this is "through the decades," a unique hour-long time capsule. we're looking back at the week in review. we go back to the trial that brought down a christian empire. "and so ended a fall from power and high living that began with the revelation of a brief sexual encounter ..." and we remeber the day a fairy tale came to a violent end "i feel like everyone else in devastated." plus the start of a company that would redefine how we search "the name was supposed to be googol which is the mathematical term for a one ..." those stories and more in a different kind of television experience, where we relive, remember and relate to the

events and experiences that are cemented in history i'm ellee pai hong. and i'm kerry sayers. and i'm your host, bill kurtis. this is "through the decades." as we turn the lens of time back "through the decades" there are some events that stand out. this week has seen a number of technical innovations that would reshape our world, the fall of an empire built on faith and money and the death of a princess. "through the decades" we begin with a company that internet - google. it has expanded its reach far beyond its initial introduction, a search engine that was officially incorporated in september of 1998. while today it simply indulges after. "the name was supposed to be googol which is the mathematical term for a one followed by a hundred zeroes."

used to describe unimaginablequantities, though mathematically it was the inspiration to what would become the world's most used search engine google; a domain that was officially incorporated in menlo 1998. "google began here at stanford university." larry page and sergey brin, the founders of google met at stanford university in 1995. in march the following year, the two collaborated on a research project funded by the national science foundation. their goal was to develop a universal digital library. "myself and my partner larry, we were just doing research in managing large amounts of information which is called data mining which is finding patterns. eventually we turn to the world wide web which is most of human knowledge in a very heterogeneous dispersed form."

and it led to "backrub," a search engine that uses back- links to determine a website's relevance. it operated on stanford servers for more than a year until its bandwidth usage cost too much so page and brin moved backrub's algortihm off campus. "so, we found a place with some extra space and moved in and worked in the garage like a good silicon valley startup should do." inside susan wojcicki's garage "so, we decide we'd just rent it out to a student and we thought, well they'll just be there during the day when we're at work and we won't notice but they were actually there 24 hours a day but in the end it worked out well because we got free high-speed internet access at the same time." page, brin and silverstein built google. they renamed the "backrub" algorithm to "page-rank" after its founder.

the site was incorporated on this day in '98 and was registered as a domain eleven days later. "in just a few years, those three guys in a garage grew into this, a company of a 1000 employees worldwide, taking in a billion dollars a year, headquartered at a silicon valley campus called the googleplex." google went public in august, 2004 and shares sold at $84.00 a piece measuring the company's worth at 23-billion dollars, in a garage. today google has expanded its reach and in 2015, page and brin created an umbrella company called "alphabet" to handle the various projects-- all living up to the idea derived from a single search. there are countless pioneers that have contributed to world wide web we know today but

there had to be a first that moment where the network awakened. it came in september of 1969 in a third story lab on the campus of u.c.l.a. when two massive machines helped initiate the information age. "there are many indications that data processing systems have permeated our society." it was true in the 1960s as it is today. the difference now is that data processing systems or computers can be used to communicate with world. it's an idea that began with this - a diagram depicting a information. and what started as a test on september 2, 1969, suddenly made the potential of computer science seem endless. almost at the same time after man first walked on the moon

"that's one small step for man." machinetook a small step towards a future of connectivity. working off a million dollar grant from the pentagon's "advanced research projects agency" or "arpa" researchers at u.c.l.a. were charged with coming up with a way for computers in separate locations to share information. "the computer technology has been moving in a way that nothing else people have ever known has moved" led by engineer and researcher leonard kleinrock, the team at u.c.l.a. had to forklift this massive mainframe to their third floor laboratory. the interface message processor or "imp" would be the first of what would become many communications points of the early internet. a network known as "arpa-net" for the government agency that had secured grant money to make it a reality. computer companies of the time like i.b.m. had worried about the profitability of a large-

scale network which is why arpa was given government money to give it a try. the defense department felt it would give it a leg up in the cold war era. "when we worked on the arpanet we did so, in part, because we knew it would help in the long run, the military command and control systems. but we also did it because, in part, it helped scientists do science better and so it came to be." on september 2, 1969, the u.c.l.a. team hooked up a crude patch cable and transferred information between a pair of computers in the lab proving, on a small scale, the communication network could work. "arpa-net" expanded weeks later when u.c.l.a. researchers exchanged a message with

colleagues at stanford, what hoped to read "login" never got that far as the system shut down after the "l" and the "o." but the stage was set for other pioneers in the field to continue to advance the technology. the internet's first breaths came from a machine that looked more like a refrigerator than a computer. but it's not the size of the machine that counts, it's what it can do. and ucla's "imp" gave birth to what became the internet; an invaluable tool dreamt up in the '60s of the 21st century. international collaboration that resulted in one of mankind's greatest achievements.

