Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, October 10, 1995 TAG: 9510100095
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES LENGTH: Medium
O.J. Simpson will give his first extensive interview since his acquittal to his former employer, NBC. The live, no-holds-barred, no-pay discussion will air Wednesday night.
Simpson will be interviewed for about an hour Wednesday by Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric on ``Dateline NBC,'' and the segment will be commercial-free, Brokaw said Monday night on ``NBC Nightly News.''
The interview will air around around 9 p.m. EDT Wednesday, in the middle of a special three-hour broadcast. Simpson spoke briefly by phone on CNN's ``Larry King Live'' last week.
NBC News President Andrew Lack negotiated by phone over the weekend with Simpson's representatives and then with Simpson himself to secure the upcoming interview.
A jury acquitted Simpson, 48, last week in the June 12, 1994, knife slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Several jurors have come forward to say they believed the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
One juror, David Aldana, an East Los Angeles truck driver, kept a journal throughout the trial and is trying to sell the material for a book or movie, his attorney, Gary Brown, said Monday.
``We are entertaining offers in that area. He has an interest in telling his story,'' Brown said.
Meantime, sources told The Associated Press that Simpson's girlfriend, Paula Barbieri, has been at home in Florida and not off marrying Simpson in the Dominican Republic, as a newspaper in that country reported.
Simpson attorney Carl Douglas also denied as ``totally false'' the report in Listin Diario, the same paper that accurately reported the wedding of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley.
Brown declined to reveal what his client's journal contains, but said he was certain Aldana didn't violate the judge's admonition ordering jurors not to form any opinions about the case until deliberations.
``He did follow the rules and instructions,'' Brown said.
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