“I don’t think a lot about it,” Vahle added. The two journalists were shocked that the police chase became such huge news, but now rarely think of it. Tur and CBS aired the breaking footage immediately, while NBC delayed it. “Everybody at my station feels very strongly that we were actually there before Bob Tur was there, which, of course, is something we all wanted to do in that market at that point,” Vahle contended.

And we saw a white Bronco,” Tur recalled. “I looked down between my legs and down below … I could see the freeway. Tur and Vahle battled to chase after OJ during his infamous trip. The two had a laugh about the bitter fight over who was first to shoot Simpson driving on the highway with cops trailing behind. There’s a lot of physical aspects of this - the hormones, the surgery - that I wanted to talk to her about, because they weren’t portrayed the way they should be.” “And there’s not a whole lot of absolutes in this, because it varies a lot by age and how you are in general. “I felt that she’s spoke in a lot of absolutes,” Vahle said of Tur. That’s because Vahle became a woman two years before Tur and was able to guide her new friend through the emotional process. It’s very, very rough, and you need people out there who understand. “When you go through something like this, it’s like going to war. Leaving their grudges in the past, the two women bonded over their difficult sex-change journey, Tur said. “You’ve got to be f-ing kidding me!” Vahle thought. Vahle was aware of her former enemy’s transformation to Zoey after reading about it. “I said, ‘Why? Dirk Vahle is an a-hole.’ She said, ‘Because Dirk is now Dana.’” “Desiree told me I should get in touch with Dirk Vahle,” said Tur.

Tur was flying for CBS at the time Vahle was with rival NBC.īut a year ago, the two put the decades-long beef behind them after learning through a mutual pal, Desiree Horton, that they both were transgender. The newsmen - Bob Tur and Dirk Vahle - bitterly clashed in 1994 when they both captured Simpson, suspected of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, on air leading cops on a low-speed chase in his white Bronco, Southern California Public Radio reported. Two rival male news helicopter pilots embroiled in a bitter feud over OJ Simpson’s infamous car chase have bonded 20 years later - over their choice to both become women. Dana Vahle (formerly Dirk) and Zoey Tur (formerly Bob) Facebook

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