[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 83 (Monday, June 27, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: June 27, 1994]
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                VICTIMS FORGOTTEN WHILE MURDERS INCREASE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, America is still in shock. O.J. Simpson 
is charged with murder--two murders. On television and in the news 
print the media keeps asking about O.J. Did O.J. do it? Could O.J. have 
taken such a large knife and cut his wife's throat? Was O.J. on 
cocaine? Was there another side of O.J.?
  O.J., O.J.--on and on about O.J. You are innocent until proven 
guilty, but the fact remains, Mr. Speaker, that Nicole Simpson and Ron 
Goldman were brutally murdered in southern California and everybody 
keeps talking about the accused.
  In America how soon we forget the victims, with tombstones jumping up 
like mushrooms all over the country. With 25,000 murders a year, 
everybody is preoccupied with the accused.
  Maybe it is time, I say to the Congress, to reflect on victims and 
what is happening in our country. Maybe that is why we have so many 
murders and so many victims.

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