it's still ahead on "through the decades." for 40 years, space was the site of one of the greatest technological contests - russia versus the united states. a rivalry that fostered some of man's most incredible advances but in september of 1993the old competitors put aside their battle and decided to join forces to assemble what would become the international space station. "mr. prime minister and distinguished guests. it is a great pleasure to announce to you today the signing of several important agreements between the united states and russia." from opponents to partners, enemies to friends, september 2, 1993, would witness a transformation in intergalactic relations

that not even half a century earlier seemed impossible. the space race was over. "it is time to leave behind the vestiges of the cold war and reach for a new partnership between the united states and russia." "nothing pleases me more however than the results we already see emerging especially the agreements on space cooperation that we are signing here today. everyone remembers the great firsts that each of our space programs have achieved." "as the crowds go wild over the first man to conquer space, major gargarin's initial function is a long red-carpeted walk to the platform where khrushchev greets him." "ok, neil we can see you coming down the ladder now."

after outdoing one another for decades, the world's two most accomplished space programs were teaming up to complete something once only imagined in science fiction. "the united states and russia have agreed in principle to join forces in building a manned space station. the agreement was signed in washington by vice president al gore and the visiting russian prime minister. it's hoped the joint station project will save both money and time but critics question whether russia can live up to its end of the deal and fear it will cost american jobs." "turning 40 years of competition into a future of cooperation is no easy task." russia and the u.s. began to

test the strength of that cooperation two years later. russian speaking "houston atlantis we have capture" "copy capture." in june, 1995, nasa's space shuttle atlantis docked with the russian space station "mir." the shuttle-mir program would be considered "phase one" of a new intergalactic alliance. there would be a total of eleven missions all leading up to "phase two," the construction of the international space station. "if it is our destiny to explore, which i believe it is, than the international space station is the next step." that next step was remarkably ambitious. an endeavor whose complexity knew no comparison. something that wasn't lost on anybody and certainly not by some members of the united states congress. "i've been informed today that the director of the russian space agency said that the russian government isn't going to provide rsa with any money until november or december, which is a long time from now and the rsa needs between 50 and 100 million american dollars by the end of september to stay on schedule. now, that isn't in your budget submission."

"the amount of money necessary to get the service module finished is in the tens of millions of dollars, not the hundreds of millions of dollars and the decision is does the russian government put it in or do we work with the russian government in corporate resources to get us over the finish line. i think that would be the proper approach." "i think we're always going to face this issue where one of the countries has a little bit of trouble getting exactly the money they need and together we have to manage that which is unusual for nasa. usually, we get a budget we manage that ourselves and we know how we can control all that. when you get another government, that you have no control over directly, it adds more variables to an already complex problem." but the spirit of cooperation pledged on september 2, 1993, would overcome and the first piece of the space was launched onboard a russian proton rocket in november, 1998. "main engines start, six engines up and running ... and

lift off, lift off of the proton rocket and the zarya control module. the international space station is underway." the americans would follow two weeks later. "i got to say we are really excited about this mission coming up. after a lot of years of training and a long wait for a lot of folks, we're going to start building an international space station." the space shuttle endeavor carried the "unity" module ever since. 248 miles above earth, the international space station circles the globe at seventeen and half thousand miles an hour. a hub for the next era of space exploration and most importantly, a testament to the kinds of accomplishments afforded by collaboration. still ahead, the aircraft that

held the public's imagination and became the stuff of legend. the introduction of a new change the world of banking and a princess beloved around death.

now we head back to 1991 as the jeffery dahmer case had cbs serial killer. "in milwaukee, confessed serial killer jeffery dahmer was hit with three more homicide charges today. that's 15 so far. cases such as dahmer's are at the same time terrifying and fascinating. bob faw reports tonight's 'eye on america.' who are these people who kill and kill and kill again?" "look at or listen to him and he's the boy next door. look and listen closely though and you'll find america's worst serial killer."

