The seemingly always smiling, affable ex-football legend had morphed into a movie star and popular TV pitchman. It was Cowlings who called 911 during the chase, telling authorities that O.J.
But he was a no-show. As the Bronco traveled under highway overpasses, crowds of people cheered Simpson on with shouts and signs.On TV, the chase was simply inescapable. As the hours went by, nobody knew where he was. Simpson and Cowlings eventually made their way back to Simpson's mansion in L.A.'s Brentwood neighborhood later that night. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Simpson’s former agent, Mike Gilbert, told From 1995 to 2012, the story of the white Bronco is actually very boring as it just sat in an underground parking garage at Pulwer’s condo complex in LA. At approximately 6:45 p.m., a TV news chopper spotted a white Ford Bronco on a Los Angeles expressway and the chase was on. In 2017, right around the time O.J.
For the next few hours, more than 95 million people tuned in to watch the low-speed chase through Southern California that ended at Simpson’s home in Brentwood.
For the White Bronco—perhaps the most infamous vehicle of the late 20th century—it’s been a long, strange trip since the freeway chase that riveted the world.
They buzzed the intercom at the property for over 30 minutes but received no response. They noted the Bronco was parked on Rockingham at an awkward angle, with its back end out more than th… The O.J. On one side of the screen the Knicks and the Rockets battled for NBA supremacy at Madison Square Garden; on the other, the white Bronco inched down a Los Angeles freeway with police in non-hot pursuit.O.J. Cowlings had played football alongside Simpson at every level, from high school to two different colleges to the NFL. But it was then taken away as it could only be displayed outside as it would have had to be taken apart to be taken inside, which Gilbert and the others didn’t like.
Simpson, as he had one exactly like it, but it belonged to Al Cowlings. And with that the 60-mile, two-hour, low-speed pursuit through Southern California was on.A cavalcade of police cars followed in pursuit.
It's hard to think of him this way now, but going into the summer of 1994, Simpson was simply "The Juice." Simpson was now a fugitive of justice and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
had a gun to his own head and just wanted to get home before being taken into custody. So what exactly happened to the white Bronco?Many initially believed that the white Bronco belonged to O.J. At approximately 6:45 p.m., a TV news chopper spotted a white Ford Bronco on a Los Angeles expressway and the chase was on. All of a sudden, the white Bronco was on display at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas as a man associated with the hotel had become aware of its whereabouts in LA. In 17 years, less than 20 miles were put on the odometer. He was declared a fugitive, and a warrant was put out for his arrest.At about 6:45 p.m. police saw Simpson on the expressway in a white Ford Bronco driven by his best friend and former teammate, Al Cowlings. Simpson was released from prison after serving nine years for armed robbery and kidnapping, Gilbert attempted to sell the white Bronco for $1.3 million on “Pawn Stars.” But host Rick Harrison chose to pass. Motorists stop and wave as police cars pursue the white Ford Bronco on June 17, 1994.That was the day Simpson was charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. His transformation from that into one of the most divisive figures in American history really started on that Friday evening a quarter century ago. Simpson criminal trial, Cowlings was a no-show. All of the broadcast networks and CNN carried every bit of it live. Gilbert says he’ll never accept less than a million dollars for it, calling it the second-most-viewed vehicle in American history, right behind the car in which JFK was assassinated. Even non-news cable channels broke into their regular programming to show portions of it. Simpson, accompanied by two Los Angeles police detectives, is driven away after his arrest.That's how the nation took in big televised events in the era before the internet, smartphones and social media. At least that’s what O.J. © Copyright 2020 Endgame360 Inc. All Rights Reserved. Simpson was riding in the back, and he reportedly had a gun. O.J. Simpson on the 405 Freeway a quarter-century ago.