1995
O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark urges war on spousal abuse
The trial of OJ Simpson for the grizzly murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and boyfriend Ronald Goldman brought the subject of domestic abuse front and centre to TV screens across North America.
With a long history of documented abuse before their divorce, Nicole kept a diary chronicling incidents of OJ stalking and harassing her well after the separation. Tanya Brown, Nicole’s sister, believes she may have kept the diaries because she suspected her husband might kill her. It was reported that five days before Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered on June 12, 1994, she called a battered women’s shelter in terror that her ex-husband was going to kill her.
In one of her first public appearances since O.J.’s acquittal, prosecutor Marcia Clark took the stage at Roy Thomson Hall to speak publicly about domestic abuse.
O.J. prosecutor Marcia Clark urges war on spousal abuse
Tyler, Tracey. O.J. prosecutor Marcia Clark urges war on spousal abuse. Toronto Star, pg A4. December 12, 1995.
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