"when i was unhappy i killed people. when i was happy, i didn't kill nobody." "donald harvey, unfailing polite and gentle, remembered by his elementary school teacher as a precious little boy, was convicted of murdering 37 people. he also, he says killed almost 50 more." "once i killed the first one and the second one, i don't think there was any stopping." "i never once had any guilt. never once shed any tears. i was like sherman going through atlanta. destroy everything in my path and that's what i did." "almost without exception, serial killers held down jobs and fit in. privately though, they are tormented often having been sexually abused as children." "most of these serial killers have an obsessive need for dominance, control, power. they know what they're doing is wrong but they do it anyway. they simply don't care about human life."

faster, higher, farther: a simple request from the cia during the cold war. it's what the agency needed from its next generation of reconaissance aircraft. what america got was the sr-71 blackbird. a supersonic machine that would fly faster than any other manned aircraft ever created in september of1974. (takeoff) nearly two decades after its final flight. this sleek, intimidating aircraft sits unused despite its unmatched potential. the s-r-71 blackbird is the fastest manned jet in the world and earned that title by skipping across the atlantic in unheard of time. but the blackbird wasn't just fast to set records it had to

be to collect much needed intelligence while staying out of harms way. "the sr-71, a long-range, supersonic, reconnaissance craft with the most advanced observation equipment in the world." "then khrushchev's shocking announcement: a united states air force plane shot down on russian soil. reportedly, an ultra-secret high altitude reconnaissance craft." even before the soviets shot down a u-2 spy plane in 1960, the cia wanted to advance the country's aerial reconnaissance capabilities. by 1968, the upgrade was ready and the sr-71 came out of the over vietnam. unlike previous spy planes, the u.s. and president johnson publicly acknowledged the existence of the blackbird. that could have been in part because of the political embarrassment president eisenhower dealt with following the u-2 incident in 1960. either way, it allowed the u-s to put the sr-71's capabilities on display for the world to see on september 1, 1974.

the show, is the arrival of the american spy plane, sr-71 after an incredible trans-atlantic flight of one hour 55 minutes, nearly twice as fast as concorde" in less than a third of the time it takes a commercial flight, the blackbird sped across the atlantic from new york to london in just under two hours. it also cruises at altitudes up to 85,000 feet. (landing sounds) when it touched down in london on september 1, the blackbird and its pilots became the stars of the farnborough air show. "it's congratulations to major james sullivan and major noel widdifield as they descend like spacemen from their blackbird

after their record-shattering flight." just two weeks later, the blackbird set another record soaring from london to los angeles in under four hours. both records still stand today, years after the blackbird's final flight in october of 1999. the trag accident that robbed the world of its most popular princess and a religious empire shrouded in scandal comes crashing down it's all still ahead on "through the decades."

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today, atm's are just a given in our everyday lives and they've been operating in the states since september, 1969 when the first automatic teller machine opened for business outsidea bank in new york. on september 2,ur bank will open at 9 and neverclose again! preparing for the debut of the first automatic teller machine or atm as we know it today, chemical bank in rockville

center, new york posted that advertisement outside their bank in 1969. opening the first of many machines that revolutionized the banking industry. as the story goes, a year earlier, don wetzel, an executive at a tech company in dallas, was waiting in line at a bank when the idea of a machine that could dispense cash or take deposits came into mind. over the next year, wetzel and a team of engineers created a machine that recorded transactions dispensed money and designed an "atm card" that stored data. chemical bank bought on to the idea opening the first in '69 which at the time could onlygive out money and was limited to chemical bank customers. within a few years, the atm's functions expanded and it could relay customer account balances. despite the high cost of atm's at the time, other banks soon followed chemical's leading installation and atm's started

popping up outside banks across the country. today, they're everywhere. nearly half a million are scattered across the country operating in restaurants, on street corners and inside stadiums and each are linked to the very first atm that opened business outside a bank on september 2, 1969. now a "through the decades" moment in time from the summer of 1955... "toys to banish those hot weather blues, to delight the hearts of youngsters ... " . "so, the newest models shown at the 9th annual toy review in manhattan find a ready and appreciative audience of all ages." "one of the show stoppers is a

controls. for good measure, you can land anywhere in the country - philadelphia for instance. we begin with a woman whose legacy is one of elegance, caring, and conflict. becoming a british royal, propelled diana spencer into a public life she may not have been ready for but she adapted and harnessed that publicity for good, endearing herself to great britain and beyond. unfortunately popularity can have a price and this week in1997, it contributed to the death of england's beloved princess. "everybody looked up to her. everybody admired her. she was just a great woman." diana spencer. the princess of wales. lady di . whatever name she went by, princess diana was beloved in near ly every corner of the globe.

