Oj Simpson Research Paper

“Former American football star and actor O.J. Simpson was famously acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife and her friend following a high-profile 1995 criminal trial” (biography.com editors).O.J. Simpson began his fame playing football at the high school level. His high school team name was the Galileo Lions. Located in San Francisco. Then later in his life he was charged with the murder of his ex-wife and her friend. He eventually went to trial. O.J. Simpson was a legendary football player and ruined it with his murder trial. O.J. Simpson was born in 1947 in San Francisco California. O.J.’s real name is Orenthal James Simpson named after his aunt supposedly after a french actor she liked “At the age of two O.J. contracted rickets leaving

Simpson started his fame with his football career, it all started as a two-time All American halfback for USC Trojans, setting NCAA records. O.J. Simpson won the Heisman trophy in 1968. He's lucky he’s good at football because his grades were not that good, and that decreased his chance of getting into college. He joined the NFL in 1968 he played for the Buffalo Bills, he did not excel until the offense shifted more to the running back throughout his NFL career his nickname was the juice. In 1973 he became the first player to rush for more than 2,000 yards. “O.J. Simpson played 11 seasons, he played with the bill from 1969 to 1977 and the with the San Francisco from 1978 to 1979.” O.J. Simpson averaged 1,000 rushing yards five years in a row those years were (1972-1976). This explains his football career goals, records and stats. Throughout O.J.’s whole NFL career he has 11,236 rushing yards and a little over 2,000 receiving yards in total 14,368 yards. He was out in the hall of fame for college in 1983. He was also put in the NFL hall of fame in 1985. O.J. played 11 seasons, he played the majority of his years with the Buffalo Bills which was in total 8 years and 3 with San Francisco. O.J. Simpson retired from NFL football in

Simpson Married a woman named Marguerite L. Whitley on june 24, 1967. They had three children together Arnelle, jason, and Aaren. Daughter who was born in 1977, drowned in the family pool a month before her second birthday. Almost a year later O.J. Simpson and his wife Marguerite divorced in 1979 while he was still married to his first wife. Then he met waitress Nicole Brown, then just a teenager, then the two got married in 1985 exactly the same year he was elected to the NFL hall of fame. O.J. and Nicole had two children together justin and sydney. Nicole usually complained about her marriage to her friends and family saying that O.J. was very aggressive and abusive. After all that was said there was a fight between the two in 1989 new years eve party which he continuously threatened to kill her. O.J. pleaded no contest. He brushed off the incident in a interview with ESPN “ we had a fight we were both guilty, no one was hurt it was no big deal, we got on with our lives. Nicole filed for divorce in 1992. On june 12 1994 the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and a friend Ronald Goldman, they were found stabbed to death outside of Nicole's house in Los Angeles Bret wood area. When evidence led police to suspect O.J. Simpson of the murder, he was ordered to surrender by 11 am on june 17 Simpson did not surrender vanished, but was tracked down later in the day when he made a call from his cell phone on the Santana Ana freeway. The police pursued, leading to a nationally