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Cambridge, MA

Description: Cambridge Mayor Daniel Hayes is interviewed about the presence of hippies in Cambridge. He objects to there being over 2000 hippies living in "pads" in Cambridge especially in the residential areas. He notes that since they can't afford to live in Harvard Square, they're more concentrated in the Central Square area. He defines "hippie" in his own words. Reporter
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 10/1967

Cambridge, MA

Description: Cambridge Mayor Daniel Hayes is interviewed about the presence of hippies in Cambridge. He objects to there being over 2000 hippies living in "pads" in Cambridge especially in the residential areas. He notes that since they can't afford to live in Harvard Square, they're more concentrated in the Central Square area. He defines "hippie" in his own words. Reporter Roger Goodrich reasks the questions after the interview.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 10/1967

Canham, Erwin D.

Description: Outtakes from an interview with Erwin Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor. He talks about the atomic stalemate between the United States and the Soviet Union. He credits each country's second-strike capability with preserving the peace. He mentions the Vietnam War.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1967

Christopher, Paul

Description: Cuts from a story on Wakefield High School senior, Paul Christopher, who organized an Pro-Vietnam War rally. Silent footage of people addressing crowd holding pro-Vietnam signs. Sound footage of Paul Christopher and John Volpe addressing the crowd. Silent footage of a drum corps in Revolutionary War regalia. Silent footage of Christopher at his job at a sandwich shop. Reporter standup. Silent scenes of the town. Interview with Christopher on organizing the event. He compares it to the anti-Vietnam demonstration in Washington, D.C. Reporter standup. Interview with Wakefield police chief J. Merrit Wensell on their capability to handle the huge number of people coming in for the rally. B-roll of rally. Reporter standup on success of rally. Crowd signs Star Spangled Banner. Speeches, including more of Volpe speech and speech by former Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Joseph Scerra. Scerra awards Paul Christopher a medal of merit from the VFW. Paul Christopher gets award from John Volpe in his office.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1967

Gardener, Mass.

Description: Snow on ground. Exteriors of Gardner city hall . Closeups on statues and plaques in town. Man pulls American flag up a flag pole.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1967

Hair Style

Description: Feature for the morning show. Demonstration of how to make a hairpiece.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1966...1967

Kennedy, Senator Ted

Description: Silent footage of Senator Edward Kennedy speaking while sitting at a desk with microphones in front of him. Reporter Jack Hynes taking notes
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1967

Pinderhughes, Dr.

Description: Sounds goes in and out at the beginning. Dr. Pinderhughes gives a speech to an audience. He addresses contemporary racism and its societal causes. He uses his term "body image" to explain different perceptions and projects of different types of people. He says that the Black Power Movement is providing a forceful change in white people's project of what black people are. He compared the Black Power Movement to youths rebelling against adults to assert their autonomy, which is socially accepted.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 06/18/1967

Plymouth Mail Robbery

Description: Multiple exterior shots of the homes of the defendants in the Plymouth Mail Truck Robbery. Richards home on Regatta Road. Kelly home in Watertown.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1967

Racism

Description: Compilation of stories and loose footage on the problem of racism in American and related issues. Bill Harrington 09/07/1967 air piece on the closing of two Roxbury schools, which resulted in the busing of students. Interviews with Massachusetts State Commissioner of Education Owen Kiernan and Boston Superintendent Ohrenberger. Cuts from unidentified panel discussion. Jim Pansullo 12/03/1967 air piece on anti-Semitism of Black Nationalists. He reports on a meeting of the American Jewish Congress, led by President Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld, who spoke on fighting poverty especially along racial lines. He also reports on Kenneth Clark's remarks on the tension. Series of interviews on 08/05/1967 with African American pedestrians on African American leaders and the Black Power movement, riots, and specifically Stokely Carmichael. More cuts from panel discussion. 12/14/1967 footage of Reverend James Groppi speaking at a church in Durham. N.H., on the current state of race relations in American. More cuts from panel discussion. Interview with a Richard Hatcher, the first African American mayor of Gary, Indiana, on metropolitan race relations.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1967