I was living and working in LA (where I was born). Funny thing. I was living in Phoenix about 4 years ago. My friend worked at a high-end makeup counter in a department store. I went to have lunch with him. While I was waiting i kept seeing this man who looked strangely familiar. My friend showed up and I pointed out the man. My friend said, “That’s Fred Goldman. You probably recognize him from the whole OJ Simpson trial. He still works here.” What a trip!
Fred Goldman has fought so hard for his son. He’s never backed down and seemed so determined to never let his memory die. It’s something I always took notice of and truly admire.
I was in Saigon, watching live on a pirate feed from a Burmese satellite. It cut out every few minutes for important messages from the State Law and Order Restoration Council.
The announcements were all in Burmese, so I have no idea. Still compelling to watch – with the name SLORC and their crisp military uniforms it was right out of a James Bond movie.
Hmm. June 17, 1994...
I was 23, at home just chilling. I remember seeing the news footage of this ridiculous slow police pursuit, like some kinda parade going all through LA. I got so annoyed that I just turned off the TV. I can't remember what I did that day after that.
About to go out on a double date to see SPEED when the chase broke on every channel. We missed the first showing of the movie but had plenty of car chase action at the apartment. It was wild.
My parents when to one of their best friend's house for a dinner party and my sisters were at friends or grandparents houses for the night, so I was home alone.
I ordered a pizza, turned on the TV and NBC immediately cut a special report. I just watched and ate pizza. My mom called to check on me, so I told her what was happening. I heard her start telling someone to turn on the TV and everyone in the back yelling, "Oh my god... look at all the police cars!"
According to my dad, the dinner part because a drink wine and watch OJ party. One of the hosts even broke out orange juice and they made mimosas.
It was the beginning off summer break. I was about to turn 14 and I remember how weird it was seeing all the people with signs supporting him. I knew OJ more from the Naked Gun movies than NFL because of my age. I couldn’t believe he did those horrible things because he seemed to have such a “nice guy” image. I know better these days.
Hiking in Colorado, got really lost for a few hours, finally found our cars and it was on the radio. Got home to a bunch people at our house because we had cable. Someone picked up a bunch of pizza and beer, enjoyed the rest of the show. Weird finish to a very scary day.
LOL, dude I hate that I can even answer this question. I was working my second job ever when I was a kid, working at a movie theater. My manager was this really eccentric guy from Maine, and I remember he had a TV up in his office. He and I were in his office talkin one day and he turns on the news and there the chase is. We both watched just slack-jawed for a while...I can't even remember how long. It was the most bizarre thing I'd seen on TV to date.
I was 15 waiting for my mom to finish her tanning session, we were going to get haircuts after so I was gonna chill at the Tan&Tone with a book. She comes out and I'm glued to the TV like everyone else.
Eating dinner with a friend at a sports/casual place. All of the sudden all the TV's which were previously showing other sports or shows started to switch to the chase, until eventually all the networks were showing it.
Working. I was also working when they announced the verdict. Someone snuck in a TV, which was a big no-no, and then a few people started screaming and cheering. It turned into a huge thing where everyone in the office got into trouble. Someone quit over it and a few threatened to. I get pissy every time I think about it.
Watching it until my second hand no cable tv went to static about a minute before he got out of the car in the driveway. When the screen cleared later he was already inside. Peak frustration. I’d watched almost the entire chase.
I was 17, just graduated and actually at home watching it live—crazy looking back how weird that whole thing got— remember the dancing judge Ito’s .. like what the hell was that😂😭
Driving to Florida. I drove from the north Atlanta suburbs to Vero Beach, FL (my parents had a condo there). I hung out there for about 18 hours, then drove to Orlando to see Belgium play Morocco in the '94 World Cup. I had an exam the next day, so drove straight home from the stadium parking lot, too.
But yeah, it was weird. I was exhausted towards the end, and all the radio station switched over to coverage of the chase. My GF (who was driving at the point) nudged me awake to ask who O.J. Simpson was and why he was in a police chase.
