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The “Alumni Who’s Who” display at L.A. school district headquarters still lists Los Angeles High grad Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. as an L.A. County assistant district attorney.

OTHER UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: Outside the criminal courthouse, one pro-Simpson spectator told a reporter that he himself had once been arrested for a murder he didn’t commit.

“I was out of the country--how could I do it?” he said. “They dropped [the murder charge] 20 days later.”

And what was his particular case?

“You know the Black Dahlia?” he asked, referring to the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short, which was never solved. “I used to go out with her.”

HEY--THOSE FEDS MOVE FAST!First, the Justice Department says it’s going to investigate the LAPD in the wake of the taped remarks of ex-cop Mark Fuhrman. Then, on Wednesday, the front door of the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration is sporting a new title: “J. Edgar Hoover Building, Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

Actually, the building’s new name was a prop for a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold, of course, fought a bad robot masquerading as an LAPD officer in “Terminator 2.”

SECONDHAND FASHION NOTE: Proving you can find almost anything in L.A., Cliff Dektar came upon a company in the Fairfax district that peddles used cowboy boots. We’d probably consider buying a pair--if we knew what they’d been used for.

THERE’S SO MUCH VARIETY ON TV: Steve Propes of Long Beach notes that at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, while much of the world was awaiting the Simpson verdict, the Arts and Entertainment network played a rerun of “The Rockford Files,” involving a former pro football star accused of murder.

ALWAYS GOOD FOR A LAUGH: Some people looking for a funny book turn to Mark Twain or James Thurber or Dave Barry. As we’ve said before, we recommend the phone directory. William Zacker of Downey, for instance, found a listing that seems directed toward those who collect bathroom fixtures for a hobby.

CANCEL OUR OLYMPICS RESERVATIONS: The L.A. County Fair sent out a news release apologizing for saying earlier that one of the fair’s attractions, railroad handcar racing, is “being introduced as an exhibition sport at the Olympic Games in the year 2000.”

The International Olympic Committee says there’s no truth to the rumor. Readers, we suspect that if enough of you railroad handcar racing fans write to the committee, it may reverse this narrow-minded position.

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High school grads on the Wall of Fame at L.A. school district headquarters include actors Alan Arkin (Franklin High), Ricardo Montalban (Fairfax), Sally Field (Birmingham), Rick Nelson (Hollywood), Alan Ladd (North Hollywood), Robert Redford (Van Nuys), Robert Young (Lincoln), Stacy Keach (Van Nuys), Jack Webb (Belmont) and Robert Stack (Los Angeles).