O.J. Simpson died on April 10 of this year and it made me reflect. This movie asks the viewer to remember where you were when you saw the Bronco being chased by the police. I was in a raucous bar in Beaver, PA which was usually so overwhelming loud and it was super quiet. People suddenly had to realize that they were watching history and one of the first major moments of the 24 hour news cycle. It’s difficult to explain what it was like to live through the years of O.J. being arrested, the trial and what came after to someone who wasn’t alive for it. It was a TV show that we all lived through every night.

In this documentary, we hear from Kato Kaelin, Alan Dershowitz and Christopher Darden — as well as many others — as they talk about what it was like to be in the middle of this trial and the surrounding fervor. Even though we are so many years removed from this time, it still feels so real and like it just happened.

The really interesting part is when one of the people interviewed speaks about how O.J. claimed for years that he was above being black or white and wanted to transcend race, just being known as O.J. Yet when the trial was happening, he quickly embraced his blackness to gather the support of the community. It was also a truly tense time to be in Los Angeles, as after the Rodney King trial and the riots, it felt as if anything could set the whole place on fire.

If you have any interest in this trial and this era, you probably have seen everything there is to see. I mean, we did an entire podcast about the American Crime Story O.J. season. That said, it’s here for you if you need it.

You can watch this on Tubi.