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
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
Description: Boston College faculty and administrations enter Campion Hall to meet on the student strike.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 04/22/1970
Description: Silent footage of a rent control hearing in Cambridge. Court scenes. Spectators crowded into the balcony.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/08/1970
Description: Silent footage of a woman being treated for cancer in a large machine.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/07/1970
Description: Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm speaks to an audience about the evils of racism in America. Silent footage of the audience and of Chisholm at the podium. Chisholm continues her speech, saying that Americans need to address racism and work passed the commonly held stereotypes, following the example of the younger generations.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 04/20/1970
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
Description: Rosemarie Van Camp interviews a young man about the crowd of Students for a Democratic Society members who took over the president of a college's office. Two young men playing trumpet and saxophone. Speakers address a crowd near the Boston Common at an anti-Vietnam War demonstration. Speakers include Paul Parks, Father McMannis, and Kevin White, condemning the war. Mayor White also addresses the recent Kent State shooting and violence on other college campuses. Silent footage of the Northeastern University Law National Law Enforcement Seminar. Sound footage of hippies and other people lying about on a grass lawn listening to a musical performance.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 05/1970
Description: Press conference held by the South End Drug Committee. They are protesting Mayor Kevin White's drug program Project Turn-off, especially the housing of the program Franklin Square House. They say that this program is not serving the needs of the black community. They accuse the program of pushing methadone into the community because of incorrect distribution methods. African American man and a white clergyman from St. Stephen's address the press. They discuss a meeting the next day which will present community programs which will better serve the community. Bottles of liquid methadone.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 08/24/1970
Description: Duke Ellington playing on stage at the Marcus Garvey festival.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 08/16/1970
Description: Audience excitedly listen to Duke Ellington at the Marcus Garvey festival.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 08/16/1970
Description: South Hampton [Southampton] Street 5 alarm. Skyline view of very large fire at night. Fire fighters with hoses trying to put out fire. Shots of burning building from various angles and distances. Dark clouds of smoke. Notes from Catalog Card: "J crowley sil 150' 12/7/70? 1970?"
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/07/1970
Description: South Hampton [Southampton] Street 5 alarm. Burning building, flames coming out of a window and smoke everywhere. Fire fighters use hoses to try to put out the fire. Boston fire department fire trucks pull up to the scene. Spectators watch the fire fighters. Notes from Catalog Card: "mitchell sil '300 restored. 12/7/70? 1970?"
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/07/1970
Description: South Hampton [Southampton] Street 5 alarm. Air clip, mostly daytime aftermath footage and clips from crowley night footage of fire and fire fighters. [date on card reads "12/7/70? 1970?"]
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/07/1970
Description: Air piece on a festival held in honor of Marcus Garvey a black separatist. Reporter standup. Music and dancing. Speech by a black preacher on the importance of Marcus Garvey as an inspiration to civil rights leaders. Park dedicated to Garvey by the Boston Black United Front.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 08/16/1970
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

HUD

Description: Interview with man on the urgency of addressing housing issues. He explains what makes this federal housing program different from the previous programs, which he thinks is the incorporation of the private sector in the last phases. Silent footage of building models.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/08/1970

HUD

Description: Silent footage of a hearing about new federal housing program.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/08/1970
Description: Police cars sit outside of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries. Inside, a man sits in the Purchasing Agent booth behind a protective window. Another man sits on a bench. Another man is handcuffed and led away by police. He keeps his head down, hiding his face from the cameras.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/08/1970
Description: Air piece on women construction workers being stopped from working. Interview with a construction worker about a visit from Inspector Kelly ordering him to stop the women from working. Interview with two women construction workers, Candy and Isabel. Interview with a representative of the inspector defending the order. Reporter standup.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 08/14/1970