had a live feed about how OJ had not turned himself in to the LAPD, who had just charged him with double murder, and was considered a fugitive. That's when it all kicked off, eventually leading to this insane chase. He left what sounded like a suicide letter at Kardashian's house, and all the news were just waiting for a Pulp Fiction style blood blast to paint the windows of that Bronco.

My parents got home that evening and we all just seemed to wind up sitting in my room watching this thing unfold. The constant background noise of OJ and his crimes would last all the way into my first semester of college.

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Willywasawale@reddit

Watching it live with my mom

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Joecamoe@reddit

Psy op stg

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More_Maximum_4522@reddit

At the dog track watching the NBA finals

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McAshley0711@reddit

Cheerleading tryouts. Still made the team ✔️

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Tooch10@reddit

My 9th birthday party. We were playing Nintendo, turned it off, saw the chase, didn't think anything of it, and went back to Nintendo

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Competitive_Peak_537@reddit

I was ordering pizza

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gabigboy93@reddit

I will never forget this day. I was walking home from the bus stop after a grueling two-a-day football practice. I walked into the house and my sister is sitting on the couch and says:

“Hey, who is OJ Simpson?”

I say, “He is a football announcer on NBC, he used to play running back a long time ago…why?”

She says,” Because the cops are chasing him and it’s on every channel and it is all they are talking about..look!”

She points at the TV and I see this image.

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Crayola_ROX@reddit

There was literally ONE place you could have been

In front of the TV

Or not in front of a TV

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Prize_Equivalent@reddit

Chipping golf balls into a mug in my living room during a rainstorm.

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K2sX@reddit

My 14th birthday party. The chase was entertainment.

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QuietProfessional0@reddit

I had just burned a spliff and came inside to this shit on tv, watched it live and stoned

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m8k@reddit

I was in 7th grade literature class

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PoisonMind@reddit

What's Kato up to these days?

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GotchUrarse@reddit

I was about 3 months into my first professional job. I thought we would all sit at our desks and do our work. Company had about 50 employees. When this broke, everyone from the CEO down sat in the conference room and watched. No one worked the rest of the day. I think I'm recalling this right.

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Dextropic@reddit

Wildwood, NJ. By the end of the week, half the t-shirt vendors were selling OJ shirts.

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Miami_Mice2087@reddit

i remember being in school? middle school. i saw it on the news when i got home, i think my soaps/cartoons were pre-empted

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itsjakerobb@reddit

It was summer vacation. I was almost 14. I have no effing clue where I was! Certainly wasn’t watching TV.

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Then-Abalone6403@reddit

I was 18 at a party. High as hell, thought I was tripping g when it came on. lol

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cerealfamine1@reddit

12 years old watching on my grandma's tv. Weird I still remember that lol.

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oronder@reddit

I was playing Street Fighter 2 on SNES at my friend Jason’s house, probably kicking ass as Guile. I can’t remember how/why we switched to broadcast tv, but when we did, there was the Bronco.

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thr0waway_str82jail@reddit

On the other side of the freeway. Everyone pulled over trying to figure out what was happening and then...

We saw the Bronco pass by.

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Altruistic-Cut9795@reddit

On the 405 Freeway watching the Bronco go back to Brentwood

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The_Punisher_3114@reddit

Fort Knox Kentucky

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TheSouthsideSlacker@reddit

Was at the University of Georgia attending summer school. One of my roommates was from Conroe, Texas and he was going batshit because they preempted FINALS for chase. Everybody else was watching the chase or laughing at him. Cant remember if that was the night Starkes went ice cold but my buddy ended up happy.

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Automatic-Nature6025@reddit

Man, I was at the community pool. I was a young teenager, but for some reason, I'll never forget that day.

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qtjedigrl@reddit

I was on day 2 of summer break

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Warm_Resist_6418@reddit

I was still in my dads balls

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DHammer79@reddit

At home trying to convince my parents to let me stay up and watch him get out of the bronco.

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Dependent-Potato2158@reddit

at my parents house on summer break from college trying to watch the Knicks play in the NBA finals... I was furious

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Riala4@reddit

At home trying to watch Power Rangers 😤

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ialsohaveadobro@reddit

Getting high after a shift at the hardware store.

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Jessieoxen@reddit

We watched the chase while I was in high school

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Hewish625@reddit

I was at a Moody Blues concert at the Mann Music Center with my parents. I was a cool (read: nerdy) 10 year old.

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carrot8080@reddit

It was the last day of 8th grade for me. I went to an end of school party at my friend's house. We were down in the basement blasting music and dancing. When I went upstairs to wait for my parents to pick me up, her parents were watching the chase on the TV. My mom told me about on the ride home, and my family stayed up watching it together.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

I distinctly recall we were visiting my grandparents, and they only watch Spanish television so now I know why I missed this.