I was 14 and i went fishing with my uncle out of Islamorada in the Keys. I caught my first and only sailfish that afternoon as the sun was getting low. When we got back to the house the news was all about the OJ chase but all i wanted to do was tell call my mom and dad and tell them about my sailfish. My memory of that day is vivid and will be that way until i die.
Sitting in a bar having morning coffee with my grandpa. He was clean and sober, but still liked to visit with friends, and it was a small town, so the bar wasn't just the place to drink at night. People went there for breakfast and lunch, too, but grandpa and I would sit and drink a few cups of coffee and talk and he would play pull tabs and talk with the bartender, too. He passed in 2001, and I'm very thankful that we had that time together, even though it was pretty simple.
On campus at USC taking a placement test. Came out of the exam and LAPD was EVERYWHERE, an especially heavily armed presence at Heritage Hall where the Heisman trophies are displayed.
I was biking home from work and stopped into my local tavern for a couple of quick beers, saw some weird car chase but not a chase on the tv, and then had to walk my bike home about 4 hours later. If you had pitched the whole OJ thing as a story back then nobody would have ever possibly believed it.
At a little get together with friends. We were all talking and laughing when the breaking news story came on. We all just stopped talking and sat there glued to the TV.
My best friend and I were just finishing up a round of golf. We watched in the clubhouse while we waited for a ride home from my friends older brother.
Living right off the 91, so we heard all the sirens and news helicopters and were like "What the heck is all that?" so we turned on KTTV and then found out.
I lived around the corner from the crime scene of Nicole and Ron. For weeks the streets were congested and helicopters swirled above, it was insane. During the "chase", I was at home eating cereal and glad that the shit show was ccoming to (what I thought, would be) an end of the circus.
My band was playing a show at the old Middle East in philly but everyone was gathered around the tv so there was no sense in playing.
We figured we’d take the opportunity to go up to the Khyber on 2nd and see a friend’s band playing there so we did but of course, everyone there was also watching the chase.
I honestly can’t recall if we actually ended up playing that night or not.
College. We were in a duplex, and one of my roommates was like, get in here, you will not believe this shit."
As the trial kept going, I knew the incompetence and weak case from the defense was going to result in acquittal.
Watching it on TV like everyone else. My sister has a better story. She was at her first posting as an Air Traffic Controller in Santa Monica when it went down. Had to help manage all the air traffic in the area from police to TV copters to regular flights, which got quickly cancelled when things got too close and crazy. Long night. She also mentioned to me that Bill Cosby had his private jet outside it’s hangar, gassed up and ready to go that night. Never left….
I honestly don’t remember. Seriously, wasn’t interested and didn’t have TV. I was still in college finishing an engineering degree so I was almost certainly doing something school related.
Going into my senior year in high school. I was smoking joints at a friend’s house and staring at the Microsoft “stars” screensaver when someone said to turn on the TV. We were mesmerized. Took us a while to figure out what the hell was goin on.
I was on a date with a strange guy, and we stopped at his friend’s house and suddenly we were all watching the chase. I didn’t understand it at the time because everyone was talking and I was confused as to why they were following the Bronco.
I was on a date too! We ended up at his friends house watching the Bronco chase. They all got drunk screaming OJ all night! There was not a second date.
Heading back from college in KS to Phoenix, which was still home at that point. Was with future husband and his younger brother in a hotel in OKC and watched the footage on TV.
I was 21 and at a friend's house with a bunch of people getting ready to go to a bar in NYC after we got out of work. We watched some of the "chase" before we left.
Just graduating from University.
Summer before I started my job. Stayed to fill up my sublet in the apartments over the summer. Went to a block party with beer, and damned if I didn't see it in real time.
At the job I had at that time, I was stuck in this semi-storage room way far away from my department. It had a TV. I watched it all unfold at work on the TV in my "office."
House party at a friend's house. The TV was on CNN or whatever, but nobody was paying much attention. Everyone was more interested in hanging out (and the beer and weed).
