If you had stopped 100 people in a UK street the day before the murders with a photo of OJ Simpson and asked 'who is this ?' i doubt more than 3 would have any idea.

He was in a couple of movies people would know but had fairly minor roles, perhaps some would have vaguely recalled him from them but i doubt they'd have known his name.

What was tiresome about the original media coverage over here was how it was presented without any context , as if Britain was just another US State and he needed no introduction.

The recent documentary mentioned above though was excellent and does provide all the necessary context to show why it was such a compelling event .

Of course he committed the murders . The ironic thing was that he was charged simply due to the overwhelming evidence , there was no racial issue in the prosecution case , even though the LAPD clearly had serious problems with racism. Then he gets acquitted because he was black , even though he never really identified as a black man himself throughout his celebrity career..... He pointedly refused to get involved with civil rights issues and had a mostly white social circle living in all white enclave . When hundreds of black people lined the street leading to his house when the cops were about to take him away he looked out the window and said “What are all these n*****s doing in Brentwood?

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