Nicole Brown Simpson, famous football player O.J. Simpson’s
ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman were brutally stabbed to
death outside Nicole’s home in Brentwood, California, in what
quickly becomes one of the most highly publicized trials of the
century. With overwhelming evidence against him, including a
prior record of domestic violence towards Brown, O.J. Simpson
became the chief suspect.

Although he had agreed to turn himself in, Simpson escaped
with  friend A.C. Cowlings in his white Ford Bronco (below) on
June 17. He was carrying his passport, a disguise, and $8,750
in cash. Simpson’s car was spotted that afternoon, but he
refused to surrender immediately. Threatening to kill himself,
he led police in a low-speed chase through the freeways of
Los Angeles as the entire nation watched on television.
Eventually, Simpson gave himself up at his home in
Brentwood.

Benjamin Berell Ferencz (March 11, 1920 – April 7, 2023)

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ben Ferencz, the last living
prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who tried Nazis for
genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside
witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labor and
concentration camps, has died. He had just turned 103
in March.

Ferencz died Friday evening in Boynton Beach, Florida,
according to St. John’s University law professor John
Barrett, who runs a blog about the Nuremberg trials. The
death also was confirmed by the U.S. Holocaust Museum
in Washington.

"Today the world lost a leader in the quest for justice for
victims of genocide and related crimes," the museum
tweeted.

TIM MAGUIRE

    
        
Camille Bohannon
     
   

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014)

Williams is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of
all time.

Clarence Darrow, left, and William Jennings Bryan at the
Scopes trial in 1925 (AP) 

July 10, 1925: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called Scopes Monkey
Trial began with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school
science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of
a Tennessee state law.

The law, which had been passed in March, made it a misdemeanor punishable by fine to “teach any theory that denies the story of
the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach
instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”

Schoolteacher John Thomas Scopes (center), 24, of Dayton, Tenn., stands before Judge Raulston just before he was
found guilty of teaching evolution and fined $100 on July 21, 
1925, at the end of the Scopes Monkey Trial held at the
Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton. (Chicago Tribune)