James is his secod name
I know his first name is Orenthal. I was riffing on that phone call between Al Cowlings and the police. The way I remember it, Cowlings told the police he was in the car with OJ and OJ had a gun to his own head. Then for some reason the police asked him “Who is this,” and he said “My name is AC. You know who I am, god dammit!”
I was reading some “Where are they now?” sites and apparently Al Cowlings nosedived after the flight. At one point he was in foreclosure and bankruptcy and selling handbags. Apparently he’s now living in Malibu and retired so at least his pension must have been enough to live on (and of course if he was getting screwed at sports memorabilia shows all he had to do was call OJ).
OJ and Nicole’s daughter is now working for a catering company in Atlanta (most recent mentions of her mention her resemblance to one of the Kardashians) and their son is living in the Orlando area. Ito is still a judge, Kato is still picking up occasional fame scraps, Cochran and Kardashian are dead of course, Clark and Fuhrman and several others traded their careers for book deals and pundit gigs, and OJ is, of course, the present Ambassador to Finland.
I missed it totally. I was at an outside graduation party. Had no clue what had gone on until the next day.
We were living in Pharr, Texas, at the time, but we were visiting my wife’s parents in New Braunfels for a couple of weeks. I remember watching it on the living room TV with my father-in-law. The problem with watching TV with him back then was that he would constantly switch the channels. As soon as you got involved in a TV show, he would flip over to something else. That night, we were watching the chase on every network that was showing it (except wherever the basketball game was – I don’t remember watching that at all).
My father-in-law no longer flips the channels constantly. Any TV in his presence stays locked onto FoxNews. 
I missed the live event. I was a college senior working at Tower Records in Emeryville, CA that afternoon/evening. We didn’t have a TV in the employee room but heard about it from customers later that evening.
I’m in NJ and watched on the New York affiliate. I do think they flipped it a few times. But at some point Tom Brokaw came on and the chase was definitely the top story.
The best “Baba Booey” prank of all time.
I was at home…
Don’t watch much TV. Think I saw part of the slo-mo chase on the news that night. Guess I just shook my head.
Too bad. I always thought he was a good guy.
I was going 70 the chase was what 40? I was pulling away from OJ.
I don’t know which is funnier the Whoosh or the misspellings.
the chase was covered earliest by a helicopter piloted by Bob Tur, who made the news recently.
Krisna isn’t a misspelling, that is really how her mother put it on her birth certificate. That is what she called herself, and that is what was on her CT non-driver ID.
He means the killer’s name. It’s Orenthal, not Oranthal. And typing out the full name just makes me think of Chris Rock’s ‘if he wasn’t famous, he’d be Orenthal the Bus-Drivin’ Murderer’ bit.
BTW, it’s worth noting that OJ pronounced his full name as “uh-REN-thee-uhl”-- four syllables–not “O-ren-thal,” as it might first appear.
I was living with my older sister that summer. We were doing laundry that Friday night (which required several back and forth drives to the laundromat). Fun times.
As my mother used to say about similar odd pronunciations, “It’s his name, he can pronounce it ‘Chesterfield’ if he wants to… though we’ll all know he’s wrong.”
Somebody at my senior prom went to check on the basketball score and came back to tell us that the cops were, for some reason, chasing OJ Simpson.
A year later, I was living in Boston during the trial, and happened to work at Allan Dershowitz’s answering service. I must have taken messages from some dude named “Lee” at least ten times before I realized I had been talking to F. Lee Bailey.
I was working the night of the chase, at the Ford plant that manufactured Broncos. Everyone that went on break would come back to the line with updates from the break room televisions. There were a lot of folks who were convinced he was innocent, but most of us were busy speculating if the publicity would help/hurt Bronco sales.
We’d already broken ground at our facility on new construction that would allow us to introduce the Expedition in two more years, so we knew then that the Bronco was on it’s way out. It was interesting how white became a much more popular color choice after the chase, though.