Murdoch Mysteries - Episode Guide. Please read the following before uploading. Do not upload anything which you do not own or are fully licensed to upload. The images should not contain any sexually explicit content, race hatred material or other offensive symbols or images. Remember: Abuse of the TV. The People v O. J. Simpson Recap: Episode 9 Fact Check. The penultimate episode of the FX series The People v. Simpson is dedicated to re- mythologizing the trial as much as setting the record straight, and it succeeds at blurring even further the line between the truth and fiction. Does the truth even matter at this point—in the trial or in the series? As Christopher Darden points out, once again, to Marcia Clark, “People like stories. It helps them make sense of things.”There’s not much about the Simpson trial that does make sense, as clear- cut as the crime seems to have been. As the trial continued to drag on for months and months, with inescapable media coverage, the toxicity of the case brought down everyone involved, including the viewers. This is the episode we hear the “Fuhrman tapes,” the violence behind the racial slurs as upsetting as any gory crime- scene photographs. There are threats of more riots in L. A. As Dominick Dunne put it, “This is insane. You couldn’t get away with this plot twist in an airport paperback.”With the Fuhrman tapes, it seems as if both sides were handed “manna from heaven,” as Courtney B. Vance practically sings to his team. But even after the defense procures them from a begrudging Southern judge, the prosecution is basically handed grounds for a mistrial . Clark is granted primary custody of her kids in the final scene; she, like the audience, seems to have forgotten that she was in the middle of a bitter divorce. American Horror Story is an American anthology horror series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Described as an anthology series, each season is. The Simpson trial was the last case that the “trial junkie” ever took on; she left trial law to write a book and spend time with her kids. It’s not enough to be handed “manna from heaven”; you have to know how to use it. As for the rest of the episode, as has become par for the course on this series, most of what happened was just as incredible in real life—and in some cases even more so. O. J. Simpson’s “Minimum Fitness for Men” video was shot a few weeks before the murders. True. You can watch it here. It’s also true that his doctor likened Simpson to “Tarzan’s grandfather,” due apparently to his arthritis. You could always blame it on, uh, working out.”Did Chris Darden really lose it at Johnnie Cochran over accusations that he himself was racist in quoting from a witness? Not quite. Darden called out Cochran, but with “quiet dignity,” according to Jeffrey Toobin’s source book, The Run of His Life: “That’s created a lot of problems for my family and myself, statements that you make about me and race, Mr. Cochran.”Wait, how did this screenwriter named Laura Hart Mc. Kinny even meet Mark Fuhrman? According to trial testimony, Mc. Kinny was approached by Fuhrman at a caf. That was a fairly. Pedro And Chantel Call Off Wedding In Episode 10?So this man asked me what. I was doing and what that was and I explained to him that it was a. She used him as a “consultant” for a screenplay she was working on about women police officers—which ended up as the 1. Fuhrman tapes.”Mc. Kinny was working as a screenplay- writing instructor, while never having sold a screenplay. True. Johnnie Cochran said of the Fuhrman tapes: “This is manna from heaven.”False. It was actually another Dream Team lawyer, not seen on the series, though Toobin writes that Cochran took an “almost mystical joy” in the tapes’ discovery. But it wasn’t Bailey’s questionable history of trying cases in North Carolina (or a superficial appeal to Robert Shapiro’s vanity) that got him a plane ticket, but his offer to pay for the expenses himself. From American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the O. J. Simpson Defense: “During a break, Bailey grabs Cochran. Bailey points out that he’s won every Fuhrman motion he’s argued before Ito . And then his standard trump card: I’ll pay my own way.”Bailey and Cochran lost their first request to have the Fuhrman tapes brought from North Carolina to California. True. Even though Judge Ito had issued a subpoena for the tapes, the judge, William Z. Wood Jr., “inexplicably” denied them. It’s not explicitly stated in the book or the show, but it’s