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shmehdit@reddit

There was a strange stretch in the 90s where these crazy events would take place when my family was on a trip to Atlanta. And we only went a couple times a year. But OJ's spree happened on a trip to Atlanta, Princess Diana's crash, and the Heaven's Gate cult finale - all happened on trips to Atlanta. Probably at least one more that I'm not remembering.

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SirPhobos1@reddit

At home eating pizza and watching it. I was like 9 so I really had no clue who OJ was.

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NotXenos@reddit

My cousin was babysitting myself and my brother. They cut into the NBA playoffs to show the OJ car chase!

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djsynrgy@reddit

Completely oblivious. 😆

No recollection of where I was or what I was doing; I just know I missed this happening live and only found out about it afterwards.

What I do remember is where I was for the verdict; my then drama teacher pulled us all onto the stage in the auditorium and rolled out the TV cart and prefaced that this would be a big moment in American culture and discourse.

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This_hoe_dumb@reddit

I was in a social studies class.

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blamberr@reddit

In mid/late June?

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ResurgentClusterfuck@reddit

School didn't let out until early/mid June where I went to school, we didn't start again until after Labor Day though

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Obi_Wan_Benobi@reddit

It was like that in Washington state when I moved there in the 90s. We also got a lot of days off during the school year, like I think there was a mid-winter break in addition to winter and spring break.

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Entropy907@reddit

Summer break from mid June to post-labor day coincided well with the Washington climate.

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blamberr@reddit

Ooh ok. We finished up in early June. I remember being into summer a little when this happened

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Munchkin531@reddit

That's funny because in Texas we get out May 22nd or so. My birthday is the 31st and I was always sad I didn't have my birthday during the school year like my friends. I wanted my locker decorated and stuff. It also wasn't quite warm enough for a pool party.

I was watching the chase in my living room with my parents.

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blamberr@reddit

I was hanging in my best friend’s kitchen, watching the chase and eating very bad for you granola bars of the era. I had no idea who OJ Simpson was, but was able to absorb what a big deal it was

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captmonkey@reddit

My question would be more around the time. The Bronco chase started on a Friday at 5:56 PM Pacific time. It ended two hours later at 7:57 PM Pacific. Maybe they got confused and are thinking of when the Not Guilty verdict was read? That one was definitely during the school day.

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Defiant-Fix2870@reddit

I mean 6 pm PST is 3:00 pm on the east coast. My school day ended at 3:30 pm so we would have all still be in school. It’s later in HI compared to PST.

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clutzycook@reddit

Yep. I was in 8th grade and the verdict was read out during our lunch period. One of the teachers set up the TV in her room and a lot of us went over to watch it. This whole saga had been happening through a big chunk of our time in Jr. High. The murders happened right at the end of our 6th grade year, the trial started in the middle of 7th grade and continued into the start of 8th. It was crazy.

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Faustus_Fan@reddit

I was in 9th grade when the verdict happened. We were in the middle of lunch. The school turned all the TVs in the cafeteria to the news (CNN. I think) so we could watch. Things got LOUD in that cafeteria when the verdict was announced.

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GuySmiley369@reddit

Even if they lived in Hawaii, it started at 3:56 pm.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Ahhh... Yeah, it was probably a "current events" topic on Monday, hence the confusion.

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blamberr@reddit

Yes! I was literally in social studies when they did the verdict, but I’ve always thought of the chase as a summer event

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Baked_Potato_732@reddit

Their name is “this_hoe_dumb” clearly they were in summer school.

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This_hoe_dumb@reddit

Lmao, nice.

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CalgaryChris77@reddit

School goes until the end of June until college.

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

For you, perhaps. For others, it absolutely does not. I was always done with school by mid to late may.

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CalgaryChris77@reddit

It's always been Labour Day until the end of June here...

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

Okay. I don’t know where “here” is but it still doesn’t change the fact that most Americans are out of school by the end of may.

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CalgaryChris77@reddit

Really? Damn, I knew a few places in the south got out in May and went back in august I thought that was rare though... also I thought my username was a pretty good sign for where I am from.

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flashintheevening@reddit

In British Columbia, our school year ends at the end of June.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Ontario too.

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Anyone-9451@reddit

Yea when I was growing up school would end early June but testing could go on to the 3rd week in June depending on your classes and what ever state testing their was….bit of a shock when I moved and kids are out usually by mid May

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GuySmiley369@reddit

But this happened after school was out on a Friday night…

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Samesies!

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grover1233@reddit

Just got home from a soccer tournament.

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LordChauncyDeschamps@reddit

I was in a hotel in Miami with my family. It was my 17th birthday.

