March 9, 2016
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Knife Purportedly Found at OJ Simpson Home
Weapon came
to light in
last month
(AP) — Detectives are investi-
gating a knife purportedly found
some time ago at the former home
of O.J. Simpson, who was acquit-
ted of murder charges in the 1994
stabbings of his ex-wife Nicole
Brown Simpson and her friend
Ron Goldman, a police spokes-
man said Friday.
The knife was supposedly
found by a citizen, possibly during
demolition of Simpson’s former
home years ago, and turned over
to a now-retired police motorcycle
officer who was working as a film-
Prejudice,
Power and
Perspective
C ontinued from P age 3
point in a way that is very thought-
ful and meaningful.
According to the playbill, there
are scenes that are extremely fun-
ny and contemporary, also highly
engaging and entertaining, some
that are historically educational
about colonialism and the geno-
cide of the Herero, and laced
throughout are deeply disturbing
social observations and criticisms.
“Artists Rep has a very long
history of doing tough plays and
this one is definitely that,” said Ni-
cole Lane, the theater’s marketing
and public relations director.
Director Jones has a great deal
to say about what the play is from
his perspective.
“Jackie Sibblies Drury poses
many questions for us to wrestle
with and yet she offers very few
answers,” Jones said. “One of the
questions Drury’s provocative
play asks is: What is our respon-
sibility as artists to the stories
that we tell and to the owners of
those stories? Is it actually possi-
ble in America, in the 21st Cen-
tury, to tell a story about distant
genocide without the story being
appropriated by a contemporary
conversation about race? In this
day and age when we engage with
information on a sound byte level,
what is our role in sifting through
the rhetoric and extracting useful
meaning?”
Preview performances began
on Tuesday with the opening night
performance on Saturday, March
12. The production runs through
April 3 on the Morrison Stage,
1515 S.W. Morrison St. Regular
admission is $48 and $25 for pre-
view shows and students under
25. For tickets and more infor-
mation, visit artistsrep.org or call
503-241-1278.
ing location security guard, police
Capt. Andy Neiman said.
The weapon used in the killings
has been a mystery for decades.
The knife came to light in the
past month, but Neiman did not
say how that occurred, stressing
the authenticity of the story was
not confirmed.
“Possibly the story is bogus
from the get-go,” he said.
The knife is being analyzed
by an LAPD crime lab. Neiman
said investigators didn’t know the
identity of the person who hand-
ed it over and asked him or her to
come forward.
The killings occurred on June
12, 1994, and led to the “Trial of
the Century” in which the former
football star was acquitted in Oc-
tober 1995 by a jury that deliber-
ated only four hours.
In 1997, a civil court jury found
Simpson liable for the slayings
and awarded millions of dollars
in damages to families of the vic-
tims.
Neiman did not believe that
Simpson could be charged again
with murder if the knife is linked to
the killings, citing double jeopardy.
“I’m not an attorney but it’s my
understanding from being a police
officer for nearly 30 years that
double jeopardy would be in place
here,” he said.
Simpson is imprisoned in Ne-
vada for a 2008 armed robbery
and kidnapping conviction.
The account of the knife’s dis-
covery was first reported by TMZ.
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