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Posted: 12/29/2023 9:20:01 PM EDT

I watched it live while visiting friends in Oklahoma City. Where did the Bronco wind up?

World watches as police chase O.J. Simpson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2iARqGvVo

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:22:12 PM EDT

[#1]

I remember watching it as a little kid and having no idea who OJ Simpson was.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:22:42 PM EDT

[#2]

I did watch it live

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:22:56 PM EDT

[#3]

It's sitting, on blocks, on an I 40 offramp. Still running.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:24:22 PM EDT

[#4]

I did. His Bronco is at the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, TN.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:25:44 PM EDT

[#5]

Its apparently in some car museum in TN now

https://www.history.com/news/oj-simpson-white-bronco-chase-where-now

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:26:28 PM EDT

[#6]

Sorry, was too busy playing Bionic Commando to pay attention at the time.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:26:46 PM EDT

[#7]

Saw it as a kid, while living in S. CA.
2nd grade.

I remember everyone asking the teacher the next day if he was guilty or not.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:26:54 PM EDT

[#8]

I recall being pissed off about NBC interupting a Bulls playoff game for live coverage

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:26:58 PM EDT

[#9]

Yes.
I have no clue.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:26:59 PM EDT

[#10]

I watched it AND the trial when I was a kid.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:28:25 PM EDT

[#11]

I watched in the local American Legion while nursing a drink.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:28:44 PM EDT

[#12]

Yes. Aboard the USS George Washington. In the Adriatic, iirc.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:29:21 PM EDT

[#13]

Wasn’t there two broncos? One was his and the other was AJ’s? I think the chase one was AJ’s. The murder scene one was OJ’s.

Edit. Found the answer to my own question.

Many people mistakenly believe that the Bronco from the chase was owned by O.J. Simpson. Both men owned the exact same make and model of vehicle because Cowlings had purchased his Bronco intentionally identical to one owned by Simpson. Simpson’s Bronco, however, had been found outside his home the night of the murders with traces of blood from both victims inside of it and seized as evidence.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:30:20 PM EDT

[#14]

Watched it live on TV.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:30:57 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/29/2023 9:31:46 PM EDT

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https://www.alcatrazeast.com/media-gallery/

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Posted: 12/29/2023 9:31:53 PM EDT

[#17]

That was AJ Cowlings Bronco although think OJ had one just like it.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:32:06 PM EDT

[#18]

At a friend's apartment having a board game night, the TV was on but muted. Girl said there was a car chase on, and her boyfriend joked "OJ's on the run" and a minute later she's like "Holy shit it IS him!"

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:35:29 PM EDT

[#19]

It was on a Pawn Stars episode at one point.

Pawn Stars: O.J. Simpson Getaway Bronco (Season 14) | History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt6El-6NscA

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:35:33 PM EDT

[#20]

Yeah, watched it live. Best part was the guy who prank called that pompous ass Peter Jennings. "I see OJ, man, and he looking scared. I be scared too, because there's cops all up in this. And Baba Booey to ya all."

My wife turns to me and says "Did he just say Baba Booey??" Yes. Yes he did LOL. Great fucking job producer, you loser.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:36:20 PM EDT

[#21]

Watched it, live, on my office TV.

Think that was '93 or '94 so I was, well, never mind.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:39:25 PM EDT

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I seem to remember that too.

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:43:03 PM EDT

[#23]

Didn’t see it live but remember it well otherwise.

White Ford Bronco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAy34lMm268

Posted: 12/29/2023 9:59:03 PM EDT

[#24]

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Yeah, watched it live. Best part was the guy who prank called that pompous ass Peter Jennings. "I see OJ, man, and he looking scared. I be scared too, because there's cops all up in this. And Baba Booey to ya all."

My wife turns to me and says "Did he just say Baba Booey??" Yes. Yes he did LOL. Great fucking job producer, you loser.

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Glorious moment in live TV. I started recording when the chase started and was lucky enough to get this. I wore that VHS tape out showing everyone I knew.

