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Ladies and gentlemen, this has been a week,

taking us 30 years into the past, thanks to the passing of ex-football star turned

pitchman turned actor turned accused murderer turned

turned convicted murderer. What? Yes, there's more to know about the OJ story

than you probably learned this week no matter whether you were around at the time or not.

I was, I mean really around. I attended some sessions of the OJ criminal trial, the one that was seen on television.

But more importantly for this story I attended almost every day of the subsequent OJ trial, a civil trial brought by the parents of the two people who were killed that night.

I attended it because as I wrote in a book on the subject,

I'm a chocolate addict and they just moved the Tobler factory into my neighborhood. That is to say, the second OJ trial was held in a courthouse walking distance from my house.

So, I got a press pass, thanks to Sarah Spitz at KCRW, and went to the courthouse

and went to the courthouse almost every day, sat in the courthouse or sat in the

listening room nearby, sat there while OJ leaned over me to talk to a friend of his and NBC news

correspondent almost every break.

And so I learned a few things.

And I'm going to share them with you today because it's been OJ all the time almost all the later part of this week and I don't

think we learned enough. Hello, welcome to Lejeaux.

The OJ story, of begins long before trials in this particular case.

There are stories that have appeared in some newspapers, most notably this

week in the Washington Post about OJ's treatment of his wife

Nicole after they split and got back together

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