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Remarkable_Ad1255@reddit

Watching a ball game at old tiger stadium in Detroit a guy in our section had the chase playing in a radio it was wild

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Fabulous_Permit5276@reddit

I was working the flat top at a pizza parlor just north of Philadelphia. I was making someone’s chee steak order when the owner came and told us what was happening and turned on the TV. Like it was yesterday

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Dear_Atmosphere9681@reddit

All I remember was it caused TGIF not to run that night and that made me mad.

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pizza5001@reddit

I was probably still mourning the death of Kurt Cobain.

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Tigerzombie@reddit

I don’t remember the chase. I remember my aunt complaining that they showed the trial instead of her soaps. I remember watching the verdict being announced in English class.

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johnnytom@reddit

I was working in an ice cream shop that had a tv. Everyone in the place was silently watching this unfold

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Alot2unpack@reddit

During the actual chase? I was at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Santa Clarita, CA working as a cashier.

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TeutonJon78@reddit

I was returning from my high school German exchange that day as was super confused why everyone in the airport upon landing back in the US was watching a super slow car chase of a white SUV.

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DickWhittingtonsCat@reddit

Wish I was in Milwaukee at Phish show. But I wasn’t old enough yet for unhindered freedom, so I was watching game and saw them at UIC a couple days later.

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Intelligent_Pass2540@reddit

This is going to sound so weird but I was changing my first diaper lol. I was almost 12 and it was my first babysitting job for an infant. I was MESMERIZED!

Rocked that baby to sleep watching all the news coverage.

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Drew_of_all_trades@reddit

I remember for some reason watching the trial in chemistry class. The teacher wheeled in a TV cart and everything

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Drew_of_all_trades@reddit

In the library, skipping chemistry class

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FinanceRecent5222@reddit

Little league pizza party

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lavasca@reddit

Was actually living closeby and bummed because suddenly everything was suddenly annoying to get to.

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potatopigflop@reddit

My mums tummy like “yo, you still gonna name me Nicole then??” And she totally did.

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Alchia79@reddit

I was celebrating my 15th birthday in Paris and we watched it on the hotel tv 😂. I’ll never forget that birthday.

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MYSTERees77@reddit

I was at a Phil Collins concert. When the concert ended, everyone started to notice that every TV in the arena had on the car chase. It was then everyone knew he was guilty.

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59apache01@reddit

32 years.....hard to believe.

I was watching it from a hotel room in North Carolina.

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PatchworkGirl82@reddit

I was probably at summer day camp, either getting burned on the metal playground slide, or sitting under the big rainbow parachute in the school gym.

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AshDogBucket@reddit

Yeah, I was 9 so probably same.

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AshDogBucket@reddit

It's only from reading the comments that I got that this pic had something to do with OJ. I remember the OJ story well, but whatever is happening in this pic wasn't important to me i guess.

We didn't really watch the news in my house. We talked about what was going on, but I have zero recollection of ever watching the news as a child. I remember watching Diana's funeral on tv.

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ImaginationDecent556@reddit

Driving an 18 wheeler across northern Nevada

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brokenman82@reddit

I was at Cub Scout camp. I missed the entire week. My mom picked me up and told me who won the NBA finals and stuff on the way home. Then when we got to the house my dad came running out going ‘he’s in the driveway!!!!’

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KudosOfTheFroond@reddit

I was actually flying back from Italy, I was 12 going on 13, and I remember when we landed everyone was talking about OJ. It was surreal, I was a huuuuuge Naked Gun fan as a kid and OJ was Detective Nordberg to me. For a time I truly believed he was innocent. Well I wanted to believe he was. Strange time!

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jzzlr@reddit

Installing a CD-ROM drive in my 486, an upgraded I was really excited about. Parents got Dominos for dinner. My little brother and I watched it together in my bedroom. Circumstances aside its a great memory for me.

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Funandgeeky@reddit

This completely passed me by. I didn't know it had happened until the next day. Can't tell you what I was doing when it happened.

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DarinCN@reddit

Leclaire Iowa- that day was the first time I …. Did something

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TheFoxandTheSandor@reddit

Post baseball game party at my friends house

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MartialBob@reddit

I was pissed off that this was pre-empting TGIF where I lived on the east coast

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RoxyLA95@reddit

Making out with my boyfriend in his room.

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Fearless-Celery@reddit

Trying to watch some dang basketball.

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CannaPeaches@reddit

Cool trivia: June 17th, 1994 was Domino's largest day of sales ever. 95 million viewers no one was leaving their tv's.

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KevDub81@reddit

Getting ready to go to an end of season awards dinner for the scrub bowling league my friend and I were teammates in. Was watching the Knicks v Rockets so I caught some of the chase before I had to go.

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Antigravity1231@reddit

Instead of being taught physics in class we were all watching this on TV.

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General_Departure583@reddit

At home, watching the NBA finals.

