This is ZEITCRIMES. Today’s episode is about The O.J. Simpson Case. What happened, who was involved, the evidence gathered, what the trial produced, and what all of it meant for America in 1995 and in the thirty years since.

The O.J. Simpson case is the most publicly examined criminal case in American history. It was watched, in real time, by more people than any legal proceeding before or since. Its verdict was experienced, simultaneously, as a victory and a travesty, depending on who was watching and what they had brought with them to the television screen. And in the thirty years since the not-guilty verdict on October 3rd, 1995, the case has remained controversial.