`ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE,' SIMPSON TELLS JURY HE TELLS HIS STORY IN COURT FOR FIRST TIME.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: November 23, 1996 | Copyright information

O.J. Simpson sat in the witness chair, stared jurors in the eyes and told them yesterday it was ``absolutely not true'' that he killed his ex-wife and her friend.

Answering rapid-fire questions from an attorney determined to prove him responsible for the bloody slayings, Simpson was intense, but restrained his emotions as he was asked if he had taken gloves, a hat and a knife to Nicole Brown Simpson's condo and committed murder the night of June 12, 1994.

``That is absolutely not true,'' Simpson said.

Telling his story to a jury for the first time, Simpson frequently ...

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