BRENTWOOD, CA – After OJ Simpson’s death on April 10, 2024, actor Courtney B. Vance said, “He went to the grave with all that he knew, and maybe that’s a good thing. Everybody had an opinion about what happened, and it became larger than the actual event.” The questions about Nicole Brown Simpson’s and Ron Goldman’s murders have become the most asked since the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Simpson could have answered it with a bedside confession during his dying days of prostate cancer.
The question remains: Did he do it? The controversial acquittal has one last hope of putting the blood on Simpson’s hands and closing the chapter.
June 16, will be Al Cowlings’ 79th birthday and the former football player who followed OJ’s path to the NFL, may have the answer. AC and OJ are as close to being Siamese twins as there is. They both were third grade classmates at Patrick Henry Elementary in San Francisco. They were both teammates at Galileo H.S. and then City College of S.F.. They both transferred to the University of Southern California, with O.J. getting drafted by the Buffalo Bills as the number one overall pick in 1969. One year later A.C. was picked number five in the first round by the Bills. Should I mention that A.C. also had a girlfriend named Marguerite Whitley, who was OJ’s high school sweetheart. OJ married Marguerite at the age of 19, and A.C. is the Godfather to OJ’s first son, Jason.
Cowlings was the man behind the wheel of that infamous white Bronco chase. For that he was charged with a felony for aiding a fugitive. The charges were eventually dropped and A.C. has dropped out of sight.
By remaining silent, A.C. is the poster-boy for loyalty. The groomsman to OJ’s 1985 wedding to Nicole and only A.C. knows what was said during that Bronco ride. Only A.C. knows if OJ was the killer. Only time will tell if Allen Cedric Cowlings will follow Orenthal James Simpson’s lead by taking his secret to the grave.