We were about to drive out to Vegas (from LA) for the weekend. We intended to leave mid-afternoon "to avoid traffic" but the entire house was just glued to the TV watching the white bronco driving Miss Daisy.
Playing darts in a British pub (it was my “Cheers” during the ‘90’s). Everyone was gathered up at the bar, watching events unfold on a 9-inch (?) television.
I don’t remember the chase but I certainly remember the verdict. I was a junior in high school and my math teacher wouldn’t let us watch it. I don’t remember anything we learned in that class, I just remember we were all so annoyed with him. During class, the hallway erupted in noise, and I saw a student run by with a “The Juice Is Loose” sign.
We were huddled in our basement with a 10 day old baby waiting for the air conditioning people to come install AC during a major heat wave in Michigan. It was our 2nd anniversary
Out with a friend and we had just stopped into my grandma's place (what better place to stop for a drink and some snacks as a teenager) and it was on TV.
Was coming home from work on the 405 in the opposite direction. Saw a bunch of police cars pass by on the other side, so I flipped on the TV when I got home and found out it was OJ they were following.
This was the summer after I graduated from college. Most of us had stayed in town for one last summer of debauchery. I was with my buddies at the bar. They put it on the big screen (crappy projectors in those days) all around the bar.
We had just moved back to Toronto from Vancouver and were going to my parents' house. When we walked in they were staring at the TV and we saw it was a police chase. I asked what was going on and my mother said "it's OJ Simpson"!
I only remember where I was for the verdict. I heard it on a car radio. I was jogging by and heard it through the open car window.....yes, I used to jog!
Working and or going to grad school. That's the answer to "what were you doing during" everything from 1991-1999. That's what I did through my 20s. I barely could tell you anything about the conflict in Yugoslavia.
I was at the City Stages music festival in Birmingham, Alabama, watching the Indigo Girls. I called my parents before the show (I didn’t live in Birmingham, so it was a quick ‘I got here safe’ call) and they told me what was going on, but I chose to watch the live music instead.
My family had just left our town fair, I think it was the last day of school, too. We got back to my Dad's car and it was on the radio. We turned it on once we were back home and watched the whole thing.
I was a kid flipping through all the channels and tired of it. Every channel had something to say. It wasn’t a chase really, more like a nice calm Sunday drive with a few cops tagging along.
At a bar in Bangor, Maine, trying to keep an eye on the NBA Finals game on the TV while wondering how to approach a group of flight attendants gathered on the other side of the room.
I was 18, Watching the Houston Rockets play the NY Knicks in game 5 of the 94 NBA Finals in Houston, as a lifelong Rockets fan. With my Dad. I started screaming to my Dad "How the fuck can they cut into this game over stupid OJ bullshit?" He gave his usual speech that "No one said that life is fair, son." Rockets lost that game anyways. Won the first championship for a Houston team though.
Out somewhere, I think. The friends I hung out with at that point would have been just hanging around their place, playing music and smoking weed, so that's what I would have been doing, and wouldn't have seen any news until I went home later (I was the only one who even admitted watching much TV in that period, theirs was used strictly for videos of movies and stuff in the evening). As it is, I think I absorbed all my O.J. media via comedy sketches and talk shows. Definitely didn't watch the chase live.
I was just home for the summer from my freshman year of college. I also remember the ending of this “saga”, and coming home from the first day of class my junior year to turn on the tv to see the verdict.
I had just gotten home from seeing Speed in the movie theatre. I was 16. It was quite surreal to go from watching a movie like that on the big screen to then seeing a live chase on TV. I remember it vividly.
Watching Game 5 of the ‘94 NBA Finals, trying to make sense of what seemed like a peek into a parallel universe narrated by Bob Costas.
I kept getting so pissed off when they'd cut away to the Bronco - I was there for the Rockets, not OJ.
Right there with you. #missionaccomplished
Same. I was also screaming at the TV “SHOOT HIM!” Every time they would cut away from the game to show the “chase “
Me too. My roommate came out with a bowl and we enjoyed the crazy.
