The People Vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
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I'm still 
at Shapiro telling his Oscar De La Hoya story, n everybody lookin at him like 
at Shapiro telling his Oscar De La Hoya story, n everybody lookin at him like 
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Welp, here's the final fact checker
The People v. O.J. Simpson Recap: Episode 10 Fact Check
Johnnie Cochran received death threats while defending Simpson.
True. Most of the defense team endured threats and harassment, according to Lawrence Schiller’sAmerican Tragedy; at times this even extended to their children. Cochran’s daughter Tiffany, then working as a local TV news anchor in South Carolina, has said that she “endured death threats, nasty taunts, and general misery on a daily basis.” Robert Kardashian instructed his then-16-year-old daughter Kourtney, “Watch your rearview mirror. Be careful how you drive. Don’t come home late at night.”
Johnnie Cochran hired Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam guards for protection.
Sort of. Six Fruit of Islam guards volunteered their services. But it is true, according to Jeffrey Toobin’s source book, that Robert Shapiro disapproved of the guards and “had been appalled when Cochran brought the Fruit of Islam into his entourage.” This gets mentioned in a bizarre but entertaining tangent on the lunchroom politics of the court room, which sound very similar to those of any high school. Seeing Shapiro sitting alone, having spurned the company of his co-counsels and their protectors, Toobin recounts that he and a group of journalists, “feeling a little sorry for him—and always eager to chat with an insider—asked him to sit with us. He picked up his tray, sidled over, and joined in our reveries of life after O.J. His own fantasy, he said, would be to take a month off and join Oscar De La Hoya’s training camp at Big Bear Lake.”
In her closing arguments, did Marcia Clark wish aloud that Mark Fuhrman were never born?
Pretty much: “In fact, do we wish there were no such person on the planet? Yes.”
The police officers guarding O.J. asked for his autograph while they awaited the verdict—and gossiped with the officers assigned to the jury about their deliberations.
True. Though, according to Toobin, it wasn’t just the one, as portrayed in the show. “‘All the deputies here are asking for my autograph,’ Simpson told his lawyers. ‘They hear from their boys over with the jury that it’s going to be the last chance for them to get one.’ It was the last leak in the case—from the sheriff’s deputies guarding the jury to their colleagues guarding Simpson: O.J. was going to walk.”
That final confrontation between Darden and Cochran.
Sort of. At some point months before the trial was over Cochran told Darden, according to Darden’s bookIn Contempt, “ ‘Stay out of the racial stuff and we’ll see what we can do about getting you back in’ . . . I knew what he meant. He would see what he could do about getting me ‘back in’ the black community . . . Beneath the court case that everyone else saw, Cochran and I fought another battle, over the expectations and responsibilities of being a black man in America.”
Marcia Clark was a rape victim herself.
True. In her memoir, Without a Doubt, she writes in horrific detail about the experience of being a young girl, 17, vacationing in Israel with friends and being assaulted by a waiter.
Chris Darden broke down and could not finish his statement at the press conference.
True. After “I’m not bitter, and I’m not angry” (which he told Oprah was a lie), he tries to go on and then, as portrayed, walks away from the podium to hug the Goldmans. To Oprah he said of the trial it was “a mockery, a circus, a joke. It was a waste of my life. A waste of the lives of my colleagues. It was pointless.”
O.J.’s statement outside his Rockingham house.
False. While read on-screen nearly word for word, it was his oldest son Jason who delivered the speech, not O.J.
Jason Simpson gave his father a puppy upon his acquittal.
True, amazingly and weirdly: an “eight-week-old Great Dane.”
O.J. threw the “party of the century” at his Rockingham estate the night he was released—and arranged to sell the photographs to Star magazine.
True. According to Jeffrey Toobin, Star magazine paid a six-figure sum for photos from the party, which seems to have been a sad, “quiet” affair, in contrast to the “rager” Simpson envisioned. “Only one person stayed by Simpson’s side the entire evening. That was Peter Burt, a reporter for the Star. . .”
Toobin, author of the book the series is most directly based on, does not hide his opinion of Lawrence Schiller, author of a competing Simpson trial book American Tragedy, from which much of the show’s background info also seems to come. Toobin delivers a restrained burn, calling Schiller a “literary entrepreneur” in The Run of His Life. Schiller himself is matter-of-fact about his association with Simpson, telling The Believer magazine:
“O. J. Simpson is a cold-blooded, vicious killer. My daughter was his babysitter. And we lived across the street from him. I know about all the spousal abuse. I’ve had fights with him about it. In jail, I screamed at him and said, “Look at the good Rock Hudson did before he died, by acknowledging his sexuality and his illness!” I said, “If you get out of this fukking mess”—I didn’t say “fukking mess,” but—“If you get out of this, if you’re judged to be innocent, you should go out and talk about spousal abuse. Do you realize how many women and men you could help?” “I never did anyth—” I said, “fukk you, O. J.” Of course, he continued to deal with me… but he’s a cold-blooded killer.”
The People v. O.J. Simpson Recap: Episode 10 Fact Check
Johnnie Cochran received death threats while defending Simpson.
True. Most of the defense team endured threats and harassment, according to Lawrence Schiller’sAmerican Tragedy; at times this even extended to their children. Cochran’s daughter Tiffany, then working as a local TV news anchor in South Carolina, has said that she “endured death threats, nasty taunts, and general misery on a daily basis.” Robert Kardashian instructed his then-16-year-old daughter Kourtney, “Watch your rearview mirror. Be careful how you drive. Don’t come home late at night.”
