NBC Nightly News - 1995-09-26
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[0:02] Marcia Clark her closing case against
[0:04] O.J. Simpson and a TV close-up ends
[0:07] television coverage for a while at
[0:09] least. Major progress in the peace
[0:11] process for Bosnia. The president is
[0:13] happy to take credit.
[0:15] NBC News in-depth the great Medicare
[0:17] debate is managed care the answer.
[0:20] And a disturbing test to airliners get
[0:22] in trouble when they follow each other
[0:24] for landing.
[0:26] From NBC News,
[0:29] this is NBC Nightly News with Tom
[0:31] Brokaw. Reporting tonight from Los
[0:34] Angeles.
[0:37] Good evening from Los Angeles in a small
[0:39] courtroom on the ninth floor of that
[0:41] building behind me. They're now in a
[0:42] dinner recess but Marcia Clark has been
[0:45] making her last best case against O.J.
[0:47] Simpson and the world has been watching
[0:49] for most of the day. However, this
[0:51] afternoon Judge Lance Ito angered by a
[0:54] close-up did kill television coverage
[0:56] for a time but then it was switched back
[0:58] on. Nevertheless, the real audience here
[1:00] is the jury and so Clark continued her
[1:03] methodical matter-of-fact argument. She
[1:06] raised the Fuhrman issue, Kato Kaelin
[1:08] Kaelin, common sense, the opportunity,
[1:11] gloves and lots more. The jury of two
[1:14] men, 10 women, nine of them
[1:16] African-American, most of them listening
[1:18] intently. NBC's David Bloom now takes us
[1:21] through this day of great expectations
[1:23] that played out in a low-key way.
[1:27] In a tense courtroom before a somber
[1:29] jury, prosecutor Marcia Clark implored
[1:32] the Simpson jury to look beyond a racist
[1:35] cop,
[1:36] to look through a defense smokescreen,
[1:39] and to see what she called a core truth,
[1:42] that O.J. Simpson is a cold-bloode