SIMPSON, O. J.

(Orenthal James Simpson), 1947–, American football player, b. San Francisco. As a running back for the Univ. of Southern California, he won the Heisman Trophy as the best college player of 1968. The "Juice" played with the Buffalo Bills (1969–77) and San Francisco 49ers (1978–79) and rushed for 11,236 yards during his professional career. Simpson set season records (now broken) for most yards gained (2,003; 1973) and most touchdowns (23; 1975). He later became a sportscaster and actor. Charged with the brutal murder (1994) of his ex-wife and her friend, he was acquitted in 1995 after a media-saturated trial that highlighted racial tensions and divisions in American society. In 1997 a civil jury levied a huge wrongful-death award against him in a suit brought by the victims' families.

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The O. J. Simpson Trials: Rhetoric, Media, and the Law
Book by Janice Schuetz, Lin S. Lilley; Southern Illinois University Press, 1999
Subjects: Simpson, O. J.--1947---Trials, Litigation, Etc, Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
...Press. Shapiro, B. J. 1986 . "To a moral...attorneys brief on the O. J. Simpson case . New York...Brown Company. "The Simpson legacy". 1995...Racial theater. In J. Abramson Ed. , Postmortem: The O . J. Simpson case...
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O.J. Simpson Facts and Fictions: News Rituals in the Construction of Reality
Book by Darnell M. Hunt; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Mass Media And Race Relations, Public Opinion--United States, Simpson, O. J.--1947---Trials, Litigation, Etc--Public Opinion, Television Broadcasting Of News--Social Aspects--United States, Television Viewers--United States--Attitudes, United States--Race Relations
...back to the guest house where Kato Kaelin lived and O. J. Simpson was standing, being questioned by police the place where...recorder, taping statements from Nicole Brown Simpson and O. J. Simpson regarding the events that had taken place that...
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Postmortem: The O.J. Simpson Case: Justice Confronts Race, Domestic Violence, Lawyers, Money, and the Media
Book by Jeffrey Abramson; Basic Books, 1996
Subjects: Criminal Justice, Administration Of--California--Los Angeles, Simpson, O. J.--1947---Trials, Litigation, Etc, Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
O. J. Simpson, a Heisman trophy winner...the lead attorney to defend O. J. Simpson once he was charged...respects, womens groups saw the Simpson case, particularly in light...domestic abuse at the hands of O. J. Simpson. On the other hand...
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The Spectacle: Media and the Making of the O.J. Simpson Story
Book by Paul Thaler; Praeger, 1997
Subjects: Free Press And Fair Trial, Mass Media And Criminal Justice, Simpson, O. J.--1947---Trials, Litigation, Etc, Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
...camera? I dont think even he knows why he did that." Simpson Economics If television trials no longer seemed strange...filed applications to federally register the terms "O. J. Simpson," "O. J." and "The Juice" as trademarks. At the same...
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O.J. Unmasked: The Trial, the Truth, and the Media
Book by M. L. Rantala; Catfeet Press, 1996
Subjects: Simpson, O. J.--1947---Trials, Litigation, Etc, Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
10 Jul Eunice O.J.s mother Shipp was drinking Johnnie Chris Simpson and not alone with her Cochran...Carol Conner Song writer Saw O.J. Paula the Robert Chris evening...murders 10 Jul Mary Collins O.J.s longtime Week before...
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Covering Domestic Violence: How the O.j. Simpson Case Shaped Reporting of Domestic Violence in the News Media
Journal article by Kimberly A. Maxwell, John Huxford, Catherine Borum, Robert Hornik; Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 77, 2000
Subjects: Domestic violence, Media coverage, Simpson, O J, Trials
Covering Domestic Violence: How the O.j. Simpson Case Shaped Reporting of Domestic Violence in the News...problem that may affect anyone,3 we wanted to see if the O.J. Simpson case exemplified how celebrity involvement may...
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Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson
Journal article by Benjamin Justesen; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 89, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson (Book)--Book reviews
...Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson offers a tantalizing promise--to explain why Americans...she reaches the 1990s and the farcical spectacle of O. J. Simpsons trial for murder, Williams abruptly breaks the train...
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Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson
Journal article by Grace Elizabeth Hale; The Historian, Vol. 65, 2003
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson (Book)--Book reviews
...Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson. by Grace Elizabeth Hale Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson. By Linda Williams. (Princeton and Oxford...
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"The Birth of a Nation'hood": Lessons from Thomas Dixon and D.W. Griffith to William Bradford Huie and the Klansman, O.J. Simpson's First Movie (1)
Journal article by Riche Richardson; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2002
Subjects: Black Panthers, Literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Liuzzo, Viola, Lowndes County Freedom Organization, Morrison, Toni, Racism, Simpson, Nicole Brown, White, Walter F.
...The Klansman, O.J. Simpsons First Movie...supremacy. The Simpson spectacle has...Sex, and the Simpsons," in Toni Morrisons...Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case, pp. 297...embodiments in O.J. Simpsons mother, Eunice...
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A Sharp Eye in the Autopsy: Profile of Keith Simpson
Journal article by Katherine Ramsland; The Forensic Examiner, Vol. 16, 2007
Subjects: Forensic pathologists--Biography, Simpson, Cedric Keith--Biography
...convicted, and executed. Simpsons work ensured that justice...Born on July 20, 1907, Simpson grew up watching his father...closure, to be sure, but Simpson was confident of his findings...claimed. Not described in Simpsons memoir, but nevertheless...London: Magpie Books. Simpson, K. (1978). Forty years...Peter Davies. Thorwald, J. (1964). The century of...
