O.J. Simpson -- dead

Clark and Darden made so many weekend trips to San Francisco during the trial they were practically regulars in Herb Caen's column.

 

DNA evidence is complicated, but certain. They should have spent as little time as possible on it --- to establish that the DNA evidence shows that there is a 0.000001% chance somebody other than O.J. Simpson could have committed the murders.

Instead, they gave a fucking NINE-WEEK biology lesson to a bored-out-of-their-minds jury. You show 108 exhibits . . . and somebody on the other side is going to find something that looks amiss.

 

Was their thing that well known at the time? I don’t remember hearing about it until afterward. Seems like it should’ve been exposed earlier.

 

As any of my fellow members in Northern California will attest, not a lot got past Herb Caen during his career.

 

The OJ defense rested on the argument that the cops were so racist that within hours after the murder, with no idea where he even was at the time(in LA or with an ironclad alibi), they planted evidence incriminating him. Leaving aside the fact that the cops loved him as a celebrity and turned a blind eye to his wife beating, they would never have risked their careers on such a speculative notion.

 

Have you recently had a head injury?

 

This is a really good point. There is such a thing as over-analyzing and over-explaining.

 

From my brain to your keyboard. Thank you for posting.

 

I was born almost a decade after the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I’d imagine it was pretty memorable when JFK announced to the nation that there were missiles in Cuba and the US had imposed a quarantine. Unless I’m mistaken, the public wasn’t aware of the crisis until his Oval Office address, correct?

 

I'm pretty sure that was the case. I was 4 at the time and I was aware that the crisis was going on, because my wire-editor dad and my former small daily editor mom discussed the noon edition and the CBS noon news every time he came home for lunch, and I could read headlines, but my grasp of the situation was, "mean man in Russia wants to put rockets close enough to blow us up and Mr President JFK says no."

At one point dad and mom were discussing if there were any options if the sirens went off. Both our grandparents' houses were no good because they were located in or near major manufacturing centers, so they'd get hit. We were also located near factories and government centers so we'd be an early target too. One grandma had a cottage up on the lake, but 10 miles from an air force base so that was out too. I think the conclusion was if worse came to worse, we'd just head "up north."

I do know my mom packed up a big carton of canned food and had it ready to go "just in case." (Mostly crap I hated to eat.)

I believe JFK announced the Soviets had agreed to stand down in an evening TV address. As I recall, my parents were acting like we might have to take off at any time when I went to bed one night, and by the next morning people were acting like it was gonna be OK.

 

I’m just repeating what my Black friends said to me, “we got one at least!” That’s what the black jurors said too. I won’t pretend to know what it felt like at that time.

I personally felt he was guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.