strongly implied that in the North Carolina courtroom, where Bailey notes that attitudes are slow to change, the explanation lies with the racist, good ol’ boy judge. From Schiller’s book American Tragedy, “. Judge Wood didn’t like the showmanship.”Were there paintings featuring the Confederate flag in the courtroom in North Carolina? This isn’t mentioned in the source material or the books written by the defense team, so who knows. Most likely not, but it’s a brilliant and not- farfetched reminder of the very real persistence of institutional racism that Cochran and his team devoted themselves to exposing . Though the paintings in the scene may have been dramatic set pieces, the mention of the Civil War statue was not. That Confederate memorial that Bailey and Cochran notice alongside the “smell of mint juleps and condescension” really stands on the grounds of the Forsyth County courthouse in Winston- Salem, North Carolina, and bears the inscription: “As Southern soldiers of the war of 1. Margaret, a. k. a. Peggy, York, one of the highest- ranking women on the L. A. P. D. Talk about a soap- opera twist. She was one of the inspirations for the sitcom Cagney and Lacey, and yes, Fuhrman says many disparaging things about York, including on tape that she “sucked and fucked her way to the top.”Did York lie about knowing him so that her husband could get the Simpson case? It’s unclear but seems likely. Though York had given a deposition saying she did not recall Fuhrman, the revelations on the tapes make this hard to believe—as portrayed, she did privately reprimand Fuhrman for laughing at “K. K. K.” written on a calendar’s entry for Martin Luther King Day. This is taken nearly word for word from his actual speech, and we see the subtle outrage flash across Sarah Paulson’s face as Ito praises his wife and all women for enduring hardships in male- dominated professions. From her memoir Without a Doubt: “. The irony of it left me breathless. For a year now, I had been. Oh, when it suited his Kodak. Mr. Sensitivity.”Did Chris Darden really lose it during a cross- examination and refuse to apologize to the judge? Yes, this is true and far worse a transgression than portrayed on- screen. The disagreement between Cochran and Darden was actually over cross- examination of Detective Lange. Ito did instruct Darden to calm down and take “three breaths,” but he still refused to apologize to Ito. A lawyer present to cover for CNBC (O. J.’s original choice for trial attorney, Wyoming cowboy Gerry Spence) became so incredulous that he screamed out, “Jesus Christ!” Clark did offer to remove her jewelry and go to jail with Darden (a move that he writes briefly about with obvious affection and admiration); in the end, he offered a weak apology to avoid jail. Mark Fuhrman pled the Fifth to every question during cross- examination. True. He was eventually charged with perjury, after the tapes proved he had used racial slurs within the last decade—after he had testified that he had not. The tapes are as bad or worse than intimated on- screen. The man “hated by both sides,” as Nathan Lane’s character notes, pled “no contest” to felony perjury in October 1. The L. A. P. D., however, would have to deal with the content of “the Fuhrman tapes” long after his probation was up. According to The New York Times in 1. L. A. P. D. Mc. Kinny’s tapes and transcripts, 1. Mr. Fuhrman or his contemporaries. Investigators did link 1. Mr. Fuhrman's use of racial epithets and sexist attitudes toward female co- workers.”Full Screen. Photos: 1/1. 8The People v. OJ Simpson Cast and Their Real- Life Counterparts. O. J. Simpson, played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. Photo: Left, by Mike Nelson/AFP/Getty Images; right, Courtesy of FX. Marcia Clark, played by Sarah Paulson. Photo: Left, by Pool/AFP/Getty Images (Clark). Robert Shapiro, played by John Travolta. Photo: Left, by Lee Celano/Wire. Image/Getty Images; right; Courtesy of FX. Johnnie Cochran, played by Courtney B. Vance. Photo: Left, by Lee Celano/Wire. Image/Getty Images; right, Courtesy of FX. Mark Fuhrman, played by Steven Pasquale. Photo: Left, from AFP, right, from Frederick M. Brown, both from Getty Images. A. C. Cowlings, played by Malcolm- Jamal Warner. Photo: Left, by Ron Galella, right, by Michael Kovac, both from Getty Images. Denise Brown, played by Jordana Brewster. Photo: Left, from Pool/AFP/Getty Images; right, by Clint Spaulding/Patrick. Mc. Mullan. com. 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