which is why when she died august 31, 1997, millions around the world felt they had lost one of their own. "indeed the sun peaked through the clouds this morning as the royal family prepared to leave buckingham palace for the wedding of prince charles and lady diana spencer." diana spencer became the princess of wales in june of 1981. she was just 19, 13 years younger than prince charles the day they were married in st. paul's cathedral. charles was heir to the throne making diana the future queen of england. it was an occasion millions wouldn't dare miss. "why did you want to come out and be here in person?" "to see lady diana." "she made a beautiful bride. fairy princess." "everyone feels it's a true love match and so they will live happily ever after. of course, the future king of england can't divorce, in any

case, he's the head of the established church and how who would decide who gets custody of australia or something like that. it'd be very, very problematical indeed." less than a year after the wedding, diana was a mother to a prince. "her royal highness princess of wales diana has given birth to a baby son. god save the queen." (cheers) "it's a prince. a seven pound one and a half ounce boy born late today to prince charles diana." but by the time she had her second son cracks in her to circle. "the princess of wales felt somewhat humiliated and rather angry that the prince of wales chose to spend so much of his time when he was recuperating from his polo injury, you may remember last autumn, in the company of camilla parker- bowles." by the early '90s the royal couple began to spend more time apart. the gossip was so juicy, tabloids knew they could push diana-charles rumor.

"mom! mommmm!" behind closed doors, it wore on the princess who, according to her 1992 biography, struggled with an eating disorder and even attempted suicide. but she never let her personal struggles detract from her humanitarian work. she led anti-landmine campaigns in places like angola and bosnia and became the first public figure to be photographed touching an aids patient. because the media covered her every move, diana's work brought much needed attention to causes that may have not otherwise received it. after years living apart, diana and charles officially divorced in august of 1996. the princess had been seeing mohammed al-fayed or "dodi" to his friends. he was a millionaire movie producer

and son of the founder of english department store "harrod's." just before that fateful night in 1997, diana took a vacation with dodi in southern france. and like most of her adult life, the paparazzi hovered around her every move. they eventually followed her to paris, the last city the world- traveling princess would ever visit. minutes after midnight on august 31, 1997, a car carrying diana and dodi crashed in tunnel along the river seine . the crash was so violent, the car's radiator smashed into the front passenger seat. diana, dodi, and the driver also were killed but a fourth passenger survived. news quickly spread as the western world woke up that final day in august.

it was apparent from the beginning both speed and the paparazzi played a part in the crash that took diana's life. mourners around the world had someone to blame. "you, you the press that killed her. you're the scum (claps)" "if they're really mad at the paparazzi, don't buy the tabloids, just don't buy 'em." "i feel like everyone else in this country today. utterly devastated. our thoughts and prayers are with princess diana's family. particularly her two sons, the two boys. our hearts go out to them. we are today a nation in britain in a state of shock, in mourning, in grief that is so deeply painful for us. she was a wonderful and a warm human being. though her own life was often sadly touched by tragedy she touched

the lives of so many others in britain and throughout the world with joy and with comfort." diana's body returned to england a day later draped in the royal standard. her loss struck such a nerve that it all had 'the guardian' comparing her death years prior. diana was a stunning princess, a compassionate humanitarian and caring mother of two. "she was very personal and she was always doing something that was just for you. it didn't matter how many people were gathered around." but on august 31, 1997, princess diana was dead at the age 36.

still ahead, history is made when a civil rights champion sits among our nation's most powerful defenders of justice. and when scandal rocked the most famous religious figure on televsion and turned him into

a now a "through the decades"

moment in time from august of 1967 as cbs news' harry reasoner covers san francisco's growing hippie movementincluding a little band called "the grateful dead." "the aggressive determination of hippies to start a new society has made its mark upon san francisco's haight-ashbury. part of the neighborhood is occupied by ordinary people bewildered by what is going on. part of it is occupied by a growing population of hippies. there are a lot of for sale signs in haight-ashbury. there are a lot more houses being occupied by hippies. the hippies are capable of extremely hard work even though they tend to approach work as the rest of us do sport. some of them are very successful. they live together comfortably in what could be called affluence. there are many other similar houses or apartments in haight-ashbury maintained by hippies who work in places where employers do

