#o.j. simpson

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since hes dead now i wanna know what yall think

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[crimsonhoney]

????? this man really was disgusting until the day he died. at least he can now rest easy knowing his wife’s murderer is dead I guess

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Dead.

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"Pilot the Enterprise Thru Space"

Yeah, right! It just goes in circles! Guaranteed to make the entire crew space sick!

Beyond that, this is a very interesting page from the Spiegel catalog (a copy of which I never saw myself, but it was always mentioned in the prize portion of game shows).

Not only do we see the infamous Star Trek "Spock helmet" - you know, just like the one Spock wore all the time - but there's the little known action figure Private Eye J.J. Armes. He had interchangeable gimmick hands (get the pun in his name?) including pirate hooks.

Oh, and let's not forget the action figure of future accused murderer and convicted felon O.J. Simpson.

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EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED: DENISE BROWN AT THE FIRST PRELIMINARY HEARING FOR O.J. SIMPSON'S MURDER TRIAL LOOKS LIKE HER SISTER COME TO LIFE, IN THE SAME WAY LAURA PALMER RETURNS FROM AMONG THE DEAD IN THE FORM OF HER COUSIN IN "TWIN PEAKS" AND MADELINE RETURNS IN THE FORM OF HER DOPPELGANGER JUDY IN "VERTIGO".

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O.j. Simpson can rest easy knowing his wife's killer is finally dead

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O.J. SIMPSON

1947-2024

Orenthal James 'O.J.' Simpson was an alumni of the University of Southern California and winner of the Heisman Trophy. He was a former NFL running back for the Buffalo Bills (1969-77) and the San Francisco 49'ers (1977-78). Simpson parlayed his success on the gridiron into a career as an announcer and actor. As such, he appeared as himself on "Here's Lucy" in "The Big Game" (S6;E2) on September 17, 1973. In the episode, he speaks at Harry's Chamber of Commerce luncheon and passes on a couple of free passes to a sold out game. At first, Harry sells the tickets for a nifty profit, but then has to buy them back when he discovers that Simpson's wife will be there. When she cancels, Simpson gives Harry her tickets, which he tries to scalp outside the stadium.

Simpson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. Once a popular figure with the  public, he is known today for his trial and acquittal for the brutal murders of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. In 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with the felonies of armed robbery and kidnapping. He was convicted and sentenced to 33 years imprisonment, but granted parole on July 20, 2017.  He died of cancer at age 76.

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directed by David Zucker (1988)

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Nadra Nittle and Candice Norwood at The 19th:

The murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman led to one of the country’s most watched legal cases: The football superstar O.J. Simpson stood accused of killing his ex-wife and Goldman in a trial that sparked widespread debate about the power of celebrity, the inadequacies of the criminal justice system and the significance of his race. Following news of O.J. Simpson’s death on Wednesday from cancer complications, experts revisited how the murders and subsequent trial reshaped discussions of domestic violence — and the ways racial dynamics complicated them.  Some said the country saw a major shift on a subject that had historically been framed as a private matter. “When those murders happened, it really forced folks to take a look at domestic violence, what it really means to families, how dangerous it is,” said Charmine Davis, director of family wellness at the Jenesse Center, a domestic violence prevention and intervention nonprofit in Los Angeles. “It changed the way bills are passed and how politicians, police and the whole system looked at domestic violence.”

Others said the case primarily amplified a harmful reality that continues today in entertainment and beyond. “I don’t think that any inroads have been made in terms of the criminal legal system, because I don’t think it’s possible,” said Myriam Gurba, author of the book “Creep: Accusations and Confessions,” which includes essays about gendered violence. “I know that the criminal legal system does not exist to manufacture justice for battered women. I believe that the purpose of a system is what it does.” The legacy of this case — however inconsistent it may be — advanced national conversations that were rarely visible at such widespread levels.  

Just months after the June 12, 1994, murders of Brown Simpson and Goldman, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The law stands out as the first comprehensive federal legislation designed to stop battery, sexual assault and other forms of violence targeting women. For years, advocates had unsuccessfully pushed to get the law enacted. The awareness Brown Simpson’s murder raised about intimate partner violence helped to get VAWA much-needed backing from lawmakers, supporters of the legislation said. 

More broadly, advocates reported at the time that the number of donations to battered women’s shelters and other women’s organizations rose nationwide. The number of calls to shelters also increased, indicating that more women were comfortable coming forward about their abuse. After her murder, the public learned the extent of the abuse Brown Simpson endured. She stored items in a safe deposit box at a bank: It included three photos of herself with a bruised, swollen face, apology letters from Simpson admitting the abuse, a journal that tracked Simpson’s stalking, and newspaper clips from a night in 1989 when she was hospitalized and the police were called. It appeared to be a trail of evidence laid out in case she was killed. Prosecutors discovered the box six months after Brown Simpson’s murder. 

[...] On October 3, 1995, a Los Angeles jury found him not guilty of murder — a conclusion that outraged Brown Simpson’s supporters due to the evidence pointing at her ex-husband. Fans of Simpson celebrated the verdict. Although he hadn’t played competitive football since 1979 after career highs, including the 1973 Most Valuable Player award as a Buffalo Bill and a 1968 Heisman Trophy as a University of Southern California Trojan, the running back had channeled his fame as an athlete into roles as an actor and sports commentator. This made him relevant to a younger generation. “O.J. Simpson was a character,” said Earl Smith, professor of women and gender studies at the University of Delaware. “He was the first celebrity athlete. Nobody commanded that much attention in terms of getting paid to sell products. Everybody loved him. He had that kind of personality.”

For critics of Simpson and many survivors of gender-based violence, Simpson’s acquittal sent a painful message. Advocates and attorneys have previously said it was clear that some jurors did not understand the connection between domestic violence and Brown Simpson’s murder. Gurba said the outcome of the case and the discussion of the abuse was “instructive” for her as a teenage girl: These taught her that she would not be believed and could also be killed. 

Underlying the virality of the case were the inescapable racial dynamics that shape the U.S. court system and the criminalization of Black men. Simpson being a Black man and Brown Simpson being a White woman evokes associations between Black men and danger to women that have repeated throughout the country’s history. Three years before Simpson’s acquittal, a Los Angeles-area jury found a group of White officers not guilty of assaulting Rodney King, a Black motorist they had been videotaped beating during a police stop. In 1991, a Los Angeles judge gave a Korean-American shopkeeper probation instead of prison time for fatally shooting Black teenager Latasha Harlins in her store. Both of these events intensified the racial tensions that ignited in the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. 

The O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials forced Americans to talk about the specter of domestic violence that led to the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAVA).

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The one thing cancer did right was unalive O.J. Simpson