Oj Simpson Book Report

There are so many issues with celebrities being tried for their crimes. First of all, they can hire anyone who witnessed anything to be silenced or to say something in favor of them. Also, any expert on the case could be paid to alter the trial. So, cases concerning rape, murder, burglary, and such, committed by celebrities become a big deal. That’s mainly because they have so much money and can find their way out of it. Which is what my book is about. It is about showing the public that the criminal, O.J. Simpson, who is really guilty, walks a free man, but it’s certain that he committed the crime he was charged with and found not guilty to. It was written by four authors. Pablo F. Fenjves, Dominick Dunne, Peter Haven, and O.J. Simpson. There
was an initial copy of this book that was by O.J. Simpson himself, but it didn’t get so successful.
So, to make this new copy successful, there needed to be some changes to it. Fenjves wrote the prologue, Dunne the afterword, Haven the epilogue, and Simpson wrote the confession part. So, the main author of what the book is really about is O.J. Simpson, full name Orenthal James Simpson. He was born July 9, 1947. He was a football player, football analyst, and football Hall of Famer. From that he also got requests to act in several movies. Basically he was very well known. Likewise, his criminal and civil cases became popular, so it actually transformed into a TV show this year. Everyone knew about it. Thus, there was curiosity and If I Did It popped up as one of many books written about this case. The description was intriguing because it had Simpson’s hypothetical confession from the scandal of
1994.
On June 12, 1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered.
Their deaths astonished the public and it was even more shocking that O.J. Simpson was the primary suspect. People didn’t want to believe it, but the information the news reporters were giving was too legitimate not to believe. Throughout the confession, O.J. repeatedly declared himself not guilty of the murders. That was the first thing he wanted to put out along with suggesting the reader to leave everything they knew about this case to the side. Then, he introduced himself. He began talking about his ex wife, Marguerite, and their two children, Arnelle and Jason. Their marriage, after ten years started falling out. He
was still going to buy a ten year anniversary gift from a jewelry store, though. On the way back to his car he bumped into a friend and they had breakfast at The Daisy. There O.J. met Nicole Brown, who happened to be their waitress that day. She was stunning and beautiful with her bright smile and slim body, and O.J. could not stop thinking about her. Plus, the complications with his marriage were not going to get better. He started seeing Nicole almost everyday, he even got to meet her family. Two years later, he divorced Marguerite and became a couple with Nicole who moved in with him to his home in Rockingham, Los Angeles. They were a couple for seven years and got married in February 1985. A couple months afterwards, Nicole found out she was pregnant with Sydney and that made her very happy. Then, the birth of Justin seemed to have triggered a physical attribute in Nicole. Her arguments with O.J. ended with kicks and punches. According to O.J., he even had to hold her down because she was crossing the line. So, their marriage was full of arguments and police calls due to physical engagements. By 1994, they had been separated, divorced, and were meeting other people. Nicole wasn’t 100% happy with the idea, though. On the other hand, O.J. was happy because he had met Paula Barbieri in 1992 and she had come back to town. She forgave him even after he left her to try with Nicole in 1993. They were perfect until calls from Nicole rang in. She would say how they should have tried harder to keep the family together and then she visited O.J. with the kids. It became a habit for her and it bothered O.J. because they were supposed to be moving on. Then, O.J. heard from a friend that Nicole was going down the wrong path. Since he was so content with Paula at the moment, he didn’t care. He wanted Nicole to figure it out on her own because he didn’t want to be a part of her problems anymore. On June 12 it was the recital of Sydney and O.J. attended. Paula wanted to tag along, but O.J. didn’t think it was a good idea since his ex’s family would be there also. The recital finished around eight o’clock and the Browns invited him for dinner. He refused and went back to his home in Rockingham. So then, O.J. begins his hypothetical story of what really happened that night in 1994. Charlie, a friend he met weeks earlier, visited him to tell him about what he had heard. He was out with some friends and they were talking about a trip they had and who they hung out