Category: January 1995

'The Los Angeles Times', January 1995, The Headlines. The Story. A Life Interrupted.2 Comments

Words Matter! I Told You!

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Words matter. O.J. Simpson’s defense team asked Judge Lance A. Ito to order the prosecution to say domestic discord rather than domestic violence or even spousal abuse–already euphemisms for wife-beating–and to disallow the words battered wife and stalker.

Ito refused to alter reality by altering language but some media complied–for example, “Rivera Live,” where domestic discord became a new term of art. Continue reading Words Matter! I Told You!

'The National Enquirer' Magazine, January 1 1989 (Sunday), January 1995, The Headlines. The Story. A Life Interrupted.Leave a comment

I Said That YOU Would Kill ME!

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“Look what the bastard’s done to me!” wept Nicole Simpson as her sister Denise snapped dramatic photos of the battered blonde – which offer horrifying proof of her vicious beating at the hands of O.J.

Those photos were seized by police from Nicole’s safe deposit box and are now in the hands of prosecutors. It’s up to Judge Lance Ito to decide if they can be introduced at O.J.’s trial. Continue reading I Said That YOU Would Kill ME!