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The Bronco is among the many hottest and most distinguished reveals on the privately owned museum, which opened in 2016 after an identical crime museum closed in Washington. The automobile belonged to Al Cowlings, Simpson’s good friend and former teammate, who was driving it about 40 miles per hour as Simpson fled the police.
The automotive was beforehand featured on a 2017 episode of the truth tv present “Pawn Stars,” on which Mike Gilbert, a former agent for Simpson, mentioned he bought the automotive partially to maintain it from doubtlessly being utilized by a tour firm. He unsuccessfully sought greater than $1 million for it on the present.
The museum declined to say who allowed for the show of the automotive, citing privateness considerations.
“Different generations have completely different responses to it, as a result of clearly individuals who watched the chase reside and who have been round for that reply otherwise,” Pennington mentioned. She added, “Most individuals are simply shocked to see it as a result of it’s the white Bronco from the O.J. chase and it’s such an iconic second in historical past.”
Never removed from the museum’s thoughts, Pennington mentioned, are the victims of the crimes featured within the reveals, or the ache skilled by those that survive them. She mentioned that whereas Simpson’s dying may change elements of a brief show recognizing the thirtieth anniversary of the tragedy, it deliberate to deal with the victims.
On Thursday, the museum had taped a label acknowledging Simpson’s dying on a plexiglass case subsequent to the Bronco that shows a set of his golf golf equipment. At least two guests realized of his dying from the signal.
“It was fairly wild — you’d have individuals arguing about it, you understand, at Waffle House,” David Hardigree, who was visiting from Northern Kentucky, recalled of the Simpson trial, and the debates over whether or not he was responsible or not.
But his go to on Thursday, he mentioned, was simply “ironic timing.”