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SanPadrigo@reddit

Playing Streets of Rage 2 my Sega Genesis.

I think my mom was watching on a separate TV.

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octoberelectrocute@reddit

Sitting in my 5th grade class watching this live on TV.

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LongballG@reddit

Watching the NBA finals, on vacation in Vail a week into summer vacation, after my freshman year of high school.

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Plumeria9798@reddit

I was sitting in my living room blowing up an air mattress half heartedly with a manual pump while paying attention to the Bronco chase. I’m sure it preempted TGIF and that’s why.

We had relatives coming in that night who would be staying with us for a month, and I was going to be sleeping on said air mattress. Nothing quite illustrates our non-pampered childhoods like giving your middle schooler a manual bike pump and making her blow up her own air mattress to sleep on because the relatives get her room and bed for a month. Lol!

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ShineNShrooms@reddit

I was in Texas on vacation just after graduation from HS and I was watching the NBA finals also.

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YeahNahMaybe__@reddit

Non US Xennial here.

What happened?

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

Southern Germany. Didn't care much about the whole thing, didn't understand why there was such a huge media frenzy.

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davwad2@reddit

I was at home on the phone with a girl.

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TrixieLaBouche@reddit

Was 13 and in the UK. Had zero idea who OJ Simpson was or this was happening. Pretty much as if I'd said Bobby Moore to an American. We didn't have any idea or give a crap even if we'd been told.

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Out-There1013@reddit

I was with my dad and we were visiting his girlfriend and her two kids for movie night. I think we watched Ghost. I miss seeing that family.

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jab904@reddit

There is a really good ESPN 30 for 30 documentary on Netflix called “June 17th, 1994” that documents that day. There was a ton going on in the sports world that day and the OJ chase upstaged all of them.

It’s a fascinating glimpse back into that day. Highly recommend it if you have Netflix or can track it down otherwise.

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mountednoble99@reddit

I remember I was in 7th grade. I walked in to find my mom watching this on tv!

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sleepy_unicorn40@reddit

I was in high school homeroom. My teacher turned on the news during this class and it came on and not one person got any of their schoolwork done. My teacher turned on the trial every day too and we all watched it for those 55 minutes. I remember i started coming in early or staying late to talk with teachers because I didn't want to miss the trial.

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Green_Wyvern17@reddit

I did not remember this happening on my birthday 😳

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Box_Mashed_Potatoes@reddit

It was my 13th birthday (Happy birthday to us in a month).

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Green_Wyvern17@reddit

Mine too! Happy future birthday

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Luzon79@reddit

In Australia and completely oblivious to the whole thing. Didn't even hear about till a decade later.

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LeftSmile806@reddit

Junior High School and oddly watching it in the school cafeteria..the trial too.

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Righteous_Fire@reddit

Probably at summer camp.

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Hossflex@reddit

Fresh out of 6th grade. I think I was playing basketball in the driveway when my mom yelled for us to come in.

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_AMOK_@reddit

My 14th birthday was an interesting day to say the least

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twopacktuesday@reddit

Working as a dishwasher at the local country club. We took a break to watch the fireworks from the snack bar.

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Beechwooder@reddit

Playing pool with my friends and girlfriend at the Rack Room in Langhorne PA.

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Sekshual_Tyranosauce@reddit

At my grandmother’s cottage watching the inly channel her antenna could get. It was a murder mystery and they were about to reveal everything.

Then the network cut to this bullshit.

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EggandSpoon42@reddit

Do you want to hear it? Lol
So I had just arrived at a dude's apt that I had just met at college. Embarrassingly enough - I saw him in the class next door a week prior, told my "computer graphic design" professor that I was going to marry this guy (he was soo hot). And then SHE set us up, haha. (We are the same age, both 21 at the time)

So I show up at dude's apt and he has the OJ chase live on his computer via a drive he got (like an antenna style fire drive). I was so enthralled, first with the fact that he could even get something on his computer – what was that? And the we watched every minute of the OJ chase together.

Got married, had our amazing child (who is an adult helicopter firefighter now) and the above was our first date 💙💙

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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

I was playing a Little League game in Carson, CA at a park directly south of the 91 Freeway...the chase passed right by my game.

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Dboogy2197@reddit

Meh. At this point, fuck that guy. Glad that murderer is dead.

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Nancy-Drew-Who@reddit

It was my little brother's 7th birthday! It was on the tv in the dining area at the Chuck E Cheez.

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ChalkDoxie@reddit

At a pizza restaurant in Escondido, CA, after going antiquing with my parents. I was 12

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Jasion128@reddit

I was still young enough to be upset full house and family matters were pre empted by the news

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andiinAms@reddit

On vacation in NYC at my friend’s sister’s apartment. Right after my 17th bday

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Unlucky-Monk-8045@reddit

15, east coast. Sitting on the couch watching it unfold.

