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...Simpson trial has a deeper geography. Sometimes a trial plays out like a culture's collective dream--a vivid, edgy, distorted story that casts up images and characters from the realm of instinct and has them act out the society's deepest passions: its fears, prejudices and desires...
...stopped, walkmans whirred and enclaves of people shushed each other as we waited those 10 minutes for the conclusion of the most publicized trial in history. We all watched--150 million of us, analysts said--as the jury handed down a double "not guilty" verdict and as Orenthal James Simpson walked free...
...discussion of what will be remembered about the trial would be pathetically incomplete without a serious consideration of race. Throughout the trial, polls consistently showed that a majority of whites believed Simpson was guilty, while a comparable majority of blacks believed he was innocent. More critically, nine of 12 people on the jury were black. This racial split of opinion is an indication of much more than one man's guilt or innocence...
...Simpson trial will likely go down in the history books under "African-American Mistrust of the Police in the 1990s," just above the Rodney King beating and just below the larger heading of polarized race relations in the 1990s. To prevent such a record from being written, we must take the trial and its trappings as a call to questioning: not just "Where were you on Oct. 3, 1995, at 1 p.m.," but "Where can we go from here...
...overwhelming Catholic margin, but Eisenhower made big inroads for the GOP. Since the Kennedy election, when Catholics gave the first Catholic President the White House through a lopsided 80 percent voting margin, they have become the classic swing voters. Clinton needs them." Day of Judgment: Photographs from the Simpson Verdict...