SAN DIEGO — On June 17, 1994, former NFL star O.J. Simpson and Al Cowlings drove the infamous white Ford Bronco down a Los Angeles freeway in what would become the most famous police chase in history.
Hours before the chase, the Los Angeles Police Department had announced Simpson had been charged with the killings of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman.
One of the 911 callers on record came from Cowlings, who was driving the Bronco. In the recording he can be heard saying, “I have O.J. in the car. He has a gun to his head.”
Police and news media followed the Bronco for an-hour-a-half. Onlookers gathered on freeway overpasses to catch a glimpse of the Bronco as it drove across four freeways before finally coming to rest at Simpson’s Brentwood home.
Simpson was tried but acquitted of the murders in a case that was seen across the world. A quarter of century later, it remains a hot topic on talk shows.
Simpson has generally kept a low profile since his release from prison in October 2017 for robbery and kidnapping over an attempt to steal back some of his sports memorabilia from a Las Vegas hotel room.
Trying to make his own case, Simpson joined Twitter this week.
In the Twitter video, Simpson said his followers would get to read all his thoughts and opinions on "just about everything."
"Now, there's a lot of fake O.J. accounts out there," he said, adding that this one would be official. He appeared to record the message himself and ended it with a grin.
The 71-year-old recently told the AP he was happy and healthy living in Las Vegas 25 years after the killings of his ex-wife and her friend. Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death on the night of June 12, 1994.
Simpson was ultimately acquitted of the crime after a televised trial that riveted the nation and raised thorny issues of racism, police misconduct, celebrity and domestic violence.
Relatives of the two victims have expressed disgust that Simpson is able to live the way he does. Simpson was ordered to pay $33.5 million for the wrongful deaths of the two victims, but most of the judgment has not been paid.
Simpson has continued to declare his innocence in the two slayings. The murder case is officially listed as unsolved.
In his recent interview , Simpson told the AP that neither he nor his children want to talk about the killings ever again.
"My family and I have moved on to what we call the 'no negative zone.' We focus on the positives," he said.