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O.J. Simpson, who ran to fame on the football field, made fortunes as an all-American in movies, television and advertising, and was acquitted of killing his former wife and her friend in a 1995 trial in Los Angeles that mesmerized the nation, died Wednesday at his home in Las Vegas. He was 76.

O.J. Simpson, Athlete Whose Trial Riveted the Nation, Dies at 76

The Simpson family shared Thursday on social that O.J. Simpson, a legendary NFL running back later involved in a sensational murder trial after the death of his ex-wife, has died.

YESTERDAY. NBC'S SIN THAT McFADDEN COVERED THE O.J. SIMPSON TRIAL EXTENSIVELY WHICH CAPTIVATED THE NATION. IT WAS KNOWN AS THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY. JUST A STUNNING DEVELOPMENT IN A LIFE THAT STARTED WITH THIS FOOTBALL GREAT WHO WON THE HEISMAN TROPHY AT USC, WAS AN NFL STAR, PLAYING LARGELY FOR THE BUFFALO BILLS FOR SO MANY YEARS, AND THEN CAME TO TRIAL, AND ULTIMATELY SERVING PRISON TIME FOR AN ARMED ROBBERY. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING RIGHT MOW? >> I'M THINKING THIS WAS A LIFE THAT SPANNED BOTH THE HIGHEST OF HIGHS AND THE LOWEST OF LOWS, HAVING SAT IN THAT COURTROOM FOR THE ENTIRE 11-MONTH CRIMINAL TRIAL, AND THEN THE SUBSEQUENT CIVIL TRIAL, IN WHICH THE GOLDMAN FAMILY SUED HIM FOR MONEY DAMAGES, WHICH WERE NEVER MADE GOOD ON. SOME OF THE PAYMENTS WERE MADE, BUT VERY LITTLE OF THE PAYMENTS WERE EVER MADE. YOU KNOW, O.J. SIMPSON WAS A LARGER-THAN-LIFE PERSON WHO SUCCUMBED I THINK TO THE VERY WORSE INSTINCTS THAT HE HAD, AND WHILE HE WAS ACQUITTED OF THE CRIMINAL TRIAL, THE EVIDENCE, AS YOU SAT IN THE COURTROOM, WAS JUST A MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE. THE BLOOD EVIDENCE. THE EVIDENCE PILED UP AGAINST HIM. AND YET THE ACQUITTAL, THE JURY I THINK, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS INTERESTING AT THE TIME, THE JURY OF COURSE SAW A MUCH DIFFERENT SET OF FACTS THAN WHAT THOSE OF US SITTING IN THE COURTROOM SAW. MUCH WAS EXCLUDED. MUCH WAS CHANGED. THERE WERE FAMOUS -- THE GLOVE, IF IT DOESN'T FIT, YOU MUST ACQUIT. THE DEFENSE TEAM, YOU KNOW, OUT-LAWYERED THE PROSECUTION IN MANY WAYS. AND IT WAS A STUNNING, THE DAY OF THE VERDICT I WILL NEVER FORGET, I THINK WE WENT IN THINKING THERE WAS GOING TO BE A CONVICTION, AND IT WAS AN ACQUITTAL, A HE WAS CONVICTED IN THE CIVIL CASE, WHERE THE STANDARD OF COURSE WAS LOWER. >> HE WAS FOUND LIABLE IN THE CIVIL CASE. PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE VERSUS A REASONABLE DOUBT. WE HAVE TO REMEMBER, BEFORE WE HAD THE TRIAL, WE HAD THE BRONCO CHASE, WHICH IS THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY THAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON REMEMBERS, THIS LOW SPEED BRONCO CHASE THROUGH LOS ANGELES, CARRIED LIVE ON TELEVISION. >> THE MURDER OF COURSE, OCCURRED ON JUNE 12th, 1994, WENT QUICKLY TO TRIAL, BUT THE BRONCO CASE WAS THIS, I MEAN IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS, IF YOU WERE ALIVE AT THAT POINT, YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE, WHEN THAT BRONCO CHASE OCCURRED. AND YOU KNOW, SIMPSON, THEY WENT TO COURT VERY QUICKLY, I MEAN WHEN WE KNOW NOW, THERE ARE SOMETIMES YEARSF DELAY, AND THIS CASE, THEY WENT TO COURT IN NOVEMBER. THE CRIME COMMITTED IN JUNE, THEY WENT TO COURT IN NOVEMBER, THE VERDICT WAS IN OCTOBER OF '95. >> TWO MONTHS AWAY FROM MARKING 30 YEARS SINCE THOSE MURDERS, JUNE 12th, 1994, A AND NBC'S JAY GRAY HAS MORE ON THE LIFE OF O.J. SIMPSON. >> Reporter: A HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER, AN NFL HALL OF FAME RUNNING BACK, O.J. SIMPSON WILL BE REMEMBERED MOST FOR SOMETHING HE COULD NEVER RUN FROM. BORN ORENTHAL JAMES SIMPSON IN 1947, RAISED BY A SINGLE MOM ON THE ROUGH SIDE OF SAN FRANCISCO, HIS WAY OUT? FOOTBALL. A COLLEGE STAR AT USC, HE WAS DRAFTED BY THE BUFFALO BILLS. WHERE HE HAD A RECORD-SETTING NFL CAREER. INCLUDING THE LEAGUE MVP. HE RETIRED AS ONE OF THE BEST TO EVER PLAY THE GAME. AND FOR OJ, THE SPOTLIGHT NEVER DIMMED. >> >> NOBODY DOES IT BETTER -- >> TRANSITIONING INTO A SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN TV AND MOVIES. HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME IN 1985. THE SAME YEAR HE MARRIED HIS SECOND WIFE NICOLE BROWN. THE COUPLE HAD TWO CHILDREN, BUT APPARENTLY A ROCKY MARRIAGE THAT INCLUDED ALLEGATIONS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE. NICOLE BROWN SIXSON FIL FOR DIVORCE IN FEBRUARY OF 1992, AND JUST OVER TWO YEARS LATER, SHE AND A FRIEND, RON GOLDMAN, WERE FOUND MURDERED IN HER BRENTWOOD HOME. >> DRIVING A WHITE OR LIGHT-COLORED FORD BRONCO. >> FIVE DAYS AFTER THE DEADLY ATTACK, DRIVEN BY A FORMER TEAMMATE, SIMPSON LED OFFICERS ON A LOW-SPEED CHASE ACROSS LOS ANGELES. THREATENING TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFE BEFORE EVENTUALLY SURRENDERING TO POLICE. HE WAS CHARGED WITH MURDER. THE COURT PROCEEDINGS, DUBBED THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY -- >> IF IT DOESN'T FIT, YOU MUST ACQUIT. >> Reporter: -- LASTED NINE MONTHS. EVERY MINUTE -- >> WE FIND THE DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY. >> Reporter: ON LIVE TV. >> JUSTICE WAS NOT SERVED. >> Reporter: SEARCHING FOR THAT JUSTICE, THE GOLDMAN FAMILY WON A CIVIL SUIT. SIMPSON ORDERED TO PAY MORE THAN $33 MILLION. HE RETURNED TO COURT MULTIPLE TIMES OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS, FOR TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS AND PIRATING CABLE TV. BUT IT WAS A LAS VEGAS ROBBERY IN 2008, SIMPSON SAYING HE WAS KING BACK STOLEN PERSONAL PROPERTY, THAT ULTIMATELY SENT HIM TO PRISON. >> COUNT ONE, CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A CRIME. GUILTY. >> SENTENCED TO 33 YEARS, HE SERVED JUST OVER NINE. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> BEFORE BEING PAROLED IN 2017. JAY GRAY, NBC NEWS. >> NOW, I WAS THERE, IN NEVADA, COVERING THAT HEARING, WHEN HE HAD THE PAROLE HEARING, SERVING NEARLY NINE YEARS IN PRISON, AFTER EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED IN HIS LIFE, IT WAS THE ARMED ROBBERY OF TWO MEMORABILIA DEALERS THAT ENDED UP SENDING HIM BEHIND BARS FOR SO LONG. AND THEN HE HAS BEEN OUT FOR MANY YEARS. HE POSTS ON TWITTER. HIS LAST POST WAS FEBRUARY 11th, ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO, BUT AS YOU SAY, HIS LIFE WAS NEVER REALLY THE SAME. RIGHT, CYNTHIA? >> HE MAY HAVE BEEN ACQUITTED IN THE COURTROOM BUT O.J. SIMPSON'S LIFE WAS NEVER THE SAME AFTER THAT TRIAL, AND YOU KNOW, I HAVE TO SAY, IT'S WITH A LOT OF SADNESS. I MEAN THIS WAS A MAN WHO WAS, IN HIS EARLY LIFE, GREAT, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM, AND REALLY HIS OWN CHOICES LED HIM TO REALLY BE A PIRANHA IN MANY WAYS, HIS WORLD BECAME VERY SMALL. >> I IN ADDITI TO HIS FOOTBALL CAREER, HE WAS OF COURSE AN ACTOR. WE REMEMBER HIM FROM THE "NAKED GUN" MOVIES AND A SPOKESMAN FOR HERTZ, THE HIGHEST OF HIGHS, AND EVERYTHING SO SUDDENLY CHANGES. CYNTHIA McFADDEN, THANK YOU FOR JOINING THIS SPECIAL REPORT. THAT DOES CONCLUDE THIS SPECIAL REPORT. WE WILL CONTINUE COVERAGE ON OUR STREAMING SERVICE NOW AND ONLINE ON WEB WEB AND TONIGHT WITH "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS" WITH LESTER HOLT.

OJ Simpson dead at 76

The former football star was accused of a double murder in the deaths of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman. He was acquitted on this date in 1995.

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A Ford spokesperson said it was "purely coincidental" that its new Bronco would debut on the same day as O.J. Simpson's birthday.

CHANNELS, AND ROKU. >>> THE NEW FORD RONCO WILL DEBUT ON OJ SYMPTOMS O.J. SIMPSON'S BIRTHDAY, ALTHOUGH THEY IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL. SIMPSON IS A FORMER FOOTBALL STAR INFAMOUSLY INVOLVED IN A NATIONALLY TELEVISED POLICE CHASE WITH A 1993 FORD BRONCO. WHO COULD FORGET THOSE PICTURES? IT'S AFTER THE DEATH OF HER - - NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON.  BOARD

New Ford Bronco to debut on O.J. Simpson's birthday

The former football star was accused of a double murder in the deaths of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ron Goldman. 