How ‘The View’ reacted to OJ Simpson’s death: ‘Hope it gives peace to the family of the victims’

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view. On Thursday, news broke that OJ Simpson died at age 76 after a battle with prostate cancer. He’s remembered for his past in the NFL and his stint in Hollywood – but, he’s most famous for his 1994 televised police chase in his white Bronco, and his 1995 murder trial. “The View” opened its Thursday morning show by reacting to it mere minutes after the news broke.Immediately after walking onstage at the beginning of the broadcast, Whoopi Goldberg, 68, told the audience, “Just before we went on air today, news broke that OJ Simpson has passed away.

He was battling cancer. We didn’t want you to not know because we just got [the news.].” Co-host Sunny Hostin, 55, then said, “Can I just say, who doesn’t remember the trial of the century?

It was an 11th month trial….the Bronco…. of those questions, where were you when OJ was in that Bronco?”She said, referring to how the former NFL star was on trial in 1995 for killing his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman – for which he was acquitted.

Simpson’s controversial acquittal was considered one of the great failures of the American justice system.Hostin reminisced, “I was on a date with a guy named Paul,” when the infamous Bronco chase happened. “I remember feeling a great sense of injustice happened, its one of the reasons i became a prosecutor,” she said. “For me the tragedy was the injustice.” Joy Behar pressed Hostin “Which part?” since Hostin was vague about what “injustice” she was referring to. “The criminal trial, he was not found guilty,” Hostin explained.