Description: "Leader: "F2 Columbia Pt. Renewal #7045 1/17/74"; Meeting on the Columbia Point Renewal plan. Mayor Kevin White and others speak about the proposal in front of an audience. Silent b-roll of building around Columbia point, renovation model, and the audience at the meeting."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/17/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Harrington, N.C. #9120 6/26/74"; Edward F. Harrington, Democratic nominee for State Attorney General, speaks about the need to fight organized crime (soft focus and crackle in the audio). Mayor Kevin White speaks to the press. Sign for "Attorney Harrington"; b-roll of press conference and reporter Arch McDonald."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/26/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Referendum folo 4/1/74 #7765"; Mayor Kevin White press conference regarding a political discussion over the proposed binding referendum on planned busing to achieve racial balance in the schools. Disagreement over whether the referendum is binding and if the public vote should take place."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/01/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Sumner School #7241 2/6/74; Boston school committee meeting. Silent b-roll of the meeting mixed with sound footage of comments from the audience and committee members about modifications to the racial imbalance plan. Silent footage of children leaving school; exterior of the Charles Sumner school; parents wait on the sidewalk for school to end. CU of a letter from Mayor Kevin White. More footage of the committee meeting.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/06/1974
Description: In this story on linkage, Christy George gives history of Boston development boom and affordable housing decline. She describes proposed linkage between the two in the form of taxes on new development, the proceeds of which would go toward affordable housing. Kevin White press conference. Interview with Bruce Bolling on his proposed linkage law. Interview with housing advocate Robert McKay, who is also on the committee reviewing the linkage law. There is a discussion of how exactly linkage will work. Kevin White, Ray Flynn, Larry DiCara, and Dave Finnegan all weigh in on linkage as a mayoral campaign issue.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/16/1983
Description: "Leader: "P1 Mayor White Testimonial #10806 12/19/74"; Anti-busing protest outside Mayor Kevin White's campaign kickoff dinner at the Hynes Auditorium. Protesters chant and sing. Mayor White dancing with his wife, Kathryn Galvin. Interview with White about campaign finance. Protesters boo and jeer people as they enter the fundraising event and chant "he's all done." Footage of the band and guests in thd event."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/19/1974
Description: Press conference after Suffolk County Courthouse bombing; decision to close building for safety. Talk of increased security at entrances. Also, press conference with Michael Dukakis, Frank Bellotti, Kevin White, Tom McGee, and Kevin Harrington pledging to commit all necessary resources to investigate and prosecute violent crime.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/22/1976
Description: "Leader: "9162"; Boston Mayor Kevin White and 3 other people sit in a room. White announces the Bicentennial Forum, sponsored by New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Parkman Center, which will include a variety of talks, discussions, and events that will celebrate the history of the country. White introduces the other people with him (Harold Miller and Mr. Cartier), the sponsors of the event, and they speak. White also answers questions from the press about busing."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/25/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Mattapan Revitalization #7711 3/28/74"; Mayor Kevin White in front of Alson's Men Shop; interview with merchants around Mattapan Square; footage of store fronts and traffic, people walking down the street; Mayor White speaks to a crowd about the planned revitalization of the community; Jim Boyd reporter standup about the revitalization of Mattapan Square. Outtakes include more interviews with store owners, footage of buildings and the street around Mattapan Square; Mayor White answers questions about the Racial Imbalance law."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/28/1974
Description: Special summarizing several top news stories from 1975. Topics include budget cuts, desegregation policies, Carson Beach racial violence, Mayor Kevin White's re-election, fire deaths, Mohammand Ali at Harvard, Governor Dukakis, Charlestown busing demonstrations, Susan Saxe, Dr. Kenneth Edlein. Footage includes traffic driving through flooded roads and rain, baseball, workers trying to dig out flooded drains and plow flooded roads, riots in Carson beach, police and hurt people, reporters crowding around Susan Saxe being arrested, Dr. Edelin walking through the courthouse, Muhammand Ali speaking at Harvard, stills of a man, aerial view of the countryside, shot of a city street, reporter stand-ups, shots of research equipment, prescription bottles, a welfare demonstration, Mayor White speaking, fire damaged homes, shots of politicians and personalities, a large ship, a barking dog, Princess Ann on a Horse, boxes of Coors beer, cars in the snow. Damaged mag track causes volume to drop or sound to drop out completely in sections. Edited footage, but sound and picture are separate. Mix of sound, wild sound, and silent. Slug: "1/1/75: Year Ender 1975, Taibbi for 1/1/75 air". [Airdate on slug 1975, but all of the footage is from 1975 so airdate should be 1/1/76]
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/01/1976