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
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
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
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
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
Description: Rosemarie Van Camp interviews with cab drivers on a new order requiring bullet proof partitions in cabs. They discuss potential benefits and challenges and compare day and night drivers. A few cab drivers discuss trouble they've had in the past.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 03/12/1969
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
Description: Sound goes in and out. Footage of a meeting of the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Heated argument between Mr. Ashe and Mr. Kiley. Other members speak. During the meeting, a member of the public housing tenants community makes a speech, and other tenants sit-in and demand the resignation of the chairman. Another man gives a speech for the rights of the tenants to a large audience. Mostly demolished building. Interview with a man on the tenants movement against the BRA, particularly the Tent City protest. Bishop Stokes of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts presents a check for $10,000 to the leaders of the tenants movement. Footage of people demonstrating at the lot at the corner of Dartmouth and Columbus in the South End. Footage of the remnants of Tent City, with reporter voice over. Close up shots of dangerous housing. Young people building structures of sticks and plastic tarps. Footage of Tent City. More of the interview with man on community involvement with the BRA planning. Interview with Mr. Rollins and another man on their protest of the BRA, after their arrests. People disassembling Tent City. Interview with BRA official on community relations with urban renewal projects. He talks about Ed Logue's work. Then he makes a statement about the state of the BRA when he took office.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 04/1968
Description: Interiors of Boston City Council chambers. Silent and sound footage of Councilor Joseph Timilty addressing City Council on his negative views of the hippies who are taking over the Boston Common and bathing in frog pond.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 06/13/1968
Description: Roger Goodrich interviews Elliot Richardson, Massachusetts Attorney General, on the Frederick Wiseman film, Titicut Follies. He explains his objection film based on it's lack of regard for individual rights and privacy. He talks about the situation under former Attorney General Ed Brooke during which the film was made with the understanding that those individuals not able to give consent would not be featured. Cutaways of reporter asking questions. Footage of the Massachusetts Superior Court hearings on the film. A man who worked at Bridgewater State Hospital, where Titicut Follies was filmed, answers many questions. He mentions that his deputy forbade the cameras from going anywhere near Albert DeSalvo, the alleged Boston Strangler. Corrections Commissioner Gavin also answers questions. Outtakes of reporter standup. Silent courtroom scenes. Exteriors of the Massachusetts State House. Silent footage of Frederick Wiseman in the courtroom, talking to reporter Bill Harrington.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 10/18/1967