The 1969 Draft Overall Number 1 pick OJ Simpson was a top running back, clawing his way into the NFL's esteemed Hall Of Fame. He also enjoyed a long acting career, though his legacy will be for causing one of the largest media storms in history after being charged with the murder of his ex-wife and a waiter in 1992. Simpson was due to hand himself over to the police, where over 1,000 reporters waited for him at the station, though he failed to show up, and instead led officers on a low-speed car chase, with a gun pointed at his own head. He was acquitted of the brutal stabbings, after the trial cost around $40 million overall. 134 days were broadcast live in 1995, and it is estimated that it cost $480 million to the US economy as people stopped working, trading and generally functioning. Bizarrely, Simpson was charged with numerous felonies in Las Vegas including gunpoint robbery in 2007. He was jailed for 33 years, giving America the justice that many felt hadn't been served following the murder trial.
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