The Deaths of Two Totally Innocent People Helped Make My Career: Dan Abrams Opens Up About Guilt from O.J. Simpson Trial [Video]

NewsNation host and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams opened up on Thursday about getting a big break in journalism as a reporter on the O.J. Simpson murder trial after it was announced that Simpson had died following a battle with prostate cancer.

“O.J. Simpson died today, and for me, it’s actually an incredibly odd day because I covered every day of both his criminal and civil cases from inside the courtroom, and there weren’t many of us,” began Abrams on his show Dan Abrams Live. “The reality is his cases jumpstarted my career, and yet he was a murderer. It’s sort of a troubling reality I’ve always had to live with.”

Abrams proceeded to tell the story about how he ended up as a courtroom reporter for Court TV at the age of 27, less than two years after leaving law school, and was suddenly assigned to the Simpson case due to the network’s two main reporters being busy …