Eyewitness accounts:  1968 - 2000

Historical snippets from the first and last years of this eyewitness period...

1968:  North Korea seizes USS Pueblo. North Vietnamese launch Tet Offensive. 347 My Lai civilians massacred. Russians invade Czechoslovakia. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated. Helen Keller and John Steinbeck die. 60 Minutes airs on CBS. Hair opens on Broadway. Apollo 8 orbits moon.

2000:  Concorde crashes near Paris. Intifada sparked by Ariel Sharon's visit to al-Aqsa. Milosvec overthrown in Yugoslavia. USS Cole attacked in Yemen. George Bush becomes president after US Supreme Court ends Florida recount. Charles Schulz dies. Elián González returned to Cuban father.