NEW YORK — A dog’s plaintive wail. A courtroom couplet-turned-cultural catchphrase about gloves. A judge and attorneys who became media darlings and villains. A slightly bewildered houseguest elevated, briefly, into a slightly bewildered celebrity. Troubling questions about race that echo still. The beginning of the Kardashian dynasty. An epic slow-motion highway chase. And, lest we forget, two people whose lives ended brutally.
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The OJ Simpson saga was a unique American moment. 3 decades on, we’re still wondering what it means
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A crowd reacts to O.J. Simpson leaving Los Angeles County Superior Court Feb. 4, 1997, in Santa Monica, Calif. after hearing the wrongful-death verdict in the 1994 killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
Witness Brian "Kato" Kaelin testifies March 21, 1995, during O.J. Simpson's double-murder trial in Los Angeles.
Prosecutor Marcia Clark demonstrates to the jury how the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were committed during her closing arguments Sept. 26, 1995, in O.J. Simpson's double-murder trial in Los Angeles.
Defendant O.J. Simpson is surrounded by his defense attorneys, from left, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Peter Neufeld, Robert Shapiro, Robert Kardashian and Robert Blasier, seated at left, at the close of defense arguments in his murder trial Sept. 28, 1995, in Los Angeles.
Members of the news media watch live television coverage of O.J. Simpson's slow speed chase on Los Angeles freeways during Game 5 of the NBA finals June 17, 1994, at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson (32) runs over teammates as he latches onto Joe DeLamielleurs (68) during an NFL football game Sept. 3, 1977, against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Rich Stadium in Buffalo, N.Y.
O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, arrive Oct. 19, 1993, for the opening of the Harley-Davidson Cafe in New York.
O.J. Simpson, left, grimaces June 15, 1995, in a Los Angeles courtroom as he famously tries on one of the leather gloves prosecutors say he wore the night his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered.
A white Ford Bronco driven by Al Cowlings carries O.J. Simpson as he is trailed by Los Angeles police cars June 17, 1994, on a freeway in Los Angeles.
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