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...both in and out of NOW. Bruce told the Los Angeles Times, for instance, that her message about spousal abuse offered "a needed break from all that talk of racism." During a protest outside NBC studios in Burbank, just before Simpson canceled his interview with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, she said of Simpson: "You are not welcome here; you are not welcome in our country; you are not welcome in our culture"--a statement that some listeners interpreted as "Go back to Africa...
...venue for his first interview largely at the urging of entertainment president Don Ohlmeyer, a friend of Simpson's who had visited him regularly in jail. NBC News president Andrew Lack worked out ground rules for the interview with Simpson--no questions were to be off limits--and picked Couric and Brokaw to do the questioning. One passed-over aspirant for the plum assignment, Bryant Gumbel (Couric's Today co-anchor and another friend of Simpson's), took the rejection hard; he didn't show up at work the rest of the week...
...Brokaw, Couric and Today executive producer Jeffrey Zucker planned strategy for the interview aboard a chartered plane to Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. They were helped by hundreds of proposed questions supplied by NBC staff members, reporters and legal analysts. (Members of the prosecution team declined to give any help.) The journalists were keenly aware that the interview would be placed under almost impossible scrutiny. "It was going to be really hard to strike the right balance," says Couric. "To be challenging and do follow-ups, but not be too prosecutorial." One strategic decision made early on: the interviewee would...
...Brokaw and Couric didn't get to refer to him as anything. Though Simpson, according to insiders, desperately wanted to do the interview, virtually his entire legal team advised against it: his comments, they pointed out, could come back to haunt him if they contradicted statements he had made earlier in the criminal investigation. In a statement read by attorney Johnnie Cochran, Simpson complained that NBC was turning the interview into a "confrontation" and looking for "an opportunity to retry the case...
Just hours before he was scheduled to be questioned by NBC's Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, O.J. Simpson pulled out of a one-hour, no-holds-barred TV interview, the buildup for which had attracted nationwide curiosity as well as furor. The reason for Simpson's balk: his lawyers told him his answers might complicate his defense in the civil suits brought by the Brown and Goldman families. Simpson followed his NBC no-show with a phone call to the New York Times to declare, "I am an innocent man." Simpson also told the paper that he had been...