Found not guilty. Still treated as guilty.
O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in his 1995 criminal trial. These three conversations question why the public verdict has outweighed the legal one.
1Judge Joe Brown
Judge Joe Brown argues the killer was left-handed, and O.J. Simpson is right-handed.
2Faison Love
Nicole Brown Simpson's neighbor was murdered a year after she was.
3My Brother, the Serial Killer
Glenn Rogers' mother says she has an heirloom from Nicole Brown Simpson, sent to her by her son, the serial killer.
The 13-month year that almost happened
A calendar of 13 equal months, 28 days each, was designed, tested by one of America's biggest companies, and debated by the League of Nations. Then it disappeared.
- 1902Moses B. Cotsworth, an English railway clerk frustrated by the uneven Gregorian calendar, publishes The Rational Almanac. His plan: 13 months of 28 days, plus one extra "Year Day" that belongs to no month or week, so every date falls on the same weekday every year.
- 1907Cotsworth is dismissed by the North Eastern Railway for union organizing and moves to British Columbia, where he keeps campaigning.
- 1923The International Fixed Calendar League is founded to promote the plan.
- 1925A Canadian federal advisory committee recommends adopting the 13-month calendar.
- 1928George Eastman puts Eastman Kodak on the 13-month calendar for payroll and planning. Kodak keeps using it for 61 years.
- 1931The League of Nations holds an international conference on calendar reform in Geneva. Out of nearly 200 proposals, Cotsworth's plan is one of two finalists. Canada sends Cotsworth as a technical advisor. The conference chooses no calendar.
- 1932George Eastman dies. The plan loses its most powerful backer and its funding.
- 1989Kodak retires its 13-month calendar.
Why it failed
The math was never the problem. The opposition was. Religious groups objected to the extra Year Day: because it sat outside any week, it would break the unbroken seven-day cycle that sets the Sabbath. Critics also said 13 months could not be split evenly into quarters and halves for business reporting, and that adding a month was too radical. A rival 12-month plan, Elisabeth Achelis's World Calendar, drew support away. When Eastman died, the movement lost its momentum.
Where 1328 begins
Cotsworth kept January 1 as the start of his year, tying the reform to the same calendar it was meant to replace. 1328 begins the year at the spring equinox.