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On October 3, 1995, an estimated 150 million people stopped what they were doing to witness the televised verdict of the O.J. Simpson trial. For more than a year, the O.J. saga transfixed the nation and dominated the public imagination. Ten years later, FRONTLINE revisits the “perfect storm” that was the O.J. Simpson trial….
“Shortly after Johnnie Cochran passed away early in 2005, Al Sharpton spoke at his memorial service and honored him saying, “In all due respect to you brother Simpson, we didn’t clap when the acquittal… came for O.J., we were clapping for Johnnie.” Sharpton probably best summed up what the trial of O.J. Simpson was really about: an African-American lawyer and his client beating “the system” fair and square in a trial that exposed the deep roots of racial divides that exist in the United States. This is the subject covered by Frontline in a very insightful look at one of the most publicized criminal trials in American mass media history…….” IMDB
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