O.J. Simpson Led 50-Mile White Bronco Chase After Missing June 17 Surrender
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 18
O.J. Simpson Led 50-Mile White Bronco Chase After Missing June 17 Surrender
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 18
Summary
June 17, 1994 became a national spectacle when police pursued O.J. Simpson for more than 50 miles through the Los Angeles area in a white Ford Bronco driven by Al Cowlings.
The chase began after Simpson failed to surrender by an 11 a.m. deadline set by Los Angeles police, who had told his lawyer he would be charged in the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Five days earlier, Brown Simpson and Goldman were found slashed to death outside her townhouse, and investigators said Simpson's blood, hair and footprints were recovered at the scene.
Live television coverage turned the slow-speed pursuit into a media frenzy and helped launch the public obsession with a case that ended with Simpson's arrest and later acquittal.