with. They said there were some girls partying with them and a lot of drugs and drinking were involved. At that point O.J. got agitated because Nicole was behaving like a teenager while she had kids to take care of, and he needed to get ready to fly to Chicago for a golf tournament. Next thing you know, O.J. is starting his Bronco, yells at Charlie to get in, and heads towards Nicole’s condo in Bundy. When they arrive, O.J. comes up with the plan to scare Nicole and disguise himself as a burglar. He puts on his golf gloves and cap, and grabs his limited edition knife. Charlie, still in the car, takes the knife away and tells O.J. that he can’t go into a girl’s house with a knife. So, O.J. walks to the back gate of the condo and sees through the front door that Nicole is awaiting company. He notices flickering lights and music playing. To make the circumstance worse, a guy walked through the gate. It was Ron Goldman, but at the time O.J. didn’t know it. He was there to return the glasses of Judith, Nicole’s mother, she had forgotten them at the restaurant he worked at.O.J. didn’t believe a thing that was coming out of Ron’s mouth, and then Nicole storms out. They argue and she begins kicking and punching to get him out of her home because the kids were inside. To get Nicole out of his way, he pushes her and she hits her head. Ron turns on his defensive mode and positions himself in karate stance. That humors O.J. at first, but things get bad. According to O.J., this is where he blacks out and the last hour passes through his mind. He feels that his clothes are wet, looks down, and notices there lots of blood. When he looks in front of him, he sees Nicole and Ron lying on the ground bleeding out. That’s when he schemes his getaway. He hollers at Charlie to get in the Bronco and forget he was ever there, that he never stopped by his house, or said anything to him about Nicole. They get to Rockingham and O.J. goes through the secret path into his home because his limo driver is there waiting for him already. He showers and heads out the door to get into the limo. The next morning he gets a call from the L.A.P.D. notifying him of Nicole’s death. He is interrogated and tried for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. During his interrogation, O.J. seemed so calm, but he messed up some details. He even stated that in the book. There was a cut on his hand he couldn’t remember getting, so that made him suspicious. The cops gave him a ride back home where the press were crowded up. Friends and family waited for him inside due to the fact that his ex wife and mother of his children had died. That night it was all over every news channel that O.J. Simpson did it. He went to sleep late and awoke the next morning to attend the funeral of Nicole. That day didn’t go smoothly and the next wasn’t going to either. Robert Kardashian and Robert Shapiro walked into his room and told him he had to turn himself in by eleven to the cops. Kardashian asked him privately if he was guilty of the murders, and to his disappointment, O.J. stuck with his innocence. After that, he asked to be alone and called out for A.C., whom he told he wanted to stop by Nicole’s house. They made it out of the driveway and onto the 405 freeway in the white Bronco. The police start chasing after the Bronco, and that’s when O.J. pulls out his gun. He is hysterical and thinks about Nicole and the memories they had. Regretting not putting in effort to keep his marriage going, he considers shooting himself in the head. But, what stops him is the news on the radio that said Nicole had called the cops seven or eight times due to domestic abuse. He couldn’t believe it and demanded to be taken back to his house. There’s about a dozen and a half police cars after him and A.C., but he still wants to go straight home. A.C. suggested to pull over, but O.J. threatened to shoot at that moment, so he kept driving. O.J. ends his confession with him being taken down to the L.A.P.D. center for his prints and mug shots.
I enjoyed reading this book. Mainly because I’m into criminal justice, and what happened to O.J.’s trial is unjustifiable. He shouldn’t have been freed. This book basically states that he is guilty, even though he says it’s in a hypothetical state. How can someone be hypothetical about the murder of his ex wife? It seems too true not to be. I would have liked to know more about the trial. There were the main points about it, but knowing how it went down completely, would have been great.
If I Did It taught me that the criminal justice system is always going to have faults. Families will 50% of the time get justice for their losses, but never be truly satisfied. I recommend this book to any young adult who would like to know an important time in history. Not only did a black man be set free from two murder cases, but also a rich man.