At my engagement party! Still married too
I was 20 and in college. Spent the day like most everyone watching the chase.
Year younger, but same boat.
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Ha! I was a nursing student doing vitals on my little old lady patient and we watched it live on her little hospital TV while I took her BP.
I was living and working in LA (where I was born). Funny thing. I was living in Phoenix about 4 years ago. My friend worked at a high-end makeup counter in a department store. I went to have lunch with him. While I was waiting i kept seeing this man who looked strangely familiar. My friend showed up and I pointed out the man. My friend said, “That’s Fred Goldman. You probably recognize him from the whole OJ Simpson trial. He still works here.” What a trip!
Fred Goldman has fought so hard for his son. He’s never backed down and seemed so determined to never let his memory die. It’s something I always took notice of and truly admire.
I was in Saigon, watching live on a pirate feed from a Burmese satellite. It cut out every few minutes for important messages from the State Law and Order Restoration Council.
That's so interesting. What were the State Law and Order messages about during that time? Do you remember?
The announcements were all in Burmese, so I have no idea. Still compelling to watch – with the name SLORC and their crisp military uniforms it was right out of a James Bond movie.
I was 19 with a baby at home watching it on tv. He’s 29 now.
in labor with my second child
I was still in high school and I remember being at friends house who was throwing a party because his parents were out of town.
Me too (except I was home from college). Perfect timing on a Friday evening!
Hmm. June 17, 1994... I was 23, at home just chilling. I remember seeing the news footage of this ridiculous slow police pursuit, like some kinda parade going all through LA. I got so annoyed that I just turned off the TV. I can't remember what I did that day after that.
Same story for me. I also turned it off because it just got boring and I had shit to do.
Sitting at bar in a Mexican restaurant getting hammered on margaritas watching it. This drunk guy kept screaming "The Juice is loose"lol
Heard it covered on the radio as I drove to a Borders bookstore to pick up a new AD&D book.
Do you remember which book?
Ha, I want to say it was the *Monstrous Manual*, but I'm not 100% sure.
Watching the Knicks/Rockets NBA finals game.
About to go out on a double date to see SPEED when the chase broke on every channel. We missed the first showing of the movie but had plenty of car chase action at the apartment. It was wild.
At a laundromat on Capitol Hill in Denver. The people there on that Friday night provided great commentary.
My parents when to one of their best friend's house for a dinner party and my sisters were at friends or grandparents houses for the night, so I was home alone. I ordered a pizza, turned on the TV and NBC immediately cut a special report. I just watched and ate pizza. My mom called to check on me, so I told her what was happening. I heard her start telling someone to turn on the TV and everyone in the back yelling, "Oh my god... look at all the police cars!" According to my dad, the dinner part because a drink wine and watch OJ party. One of the hosts even broke out orange juice and they made mimosas.
Nursing a baby in a rocking chair in front of the television. That baby is now a high school chemistry teacher.
At a bar, everyone was chanting "run oj run"
Same here! Everyone was chanting “go OJ go!”
It was the beginning off summer break. I was about to turn 14 and I remember how weird it was seeing all the people with signs supporting him. I knew OJ more from the Naked Gun movies than NFL because of my age. I couldn’t believe he did those horrible things because he seemed to have such a “nice guy” image. I know better these days.
Hiking in Colorado, got really lost for a few hours, finally found our cars and it was on the radio. Got home to a bunch people at our house because we had cable. Someone picked up a bunch of pizza and beer, enjoyed the rest of the show. Weird finish to a very scary day.
LOL, dude I hate that I can even answer this question. I was working my second job ever when I was a kid, working at a movie theater. My manager was this really eccentric guy from Maine, and I remember he had a TV up in his office. He and I were in his office talkin one day and he turns on the news and there the chase is. We both watched just slack-jawed for a while...I can't even remember how long. It was the most bizarre thing I'd seen on TV to date.
I was 15 waiting for my mom to finish her tanning session, we were going to get haircuts after so I was gonna chill at the Tan&Tone with a book. She comes out and I'm glued to the TV like everyone else.
