CBS Evening News - 1996-11-22
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[0:00] on News Channel 5.
[0:03] >> Finally, OJ Simpson on the stand and
[0:05] under oath. We have eyewitness accounts
[0:07] and expert analysis tonight of Simpson's
[0:10] performance in his first day of
[0:11] testimony. The sex harassment scandal at
[0:14] Army training sites. The Army Secretary
[0:17] orders investigations vowing to follow
[0:19] the evidence wherever it leads and
[0:22] travels with Harry uncovering an
[0:24] American treasure.
[0:26] Number 15.
[0:29] >> This is the CBS [music]
[0:30] Evening News
[0:33] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:36] headquarters in New York. Good evening.
[0:38] More than 2 years after the murders of
[0:40] Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. OJ
[0:42] Simpson took the witness stand for the
[0:44] first time today in the wrongful death
[0:46] civil suit filed by the victim's
[0:48] families. Simpson, called as a hostile
[0:51] witness by the plaintiffs, testified
[0:53] with lips pursed and fists clenched. Our
[0:56] coverage begins with Bill Whitaker, who
[0:58] was in the courtroom today.
[1:03] >> This was the day OJ Simpson said he'd
[1:05] been waiting for. Today, he swore before
[1:08] God to tell the whole truth to a jury of
[1:11] his peers. Almost immediately after
[1:13] Simpson took the stand, Daniel
[1:15] Petrochelli, attorney for the father of
[1:18] murder victim Ron Goldman, aggressively
[1:20] zeroed in on what's considered Simpson's
[1:22] most vulnerable spot, domestic violence.
[1:25] He showed the jury these pictures of
[1:27] Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole, bruised and
[1:30] cut after their 1989 fight, which sent
[1:33] Nicole to the hospital. "How many times
[1:35] in the course of that fight did you hit
[1:37] Nicole?" Petrochelli demanded. "Never,"
[1:40] said Simpson. How many time