‘This was shocking’: Zoey Tur on flying the chopper following OJ
- Tur’s footage is among the most famous television journalism
- Simpson’s murder trial and the media frenzy became international news
- Millions watched on live TV as Simpson tried to avoid arrest
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(NewsNation) — Zoey Tur, a journalist and pilot who captured O.J. Simpson’s low-speed chase on a Los Angeles freeway in 1994, told NewsNation the media frenzy was unlike anything she’s seen since.
“I looked below through the chin bubble of the helicopter, and there was a white Bronco,” said Tur. “And within a matter of minutes, it was one police unit after another until there was — I couldn’t even count how many. With the flip of the switch, we had over 100 million viewers on live television. It was a very surreal event.”
Simpson’s family announced he died from cancer Wednesday.
His murder trial would go on to be one the biggest stories of the 1990s.
Tur still remembers the disbelief she felt covering the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
“This was a guy (Simpson) that played golf with presidents. This was a celebrity,” said Tur. “This guy was beamed into our homes every day with Hertz commercials. So you felt like you knew him. He lived two canyons over. I lived in Pacific Palisades. I knew O.J., I would wave and say, ‘Hi.’ And I knew his reputation for abuse. But I mean, this was shocking.”
