History Extra for October 17, 2024

“Reality TV” as its own genre arrived in the U.S. in the 1990s, pushed in part by the 90-minute 1994 televised police chase of O.J. Simpson’s white Ford Bronco. People were glued to the television as a friend of Simpson’s drove the former football star down the L.A. Freeway when Simpson failed to turn himself in to police after being charged with two co…