NFL legend and the subject of the “Trial of the Century”, O.J. Simpson, died Wednesday. NewsNation host Dan Abrams had mixed feelings about the situation.
“O.J. Simpson died today and, for me, it’s actually an incredibly odd day, because I covered every day of both his criminal and civil cases from inside the courtroom, and there weren’t many of us,” the Dan Abrams Live host said. “The reality is his cases jumpstarted my career, and yet he was a murderer. It’s sort of a troubling reality I’ve always had to live with.”
Abrams went on to say that he began working as a courtroom correspondent for Court TV at the age of 27, when he was thrust into covering the Simpson case. He shared that he was unaware of what the court proceedings would mean to the nation and also his career.
“I had no sense that I was about to devote the next two years of my life to covering the trial of a generation,” said Abrams.
He concluded by noting that he wasn’t feeling sorry for Simpson’s family on the day of his death, as much as he felt empathy for the families of the victims Simpson was accused of murdering.
“At the end of the day, it’s also true the deaths of two totally innocent people helped make my career, and I have guilt about that. I always have,” he admitted.
“So today I’m not thinking about the family of O.J. Simpson. I’m thinking about the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown. It breaks my heart that I benefited my career so much as a result of their loved ones being killed by O.J. Simpson.”
