dollars. they were spending money like they were drunken sailors. now lyle and erik menendez face the death penalty, first-degree murder. greedy rich kids kill ozzie and harriet on a sunday night in beverly hills, and there s much more to the story than that. the courtroom at the l.a. superior courthouse in van nuys was actually a very tiny courtroom, and so there were a dozen media people that got to see the trial in the courtroom every day. writer dominic dunn appeared to hear opening statements. i m just a writer here covering this. i had just gotten out of school and started as a cub reporter at this legal newspaper. i got one of the seats in the courtroom. there were the lawyers and the brothers. my editors and i knew from the get-go that it was going to be captivating as [bleep]. okay, now opening statements by the prosecution. thank you, your honor, and good morning. the only time i ve ever thrown up during a trial was right before opening statement
after that, literally right after that, o.j. simpson. o.j. simpson is now one of our most wanted ever. it went through the interchange, continuing northbound on the 405. when the bronco chase was being carried live on tv, erik menendez was watching in his cell at the l.a. county jail, and a few hours later, o.j. simpson came walking down the hallway in handcuffs and shackles, and he was placed in a cell right next to erik menendez. a year after the hung jury, the l.a. district attorney is preparing for the second, you know, take two of the menendez brothers trials, and a few days before that trial is set to begin, a verdict comes down in the o.j. simpson case. the verdict is in. the los angeles jury found o.j. simpson not guilty of the murders of nicole brown and ronald goldman. the o.j. simpson verdict was yet another crushing loss for the l.a.
he wrote, if the u.s. has any power, they better manage their country, tackle white supremacy rather than meddle in nation s affairs. this isn t the first time he has jumped in and commented on race relations. he retweeted black lives matter during the spate of shootings of unarmed black men. the truth is, craig, i ve been following this story for a while. if you really look at the data, it reveals some of the feels in this country about race that were bubbling up beneath the surface before charlottesville. so i want to show you this one poll we found that shows nearly three quarters of americans feel like race relations now are worse than they were in the 90s. and, of course, that was after the o.j. simpson verdict, and that was after the rodney king riots. so that s kind of a striking sense of the american psyche. and also more shockingly, we found in a second poll that whites see anti white bias now in our country as more prevalent than anti black bias. so it really shows you that
los angeles riots and the o.j. simpson verdict, also here in l.a. in the 1990s. that s in addition to 42% of black americans who say they are very dissatisfied with the way african-americans are treated compare to just 15% of whites who share the same view. joining me now, campaign director for the center of american progress action fund, emily tisch-sussman and conservative commentator. good to see all of you. noelle, we saw the images coming out of charlottesville yesterday. just almost impossible to watch. how do we get here as a country? you know, i don t know how we got here, i don t know how we evolved here, but i will tell you one thing, i think that a lot of people, you know, especially social media, you re seeing this played over and over and over again, so if you weren t angry to begin with, you will sooner or later be angry, but i think what a lot of the protesters, you know, while i think that a lot of the
geraldo: an estimated 150 million people stop what they areoing to catch the televised o.j. simpson verdict. it was an ultimate cliffhanger. what have become reality tv before there was reality tv. in this most-watched courtroom drama made stars out of the lawyers and witnesses. there was a time in 1994, ladies and gentlemen 175% of the people in the united states could correctly identify cato kayla. us in 25% could identify the vice president of the united states. that kind of notoriety, what you think? that kind of notoriety was something that someone want to achieve and i achieved it and the wrong way.