Time Capsule (1962)

Year Published: 1962

Sound: sound

Description: On November 27, 1962, a Houston branch of the All State insurance company buried a time capsule containing the predictions of more than 20,000 area students about life in 2000—the year of its planned exhumation. Reporter Lee Tucker shares a selection of the messages in this news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV. One accurately projects a metro-area population exceeding 4.5 million people. Others were not quite as prophetic, from predictions about interplanetary travel via flying saucer to the election of President Caroline Kennedy.