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A quarter-century ago today, much of Los Angeles, and the nation, was transfixed with a white Bronco speeding along the city’s freeways.

Four days after Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were murdered in Brentwood, O.J. Simpson was a fugitive. The police pursuit of him that played out on national television became an indelible “where were you when …” cultural moment.

Car chases have long been a fixture of the zeitgeist of Los Angeles, a phenomenon that perhaps reached its apex with the O.J. Simpson pursuit and endures today, with near-daily coverage on local television news — often broadcast with footage from helicopters zooming across the skies of the city. Viewers pause, unable to look away from their televisions or their social media feeds.

L.A.’s fascination with high-speed pursuits has been the subject of cultural commentary, with writers across the years delving into what it says about the city and its inhabitants. An entertainment lawyer who spoke to The Los Angeles Times several years ago called June 17, 1994, the day of the O.J. chase, in which broadcast networks interrupted an N.B.A. playoff game to show live footage, “the day Los Angeles stopped.”