IF I DID IT
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
If I did it, this is what happened.
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FIRST EDITION
Designed by Kris Tobiassen
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.
ISBN 10: 0-06-123828-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-06-123828-4
CONTENTS
1. THE LUCKIEST GUY IN THE WORLD ................... 1
2. SO HAPPY TOGETHER ................................................. 35
3. PERIOD OF CONFUSION ............................................ 65
4. THE TWO NICOLES ...................................................... 97
5. THINGS FALL APART .................................................... 113
6. THE NIGHT IN QUESTION ..................................... 135
7. THE INTERROGATION ................................................ 173
8. THE FIGHT OF MY LIFE .......................................... 205
1
THE LUCKIEST GUY
IN THE WORLD
I'm going to tell you a story you've never heard before, because no
one knows this story the way I know it. It takes place on the night
of June 12, 1994, and it concerns the murder of my ex-wife, Nicole
Brown Simpson, and her young friend, Ronald Goldman. I want
you to forget everything you think you know about that night
because I know the facts better than anyone. I know the players.
I've seen the evidence. I've heard the theories. And, of course, I've
read all the stories: That I did it. That I did it but I don't know I did
it. That I can no longer tell fact from fiction. That I wake up in the
middle of the night, consumed by guilt, screaming.
Man, they even had me wondering, What if I did it?
Well, sit back, people. The things I know, and the things I
believe, you can't even imagine. And I'm going to share them
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with you. Because the story you know, or think you know-that's
not the story. Not even close. This is one story the whole world
got wrong.
First, though, for those of you who don't know me, my name
is Orenthal James Simpson-"O.J." to most people. Many years
ago, a lifetime ago, really, I was a pretty good football player. I set
a few NCAA records, won the Heisman trophy, and was named
the American Football Conference's Most Valuable Player three
times. When I retired from football, in 1978, I went to work for
NBC, as a football analyst, and in the years ahe...

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