Would O.J. Simpson live or die? That question kept 95 million Americans locked to their TVs on June 17, 1994, during his infamous car chase. “People … didn’t know what was going to happen next,” helicopter journalist Zoey Tur, who broadcast the low-speed chase for KCBS-TV, tells Yahoo Entertainment. “They couldn’t take their eyes off of it.” Former Fox 11 L.A. reporter Jane Wells, who covered the 60-mile pursuit from the ground, likened the can’t-look-away appeal to gladiators of ancient Rome.