In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first black man to sit on the Supreme Court. Tenn. Also murdered in that turbulent decade were JFK's brother, Robert, and civil-rights activists Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. There were some good times, even in what seemed the worst of times. Richard M. Nixon narrowly defeats Hubert H. Humphrey to become President of the United States. He would not be the last chief executive to face impeachment proceedings.
Life is one crisis after another.
Yet better times were ahead. With government and experts unable to agree on potential Y2K disruptions, Americans are coping with the millennium bug in their own ways. Despite company and industry preparations for Y2K, the ripple effect could still disrupt business. Hear from the computer programmer who has warned of Y2K for years in this brief history of the Year 2000 problem.