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VIDEO: 19th anniversary of the OJ Simpson white Bronco low-speed chase (archival photos)
Motorists wave as police cars pursue the Ford Bronco (white, R) driven by Al Cowlings, carrying fugitive murder suspect O.J. Simpson, on a 90-minute slow-speed car chase June 17, 1994 on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles.
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Ex-football superstar O.J. Simpson (C) is accompanied by two LAPD detectives to Parker Center after he was arrested following a 90 minute highway chase June 17, 1994.
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Defense attorney Barry Scheck (L) points to the Ford Bronco evidence board during cross-examination of DNA expert Gary Sims (R) during the O.J. Simpson double murder trial.
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Charles Cale, a neighbor of OJ Simpson, testifies that Simpson's Ford Bronco (on screen above) was not on the street in front of the Simpson's estate between 9:30 to 9:45 pm the night of the murders in the O J Simpson murder trial.
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Rosa Lopez(L), a key defense witness in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr.(R), appear in front of a display of Simpson's Bronco truck in Superior Court in Los Angeles. Lopez, a housekeeper to a neighbor of O.J. Simpson's, claimed to have seen a white Ford Bronco outside his home at around the time the prosecution claimed the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman took place.
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Monday marks 19 years since O.J. Simpson led police on an infamous low-speed chase in a white Bronco, after he allegedly killed his ex-wife Nicole. Simpson had arranged to turn himself in the morning of June 17, 1994, but never showed. He instead led the police on a 35-mile-per-hour pursuit with his friend A.C. driving the SUV. Simpson ultimately surrendered to authorities.
Another historical note: Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti’s father Gil was the district attorney at the time; his office prosecuted the Simpson case.
Watch the end of that historic chase below, and listen to Garcetti talk about the case on the phone with ABC News’s anchors:
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