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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

B.C. (Boston College)

Description: Feature on a student strike a Boston College. George Forsythe interviews students on their views about the strike and the recent strike vote.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 04/21/1970

B.C. (Boston College)

Description: Feature on a meeting between Boston College faculty and administration during a student strike. Rosemarie Van Camp interviews several men on the compromise reached during the meeting.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 04/22/1970

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

Cambridge City Council

Description: Woman speaks against the Vietnam War draft, during the Cambridge City Council draft hearing.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 02/22/1971

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

Channing, Carol

Description: Carol Channing on stage receiving the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year award. She addresses the crowd and does several humorous bits.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1971

Cushing, Richard (Cardinal)

Description: Archbishop Madeiros and other clergymen arrives at Cardinal Cushing's residence the night before the installation of Madeiros as Archbishop of Boston. Madeiros makes a speech. Reporter standup.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 10/06/1970

Demonstrators- Vietnam

Description: Reporter Vin Maloney interviews demonstrators about their Hunger and Peace demonstration during Thanksgiving week. They talk about starvation that occurs daily around the world. They also discuss the tragedy of so many American soldiers dying in Vietnam. Maloney asks if their demonstration in response to David Reed's punishment for burning his draft card. [card lists contents of cans 113061, 113131]
Collection: WHDH

Drugs

Description: A hearing with a panel of men ask another man questions about drug use, specifically speed, heroin, and LSD in the hippie movement. They ask another man questions about his personal drug use and dealing. He calls marijuana a harmless drug. They ask questions about drug trafficking in the hippie movement on the Boston Common. The man tells a story about young suburban kids coming to aggravate the hippies living on the Common, and start fights.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1968

Graham Jr. College

Description: John Henning wraps up a report at Boston University. Chet Curtis reports on the activities of some student protesters from Graham Jr. College. They beat a car with sledgehammers.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 04/22/1970

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

Krishna Consciousness

Description: Bill Zimmerman interviews a man and women about Krishna Consciousness. The man talks about how his spiritual master brought him to Krishna. The woman talks about the difference between the material world and Krishna.
Collection: WHDH

Logan Airport

Description: Simulation of pilot flying airplane and airport procedures. Sounds goes in and out. Close up on gauges. Woman and man soldering wires. formerly 1418 [can no.?]
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 04/22/1970

New Bedford

Description: Bill Zimmerman piece on a luncheon held by the town of New Bedford for the servicemen guarding the town's fishing boats. He interviews a town representative. Reporter standup in front of sailors enjoying the luncheon.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/07/1970

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

Old Age Assistance Benefits

Description: Man speaks to a legislative subcommittee about extending Old Age Assistance Benefits to cover elderly people suffering from mental illness. He discussed the matter with Senator John F. Kennedy to add the endeavor to the Senator's mental Health Program for 1960.
Collection: WHDH

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

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

Rhodes

Description: Press conference where man talks about unidentified actions of the Vice President. He recounts his discussion with the President about reading an unidentified report before taking any action, and believes that the Vice President's preemptive actions must be independent of the president.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/30/1970

Sachar, Dr. A

Description: Outtakes from an interview with Dr. Abram Sachar about leaving the presidency of Brandeis University. He answers a question about the Jewish support the school receives and contrasts that with the diversity of the school. He answers a question about the process of choosing his successor.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1967

Schools

Description: Mike Levitt interviews a couple of parents on whether they would send their kids to school if they were assigned to be bussed. Mother says she would send them to help integrate the schools. Reporter standup on children attended schools they weren't assigned to because their parents refuse to bus the.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/13/1971

St. Margaret's Rally

Description: Anti-busing rally at St. Margaret's School. Interview with clergyman on his objections to busing, which are based on the dangers of transporting the children, not the schools they are assigned to. Louise Day Hicks attends the rally.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/12/1971

Taxi Drivers

Description: Women in an office tallying the votes from the Boston Taxi Drivers Association about whether to mandate bullet proof partitions in taxi cabs. Interview with a taxi company owner on his reaction to the vote, and the reasons his drivers do not want a partition. Reporter reasks question for editing purposes.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/05/1969

Taxi Drivers

Description: Statement from and interview with representative of the Boston Taxi Drivers Association on the their opportunity to vote whether or not to mandate a bullet proof partition in taxi cabs. Reporter reasks questions for editing purposes.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/05/1969

Taxicabs

Description: Air piece on a new order requiring bullet proof partitions in taxicabs. Interviews with independent cab drivers on the pros and cons of partitions, especially for night drivers.
Collection: WHDH

UFO

Description: Interview with many people on whether or not they believe in aliens. One man recounts a UFO sighting.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 07/21/1965

United Automobile Workers

Description: Member of the United Automobile Workers speaks about the recent interactions between the UAW and the Nixon administration.
Collection: WHDH

Women's Lib

Description: Meeting of the Women's Liberation Movement at the Parker House in Boston. Woman speaking about the experience women have as mothers and housewives and the potential good that could do in the legislative arena. Mike Levitt wraps up story saying that the Women's Liberation Movement is planning a caucus and will try to support as many women's lib candidates for political office as possible.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 08/26/1971

Women's Lib

Description: The Women's Liberation Movement have invited the women of the Playboy Club (Playboy bunnies) to a conference, to clarify that their protesting of Playboy is not a protest of these women, but of the degradation of women propagated by the Playboy magazine. Rosemarie Van Camp interviews two members of the Women's Liberation Movement about their interactions with the women of the Playboy Club.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 03/28/1970

Women's Lib.

Description: Sound goes in and out. Members of the Women's Liberation Movement leave the Harvard building (888 Memorial Drive) which they took over, renaming the "Boston Women's Center." The police enter the building. Interview with a man on the state of the building after the women left.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 03/15/1971

YAF [Young Americans for Freedom]

Description: Young Americans for Freedom rally. People march carrying picket signs and American flags. An American military officer speaks to the crowd about every American's responsibility for the military officers overseas. He also asks them to support the war against North Vietnam. A young man speaks to the crowd, asking them to support bringing the troops home and better treatment for those captured in battle. Al Capp addresses the crowd, speaking the need to support captured soldiers no matter what opinion you have about the war overall.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/06/1970