I was with friends at our usual bar. They had the Bronco chase on the TVs. I just checked and was relieved to find out it was on a Friday. I was 24, so it could have been any day of the week that we were at the bar. 
ESPN did a 30 for 30 episode about this busy day in sports. It’s on Netflix.
I was still in grade school; my family was still a year or two away from switching to satellite. I remember watching the chase in the family room; everyone was having a snack, so I guess we were just watching it in place of whatever we typically watched at night.
Computer-wise, we still had an Apple IIGS, and had recently gotten our first PC – a Gateway 2000 with Windows 3.1. It wouldn’t be connected to the Internet until just before our Windows 95 upgrade.
Sweet, thanks!
It’s a strange, fascinating film - it’s as much a piece of media art as a documentary. It cuts back and forth between the finals game, the OJ chase, and other major sports developments from that day with no narration and a lot of previously unaired behind-the-scenes audio and video.
I was newly arrived at the Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal and had no time to really notice.
I was in college studying anatomy and physiology. I heard about the murders the day before, or maybe 2 days before the bronco chase. I assumed that OJ was not guilty, because he always seemed like a nice guy on TV and in movies. I turned on the TV to see the bronco chase in progress. When they explained who it was in the SUV, I gave up hoping that he was innocent of murdering Nicole and Ron.
Interesting question and answers! That night I was working in a suburban police department. The TV in the roll-call room was on, and throughout the chase cops would pop in for a few minutes and we’d all stand around laughing at OJ. It was kind of cool to hear the LE perspective during the event.
I was at that point still a couple of months away from becoming a *very *young grandmother, and AFAIK I’m not a great-grandma yet. I had a job, so I was obviously more functional than I am now. Come to think of it, that was the year everything went all to hell. Maybe I can blame OJ for that!
I hope so, because I was in a bar drinking beer and playing pool with my boyfriend/now husband. I don’t like thinking I’d be in a bar in the middle of the day.
I think I went to the movies with my soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend that evening…“Death Becomes Her”, if I remember correctly.
I was still in high school and I was over at a friends house doing who the hell know and my mom called and said to turn on the tv and hurry up and order a pizza* because pretty soo n everyone would be pordring pizza so they could stay tuned to the tv to watch the chase. We watched the chase and ate pizza that night.
*My mom knew that my friends mom was going to order pizza for dinner that night because I had called earlier and asked to eat dinner at their house.
I was living in the Chicago suburbs and my wife, daughter and I watched it on TV. I was nonplussed that it might conflict with the my watching the NBA playoffs. I had a computer but it had not quite taken over my life.
A week later we had our very own white bronco chase right in our neighborhood. A bad guy driving a white bronco tried to elude the police. The chase went right by our house twice. It ended two blocks away and I walked down to spectate. There 13 or 14 police cars surrounding the bronco! Driver was arrested.
I was at a Texas Rangers baseball game. They were showing it on all the TVs by the concession stands, and I speficically remember a bunch of drunk people shouting “The Juice is loose!” I might have been one of them.
I was, of course, with the real killer at the time.
OJ, call me, yo!
SO and I lived in West Hollywood, CA - and like most people in the area, were more concerned with traffic than idiot OJ. Traffic sucks in LA, so anytime there is something to make it suck worse, this gets Angelinos in a tither.
I think the chase had most people nodding their heads saying, “Told 'ya he killed 'em.”
We watched a bit and then went to our local bar, as was usual on Friday nights, and they had it on TV in the background. There were lots of funny, snide, catty remarks - just what you would expect from a West Hollywood Gay bar.
Our 12 year stint in West Hollwood was quite eventful - OJ and the chase, Rodney King riots, Northridge earthquake (among others), a couple of fires, a flood or two - I always said all we missed were the locusts.
I was just watching TV and caught the bronco chase. I had heard about the murders the prior couple of days and though I didn’t know much about OJ, it seemed like a big deal when like 2 dozen police cars were chasing him down the freeway. I remember seeing those people with signs on the overpass and how cool that was and wished I could do that.
It’s been a while but I think I was trying to watch the X-Files and was pissed that they were showing the chase live.
Don’t know about anybody else (especially those who were grown when it happened), but it really doesn’t seem like it was that long ago until I start remembering where I was and what I was doing and what all has changed (middle aged healthstuff notwithstanding, most changes have been for the better) and the total absence of internet, DVDs- I’m not even sure if I had a CD player yet- and then it’s like something that should be on ancestry.com. I should have a picture of myself on tin watching the trial and CDVs of Marcia Clarke and Kato Kaelin.
It was the summer after my junior year in high school. My boyfriend and I went to see the horrible Jack Nicholson movie Wolf at the drive-in theater, which was really just an excuse to make out for several hours out of boredom. When we got home, my mom told me that we’d just missed the craziest night on TV she’d ever seen. So yeah, I didn’t see the Bronco chase live because of a bad drive-in movie.
I don’t recall finding out about the chase until the next day, and of course repeat footage of it was all over CNN and every other news outlet the whole day.
We had Prodigy Online at the time, which had its own news service and lots of message boards, but it didn’t even occur to me to check there - TV would have been by far the most effective vehicle for delivery of this type of story back then.