
To all you old nikkas posting relevant facts, pics, videos, & etc. for us that were too young back when this was going on.
i was a freshman in college (NCATSU) when the verdict was read. There was a campus wide announcement made the night before the verdict, Monday at 2PM if i remembered correctly. I think even classes were suspended

My dorm was quiet as the verdict was about to be read, everybody's door was open and as soon as the jury said "Not Guilty" my dorm erupted. Everyone ran out their dorm rooms jumping around giving high fives and hugs

the OJ trial was shown in its entirely on every major tv channel in the US (CBS, NBC, ABC) for atleast 6 months straight. This is before the internet so all we had was the TV and newspaper/tabloid reports. All the daytime talk shows (Oprah, Geraldo, Donahue) did daily shows about what happened that day in court. All the nightly news (Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw) lead their broadcasts with details of what happened in court that day. Geraldo actually brought the replica Bronco to his studio to examine where the blood was found. This was also the hey day of soap operas but the networks pretty much suspended all of them for the OJ trial

As game 5 of the Rockets/Knicks finals, the picture in picture box showing the Bronco chase slowly got bigger as the game went on and by the end the game was in the small box
It was an amazing time in American history. It helped make the 90s the GOAT decade for me. I will never forget it
