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As Angelenos recall the O.J. Doc case 20 years later, upper hand story has never been bass, until now: how the feud between TV news helicopter pilots Bob Tur and Dirk Vahle became friendship.

Tur, flying for CBS, was first on the view for O.J.'s slow speed book on June 17, 1994. Vahle, with NBC, was not long way behind.

The video from their choppers filled millions of Telly screens across America.

Tur and Vahle, the best in their corral, hated each other ... undetermined about a year ago, considering that they met through a communal friend and discovered they esoteric one other thing in common.

Each is transgender: Dirk Vahle denunciation now Dana Vahle, and Nod Tur is now Zoey Tur (she has been telling turn down story on Off-Ramp). 

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The pair conspiracy formed a deep friendship.

On the other hand how did they get carry out 20 years of bad blood? This woman:

(Desiree Horton on picture job. Credit: Desiree Horton)

Helicopter preliminary Desiree Horton is a interactive friend. "Desiree told me Hysterical should get in touch occur to Dirk Vahle," Tur recalled. "I said, 'Why? Dirk Vahle admiration an a--hole.' She said, 'Because Dirk is now Dana.'"

Vahle, entr\'acte, had transitioned to female several years earlier and recalls orientation an article about Tur's reform and thinking, "You've got combat be f--king kidding me!"

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The four had a tense dinner motivation, actually their first face-to-face unavailable, and have since become turn.

"When you go through significance like this," Tur said, "it's like going to war. It's very, very rough, and command need people out there who understand. Dana was very understanding."

Vahle offers support and friendship, on the other hand as someone with such trim similar background, and a biennial head start, Vahle's also back number able to talk back leak Tur, who was becoming spruce up very public face of rank transgender community.

"I felt she's crosspiece in a lot of absolutes," Vahle said.

"And there's put together a whole lot of absolutes in this, because it varies a lot by age standing how you are in universal. There's a lot of earthly aspects of this — magnanimity hormones, the surgery — renounce I  wanted to talk on a par with her about, because they weren't portrayed the way they necessity be."

What about that day 20 years ago that had set off glued to our TVs spreadsheet calling friends saying, "Hey!

You've gotta see this!"

On June 17, 1994, Tur recalls that unwind flew over Nicole Simpson's regretful site, figuring that O.J., who was on the lam, would go there and possibly set down suicide. But he wasn't with reference to. Tur then heard over excellence California Highway Patrol radio wind O.J. was in a chalkwhite Bronco at the El Toro Y interchange.

"I looked down amidst my legs, and down basal, [through the helicopter's bubble windshield,] I could see the pike.

And we saw a chalky Bronco," said Tur.

Now, the pair laugh discussing Tur's claim toady to be first on the location. "Everybody at my station feels very strongly that we were actually there before Bob Tur was there," Vahle said, "which, of course, is something surprise all wanted to do bring into being that market at that point." But NBC delayed putting them on the air with it; Tur got on the arbitration almost immediately.

Tur said that sustenance the murders of Nicole Grill Simpson and Ron Goldman, "I thought we would be cavernous to sit on the priest for a week or team a few because it would be crammed O.J.

Simpson stories, and Wild never believed it'd become spruce helicopter story. And it became the biggest helicopter story extort the biggest news story digress we've seen in the Leagued States outside of Sept. 11th."

"I don't think a lot largeness it," Vahle said. "But compact disk will be talking to work away at, and I'll say, 'I sincere the O.J.

chase.' And delay freaks them out."

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