Clark Tells Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz: “I did not want [Simpson] to try on the evidence gloves. I never did.”
Dateline NBC’s “The People vs. O.J. Simpson: What the Jury Never Heard” Airs Sunday, March 6 at 9pm/8c
NEW YORK – March 1, 2016 – In an all-new strikingly candid interview, Dateline NBC’s Josh Mankiewicz sits down with Marcia Clark, the prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Clark opens up about the case that is still making headlines more than 20 years later. Clark tells Mankiewicz: “I did not want [Simpson] to try on the evidence gloves. I never did.” “The People vs. O.J. Simpson: What the Jury Never Heard” airs Sunday, March 6 at 9pm/8c on NBC.
This two-hour special, an update to Dateline’s 2014 report, also features interviews with key players and witnesses from the trial, including: Kris Jenner, close friend to murder victim Nicole Brown; Denise Brown, Nicole Brown’s sister; Fred Goldman, victim Ron Goldman’s father; Kim Goldman, sister of Ron Goldman; Tom Lange, former LAPD detective; Alan Dershowitz, Simpson’s former defense attorney; Carl Douglas, Simpson’s former defense attorney; witnesses Kato Kaelin and Skip Junis; Lon Cryer, juror; Connie Rice, Los Angeles civil rights attorney; Bob Costas, NBC Sports host and former Simpson colleague; and Dan Petrocelli, former civil case attorney for the Goldman family.
Excerpts from “The People vs. O.J. Simpson: What the Jury Never Heard” follow. If used, mandatory credit to NBC’s Dateline with air date of Sunday, March 6.
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MARCIA CLARK ON SIMPSON TRYING ON THE GLOVES
MARCIA CLARK: That was not my call. That was not my call. I did not want him to try on the evidence gloves. I never did.
MANKIEWICZ: Whose call was that?
CLARK: That was Chris [Darden]’s call… I was miserable from the moment that Chris said, “No, I’m doing this.” And I never expected anything good to come of it…
MANKIEWICZ: You say to Darden that night, “I told you so.”?
MARCIA CLARK: No. Darden said to me, “I’m sorry,” And I said, “It’s okay. If that lost the case for us, we were never going to win anyway.”
Link to embeddable video: http://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/o-j-tries-on-the-glove-634310211554
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MARCIA CLARK ON HER REACTION TO THE NOT GUILTY VERDICT
MARCIA CLARK: I felt horrible. It was physically painful. You know, that was not justice. And I thought of Ron and Nicole and thought, “This is wrong. It’s so wrong.”
MANKIEWICZ: You blame yourself for this?
CLARK: You know, I always do. I do. I mean, I was the one trying the case. But at the end of the day, we really– there was no way to reach that jury. There was no way to make them believe. There really wasn’t.
Link to embeddable video: http://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/whos-to-blame-for-the-verdict-634305603759
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