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I'm excited to be having a conversation with someone when they have that revelation

It's making a show pretty huge

How does this work as a national story?

From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production

of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.

I'm David Remnick. Thanks for joining us on The New Yorker Radio Hour.

OJ Simpson, formerly charged today with two counts of murder.

He was supposed to surrender at 11 o'clock today.

More than 20 years ago, a white bronco with O.J. Simpson in the passenger seat took a long,

meandering drive down to Los Angeles Freeway with the LAPD in pursuit and the entire country watching on television.

This is Larry King as we stay atop this scene.

We're seeing a car that's been pulling up, pulling back, and now we see the white Bronco take off

at a speed that's considerably faster than it's been driving before.

But look at the people standing on the

freeway there, waving. Simpson's arrest and trial for double homicide are the subject of American

crime story, which started its season last week on FX. If you're older than, say, 25, I don't need to

remind you just how big a deal the Simpson trial was.

And one of the things that transformed it from an L.A. celebrity trial into a national story about race and justice was Jeffrey Tubin's coverage of the events in the New Yorker.

Before turning to journalism, Tubin was a lawyer who had worked as a federal prosecutor.

The book Tubin eventually wrote about the Simpson trial,

The Run of His Life, is the primary source of the FX series.

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