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The 1995 Blog Rolling out 1995 The 1995 Blog Rolling out 1995 I’ll be rolling out 1995: The Year the Future Began at an “Inside Media” program tomorrow afternoon at the Newseum, the $450 million museum of news on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. The event takes place at the Knight TV Studio at 2:30 p.m. and will represent the first public discussion of 1995 since its release a few weeks ago. The book examines a hinge moment in recent American history and devotes five chapters to separate watershed developments of 1995. The book also describes how those decisive moments still reverberate, 20 years on. Chapter One explores how 1995 was “the year of the Internet,” the year when the World Wide Web entered mainstream consciousness. Not everyone was online in 1995; but almost everyone at least had heard about the Internet. Significantly, it also was the year when now-familiar mainstays of the digital world — Amazon.com, eBay, Craigslist, and Match.com, among them — established their presence online. As an exuberant newspaper columnist wrote at the close of 1995, it was “the year the Web started changing lives.” Chapter Two examines a deepening national preoccupation with terrorism which was fueled by the massive bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, an aack that killed 168 people, including 19 children. It was, and remains, the deadliest act of domestic terror in U.S. history. Within weeks of the Oklahoma City bombing, a portion of Pennsylvania Avenue—the so-called “Main Street” of America— was closed to vehicular traffic near the White House, signaling the rise of security-related restrictions intended to thwart the terrorist threat. Such reactions and restrictions, I note in 1995, have since become more common and more intrusive. Chapter Three takes up the sensational “Trial of the Century,” when O.J. Simpson answered charges that he had slashed to death his former wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. The Simpson trial, I write, “stretched across much of the year, not unlike an indelible stain.” Simpson, a former star football player, was acquied and set free, but never won redemption of his public persona. Ironically, I note, the trial’s most tedious stretches produced its “most lasting contribution: the Simpson case introduced into popular consciousness the decisive potential of forensic DNA evidence in criminal investigations and legal proceedings.” Chapter Four revisits the U.S.-brokered peace talks that brought an end to the vicious war in Bosnia, the deadliest and most appalling conflict in Europe since the time of the Nazis. Crafting a fragile peace in the Balkans — negotiators met for three weeks at the Wright-Paerson Air Force base near Dayton, Ohio — gave rise to a sense of American hubris in foreign affairs, hubris that was tragically misapplied not many years later, following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Chapter Five recalls that 1995 brought the first of several furtive sexual encounters between President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a nominal White House intern 27 years his junior. Their intermient dalliance began in mid-November 1995, during a partial shutdown of the federal government, and erupted in January 1998 in a lurid sex scandal that rocked the U.S. government and led to the spectacle of Clinton’s impeachment, trial, and acquial on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Taken together, these major turns define a watershed year at the cusp of the millennium, a year of surpassing exceptionality. The host and interviewer of the Newseum event will be John Maynard, a former reporter for the Washington Post. WJC More from The 1995 blog: Quirkiness on New Year’s Day, 1995: ‘Far Side’ farewell, errant Clinton prediction The big gap in Monica Lewinsky’s speech The inevitability of O.J. Simpson’s acquial in 1995 So. Africa case like the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995? Only marginally Recalling the ’95 case against lecherous Bob Packwood, whom Biden praised Hype and hoopla in a watershed year: Launching Windows 95 Lesson misunderstood: NATO’s 1995 bombing in Bosnia Illuminating the Web: Netscape’s IPO of August 1995 How important was Netscape? Recalling the ‘coolness’ of the early Web Anniversaries, controversies for Amazon.com What did the ’90s mean? The ’90s deserve beer Why 1995? Talking 1995 Welcome to The 1995 blog 28 comments on “Rolling out 1995” Pingback: Media fail: A 1995 subtext that’s familiar today | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Watershed status of 1995 explored in book rollout at Newseum | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Going ‘Majic’ for a brisk radio discussion about 1995 | The 1995 Blog Pingback: ‘1995 was watershed moment in consumer technology,’ says Intel CEO | The 1995 Blog Pingback: What ‘Time’ forgot in its look back to 1995 | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Much tedium, lile drama in CNN rehash of O.J. Simpson trial | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Monica Lewinsky’s essay was solid: But award-winning? Probably not | The 1995 Blog Pingback: O.J. and DNA: Applying the ‘Page 99 Test’ to ‘1995’ | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Recalling the quaint early struggles to describe the Web | The 1995 Blog Pingback: ‘The Internet? Bah!’ Classic off-target essay appeared 20 years ago | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Clinton, his portrait, and the persistent shadow of scandal | The 1995 Blog Pingback: ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ was best ended in 1995 | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Talking Internet history, and 1995 | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Saluting the unassuming wiki, 20 years after its launch | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Terror in the heartland: Oklahoma City, April 1995 | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Media fail: The flawed early coverage of 1995 OKC bombing | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Closing off Pennsylvania Ave.: 1995 and a psychology of fear | The 1995 Blog Pingback: The ‘cyberporn’ scare of 1995: Demonstrating the early Web’s corrective power | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Prediction of the year, 1995: Internet ‘will soon go spectacularly supernova’ | The 1995 Blog Pingback: Looking back at a watershed year: 1995 in blog posts | The 1995 Blog Pingback: ‘Everything O.J. is in the zeitgeist right now’ | The 1995 Blog Pingback: ESPN’s documentary about O.J. Simpson: A dissenting view | The 1995 Blog Pingback: The ’90s: With us still | The 1995 Blog Pingback: PBS doc on OKC bombing pushes hard on vague, distant connections | The 1995 Blog Pingback: 22 years after, ‘Newsweek’ takes red pen to flawed Internet column | The 1995 Blog Pingback: While he sits in jail, O.J. Simpson has become cultural reference point | The 1995 Blog Pingback: No cause for cheer if O.J. Simpson wins parole | The 1995 Blog Pingback: O.J. Simpson wins parole, but it’s no 1995 moment | The 1995 Blog Comments are closed. This entry was posted on January 2, 2015 by W. Joseph Campbell in Amazon, Anniversaries, Bosnia, Clinton-Lewinsky, Dayton accords, Early Web, Internet, Oklahoma City bombing, Scandal, Simpson trial, Technology, Watershed year, World Wide Web and tagged 'Trial of the century', 1995, Amazon.com, Bosnia, Clinton, Dayton peace accords, Early Web, Government shutdown, hubris bubble, Internet, Lewinsky, O.J. 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