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musashi-swanson@reddit

I was there with my mom and little sister on the 405 to the 5, stuck in traffic!

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J_dub5235112@reddit

Had the Playoffs on in the background while playing ping-pong in my basement…er, practicing. Had a half folded up.

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PinotFerret@reddit

Friday night, always chillin at my great aunts house, watching TGIF while my mom went out.

It interrupted TGIG (or maybe 2020) and we were glued to the TV, past bedtime, but my aunt said we were staying up because this was history!

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2d6DoomedWizards@reddit

Being pissed it was interrupting the NBA Finals.

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DooficusIdjit@reddit

Can’t member. I remember watching the verdict in school, though. Whole high school shut down- if your class didn’t have a tv, you wandered into rooms until you found one.

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SnooCapers1425@reddit

I had just graduated highschool and was in a pretty heavy make out with Jaime E. at her house.

Her Dad knocked opened up her bedroom door and let me tell you... O.J. wasn't the only one trying to make a getaway that day.

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Jmspringsteed@reddit

I was watching it on an old black and white tv with my youngest sister (85) in her bedroom.
Also I clearly remember where I was when the verdict was read, world history class sophomore year. All the kids ran out of the classrooms cheering in a way that still doesn’t make sense to me.

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DoveStep55@reddit

I was at a friend’s birthday party. We watched Ace Ventura but either right before or right after the movie, the car chase was on live TV and we watched it for a while. You can’t say, “Aaaaaaalllll rightythen” in my vicinity without me thinking of OJ. 😆

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flashintheevening@reddit

I was talking to someone born in 1995 about OJ and he mentioned he had little-to-no knowledge of the whole ordeal, which was just crazy to me (as someone born in 1981).

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avalonfaith@reddit

I was talking to my son(20) and his gf(21) just week about me learning to drive in a white bronco. I went to explain the significance and they were like "weee knnoooowww about OJ, everyone knows. Common knowledge, mom 😒.". Well fine then, child I brand into this universe, fine.

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fitz84@reddit

At Grandma and Grandpa's house watching cartoons. I was mad because they interrupted Batman the Animated Series for this s***

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International-Gear75@reddit

I was at a card shop in Hartford, Wisconsin.

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besleysfw@reddit

I was at my friends house. We were playing Streetfighter 2. We didn’t go downstairs when his parents called us down, we kept playing. We found out about it the next day.

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MountainTomato9292@reddit

At my friend Andrea’s house, my boyfriend was there too! Andrea’s dad yelled “hey guys, you’re gonna want to see this!” He recognized what an event it was in the moment, so we all sat down and watched it together.

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Ohfuscia@reddit

In the car on the freeway in LA with my parents on our way to visit my sister in college and help her move somethings fot summer break. We were on the 118 so far from the event to notice any changes to traffic. We were listening intently on the radio.

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Hynch@reddit

I don't remember it live, but heard about it at school the next day. I think I was in eighth grade at the time. I didn't know much about what was going on and we didn't have cable TV. I'm sure it was on the news that night, but I would have been in bed by then. All I heard was everyone saying that the guy from Naked Gun had killed his wife and the police were after him.

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Zeveroth1@reddit

Seen it on tv just after dinner. I turned 15 just a few days before that. Back then, there wasn’t a tv that didn’t have the case playing.

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ElleAnn42@reddit

I feel like I was in school... but I'm probably thinking of the other big things that happened around that time including Waco and the Oklahoma City bombing.

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Sunsfever83@reddit

I was in Wasilla, Ak.

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avalonfaith@reddit

I was 12 so like, 7th grad e summer between 8th grade. I was probably stoned and/or drinking. I remember it happening and it caring much at all. Being the "other black girl" in a white shit town, I was constantly ask to rep "my people" and generally rebelled against that too. No new friends. No new options.

I later got the relevance and the links to so much media encroachment. I also developed that favorite SoCal past time of high speed chases in the news. Funny since his was definitely not high speed. I'm also learn to drive in a white bronco some years later! lol.

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PickledPixie83@reddit

At home. My parents were both at work and I ended up watching this for some reason.

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RachelPalmer79@reddit

Trying to watch the damn basketball game!

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awesinine@reddit

I was talking to a girl I liked on the phone in my parents room and turned on their little tv to make some noise because I heard my mom right outside the door trying to listen in and it made me uncomfortable. The chase was going on live. I was in either fifth or sixth grade.

I remember it was a Friday because fox 11 had all it's x-files / sightings / alien autopsy related programing on Friday's so I always looked forward to whatever was going to be on.

