Fox News contributor Joe Concha joins ‘America Reports’ to discuss O.J. Simpson’s ‘Super Bowl like’ media numbers during his trial.

Reality TV wasn't much of an industry before June 17, 1994. That all changed the day Orenthal James "O.J." Simpson attempted to avoid arrest by hiding in the back of his white Ford Bronco during a slow-speed chase as more than 95 million people watched from home, mostly in disbelief.

News helicopters followed the SUV's every move with a cadre of police in tow. O.J., the accused killer of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman, was hunkered down in the back seat with a gun to his head. Earlier, O.J. had left a handwritten letter declaring his innocence, and making "a last wish" to "leave my children in peace."

"I’ve had a great life, great friends," his letter said as a friend read it out loud with cameras rolling. "Please think of the real O.J. and not this lost person."

It was all too surreal to absorb in real time.

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O.J. Simpson, the larger-than-life sports icon-turned-celebrity, was on the run, but unlike his Hall-of-Fame football career, this run was happening in slow motion. The Bronco, driven by his former teammate Al Cowlings, breezed along California highways below the speed limit. Cowlings indicated that O.J. had a gun to his head. After 90 minutes, the Bronco pulled into Simpson's driveway in Brentwood, California, where he would eventually give himself up.

Four days earlier, the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman had been found in front of her home in a killing so grisly that broadcast news outlets had refused to show photos from the scene at the time. O.J. had maintained his innocence by saying he was chipping golf balls at his home nearby........

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