White Bronco chase

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The white Bronco chase was a low-speed police chase across Greater Los Angeles on June 17, 1994, involving Al Cowlings and O. J. Simpson—actors, then-former football players, and childhood friends. It began after the two went missing earlier that day, when the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) issued an arrest warrant for Simpson on suspicion that he had committed the recent Los Angeles murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Lasting for roughly two hours, the chase was a media spectacle, and it became an iconic moment in American popular culture. Simpson and Brown had divorced the prior year, following violent domestic disputes. After Brown and Goldman were fatally stabbed on June 12, Simpson became the primary suspect within the LAPD's investigation, and the department issued his arrest warrant in the early morning of the 17th. After Simpson had his lawyer Robert Kardashian notify the LAPD that he (Simpson) would surrender at the department's Parker Center headquarters in Downtown L.A, he failed to appear there. LAPD officers visited Kardashian's Encino home, where Simpson and Cowlings had stayed the night before. The two were missing, as Simpson was being driven away from public view by Cowlings in the latter's white 1993 Ford Bronco XLT. The LAPD declared Simpson a fugitive, and law enforcement and news media began searching for him and Cowlings. Kardashian then publicly read a statement from Simpson that was widely interpreted to be a suicide note. Journalist Zoey Tur, flying in a telecopter, found Simpson and Cowlings at the El Toro Y interchange in Orange County, and soon after, California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer Ruth Dixon noticed the two driving on Interstate 405. She drove after them, and Cowlings yelled out to her that Simpson was sitting in the back of the Bronco,...