Posted: 12/29/2023 10:07:25 PM EDT

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Glorious moment in live TV. I started recording when the chase started and was lucky enough to get this. I wore that VHS tape out showing everyone I knew.

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OJ Simpson Prank Call 6/17/1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEqV063FBrA

Posted: 12/29/2023 10:21:49 PM EDT

[#26]

I watched it live. The Bronco is in Gatlinburg, TN. Saw it a couple years ago. Edit: guess it was Pigeon Forge.

Posted: 12/29/2023 10:22:53 PM EDT

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Holy shit I had forgotten about Al Michael’s!

Posted: 12/29/2023 10:25:09 PM EDT

[#28]

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I did. His Bronco is at the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, TN.

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''Yes I watched the chase live on TV and saw the Bronco at the above museum.

Posted: 12/29/2023 10:27:22 PM EDT

[#29]

Yeah I was in CA. There were people outside on the overpasses hoping to see the Bronco drive by.

Posted: 12/29/2023 11:19:02 PM EDT

[#30]

Yep, and watched quite a bit of the trial, too.

Posted: 12/29/2023 11:23:38 PM EDT

[#31]

I watched it live.

It was Cowling's vehicle, not Simpson's

Posted: 12/29/2023 11:28:44 PM EDT

[#32]

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That's neat. Too bad the killdozer isn't in a museum.

Posted: 12/29/2023 11:32:37 PM EDT

[#33]

I was sitting in some bar with friends when it came on TV.

Posted: 12/29/2023 11:38:30 PM EDT

[#34]

I was at the skating rink for my cousin's birthday. It was on all the TV's.

Posted: 12/29/2023 11:40:23 PM EDT

[#35]

My wife and I watched it live

Posted: 12/29/2023 11:41:04 PM EDT

[#36]

Yes, live at sea during the shake-down cruise of the ship's new satellite dish system.

Posted: 12/29/2023 11:46:15 PM EDT

[#37]

I remember a group of us investigators standing in my Captain's office watching on his TV. You didn't see allot of live police chases on TV like you do these days.

Posted: 12/29/2023 11:47:23 PM EDT

[#38]

Yes, I watched it live. I have no idea what happened to the bronco.

Posted: 12/30/2023 12:14:05 AM EDT

[#39]

Sitting at the same bar where I saw everything in the 90s.

I gotta admit, I was rooting for him that night.

When the facts of the matter came to light later on he lost my support. Lol

Posted: 12/30/2023 1:05:39 PM EDT

[#40]

I watched it live.

When the verdict for his trial came in, the place that I worked put a big screen TV in the large conference room so folks could watch live. Yes, I watched it

Posted: 12/30/2023 1:17:24 PM EDT

[#41]

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I was at a mall in Oxnard, CA. I noticed there was a crowd of people all mobbed around the TVs at an Electronics Store. All I saw a slow speed chase with a white Bronco, shrugged and went about my business. It wasn't until I got home that I learned what the big deal was.

Posted: 12/30/2023 1:22:19 PM EDT

[#42]

I remember the day well. I was going with my dad to a great uncle’s funeral early in the day, then I remember when we got back home it was just popping off.

Then it felt like for a solid 2 years after it was literally all you saw on TV.

Posted: 12/30/2023 1:26:20 PM EDT

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Al Michaels had to speak up and tell Jennings it was fake, as if the Amos and Andy accent wasn't obvious enough.

Posted: 12/30/2023 1:26:54 PM EDT

[#44]

I remember watching it at a buddy's house. We were in Middle School.

Posted: 12/30/2023 1:30:36 PM EDT

[#45]

Didn't see it but I heard it on the radio. I was rotating the tires on my car and had the radio on.

Posted: 12/30/2023 1:32:40 PM EDT

[#46]

I drove up to Tom's River NJ to meet a dive boat, checked into a hotel and it was playing live on TV.

My reaction was something like "huh."

Posted: 12/30/2023 1:36:17 PM EDT

[#47]

I think it was Saturday ot Friday and I was working at my parent's restaurant in college.

And the verdict I was with my 5 genetically born female roommates at our apartment with 3 I would bang and it was white v black people, lol.