MEDIA WATCH: The `O' in O.J. may stand for `Othello'

From: New York Amsterdam News | Date: June 25, 1994| Author: Abiola Sinclair | Copyright information


New York Amsterdam News

06-25-1994

The `O' in O.J. may stand for `Othello'.

"Soft you a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service, and they know it. No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, when you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am. Nothing extentuate. Not set down aught in malice. Then must speak you of one who loved not wisely but too well...." (William Shakespeare's Othello)

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