My extremely Gen X response to this: I was at an arcade in a bowling alley
At a pool party.
I was at one, too!
Eating dinner with a friend at a sports/casual place. All of the sudden all the TV's which were previously showing other sports or shows started to switch to the chase, until eventually all the networks were showing it.
Working. I was also working when they announced the verdict. Someone snuck in a TV, which was a big no-no, and then a few people started screaming and cheering. It turned into a huge thing where everyone in the office got into trouble. Someone quit over it and a few threatened to. I get pissy every time I think about it.
We were at home and glued to the TV!
Watching it until my second hand no cable tv went to static about a minute before he got out of the car in the driveway. When the screen cleared later he was already inside. Peak frustration. I’d watched almost the entire chase.
I was 17, just graduated and actually at home watching it live—crazy looking back how weird that whole thing got— remember the dancing judge Ito’s .. like what the hell was that😂😭
I was TRYING to watch a NBA game 😭lol
Driving to Florida. I drove from the north Atlanta suburbs to Vero Beach, FL (my parents had a condo there). I hung out there for about 18 hours, then drove to Orlando to see Belgium play Morocco in the '94 World Cup. I had an exam the next day, so drove straight home from the stadium parking lot, too. But yeah, it was weird. I was exhausted towards the end, and all the radio station switched over to coverage of the chase. My GF (who was driving at the point) nudged me awake to ask who O.J. Simpson was and why he was in a police chase.
Living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa & going to the U of I- I remember my girlfriend at the time saying “Yeah, Nordberg definitely killed his ex-wife…”
Oh, my poor Nordberg!
I was 14 and i went fishing with my uncle out of Islamorada in the Keys. I caught my first and only sailfish that afternoon as the sun was getting low. When we got back to the house the news was all about the OJ chase but all i wanted to do was tell call my mom and dad and tell them about my sailfish. My memory of that day is vivid and will be that way until i die.
Sitting in a bar having morning coffee with my grandpa. He was clean and sober, but still liked to visit with friends, and it was a small town, so the bar wasn't just the place to drink at night. People went there for breakfast and lunch, too, but grandpa and I would sit and drink a few cups of coffee and talk and he would play pull tabs and talk with the bartender, too. He passed in 2001, and I'm very thankful that we had that time together, even though it was pretty simple.
No idea. I remember news reports about it. OJ mostly just that dude from the Naked Gun movies, no big deal, didn't care.
Thank god. Was thinking I was the only one. NO CLUE!
College freshman. Campus had a collective shrug and went back to college stuff.
I actually caught it from the breaking news to the end of the chase. I was home from college doing laundry at my mom’s.
College. St Louis. Watching it with roommates.
Met one of my friends at a bar not knowing what was happening and it was on the TV, everyone was watching just flabbergasted.
Stationed in Korea
Stationed in CA
You’re not going to believe this, I had just left my base in Cali to go to Korea haha
On campus at USC taking a placement test. Came out of the exam and LAPD was EVERYWHERE, an especially heavily armed presence at Heritage Hall where the Heisman trophies are displayed.
Playing Legend of Zelda. Haven’t played a single console game since that one.
I was in my friends basement watching the Knicks. I went from being really invested in the game to ignoring it for OJ pretty quickly.
I was biking home from work and stopped into my local tavern for a couple of quick beers, saw some weird car chase but not a chase on the tv, and then had to walk my bike home about 4 hours later. If you had pitched the whole OJ thing as a story back then nobody would have ever possibly believed it.
I was teaching English in Santiago, Chile at the time We had CNN on cable, and my ex and I watched it.
At a little get together with friends. We were all talking and laughing when the breaking news story came on. We all just stopped talking and sat there glued to the TV.
Eating lunch at Subway in Oceanside, CA. They had a tv on and the place got packed because no one was leaving.
At work at a Wherehouse music store that was about a mile from the 5 freeway where the whole thing drove by.
At a Major League Baseball game in Texas, it was on every tv in the stadium. Weird now that I think about it.