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O.j. Simpson Murder Trial Raises Jury Duty Questions
Magazine article by Jennifer J. Laabs; Personnel Journal, Vol. 74, January 1995
Subjects: Human resource management, Juries, Personnel policies, Simpson, O J, United States
O.j. Simpson Murder Trial Raises Jury Duty Questions by Jennifer J. Laabs WHILE THE GENERAL PUBLIC WRESTLES WITH questions about O.J. Simpsons innocence in the murder of his former...
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The O.J. Simpson Case
Magazine article by Ishmael Reed, Walter Payton, Nikki Giovanni, Dorothy Gilliam, Alvin F. Poussaint, Julia Hare, Carl Bell, Nathan Hare; Ebony, Vol. 49, September 1994
Subjects: African Americans--Attitudes, Murder trials--Media coverage, Murder--Cases, Simpson, O.J.--Cases
...players in the O.J. Simpson drama were revealed...that most of Simpsons employees were...thought about O.J.s mother...understand why Mr. Simpson may, or may...drawn into the O.J. case despite...regardless of Mr. Simpsons guilt or innocence...
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O.J. Mania: The O.J. Simpson Murder Case Continues to Mesmerize the Media and Public
Magazine article by Lynn Norment; Ebony, Vol. 50, August 1995
Subjects: Murder--Cases, Simpson, O.J.--Cases
...outcome, the O.J. Simpson case has...ago, when Simpsons former wife...case and Simpsons relationship...of all the O.J. Simpson stuff, I...the title O.J.s Legal...spoofs what Simpson might be...encounter with Simpsons multimillion...
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The Price of Watching: the O.j. Simpson Saga
Magazine article by Lee Wilkins; Black Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 11, November 3, 1994
Subjects: Advertising, Business community, Civil law, Civil rights, Federal government, Human relations, Human rights, Interpersonal communication, Law, Personal relationships, Politics, Prejudice, Simpson, O.J., United States
The Price of Watching: the O.j. Simpson Saga by Lee Wilkins The Price Of Watching: The O.J. Simpson Saga. "you goin to...audiences as well. Why is it that, when O.J. Simpson isnt on the screen or on the front...
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The Wrong Villain: The O.J. Simpson Media Circus Pitched Its Tent Far beyond the Range of the Cameras in the Courtroom
Magazine article by Ronald Goldfarb; American Journalism Review, Vol. 17, December 1995
Subjects: Cameras in the courtroom--Social aspects, Simpson, O.J.--Cases
...journalists who covered the O.J. Simpson trial worldwide...television provided to the O.J. Simpson judicial morality...courtroom dramas such as the Simpson spectacle have always generated...An article (by one of Simpsons lawyers) in the San Jose...
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O.J.'S New Beauty Is a Dead Ringer for His Wife; HEADS TURN AS SIMPSON AND HIS NEW NICOLE LOOKALIKE LOVE ENJOY NIGHT OUT IN RESTAURANT
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), March 14, 1999
Subjects: Simpson, Nicole Brown, Simpson, O.J.
...body. The perfect smile. O.J. Simpson has a new woman...Christie could have been O.J. and Nicole. "Its eerie...the same." Christie met Simpson when she moved from Minneapolis...didnt stop her moving into Simpsons rented home in Pacific...
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Racial Storytelling and the O.J. Simpson Case
Newspaper article by Richard Grenier; The Washington Times, December 3, 1996
Subjects: Simpson, O.J.
...predominantly black and female jury in the O.J. Simpson criminal case. The jurors...Cochrans entire strategy in the Simpson trial, of which he gives a detailed...black, female jurors would take O.J. Simpsons side, but she was both stubborn...
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Army of Jackson Fans at Court for Sex Trial; CELEBRITY CASE SET TO ECLIPSE O. J. SIMPSON'S AS TWO BILLION PREPARE TO TUNE IN
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 31, 2005
Subjects: Jackson, Michael
...Court for Sex Trial; CELEBRITY CASE SET TO ECLIPSE O. J. SIMPSONS AS TWO BILLION PREPARE TO TUNE IN. Byline: JAMES LANGTON...disgusting and false", means the case will eclipse the OJ Simpson murder trial for celebrity firepower. Lawyers for both...
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New Arrest Juices Press; Decade after Killings, America Is Once Again All O.J. All the Time
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 20, 2007
Subjects: Beverages, Cable News Network, Cable television broadcasting industry, Juice industry, Simpson, O.J.
...reporters have descended on Las Vegas this week to follow O.J. Simpsons latest brush with the law. Photo by Agence France-Presse/Getty Images O.J. Simpson was released from the Clark County Detention Center...
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O.J. Then and Now
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 6, 1997
Subjects: Simpson, O.J.
...the hair, the photos of Nicole Simpsons bruised and swollen face after a...her then-husband, the photos of O.J. wearing the style of Bruno Magli...stringent standard. How far the O.J. Simpson case has reflected or contributed...
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encyclopedia articles on: Simpson O J  - 3 results

 
 
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Simpson, O. J
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIMPSON, O. J. (Orenthal James Simpson), 1947 , American football player, b. San Francisco. As...and rushed for 11,236 yards during his professional career. Simpson set season records (now broken) for most yards gained (2...
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Los Angeles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...LOS ANGELES los an j l s, los, an j lez , city (1990 pop. 3,485,398...again riveted on Los Angeles during the O. J. Simpson trial, which ended in acquittal in...The Centrifugal City (1982); H. J. Nelson, The Los Angeles Metropolis...
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Fur Trade
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sandoz, The Beaver Men (1964); L. O. Saum, The Fur Trader and the Indian (1965); J. E. Sunder, The Fur Trade on the Upper...ed. by T. H. McDonald, 1967); G. Simpson, Fur Trade and Empire: George Simpsons Journal (rev. ed. 1968...


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