Berners-Lee is the current director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the continued development of the Internet. In 2009, he founded the World Wide Web Foundation, an organization that works to make the web a safe, accessible, and empowering tool for the good of humanity.
Watergate Scandal (1972)
On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate complex located in Washington, D.C. Although Richard Nixon won the election five months later, the FBI determined that all five men had links to the White House. It was then revealed that the men were members of the Committee to Re-elect the President—or CREEP.
Nixon claimed that the White House had nothing to do with the break-in, but behind the scenes, he was involved in a massive cover-up; his campaign spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy the burglars' silence. Nixon resigned in 1974, delivering a live speech from the Oval Office.
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. Both the King family and others believe that the assassination was plotted by the U.S. government, the mafia, and the Memphis police.
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