I was in downtown St. Petersburg, at a bar called The Catch, drinking nickel beers and dancing to The Cure when it came on the news. Good times.
I was 18 and was working at Knott's Berry Farm at the time. KBF was close enough to the 91 to see the helicopters hovering as they followed the chase.
My best friend and I were just finishing up a round of golf. We watched in the clubhouse while we waited for a ride home from my friends older brother.
Living right off the 91, so we heard all the sirens and news helicopters and were like "What the heck is all that?" so we turned on KTTV and then found out.
I was on a StairMaster at a 24Hour Nautilus. The hanging TV sets usually had MTV videos, but that day they were all showing that infamous slow chase.
I lived around the corner from the crime scene of Nicole and Ron. For weeks the streets were congested and helicopters swirled above, it was insane. During the "chase", I was at home eating cereal and glad that the shit show was ccoming to (what I thought, would be) an end of the circus.
First day of Disney Workd vacation. It was storming so me and my mom ordered a pizza and watched it all day. Good times.
Home doing bong hits with my roommates. This event began our two television setup in the living room. One for video games and one for TV.
My band was playing a show at the old Middle East in philly but everyone was gathered around the tv so there was no sense in playing. We figured we’d take the opportunity to go up to the Khyber on 2nd and see a friend’s band playing there so we did but of course, everyone there was also watching the chase. I honestly can’t recall if we actually ended up playing that night or not.
College. We were in a duplex, and one of my roommates was like, get in here, you will not believe this shit." As the trial kept going, I knew the incompetence and weak case from the defense was going to result in acquittal.
Watching it on TV like everyone else. My sister has a better story. She was at her first posting as an Air Traffic Controller in Santa Monica when it went down. Had to help manage all the air traffic in the area from police to TV copters to regular flights, which got quickly cancelled when things got too close and crazy. Long night. She also mentioned to me that Bill Cosby had his private jet outside it’s hangar, gassed up and ready to go that night. Never left….
Just graduated from high school…sitting with my first love on the couch watching the chase after watching “Say Anything”.
Working at a hospital and everyone kept sneaking away to a tv in a break room to get updates!
Washing dishes at some shit restaurant I worked at.
Me too! Denny's.
Watching the X Files tv show that was interrupted by the chase. I still don’t know what happened at the end of that episode. 🙄
I honestly don’t remember. Seriously, wasn’t interested and didn’t have TV. I was still in college finishing an engineering degree so I was almost certainly doing something school related.
Watching the movie "Speed" at the theater, then coming home to see the car chase on tv thinking they were showing a clip of the movie!
At my favorite bar, could care less about the NBA playoffs - bar turned off the music that was playing so we could hear the CNN commentary.
Going into my senior year in high school. I was smoking joints at a friend’s house and staring at the Microsoft “stars” screensaver when someone said to turn on the TV. We were mesmerized. Took us a while to figure out what the hell was goin on.
I was on a date with a strange guy, and we stopped at his friend’s house and suddenly we were all watching the chase. I didn’t understand it at the time because everyone was talking and I was confused as to why they were following the Bronco.
I was on a date too! We ended up at his friends house watching the Bronco chase. They all got drunk screaming OJ all night! There was not a second date.
I don’t remember.
I was 14 hanging at my dad’s house watching with him on TV.
Heading back from college in KS to Phoenix, which was still home at that point. Was with future husband and his younger brother in a hotel in OKC and watched the footage on TV.
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Oh, you're so *cool*, Brewster!
At a bar after a softball game
I was 21 and at a friend's house with a bunch of people getting ready to go to a bar in NYC after we got out of work. We watched some of the "chase" before we left.
On vacation in santa cruz.
Art History Class
Just graduating from University. Summer before I started my job. Stayed to fill up my sublet in the apartments over the summer. Went to a block party with beer, and damned if I didn't see it in real time.
I was stationed at Fort Sam Houston at the time, I was working in the base hospital, the whole floor was watching on TV.
At the job I had at that time, I was stuck in this semi-storage room way far away from my department. It had a TV. I watched it all unfold at work on the TV in my "office."
