EP130 - The Run of His Life: O.J. Simpson and the Trial of the Century

On a summer night in 1994, a brutal double murder in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood set the stage for the most watched trial in history. This episode dissects not just the crime, but the anatomy of the spectacle itself—how a mountain of forensic evidence crumbled under scrutiny, how legal strategy became televised theater, and how the trial of O.J. Simpson tore open America's deepest racial wounds.