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Apollo 11

Description: Representative of the Boston Museum of Science interviewed about an incident the day before. The museum decided to postpone a planetarium show in order to broadcast the lunar landing. A few of the museum guest got angry. Reporter standup about the museums new exhibits related to the lunar landing.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 07/21/1969

Busing

Description: Interview with Boston School Committee Chairman John Kerrigan. Kerrigan expresses his views against busing. He discusses the states racial imbalance law. He comments on the public conflict between Commissioner Sullivan and Secretary Finch, over their views on busing.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 03/12/1969

Kerrigan, school committee man

Description: Interview with John Kerrigan, chairman of the Boston School Committee. He discusses the recent distribution of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) literature at the girls Latin and English high schools.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/18/1969

New Hampshire

Description: Air piece on a major car accident by the Bald Peak Colony Club on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Reporter standup on the number of people in the truck. Interview with witnesses. Interview with a young victim. Reporter standup on the injuries sustained by the victims.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 07/19/1969

Oil spill

Description: Cuts from a press conference with Governor Francis Sargent at Cape Cod on oil spills along the cape. Several takes of reporter standup on the damage to the wildlife in Falmouth from the recent oil spill.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/1969

Pharmacists

Description: Interview with a pharmacist on new forms that might be required for pharmacists serving customers on welfare. They discuss the possibility of the boycott. Reporter reasks questions and takes cutaways for editing purposes.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/17/1969

Political Restival on Boston Common

Description: 3rd annual Iced Tea Political Festival, a chance to meet the candidates for Boston City Council and Boston School Committee. Band performing. Campaign workers handing out informational packets. Reporter standup.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/17/1969

Quincy High School - Styles of the day

Description: Interview with representative of Quincy High School in front of the school building. He discusses the lack of a dress code at the school. Reporter standup.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/04/1969

Racial Imbalance

Description: Interview with Boston School Committee Chairman John Kerrigan. He speaks about the failings of the current busing system, especially concerning elementary school children. He talks about busing on a voluntary basis, but says that he would rather fund other School Committe projects things over any form of busing. He mentions a current bill which proposes amending the racial imbalance law where it concerns elementary school children.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 03/1969

Racial Imbalance

Description: Air piece on replacement of nine antiquated Boston schools with new facilities by 1971. Reporter standup at the John A. Andrews School in South Boston. Interview with man from the Board of Education on the new schools that will have a greater capacity, which will be opened up to non-white students, in order to help with the racial imbalance in the Boston city schools. Exteriors of a school building. African American children get off of a bus and enter school.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 07/19/1969