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EarlBeforeSwine@reddit

A random Friday in June… I was almost certainly driving a tractor at that time. I didn’t hear about it until Monday at school

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Badger1505@reddit

At my cousins house getting ready to leave on a big family trip out to the Black Hills. Whole family was gathered around the TV watching it unfold.

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Taanistat@reddit

I was sick, home from school and started channel surfing...only to see one of the most infamous events of the 90s.

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No-Championship-8677@reddit

It was my 12th birthday!!!! We watched on tv at my house, lol

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OkGeologist2229@reddit

Being at Red Rocks with friends at 19 listening on the radio.

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Faustus_Fan@reddit

On a family vacation. We all sat around the TV in the hotel room watching it unfold while my father kept muttering "innocent people don't run" over and over.

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tgerz@reddit

You were sittin at home watchin your TV, while I was participatin in some anarchy. (I know it's not a riot, it was just the first thing that popped into my head).

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Diligent-Resist8271@reddit

I was at Girl Scout Murder Mystery Dinner. It was an end of year celebration for the troop. It was also my last year of Girl Scouts, our troop disbanded after 8th grade. I remember we were all watching on the TV and just kind of abandoned the dinner (even the actors were focused on the chase).

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Efficient_Story2747@reddit

I was at my friend’s house pissed off that they cut out the NBA finals between the Orlando Magic and the Houston Rockets.

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Peanut083@reddit

It was in year 5 at the time, and it was during the school term for me because Australia and winter. I remember walking past and seeing this on the evening news, but not live. I definitely didn’t understand the full context at the time, and was like “Huh, those Americans and their car chases”.

I definitely remember being very confused as to how they came to that conclusion when the ‘not guilty’ verdict was announced.

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Live_Today1943@reddit

I was in high school, somehow everyone knew in the halls between classes.

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mel726@reddit

I watched the chase on TV at home wondering why my parents were freaking out about this "OJ guy" being on the run. I guess being 49er fans in the Bay Area made the chase extra crazy to witness!

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Individual_Slice_234@reddit

I was at work (a newspaper). We had a TV and everybody was watching it.

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thetrappster@reddit

Little league practice.

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ScoobyDone@reddit

Working at a Sears warehouse. When we heard everyone stopped working and went to the break room to watch it live.

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Clean_Usual434@reddit

I was at Disney World with my parents. We were sitting in our resort room watching it live.

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noronto@reddit

As a kid who lived in Toronto, I was actually in California that week on vacation.

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goykasi@reddit

I was at home when my parents and I started watching it. I thought it was so cool. My dad had the exact same white Bronco.

I remember him being the tail end of a lot jokes from his friends for the next year or so.

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Toeknee818@reddit

Not knowing I was going to be pissed off that I wasn't going to be able to watch Saturday morning cartoons for a long while.

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VinylHiFi1017@reddit

I was fourteen, watching it for hours on the tv with my mom and dad in our living room. It was surreal and I clearly remember that night this many years later.

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Bradtothebone79@reddit

Watching the slowest car chase ever. Yeah this one

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the_girl_racer@reddit

Welp, it was my birthday, so naturally, I was NOT celebrating, but getting overshadowed by this.

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Cael_NaMaor@reddit

Don't know, don't care. Not everything needs to be memorialized like it's some life changing event...

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Slim_Margins1999@reddit

Day after my 11th Birthday. Was playing basketball outside with my older brother and some of his friends, and my parents came out to tell us to watch. He was home from his freshman year of college. Wild shit!!!!

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irate_alien@reddit

Trying to watch the Knicks choke

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BomBiddyByeBye@reddit

My mom was visiting a friend at an apartment complex and I was downstairs playing with the neighbor kids in a parking garage. We were actually playing POGs which is perfect relic of the time. Anyway, somebody put a poison on top of my stack and took my whole deal and I got so mad that I punched a hole in the door to one of the water heaters down there. Anyway, when I got back upstairs, I saw the chase on TV

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tyronetbs@reddit

We were at my uncles house my parents were out of town. We were watching the Rockets game if I remember and this came on.

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nosyroseyposey@reddit

Home as it was summer & there was no school. It was on every channel so we watched

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PIPnorcali@reddit

i was at kern river fishing

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Kellzy1212@reddit

In art class, watching it because the teacher was obsessed. 🤣 I was a huge Norm McDonald fan at the time. He got fired from SNL because of his OJ jokes.

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Gravy_Sommelier@reddit

It's a damn shame that Norm died before OJ.

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Outrageous_Lettuce44@reddit

At a seedy motel in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

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clutzycook@reddit

I was 12 and my family was on vacation. We had just arrived at our hotel and us kids wanted to go down to the pool, but my parents were, for some reason, absolutely glued to the TV. I get the significance of it now, but back then I didn't have a clue who OJ Simpson was or why my parents, who were not usually invested in national news like this, would spend hours watching a low speed chase happening clear out in California.

