go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was sworn in today a
him and said, oh my god, he did it. i just remember screaming. probably the scariest moment my entire life. it was physically painful. it was not justice. the murders took only minutes. all these years later, the shock has yet to fade. it was a stunning time. and american legal theater. you think you might know the story of the oj simpson case, but there s a lot you probably haven t heard and seen. did nicole brown simpson actually predicts her own death? what she said to us was that oj is going to kill me. and he s going to get away with it. what went on in the jury room? not guilty of the crime of murder. all the people wanted to do was go home. in a frank interview prosecutor marsha clark answers the most important question of all. how did you not convict this guy? june 12th, 1994. brentwood, california. two horrific murders that came to be defined by just three words. the oj case. everybody seen a dramatic scene in both victims had their throats/
In the fervid, obsessive world of the Simpson trial, no one ever takes a recess. Nicole's sister, O.J.'s sister, Faye Resnick, Mark Fuhrman—all are creating new plotlines for this dark, unfolding drama
blew up today. - it becomes evident late in the trial that mark fuhrman has worked with a la screenwriter and made tapes of what police life is like. - the defense offered 41 examples of fuhrman using the word [bleep], something he swore on the witness stand he has not done in the last ten years. - the defense wants desperately to prove that fuhrman is capable of manufacturing evidence to bolster their claim that he planted the bloody glove found at o.j. simpson s estate. - all right, detective fuhrman, would you resume the witness stand please? - was the testimony that you gave at the preliminary hearing in this case completely truthful? - i wish to assert my fifth amendment privilege. - the defense tried, successfully, to turn this case into a referendum on mark fuhrman in particular and the lapd in general. - absolutely no one would ve predicted it. after a trial that has lasted 3/4 of a year,
and into his house in rockingham is devastating proof of his guilt. - clark showed the jurors pictures of the death scene, bloody footprints, the knit cap, one of the bloody gloves. - the fact that blood mysteriously appears on vital pieces of evidence is devastating evidence of something far more sinister. - the notion that the los angeles police department would unfairly treat an african-american suspect in 1994 was far from outlandish, and no one knew that better than johnnie cochran. - can you please describe the appearance of the glove, sir? - a dark leather glove. it appeared to be somewhat moist or sticky. - we knew early on that detective fuhrman had issues in his background. - and you say on your oath that you have not spoken about black people as niggers in the past ten years? - that s what i m saying, sir. - the o.j. simpson trial is in chaos tonight, and today s free-for-all could very well decide the ultimate outcome. - the fuhrman tapes, a ticking time bomb in the simpson