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Imagine this 150 million people tuned in to hear the verdict in the o.j. simpson trial and to put that into perspective for you, the population of the united states at the time was 266 million. 150 million people tuned in, 266 million people in the united states at the time. so it is no surprise that the case continues to fascinate, especially with what it tells us about race in america. back with me now is yale galanter, jeffrey toobin and carl douglas. jeffrey toobin jumped ahead in the workbook here and started talking about the race polarization here. this is what a new cnn orc poll shows,...

Way the media covers a case like this, with gavel to gavel coverage, even, you know before o.j. it wasn't 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, didn't do a good job controlling the room and they said the heck with this, we don't 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 law where everything is open to the pub...

>> deuce, don't do it, you have two kids, don't do it. you know, kind of, like, what tom lang was talking about last night on the special. it was the exact same thing that my daddy was saying to him, deuce, don't do it. you have two kids. they love you. we all love you. people don't understand that this was family, this wasn't a stranger who did this. this is somebody who i've known since i was 7 years old. so, you know, he was my dad's son, basically. and he was uncle o.j. to me. and, you know, so maybe if it was a stranger i would be feeling different, but this was, again, so surreal that, y...

Of the murder of your sister and her friend. you were only 24 years old at the time. how do you feel after so much time has passed? >> you know it is so surreal it almost feels -- it really feels like it was yesterday. 20 years have gone by. and we are still talking about it. i'm grateful that, you know, nicole is not forgotten and ron is not forgotten. it is so surreal that is really seems like yesterday, but life has gone on, you know. it's been, i lived out 20 years of my life and had to go through a lot of chaos as the title of my book says to get to where i'm at today. 20 years ago tomorr...

Make sure you tune into cnn spotlight, the o.j. simpson trial, where are they now, friday night at 10:00 p.m. eastern. coming up, congressman eric cantor will soon be out of a job. what happens after his shocking ouster? that's straight ahead. but first, cnn's original series, 'the 60s," watch tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern. here is your '60s minute. >> the president has been hit. ♪ >> john f. kennedy died at approximately 1:00 today. >> the whole world suffers his loss. >> america was a different place on the day before john f. kennedy was killed. the assassination changed the trajectory ...