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Abernathy, Rev. Ralph

Description: Silent and sounds footage from a story on Ralph Abernathy and the Boston segment of the Poor People March in Washington, including an Abernathy making an address at Northeastern University and a speech at Boston Common. Additional footage includesSouthern Christian Leadership Conference members marching. People gathering supplies and boarding buses for Poor Peoples March. Man puts "I have a dream" bumper sticker on car. Interview with Mr. Frederick on the cost of Poor Peoples March. Two men fight on the street. Reporter standup. Footage of the march. Silent interviews with people on the street. Crowds boarding Greyhound buses to Resurrection city.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 05/09/1968

Kennedy, Senator Ted

Description: Sidney Farber honored by American Cancer Society - Farber, Mary Lasker, Ted Kennedy in attendance. First speaker maybe board president of ACS. Mary Lasker speaks at podium and presents Farber with ACS gold sword. Farber makes a long speech. Kennedy gets up to speak about Vietnam and is cut off"
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 07/24/1967, 11/08/1967, 12/10/1968, 09/18/1969

Rent Control

Description: Silent b-roll of rundown buildings and bad living conditions. Thomas Atkins holds a press conference. Exteriors of Boston Rehabilitation Plan Building. 154 Seaver St. Thomas Atkins walks through apartments, examining living conditions. Several takes of reporter standup on the rent strike. Cuts of Atkins and others speaking at press conference on Boston's attempts at building rehabilitation as part of a HUD program, and problems with the implementation of the program. They explain the efforts of the tenants to solve these problems, and the new tactics they are using against the officials and landlords.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/18/1969

Riots

Description: Mostly black and white footage, with some color. Shots of police responding to riots after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Police patrolling the streets, arresting men and loading them into police van. Crowd of young people calling to the camera. Fires and fire fighters with ladders, hoses, fire engines. Man on a stretcher in an ambulance. Destroyed gas pump. People sitting in at Boston public welfare office. Police officers jumping through open window. Broken storefront windows. Overturned cars. Exteriors of Boston City Hospital. Boston Police Radio Field Operations Unit. Crowd of police and army officers in a stadium. People being treated in hospital. Pedestrians. Police officers board MBTA buses en masse. Sounds comes in for a little bit halfway through the video.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 04/05/1968