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rallruse@reddit

I lived in the area. Don’t remember where I was exactly, but my brother was working at the Circuit City just off the freeway and they saw him approaching their location, so they went out on the parking structure to watch. “Cheer him on,” as he put it.

I sure as shit remember this story of his, but I have no clue if he does lol

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Tristram19@reddit

I was almost 13 at the time, at my grandpas watching Robinhood Prince of Thieves. I remember being so transfixed by Robin getting that guys hand cut off I could not care less about that slow motion “chase” my mom was watching.

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Top-Wolverine-8684@reddit

Standing in exactly the same spot I was when I found out about Princess Diana's death, just behind the couch in the family room, staring at the TV.

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NativeFlowers4Eva@reddit

In high school Spanish. The teacher actually stopped class and put the tv on.

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brakeb@reddit

High school, and I couldn't say where, because I didn't care about all the drama

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LegitimateFeeling693@reddit

I don’t remember. I was in social studies class when he got acquitted though.

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PIG20@reddit

In my room for the night watching whatever show on network TV. It was almost 9PM due to theb3 hour time difference.

Needless to say, I was glued to the TV for a long time that night.

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nobodyshero830@reddit

Sitting on my grandparents floor pissed as hell because USA Network was broadcasting the news and all I wanted to do was watch the adventures of Briscoe County Jr. I was 8.

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Junior_Article_3244@reddit

Health class

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ikariashpool@reddit

We were camping... God knows where, our fancy friends with an RV had this on the tiny ass TV inside the camper....

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Isiotic_Mind@reddit

In Milwaukee at a horse show

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GeetarEnthusiast85@reddit

I was in the 4th or 5th grade. I didn't fully understand all of it until much later in life but you couldn't escape it. The trial was everywhere. I remember there were even Halloween masks of OJ and Judge Ito!

What I remember most was my teacher being so relieved when he was found not guilty. We watched the verdict in class on one of the TVs on the rolling carts.

I remember discussing the case with her. I was only 10 or 11 years old and again, I didn't fully understand everything at the time. What I do recall was seeing pictures of Nicole's bruised and battered face in tabloid pictures. I brought that up to my teacher and asked if he could do that to her, isn't it possible he murdered her?

She explained it away saying Nicole probably started it and OJ was defending himself. I thought to myself why in the world wasn't this 6-foot-something football player able to defend himself without hitting her back? Like, he couldn't restrain her or something? That never sat right with me.

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TiaHatesSocials@reddit

Probably outside playing with other kids

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MnkyBzns@reddit

Dude, it's just barely May

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8080a@reddit

Making burgers in the Wendy’s drive-thru. I wrote OJ in ketchup inside all the burgers, just to be part of something.

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edasto42@reddit (OP)

Haha. I love that

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202reno@reddit

This is the day I first smoked the herb. I was with 2 friends from down the street. 15, just finished 9th grade.

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PopsiclesForChickens@reddit

Watched the whole thing at my grandma's house.

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

I was on summer break making a home movie with my best friend when I noticed on TV that this was happening. I thought it was so bizarre at first, not knowing the details.

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atlantagirl30084@reddit

It was my 9th birthday! I was probably at daycamp.

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Lughaidh_@reddit

Hialeah, Florida. During the trial, one of my teachers at my middle school, would have it on the TV just in the background during class.

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CatsAndDogs314@reddit

Same here. I remember watching the verdict in French class.

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ImmediateLoquat6877@reddit

I remember watching it on TV at home. I was like 13 at the time and only remember thinking that it was the weirdest thing ever that the the entire Los Angeles Police Dept showed up to follow a washed up retired football player ay 20mph down the highway

Despite the horror of his crimes what also stood out it was that it was also of the first times I really made the connection about how predatory the media was. The swarm of helicopters and news vans and everyone harping in the chase and early investigation 24/7 before anyone really knew it was actually news felt so dystopian to me.

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Darwyn_Strangehand@reddit

I was at home and 12 years old. I turned on the TV to watch TGIF and this was all that was on. I was so pissed.

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litchick@reddit

I was coming home from my first date and my Dad was watching this. I was so baffled because I had no context until I asked him why he was just randomly watching this car driving on tv.

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EffectiveCycle@reddit

At home watching because my parents had it on

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Captaintripps@reddit

God, I remember watching the chase in class!

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that1tech@reddit

The juice in on the loose!

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Even_Industry_4384@reddit

I was home watching it with my family. I think about that night often as after it ended, my dad, my friend Trevor and his dad, and myself drove all night to Canada to go fishing. We had a blast on that trip. The next time I would speak about that trip was at Trevor's funeral with his father a few years ago. RIP Trevor

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elphaba00@reddit

I had just had my appendix out so I was stuck in a hospital with only the network channels. So it was either turn it off or just sit and watch

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rich101682@reddit

Coming up on the anniversary "soon"? It's a month and a half from now. That's 1/8 of the entire year.

