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Live television, not dvr, before o.j. finally surrendered. when the chase ended at his arrest in a home -- in his home in brentwood, los angeles. from that moment on, americans stayed thirsty for the juice, stayed glued to our televisions for the next 16 months, absorbing every lurid detail and assuring the ensuing trial all the way up the divisive verdict that drew in an estimated 150 million viewers. when judge lance ito made the decision to allow cameras in the courtroom, his reasoning as the...

It was the ultimate celebrity reality show, not the first one. nothing will ever come close to this. not lindsey lohan hearings, which people do watch that. this is before celebrity fit club or any of those -- we didnt see the world of celebrities except for what they wanted to show to us. this was a guy not only football star, a guy who was in "naked gun" movies being funny, who ran through airports. i dreamed one day to be able to run through airports. >> and rent a car. >> and rent a car. at ...

Corner. went in, opened up the outside gate and you could see right into her condo. the candles were still burning on the fireplace next to her picture with o.j. >> the piece im reading names like lance ito, and robert kardashian, marsha clark. like you im kind of smiling. its bringing back -- its horrible to say, being a newlywed, coming home from practicing law, liked same way of getting hooked on a soap opera. two people were died, two people were murdered, and this is how i remember it, fo...

That has around 50% fewer co2 emissions than coal. lets broaden the worlds energy mix, lets go. please welcome, ladies and gentlemen, the village itos. >> judge lance itos courtroom was now part of our popular

Predominantly black jury would head off what happened here in 1992. when rioting broke out after a mostly white jury acquitted lapd officers in the beating of rodney king. >> can we -- can we all get along? can we get along? >> in hindsight that decision to move the trial downtown may have been the first of many that taken together would influence how the case and the verdict played out. >> the thinking was, if you have a minority jury convicting a minority defendant everything is cool. you are ...

Being called the trial of the century i century. it is no exaggeration to say it felt as if the whole world was watching. it was just six months after the murders of nicole brown and ron goldman. o.j. simpson was facing the possibility of life in prison if convicted. now, the two sides would finally square off. a team of tough but largely unknown l.a. county prosecutors armed with a seemingly air-tight case, rich in dna evidence. pitted against some of the most famous defense lawyers in the land...

Envelope with the sealed verdict, please? >> yes, your honor. >> the next day, the jury, families, detectives, attorneys arrived at judge itos courtroom for the very last time. >> i saw in one of the jurors eyes, what i believe was -- was a not guilty verdict. i turned to him. i said i think you are going home today. >> as we gathered to watch, everything seemed to stop. an estimated 100 million of us tuned in, costing the economy nearly half a billion dollars in lost productivity. trading on th...

Become a joke in some regards that he got off easy, because a lot of people believed hem to be guilty, but this is an interesting nugget. according to a new cnn poll, a majority of african-american respondents now today believe that the charges against o.j. were not true. what do you say to that, jim? >> well, i mean, look, you saw this case go down on racial lines, no question about it. the issue of race was introduced by the defense and allowed in by judge lance ito. i didnt really view this a...

Way the media covers a case like this, with gavel to gavel coverage, even, you know before o.j. it wasnt bad, was it? >> well, what happened was there was a tremendous backlash mostly among judges against cameras in the courtroom because i think they felt that judge ito, lance ito, looked bad, didnt do a good job controlling the room and they said the heck with this, we dont want cameras in our courtroom. and if you think back to the big televised trials since o.j., they have almost all been in ...

Coverage, even, you know before o.j. it wasnt bad, was it? >> well, what happened was there was a tremendous backlash mostly among judges against cameras in the courtroom because i think they felt that judge ito, lance ito, looked bad, didnt do a good job controlling the room and they said the heck with this, we dont want cameras in our courtroom. and if you think back to the big televised trials since o.j., they have almost all been in florida and florida is the state with the famous sunshine l...