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O.J. Simpson Murder Trial NFL star and actor O. J. Simpson was tried on two counts of murder for the June 12, 1994, deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman.

Detectives went to the Simpson's estate to inform him that his ex-wife had been murdered. In front of the home, they discovered a white Ford Bronco with blood in and on it. Detective Mark Fuhrman then climbed over an external wall and unlocked the gate to allow the other three detectives to enter the estate. The detectives argued that they entered without a search warrant because of exigent circumstances—specifically, a fear that Simpson may also have been injured.

Simpson was not present when detectives arrived in the early morning; he had taken a flight to Chicago late the previous night. Detectives briefly interviewed Kato Kaelin, who was staying in Simpson's guest house. A walk-around of the premises by Fuhrman produced a second bloody glove that was later determined to be the mate of the glove found at the murder scene. Through DNA testing, the blood on the glove was later determined to have come from both victims. This—together with other evidence collected at both scenes—was determined to be adequate evidence to issue an arrest warrant for Simpson.

O.J. failed to report to the police station. At around 6:20 p.m., a motorist in Orange County saw Simpson riding in a white Ford Bronco, driven by long-time friend Al Cowlings, and notified police. The police then tracked calls placed from Simpson on his cellular telephone. At 6:45 p.m., a police officer saw the Bronco going north on Interstate 405. When the officer approached the Bronco with sirens blaring, Cowlings yelled that Simpson was in the back seat of the vehicle and had a gun to his own head. The officer backed off, but followed the vehicle at 35 miles per hour with up to 20 police cars participating in the chase. Eventually over 269 helicopters joined the chase; the high degree of media participation caused camera signals to appear on incorrect television channels.[

The longest trial in California history, and the most televised trial ever. 62% of whites thought he was guilty, 68% of blacks thought he was innocent. On October 3, 1995, an estimated 140 million Americans listened in on radio or watched on television as the verdict was delivered.

OJ Simpson Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxrDkMieQs

1993 World Trade Center Bombing February 26, 1993 Terrorists parked a rental van in a garage underneath the World Trade Center’s twin towers and lit the fuses on a massive homemade bomb stuffed inside. 6 people died and more than 1,000 were injured in the subsequent explosion, which carved out a crater several stories deep and propelled smoke into the upper reaches of the quarter-mile-high skyscrapers.

In September 1992 explosives expert Ramzi Ahmed Yousef arrived in New York City on a flight from Pakistan and began planning an attack on the World Trade Center, with the alleged goal of toppling the north tower into the south tower. He received help from followers of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind, Egyptian-born Muslim cleric who spoke in sermons of destroying the “edifices of capitalism.”

World Trade Center Bombing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17xo9EuVo7E 1:05-10:00

Unabomber Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski Earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967 at age 25. He resigned two years later.

In 1971, he moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water, in Lincoln, Montana, where he lived as a recluse while learning survival skills in an attempt to become self-sufficient. Seventeen years after beginning his mail bomb campaign, Kaczynski sent a letter to The New York Times on April 24, 1995 and promised "to desist from terrorism" if the Times or the Washington Post published his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future in which he argued that his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization.

Unabomber Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=141zsgkvv4Y To 15:30

Columbine April 20, 1999. 13 killed, 20 wounded. Committed suicide after killings. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17.

Columbine: Series of Events Began at 11:19am, by 11:35am 12 students and a teacher were dead, and 20 were wounded. Suicide at approximately noon. A 20lb propane bomb was meant to explode at 11:17am. When it failed to go off, they initiated the shootings. Victims chose randomly.

Initial Outrage and Blame Goth culture. Bullied. Violent video games. Violent music. None of these theories have ever been proven. Wanted to be like the Oklahoma City Bombing.

Aftermath Many schools enacted zero tolerance policies. Columbine High School would reopen Fall 1999, but the community would be forever scarred.

Columbine Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npE9FKcG5hs&list=PLKB8zkQFlMyJ7iBJqT9pnnwTfXz_jtxbu&index=32