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Ill-Percentage-3276@reddit

My parents had it on after we got home from my dance recital.

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justfl0wers@reddit

Watched in on tv in 5th grade. The teacher also put on his verdict and that's all we did that day.

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ManateeNipples@reddit

My parents had just split up, I was smoking weed at my cousin's house while my mom was at work, we were watching it on the little black and white TV with rabbit ears that didn't work for shit. We were definitely not mature enough to understand the situation, I'm sure we were saying awful shit the entire time 😬

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captmonkey@reddit

I had just gone over to my friend's house. We saw the start of it but didn't see to the end. His dad drove us to the movie theater to see the Mel Gibson film, Maverick. I recently recounted this story to my friend who didn't remember it because his dad just passed away a couple of months ago.

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wlrldchampionsexy@reddit

Dairy Ashford Roller Rink. The last time I roller skated too.

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clps21@reddit

I was nine, in a hotel room in Wildwood, New Jersey with my grandparents. I was watching a tv show called “Burke’s Law”. It was an episode about murders at a beauty pageant. They cut it off to show the coverage of the chase. I was pissed for years because I didn’t know how it ended.

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ST_Lawson@reddit

I was on the road all that summer doing an activity where I didn't really get any news. Looks like I was in Whitewater, WI that specific day, but I didn't find out about this whole thing until I got back home in August.

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whatev43@reddit

I think I was in my world history class… “Metternich! Write it down!” still rings in my head.

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Pankosmanko@reddit

I had just moved back to the states from Germany the night before. I was swimming in the pool while parents watched this on TV. I remember watching a bit and eating pizza

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snn1326j@reddit

It was the last day of school for me, and I came home to my grandma watching it intensely on tv. I grew up in SoCal so it was 100x as big than it even was nationally.

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MelodiousPun@reddit

Actually stuck in traffic behind it.

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csonnich@reddit

I'd just gotten home from camp and my dad was glued to the TV. I sat down with him and watched the whole thing.

He used to talk about OJ during football season. Must have been surreal for him to see.

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eggs_erroneous@reddit

I was working at Subway. That was such a good year. Goddamn I miss the 90s.

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herseyhawkins33@reddit

Standing in front of the TV yelling to go back to the Knicks Rockets game!

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disaffectedlawyer@reddit

I was in college, and an intramural relay team (track), known for being the slowest group, named themselves White Ford Bronco.

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ptindaho@reddit

I was down visiting friends in the Bay Area. It was pretty surreal watching it.

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loztriforce@reddit

I was at the grocery store with my parents. We got our groceries and saw a crowd forming in front of what used to be a huge electronics department filled with dozens and dozens of TVs, saw the Bronco chase being shown on virtually every TV.

We stood there for a couple minutes watching it before we left. Crazy how he got off.

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lastcallhall@reddit

Pretty sure it was a Friday and I was watching TGIF.

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XFrankXGrimesX@reddit

I can tell you The Kids in the Hall episode on CBS after Letterman was preempted at least on the east coast for the eight hour or whatever of reiteration

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Puglet_7@reddit

I was at home in Canada, and watching on my illegal satellite chip.

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GetrIndia@reddit

Grade six, Canada. It was big news but I wasn't aware of the details. Didn't really care either, had no idea who OJ was beyond a football player/celebrity.

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Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit

The juice is loose

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Workamania@reddit

I was watching the Knicks and they cut away for this bullshit. It is famously documented in American Crime Story. I am still mad. That was the Jordan "retirement" year. It was open season.

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Aeon_Return@reddit

I was 7 and have the vaguest memory of Saturday Night Live joking about it

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Additional_Data_Need@reddit

Road trip to a tiny town in the middle of nowhere in Canada.

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Melancholy_Rainbows@reddit

I remember seeing it briefly and laughing about how absurd it looked, but then getting back to the serious business of summer vacation goofing off.

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Synensys@reddit

I was at a middle school graduation party. What I mostly remember is that the dozen or so people there ended up at 7 or 8 different high schools (the middle school send kids to two different neighborbood high schools, plus there were magnets and private schools and I think one kid moved).

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S_A_R_K@reddit

On Endor with the Ewoks

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Fredwood@reddit

Hate watching the finals

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Seven19td@reddit

Summer break had just started where I was

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kayla622@reddit

I was home for summer break and my dad was home from work and watching whatever on TV and the OJ story broke and interrupted. We watched it unfold live on TV. I was a few days away from turning 10.

Between OJ and Tonya Harding, 1994-1995 was an exciting time in the news.

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