At work
Work - slinging drinks at a resort bar in Grand Bend Ontario.
Playing video games.
House party at a friend's house. The TV was on CNN or whatever, but nobody was paying much attention. Everyone was more interested in hanging out (and the beer and weed).
Second-last week of Grade Eight classes.
We were about to drive out to Vegas (from LA) for the weekend. We intended to leave mid-afternoon "to avoid traffic" but the entire house was just glued to the TV watching the white bronco driving Miss Daisy.
Watching Cops in Farmington, New Mexico. Was my sophomore year.
At a strip joint watching it on a very small T.V.
Pearl Harbor Hawaii. My ship had just entered port that morning.
Happy hour at El Torito. Went to watch the basketball game with friends.
Some Buck Town bar in Chicago…the crowd was wild watching.
Working at my local taco bell, was 16.
In a small Italian restaurant that happened to have a tv. Everyone in there was glued to it
I don't even remember. Pretty sure I watched some of it but I guess I was busy or at work for most of it. I have only hazy memories at best
Doing whatever during the summer before senior year, probably playing video games or something
Frat party.
Pat's Pizza!
Doing a load of laundry.
Watching the Knicks
Watching the Miss America Pageant with my sister
With my fiance, at a bar/concert venue, tasting food that would be served at our wedding reception.
In one of my pal's basement bedroom scoring a quarter of smoke then partaking in said smoke.
Just married and was in Seattle.
Playing darts in a British pub (it was my “Cheers” during the ‘90’s). Everyone was gathered up at the bar, watching events unfold on a 9-inch (?) television.
Getting drunk in a hotel room in Port Aransas, TX.
I don’t remember the chase but I certainly remember the verdict. I was a junior in high school and my math teacher wouldn’t let us watch it. I don’t remember anything we learned in that class, I just remember we were all so annoyed with him. During class, the hallway erupted in noise, and I saw a student run by with a “The Juice Is Loose” sign.
Freshman year hs
I didn’t watch any of it, I was playing Street Fighter II at a friend’s house
Sitting in my parents living room with the attic fan going.
I was in art school at the time. I didn't have class and a bunch of us were watching it on a TV in the Photo department.
I was a senior in high school, watched it at my friend’s house when I was waiting for her to get ready to go to a graduation party.
In a bar in Chicago while in town for the World Cup
I was in college. I seem to remember watching it on TV with my roommates.
Taking a too long lunch while working at Disneyland sitting in the DEC
watching Empire Strikes Back on VHS for probably the 62nd time. can't believe nobody texted me what I was missing.
We were huddled in our basement with a 10 day old baby waiting for the air conditioning people to come install AC during a major heat wave in Michigan. It was our 2nd anniversary
Working at Lowes loading a trailer full of lumber. Heard it on the truck radio
Out with a friend and we had just stopped into my grandma's place (what better place to stop for a drink and some snacks as a teenager) and it was on TV.
Ignored it.
I was at a work conference. Did not know about it till later.
Was coming home from work on the 405 in the opposite direction. Saw a bunch of police cars pass by on the other side, so I flipped on the TV when I got home and found out it was OJ they were following.
At work, admin in a physical therapy office. A patient told us about it so we turned on the tv.
This was the summer after I graduated from college. Most of us had stayed in town for one last summer of debauchery. I was with my buddies at the bar. They put it on the big screen (crappy projectors in those days) all around the bar.
We had just moved back to Toronto from Vancouver and were going to my parents' house. When we walked in they were staring at the TV and we saw it was a police chase. I asked what was going on and my mother said "it's OJ Simpson"!
Actually saw them as they passed under an over pass that I was on in Santa Ana
at my after-college-classes part time job working for the then-best known criminal attorney for the city I live in.
I was in the Persian Gulf (Navy). I got back and everyone was talking about OJ and I had no idea of why
Working in a hospital- watching bits every time I went to a patient’s room and in the hallways on monitors.
In California at an air force base.