not mind bizarre dress or long hair. their concept of a new style of life unites them and that concept is in most cases drawn from the drug experience. the grateful dead themselves acknowledge they have used lsd. warren wallace asked them what they thought the hippie movement was trying to accomplish." "what we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. we're not thinking about anything else. we're not thinking about any kind of power. we're not thinking about any of those kinds of struggles. we're not thinking of revolution or war or any of that. that's not what we want. nobody wants to get hurt. nobody wants to hurt anybody. we would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life. a simple life. a good life. you know and like think about moving the whole human race ahead a step or a few steps." "or a half a step or anything." "so at least it's not going around in circles like it is now." "do you think that your movement or your idea, the hippie idea, is essentially

connected up with drugs?" "yeah, i would say that that's a large part of the framework." "i think most of the people who are hippies now came to it through drugs." "yeah, but it's not a dope movement. we're not trying to spread dope." "i think, personally that the more people turn on the better world it's going to be." "we were talking before about a way of being and one of the ways of achieving that being is through drugs. expanding your consciousness. changing yourself." "yeah but most of us have given up the psychedelic drugs anyway, yeah right, well we've learned something from them and now we're kind of playing around with that knowledge. "what did you learn?" "well, you can point out the example that the people that live in the community and you know play around with dope and stuff like that, they don't have wars you know and they don't have a lot of the problems that the larger society has." "in essence, the scene has grown up with us and we have grown up with the scene. we've

all grown up together and uh, we feel more like children than ever." "right, cause we know what we're trying to do. we're trying to grow up." (laughter) he was a civil rights crusader who thrashed the legality of segregation. a master litigator whose exploits for the sake of equality would lead him to the highest court in the land. in september of 1967, thurgood marshall took the oath of office to become the supreme justice. thurgood marshall's road to the supreme court was forced to weave along the lines of racial segregation. he began his career as an attorney for the n.a.a.c.p. where the courts became his battleground. his legal confrontations chipped away at jim crow laws throughout the forties and fifties claiming a landmark victory in

1954 - brown v. board of education. marshall successfully argued against segregation in public schools. a key turning point for the american civil rights movement which would erupt almost immediately following. "little rock arkansas and the first phase of the trouble, the white population are determined to prevent colored students from going to the school where their own children attend picketing the school they clash with the police." throughout the fifties, brown v. board of education would be challenged throughout the south but marshall was always there to push back. "it would seem to me that neither the school board of little rock nor the govern of arkansas nor anyone else can find any legitimate excuse for saying they don't understand what the law is." "it's crystal clear now and any action on the part of any official in arkansas or any private individual to oppose

desegregation of the schools of little rock is deliberately a calculated violation of the law that is now clear." marshall would serve the n.a.a.c.p. until 1961 when president kennedy appointed him as a federal judge though it would take eight months before the senate confirmed him. "well i, uh he had told me about theote and told him i knew about it and i asked him to express to the president my appreciation for the interim appointment and this appointment and the confirmation by the senate." from there, marshall's ascension to the supreme court would be swift. in 1965, he was appointed as the first black u.s. solicitor general. "he represented his clients, not as negroes whose cases were

special and different but he represented them as americans with the same rights and the same responsibilities that the constitution is supposed to give to every citizen." "is there anything you can think of in your mind or in your disposition to prevent you from acting fairly and effectively and efficiently for the united states government in this position?" "not at all sir. i believe that, oh i'm certain that, there's no possible reason that i could have to not adequately represent this government which is after all my government, just as it is all of our government." "you have the qualifications that are needed. you are a lawyer . i have seen you in action. you're the kind that can serve the people of this nation and i welcome you on that place." two years later, marshall would make history again named as the supreme court's ninety sixth justice and first ever african-american

to serve on the bench of the nation's highest court. "he's best qualified by training and very valuable service to the country. i believe it's the right thing to do. the right time to do it. the right man. the right place." marshall took the oath of office on september 1, 1967. the beginning of a 24 year tenure that would only build on a legacy that was so pivotal to growth and progress of the united states. preaching his message directly into american homes through the t.v. screen, the bakkers were among the most america.. until sex, booze and fraud down around them. the decades."

