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The People vs. O.J. Simpson: What the Jury Never Heard

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Josh Mankiewicz sits down with O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark and other key players and witnesses from the criminal trial that consumed and divided a nation more than a quarter century ago. Additional footage: KCOP-TV, Los Angeles, CA

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0:00.0

He was crying over the coffin, kissed the coffin.

0:06.0

He said, I'm sorry Nick, I'm sorry.

0:09.0

I said, oh my god, he did it.

0:12.0

He killed her.

0:13.0

I just remembered screaming.

0:16.0

Probably the scariest moment in my entire life.

0:20.0

It was physically painful.

0:22.0

That was not justice.

0:26.0

The murders took only minutes.

0:31.0

More than 20 years later, the shock has yet to fade.

0:35.0

It was a stunning time in American legal theater.

0:41.0

You may think you know the story of the O.J. Simpson case,

0:44.0

but there was a lot you probably haven't heard.

0:47.0

Did Nicole Brown Simpson actually predict her own death?

0:52.0

What she said to us was that O.J. is going to kill me.

0:55.0

And he's going to get away with it.

0:57.0

What really went on in the jury room?

1:00.0

Not guilty of the crime of murder.

1:02.0

All people wanted to do was go home.

1:05.0

And in a frank interview, prosecutor Marsha Clark

1:08.0

answers the most important question of all.

1:12.0

How did you not convict this guy?

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