John McQuaid on Nostr: The lead of the 1995 NYT "OJ Acquitted" article (available now with their coverage of ...

The lead of the 1995 NYT "OJ Acquitted" article (available now with their coverage of his death) is just ... weird. He had just been found not guilty of murders everybody knew he was guilty of, amid a bizarre cultural spectacle, yet the Times went with what is essentially a "triumphs in presidential election" lead
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/04/us/not-guilty-overview-jury-clears-simpson-double-murder-spellbound-nation-divides.html