they inspired millions by spreading the gospel. televangelist jim bakker and his wife tammy faye turned their p.t.l. show into a christian empire complete with a huge theme park. but in the late '80s, his sex, lies and money scandal would lead to federal fraud charges and on august 31,1989, in the middle of his trial, the preacher had a breakdown. "a sobbing, disheveled jim bakker muttering, 'please don't do this to me' was ordered to

undergo psychiatric testing today after his attorney said he was suffering hallucinations and severe depression." "the startling development came after bakker's attorneys told federal judge robert potter the p.t.l. was no longer rational and needed immediate medical help. psychiatrist basil jackson whose been treating bakker for nine months testified he found bakker this morning, lying in a fetal position with the judge refused a defen motion that bakker be admitted to a private hospital and ordered him sent to a federal evaluation." "tammy bakker says her husband's ordeal has left him a broken man." "we have been under emotional stress for two and a half years and we've been holding steady for two and a half years and i

steady anymore." "but many of the spectators who have followed the bizarre four breakdown." "i don't care what they say. nothing wrong with him in my opinion. he's sane." "it's all a sham." just days before, a confident and smiling jim bakker showed no signs of distreess as his trial began. "in opening arguments, prosecutor jerry miller portrayed bakker as a greedy money hungry showman who religion." "miller told jurors bakker enjoyed a life of excess spending $100,000 in ministry money to charter a jet just to take his clothes to california." "miller also said bakker kept $100 worth of cinnamon rolls in his room just because he lik the smell."

the case centered on bakker's sale of $1000 lifetime memberships which entitled contributors to three days of lodging a year at his heritage usa retreat. prosectors claim those rooms were overbooked or never built and instead, bakker pocketed the money for his own gain. but before his guilt could be judged, the court had to determine whether bakker was legally competent to stand trial. "a pale, disheveled jim bakker still in handcuffs and leg irons returned to the federal court house after spending nearly a week in a government psychiatric hospital for evaluation." "inse the courtroom, the hospital's chief psychiatrist said bakker was not mentally ill but had suffered a panic attack last week brought on by extreme anxiety and stress. she said tests revealed the televangelist has a mild personality disorder but is competent to stand trial." "when court recessed, bakker turned to his wife tammy and said, "everybody thought i was crazy except for the doctors at the insane asylum." "tammy bakker who said yesterday her husband had been manhandled in custody today said she was relieved he was out of the hospital but refused to talk about his condition, "i'm too hungry, guys."

"how do you feel mr. bakker?" "i'm glad to be out of where i was." the trial resumed. "after a trial that lasted five weeks. after the defendant reportedly hallucinated and saw giant ants in the courthouse. after testimony that told of high living and hi jinx, the verdict was finally in today on television preacher, jim bakker. the verdict was guilty 24 times all counts." "jim bakker faces a long prison term to pay for his sins. judgment day brought a guilty verdict on all 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy but the television evangelist refuses to concede guilt." "i went into the courtroom innocent of the charges against me and i come out today still innocent of the charges against me." "the jurors, all active church members, took just 10 hours to reach their verdict. judge robert potter delivered the decision saying simply, guilty on all counts. there was no reaction from bakker. his wife tammy wiped away the tears. jurors said they saw bakker as

a man of god who became corrupt, trapped by greed." then, came the punishment. "almost half a century in prison, a half a million dollars in fines. that was the sentence handed down today upon television evangelist jim bakker convicted of fraud and conspiracy and so ended a fall from power and high living that began with the revelation of a brief, sexual encounter with a young church secretary." "in the hearing, prosecutors asked for a long sentence calling the television evangelist a liar, a con man who fleeced his followers out of $158 million in a classic pyramid scheme." "judge robert potter asked bakker if he had anything to say. bakker stood and said , 'i want to say i am deeply sorry for those i hurt. i have sinned but never in my life did i intend to defraud.'" bakker had a chance for some of his prayers to be answered at his appeal two years later.

"it was far from what he had hoped the day would bring. reverend jim bakker was sent back to prison with a stiff sentence of 18 years. his attorneys had hoped for much less but said bakker took it calmly." "and he wanted me to express to all of you that his faith in the lord is still just as strong as it's ever been." "his wife tammy faye broke into deep sobs in the courtroom when the sentence was read but later before reporters spoke quietly." "i'm understandably very sad today." bakker served four years. while in prison, tammy faye filed for divorce. she died in 2007. jim, and his second wife lori have hosted a daily christian talk show since 2003.

our journey continues monday.

we take you back to the summer of 1998 when the home run race took centerstage. the start to two weeks of high- risk diplomacy that ended in a historic achievement. and the drive by shooting that led to the death of a rapper whose murder remains shrouded in mystery. that'll do it for us today. i'm bill kurtis. as we leave, one last look back at this week, "through the decades."