White house, and this is cnn cnn Breaking News were beginning with Breaking News. Oj simpson is dead at 76 after losing a battle to cancer according to his family, simpson, maybe one of the most controversial people in our nations history before his murder trial, which divided the country and essentially turned to me into an outcast. He was a celebrated Football Star who won the Heisman Trophy and who was also an actor and a pitch man, universally loved by americans but that life is he knew it ended on june 12, 1994 when his exwife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, ron goldman were found stabbed to Death Outside of her home in los angeles. The shock of their murders intensifying five days later for hours time stood still is nearly 100 million americans watched on tv. At this simpson taking police on a low speed chase 60 miles through los angeles in that white Ford Bronco Simpson would go on to surrender and stand trial for the murders he was eventually acquitted in what was dubbed