LOS ANGELES : Time Capsule for Next Generation Is Buried
City officials and civic leaders marked the 201st anniversary of the Bill of Rights by burying a time capsule containing a yellow ribbon from the Gulf War, copies of Michael Jackson’s “Black and White” video, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and a copy of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
The capsule, scheduled to be opened in 50 years, also contains a letter of apology from President Bush for the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans, a library card, a voting ballot, a No. 2 pencil, a Vietnam War medal and newspaper accounts of the 1990 Tian An Men Square massacre in Beijing.
A 4 1/2-foot bronze sculpture of the bicentennial logo was placed over the burial site on theCity Hall lawn.
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