1947 Research

I spent part of the morning yesterday researching the year 1947 for a video project I'm helping write a script for. What a fascinating year: advances in microwave and transistor radio technology, female students given full student privileges at Cambridge, CIA formed, Israel granted statehood, first Dead Sea Scrolls found, Jackie Robinson's joining MLB, Hollywood 10 indicted, and so on. How very interesting is the idea that almost any year taken in isolation would seem to be so pivotal. There's a story in there somewhere. But maybe it's already been done to a certain extent in the late-80s/early 90s television show Quantum Leap. (What ever happened to Scott Bakula?) There is truly nothing new under the sun.