Johnnie Cochran hired Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam guards for protection.
Sort of. Six Fruit of Islam guards volunteered their services. But it is true, according to Jeffrey Toobin’s source book, that Robert Shapiro disapproved of the guards and “had been appalled when Cochran brought the Fruit of Islam into his entourage.” This gets mentioned in a bizarre but entertaining tangent on the lunchroom politics of the court room, which sound very similar to those of any high school. Seeing Shapiro sitting alone, having spurned the company of his co-counsels and their protectors, Toobin recounts that he and a group of journalists, “feeling a little sorry for him—and always eager to chat with an insider—asked him to sit with us. He picked up his tray, sidled over, and joined in our reveries of life after O.J. His own fantasy, he said, would be to take a month off and join Oscar De La Hoya’s training camp at Big Bear Lake.”
In her closing arguments, did Marcia Clark wish aloud that Mark Fuhrman were never born?
Pretty much: “In fact, do we wish there were no such person on the planet? Yes.”
The police officers guarding O.J. asked for his autograph while they awaited the verdict—and gossiped with the officers assigned to the jury about their deliberations.
True. Though, according to Toobin, it wasn’t just the one, as portrayed in the show. “‘All the deputies here are asking for my autograph,’ Simpson told his lawyers. ‘They hear from their boys over with the jury that it’s going to be the last chance for them to get one.’ It was the last leak in the case—from the sheriff’s deputies guarding the jury to their colleagues guarding Simpson: O.J. was going to walk.”
That final confrontation between Darden and Cochran.
Sort of. At some point months before the trial was over Cochran told Darden, according to Darden’s bookIn Contempt, “ ‘Stay out of the racial stuff and we’ll see what we can do about getting you back in’ . . . I knew what he meant. He would see what he could do about getting me ‘back in’ the black community . . . Beneath the court case that everyone else saw, Cochran and I fought another battle, over the expectations and responsibilities of being a black man in America.”
Marcia Clark was a rape victim herself.
True. In her memoir, Without a Doubt, she writes in horrific detail about the experience of being a young girl, 17, vacationing in Israel with friends and being assaulted by a waiter.
Chris Darden broke down and could not finish his statement at the press conference.
True. After “I’m not bitter, and I’m not angry” (which he told Oprah was a lie), he tries to go on and then, as portrayed, walks away from the podium to hug the Goldmans. To Oprah he said of the trial it was “a mockery, a circus, a joke. It was a waste of my life. A waste of the lives of my colleagues. It was pointless.”
O.J.’s statement outside his Rockingham house.
False. While read on-screen nearly word for word, it was his oldest son Jason who delivered the speech, not O.J.
Jason Simpson gave his father a puppy upon his acquittal.
True, amazingly and weirdly: an “eight-week-old Great Dane.”
O.J. threw the “party of the century” at his Rockingham estate the night he was released—and arranged to sell the photographs to Star magazine.
True. According to Jeffrey Toobin, Star magazine paid a six-figure sum for photos from the party, which seems to have been a sad, “quiet” affair, in contrast to the “rager” Simpson envisioned. “Only one person stayed by Simpson’s side the entire evening. That was Peter Burt, a reporter for the Star. . .”
Toobin, author of the book the series is most directly based on, does not hide his opinion of Lawrence Schiller, author of a competing Simpson trial book American Tragedy, from which much of the show’s background info also seems to come. Toobin delivers a restrained burn, calling Schiller a “literary entrepreneur” in The Run of His Life. Schiller himself is matter-of-fact about his association with Simpson, telling The Believer magazine:
“O. J. Simpson is a cold-blooded, vicious killer. My daughter was his babysitter. And we lived across the street from him. I know about all the spousal abuse. I’ve had fights with him about it. In jail, I screamed at him and said, “Look at the good Rock Hudson did before he died, by acknowledging his sexuality and his illness!” I said, “If you get out of this fukking mess”—I didn’t say “fukking mess,” but—“If you get out of this, if you’re judged to be innocent, you should go out and talk about spousal abuse. Do you realize how many women and men you could help?” “I never did anyth—” I said, “fukk you, O. J.” Of course, he continued to deal with me… but he’s a cold-blooded killer.”
The Devil's Advocate
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link anyone? don't want to wait till the am
All of the 'Stream All The Sources' links cut off when the Goldmans are in the car.
Roman Brady
Nobody Lives Forever
That ish with monica would have made for a better subject than Katrina, there isn't going much fukkery or feel good event programming regarding that, blax are just going to be depicted in two categories looters or the downtroddenClinton
Roman Brady
Nobody Lives Forever
When the daughter says what do we do now wasn't that the end?All of the 'Stream All The Sources' links cut off when the Goldmans are in the car.
looking at the scene with the goldmans it's like they drove directly to a witch doctor or some shytThe karma that hit the defense team
When the daughter says what do we do now wasn't that the end?
I thought so to until I started reading this thread.
I was thinking that was the cliffhanger for the follow up season that covers the civil trial.
Dr. Narcisse
Veteran
Great end to a great series. I expect some awards for this.
Sad to see it go, but it was a helluva ride. Great performances from everybody.
9.5/10
Sad to see it go, but it was a helluva ride. Great performances from everybody.
9.5/10
The Devil's Advocate
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Yo every link I clicked on is 41 mins and I'm reading about scenes that didn't show and am like wtf lol
Found one thats over an hour. 20 mins of more piff
