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Harvard Yale game

Description: Last two minutes of Harvard Yale football game in which Harvard ties score at 29-29 in final seconds. Fans mob team on field. Scoreboard, pandemonium.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1968

Cowen, Helen

Description: Interview with Helen Cowen on the treatment of older people by business owners, mainly that they charged older people more.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1968

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

Hippies

Description: Compilation of silent and sound footage about the presence of hippies in Cambridge and Boston. Harvard Square and Cambridge Common environs. Reporter standup on a police raid at a "hippie apartment" arresting members of a group called "the Diggers." Interviews with Police Sergeant Duncan O'Neill and Digger member Vernon Becker. Rock band plays to a crowd. Hippies playing music surrounded by people sitting on grass of the Cambridge Common. Interview with Dr. Faderman and Dr. Allen on the hippie lifestyle and societal reactions to the movement. Interviews with Ian Frankenstein, Lou Crampton, Sofia Gibbons, Patricia Keating and other commune members, who describe their communal accommodations and lifestyle on Fort Hill. Discussion of drug use in the hippie movement. Interview with Cambridge Mayor Daniel Hayes on his legal crackdown on hippie communities. They shoot the cutaways of the reporter Jim Pansullo reasking the questions.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1967...1968

King School

Description: Compilation of footage on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School. Press conference with Mr. Rollins and other people concerned about racist education at the King School, talking about the first day of school, the Boston School Committee's actions, and appropriate learning resources for the students at the King School. Another press conference about Operation Exodus, which is setting up learning centers for students who are assigned to attend the King School. They criticize the racist education of the current curriculum in Boston Schools. Cutaways of reporter asking questions. Press conference with John Bradley, new principal of the King School, answering questions about school problems and his proposed solutions. Interview with Louis Vangel, executive director of the Boston Teachers Union, on the teachers position at the King School. Interview with another man about the School Committee meeting to occur next Monday on the fate of the teachers and reopening of the King School. Interview with Louise Day Hicks on her proposed repeal of the 1965 Racial Imbalance law. Reporter asks her about soon to be Massachusetts Commissioner of Education Neil Sullivan and his busing programs. People walking into a building. Another interview with Mr. Vangel on the BTU's demands for the closing of the King School. Interview with man from the Boston School Committee on relationship between the School Committee and the King-Timility Advisory Council on resolving the problems at the King School. Silent footage of a hearing. Cutaways from Louise Day Hicks interview.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 11/1968...12/1968

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

Adlow, Judge

Description: Interview with judge Elijah Adlow about the obscenity trial on Sister George movie. He talks about female actress' portrayal of lesbians.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 03/11/1969

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

Taxicabs

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

Harvard: Where do we go from here?, Part 1

Description: Originally broadcast as a WGBH news special, this tape was later used as source material for Ten O'Clock News stories. Roger Fisher moderates discussion among students, administrators, faculty about student strike at Harvard over ROTC, Afro-American studies, expansion into Boston and Cambridge. Louis Lyons starts by reading the news from Harvard. Participants include Jim Kiernan, a WGBH consultant; Brey O'Connell, a member of the Committee for Radical Structural Reform; Richard Rubinowitz, a representative of Harvard New College; Hugh Calkins, a member of the Harvard Corporation; and Norman Daniels, a member of the Strike Committee and of the Student for a Democratic Society. First segment of the program provides some radical Harvard students the opportunity to speak to a member of the Harvard Corporation. Another students, King Collins, starts using explicit language, and the audio was cut during the original broadcast. Much argument over who has right to speak. reel 1 of 2.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/17/1969