Becoming Berkshire: 1968 - Sun Newspaper & Blacker Printing Company

Issue 12| 1968- Berkshire Hathaway acquires Sun Newspaper and Blacker Printing Company for $626,000 and $600,000, respectively

1968 was relatively quiet for Berkshire Hathaway apart from the acquisition of Sun Newspapers; however, it was a year of turmoil and change.

As John Brooks so eloquently states in his book The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s:

It has become commonplace for social commentators to say that 1968 was the year when the f…