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...there was never a run like last week's final play. The chase had become a game: the police weren't really trying to overtake him, and he wasn't really trying to escape. He just wanted his mother. He wanted to go home. He found his blocker in his faithful friend and longtime teammate Al Cowlings, and together they slipped away from the lawyers and doctors who were there to mind him and eluded the police who had come to take O.J. into custody on charges of first-degree murder...
When it was all over, when the slow-motion chase ended in his driveway and night fell with the news that he was in custody, there was a national sigh of relief: O.J., still our O.J., had been pulled back from the brink of suicide; he was safe; it was over. The L.A.P.D., which earlier in the day had looked like Keystone Kops, accepted laurels for patience and restraint. It had been a day full of incipient violence, but as more than one commentator was heard to say at the end of it all, "at least no one was hurt...
After leaving a note proclaiming his innocence and leading police on an extraordinary freeway chase televised live across the nation, football superstar and television sportscaster O.J. Simpson surrendered to authorities at his mansion in Los Angeles. Capping five days of intensive investigation and media scrutiny, police arrested Simpson on charges of murdering his former wife and her friend outside her home...
...incredible saga viewed by millions, one of America's most beloved athletes is charged with the murder of his ex-wife and attempts to evade arrest as a suicidal fugitive -- as the drama and the chase are played out on television...
...This chase is fascinating, although wildly implausible, but McIlvaine makes the worst of a good thing by insisting that what he reports has implications far beyond its particulars: "I would not have extended myself now, at my advanced age, if this were just the odd newspaper tale I had for you ... of aberrant family behavior. I ask you to believe -- I will prove -- that my freelance, finally, was only a reporter bringing the news, like the messenger in Elizabethan dramas ..." His story, the narrator says several times, is "far more than" the mystery of the Pemberton family...