from the county jail to the country club. it didn t take o.j. simpson long to get back into the swing of things. on the links and on camera, simpson was everywhere eager to clear his name as he told b.e.t. in january, 1996. i loved nicole. i could not have killed anyone. watching and seething were the families of nicole and ron. here was this arrogant murderer, you know, flaunting his celebrity. kept saying he was looking for the real killers on every fairway in america. every time he looked in the mirror at home he had found him. but fred goldman still wanted justice. even if if the meant simpson remained free. i wanted a court to say he was, he was guilty. no court could do that now.
love you very much and i ll see you soon. bye. this rare footage was taken the year before his murder. the goldmans didn t know it, but this could be their last big celebration as a family. in june of 1994, ron had been working at a restaurant where nicole and her family had dined the night of the murder. when nicole s mother left her eye glasses there, it was ron who later brought them to nicole s condo. and the lives of two families were suddenly tied together forever in grief. i believe he walked into a crime in process, and he had a chance to walk away, but he didn t. and he stepped in and he died for it. so he died trying to do the right thing.
and his wife received a phone call from the coroner s office. and this individual said to me, did you hear on the news today that nicole brown was killed and your son was the other person. that s how we found out, over the phone. two of us stood there crying our eyes out. through his shock, fred knew he had to tell his daughter, kim, who sensed something was wrong the minute she heard his voice on the phone. he said, did you hear the news at all today? i said no, what s going on today. he just said ron had died and ron was killed. i don t remember too much after that. i just remembered screaming and he told me to get home. ron goldman was just 25, handsome, athletic, popular.
from bundy to rockingham, clear proof, she said, that simpson killed nicole and ron. and you know he did it. now these murders did not occur in a vacuum. in the context of a stormy relationship. a relationship scarred by violence and abuse. then it was johnnie cochran s turn. stop this covercover-up. if you don t stop it who? that was classic cochran and he delivered the iconic line that would define the trial. if it doesn t fit, you must acquit. so with cochran s speech ringing in their ears, the exhausted jury would now decide the fate of o.j. simpson. but it turns out most of them had already made up their minds. coming up an eight-month trial decided in less than four hours. leaving millions to ask what
culture. o.j. l.a. if the s fun to live in o.j. l.a. it was o.j. every day. products. pundits. and a whole new class of tv shows that yammered about everything that happened that day in court. hi, everyone, i am geraldo riviera. the face of a batterer, an abuser, a controller, the face of nicole and ron s murderer. if the audience loved it. 12 jurors didn t see it. because they were sequestered, confined to this high-rise hotel a few blocks from the score the house. one of the jurors who actually decided the case. for 265 days, more than eight months, their lives were limited to a courtroom and a hotel room. if you are not in any common areas, the only place you can be is in your room with no tv, no