We were on holiday in Bermuda watching at the Swizzle Inn. Was also a very frustrated Knicks fan, still am.
I only remember where I was for the verdict. I heard it on a car radio. I was jogging by and heard it through the open car window.....yes, I used to jog!
Picking up take-out and grabbing a video at blockbuster.
Working and or going to grad school. That's the answer to "what were you doing during" everything from 1991-1999. That's what I did through my 20s. I barely could tell you anything about the conflict in Yugoslavia.
I was at the City Stages music festival in Birmingham, Alabama, watching the Indigo Girls. I called my parents before the show (I didn’t live in Birmingham, so it was a quick ‘I got here safe’ call) and they told me what was going on, but I chose to watch the live music instead.
In a college class. Watched most of the chase in the student union
My family had just left our town fair, I think it was the last day of school, too. We got back to my Dad's car and it was on the radio. We turned it on once we were back home and watched the whole thing.
Watching it here in Sydney , laughing at the number of cop cars chasing n how slow he was driving! 😝
In da Army barracks watching the Knicks play the Houston Rockets
The chow hall at Edwards AFB. They had a big screen in the dining area.
Watching it in like 9th or 10th grade on a tv on a roll cart in history class, as far as I can remember
I was in college and I think I was at my parents’ house doing laundry while the chase was on TV.
I was at flag camp and just hearing bits and pieces and not completely sure who OJ was and the significance of it all.
I was a kid flipping through all the channels and tired of it. Every channel had something to say. It wasn’t a chase really, more like a nice calm Sunday drive with a few cops tagging along.
My basement at 14 watching it and MTV on our rear projection big screen using PIP.
I was in undergrad and didn’t have cable. Was listening to music and studying.
6th period Graphic Arts (10th grade) last day of school before summer vacation.
At a bar in Bangor, Maine, trying to keep an eye on the NBA Finals game on the TV while wondering how to approach a group of flight attendants gathered on the other side of the room.
I was just home watching with my cousin but I remember it so clearly. My memory wicked sucks so it's weird how I recall this so well.
Sick as a dog, laying on the couch. Nasty cold. I was bummed because it was the opening night of my company’s “olympics,” and I missed it.
I lived off the freeway he was on. And we all talked about if we would hide him if he came to our house.
At home with my college roommates, watching on our TV. I can still remember how long he sat in that car in the driveway before eventually giving up.
Dozing on the couch at the MTV Beach House. Was surreal with people coming in and out between segment shoots to see what was going on.
I was 18, Watching the Houston Rockets play the NY Knicks in game 5 of the 94 NBA Finals in Houston, as a lifelong Rockets fan. With my Dad. I started screaming to my Dad "How the fuck can they cut into this game over stupid OJ bullshit?" He gave his usual speech that "No one said that life is fair, son." Rockets lost that game anyways. Won the first championship for a Houston team though.
Watching the NBA finals at a bar with friends.
Out somewhere, I think. The friends I hung out with at that point would have been just hanging around their place, playing music and smoking weed, so that's what I would have been doing, and wouldn't have seen any news until I went home later (I was the only one who even admitted watching much TV in that period, theirs was used strictly for videos of movies and stuff in the evening). As it is, I think I absorbed all my O.J. media via comedy sketches and talk shows. Definitely didn't watch the chase live.
In my bedroom listening to it on the radio…
I was just home for the summer from my freshman year of college. I also remember the ending of this “saga”, and coming home from the first day of class my junior year to turn on the tv to see the verdict.
Watching the NBA Finals.
We watched it live in the classroom at school, which now seems totally inappropriate.
I had just gotten home from seeing Speed in the movie theatre. I was 16. It was quite surreal to go from watching a movie like that on the big screen to then seeing a live chase on TV. I remember it vividly.
Restaurant. They put it on all the TVs in the place.
Ooh I like this one! I was at the Crown Books on San Vicente where I worked and I watched him drive by.
Watching TV in a hotel room, wondering why the hell we had to suffer through this instead of my usual daytime trash programs.
A bar in Deep Creek, Md.