The legacy of the late O.J. Simpson
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
NBCNews
4.5 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on the readout. |
| 0:05.0 | O.J Simpson in a knit cap from two blocks away. |
| 0:10.0 | It's still O.J. Simpson. It's no disguise. It's no disguise. It makes no sense. It doesn't fit. If it doesn't fit you must acquit |
| 0:21.2 | The late great Johnny Cochran delivering the line that sealed OJ Simpson's acquittal. |
| 0:28.8 | Tonight, with Simpson's passing how the trial of the century exposed every single American fault line. |
| 0:36.0 | Also tonight the first criminal trial of a former president begins Monday and |
| 0:40.5 | NBC News has obtained a list of the potential witnesses, but will Trump |
| 0:44.9 | himself take the stand. Plus Maga Mike Johnson heads to Marlago to share |
| 0:50.8 | conspiracy theories with Trump about America's election integrity as the |
| 0:55.2 | RNC now officially perpetrates or officially perpetuates the big lie about the |
| 1:01.0 | 2020 election. |
| 1:05.4 | But we begin tonight with the end of a chapter in American history |
| 1:09.2 | that foreshadowed and in some ways launched an era. |
| 1:16.0 | Nobody has more of what it takes to get you into a new LTV or mother-fying car faster. |
| 1:21.0 | It's a super-star. |
| 1:26.0 | Okay, that is how I experienced Orinthal James O.J. Simpson as an elementary school kid in the late |
| 1:31.8 | 1970s. As the famous guy running through the |
| 1:34.8 | airport to the Hertz counter. Simpson who died today at the age of 76 from cancer |
| 1:40.1 | was one of the most famous black Americans in history. |
| 1:43.0 | And depending on your age, |
| 1:45.0 | there's a lot of different ways you might remember him. |
| 1:47.0 | There's OJ, the superstar running back |
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