1996
DECEMBER
December 20, 1996
Universal Mind: Carl Sagan
A remembrance of Carl Sagan, astronomer, writer, and national teacher of science.

December 9, 1996
Mary Leakey: Fossil Hunter
Mary Leakey, the legendary anthropologist, died. She was 83. Though she let her husband, Louis Leakey, take most of the limelight, she was responsible for some of the most important discoveries in the study of human evolution.

NOVEMBER
November 14, 1996
Cardinal Bernadin
The beloved Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernardin passed away Thurday morning following a public fight with cancer. The Cardinal was an influential and moderate force in the Church, and in secular circles as well.

SEPTEMBER
September 18, 1996
Remembering Spiro Agnew
Spiro Agnew, vice president from 1969 through 1973, died Tuesday in a hospital in his home state of Maryland. The controversial conservative resigned from the Nixon administration under a flurry of charges.

September 10, 1996
Remembering Bill Monroe
The Kentucky born "Father of Bluegrass" music died Monday at the age of 84. Singer and instrumentalist Bill Monroe introduced the world to what are now familiar sounds to many of us, in 1938.

JULY
July 15, 1996
John Chancellor
The NBC reporter, anchorman and commentator John Chancellor died Friday night at the age of 68.

JUNE
June 17, 1996
The Way You Sang Your Song
Ella Fitzgerald, the woman known as the "First Lady of Song," died Saturday at age 79 after a long illness. The virtuoso influenced American music for almost six decades.

MAY
May 31, 1996
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary died peacefully at the age of 75. Best known as a 1960's guru of LSD and expanded consciousness, Leary made the line "tune in, turn on and drop out" a catch phrase for the baby-boom generation.

May 17, 1996
Boorda's Navy
The death of Admiral Jeremy Boorda Thursday dealt yet another blow to the beleaguered U.S. Navy. The service experienced a series of public embarassments and scandals in the past few years that Boorda had sought to correct.

APRIL
April 30, 1996
"Warrior Priest"
Three days of searching has yet to provide an answer to the mysterious disappearance of William Colby, the former director of Central Intelligence. He is now presumed dead from a boating accident.

April 19, 1996
A Time For Healing
On the first anniversary of the explosion at the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168, ceremonies throughout the city attempted to heal some of the psychological wounds from the bombing.

April 19, 1996
One Year Later
It was a day of remembering in Oklahoma City and around the nation. Betty Ann Bowser reports on the mood and the ceremonies at the site and around the city one year later.

April 18, 1996
Coming To Terms
Betty Ann Bowser reports with an update from Oklahoma City, where people are preparing to observe a painful anniversary on April 19th.

April 10, 1996
Remembering James Rouse
Remembering the life and achievements of James Rouse, revolutionary urban planner and developer.

April 4, 1996
Unfinished Mission
A report on the Ron Brown story. There were more details released about Wednesday's plane crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia, and more reaction to the deaths of the Commerce Secretary and the 34 people on his plane.

MARCH
March 27, 1996
David Packard
A look back at the life of computer industry pionneer and mogul David Packard. The co-founder of Hewlett-Packard died Tuesday.

March 26, 1996
Remembering Ed Muskie
Politician Edmund Muskie who died Tuesday at the age of 81. The former Maine governor and Senator, secretary of state and presidential candidate, died in a hospital in Washington, D.C. after a heart attack.

JANUARY
January 29, 1996
Remembering A Poet
Joseph Brodsky emigrated to the United States after being expelled from his native Russia in 1972. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991. His books of poetry include "A Part of Speech" (1977) and "To Urania" (1988), both published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

January 17, 1996
"The First And Only"
The NewsHour remembers world class politician and noted spokeswoman, Texas' Barbara Jordan, who died of pneumonia at 59 years old.

January 8, 1996
Remembering Francois Mitterrand
Francois Mitterrand's political career spanned half a century, and his 14 years as president made him France's longest serving leader since Napoleon III. Peter Morgan of Independent Television News remembers Mitterrand just after his death.

January 8, 1996
Francois Mitterrand
Senior foreign correspondent and syndicated columnist Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post reflects on the life of Francois Mitterrand.