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Throat Clearing Hearing

Description: Silent footage of a man at a hearing demonstrating a throat clearing device on a woman, and shots of the audience.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/20/1975

Brown University

Description: Student demonstration on Brown University campus. Group of students playing drum. Reporter standup on earlier student strike and current building takeover and demonstration. Reporter voice over blank screen. Interview with African American student on lack of recruitment of minority students and faculty and support for a Afro American studies program. Reporter voice over blank screen. Interview with representative of Brown University administration. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/24/1975

Cambridge Little League Protest

Description: Parents and children protest the destruction of their little league field. Interview with parent. Bulldozer working on the baseball field. Conversation between a parent and a city representative on a compromise. Reporter standup. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/24/1975

Harrington - Wynn

Description: Bill Harrington takes notes at a press conference. Silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/24/1975

Red Storey

Description: Interview with National Hockey League referee Red Storey. He talks about the differences between hockey and lacrosse, especially in terms of refereeing the two sports. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/24/1975

Roxbury Employment

Description: Ribbon cutting ceremony at a building on Warren St. in Roxbury. Men enter the building. Interview with a man on the efforts of the Circle Venture Capital Fund to address the unemployment problem in Roxbury. Footage of a meeting. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/24/1975

U Mass Meeting

Description: University of Massachusetts meeting on the university system's budget. Man speaks about budget problems. He hopes to make his case to the Massachusetts House Ways and Means Committee. Overhead projector used during meeting. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/24/1975

Welfare Cuts

Description: B-roll from a meeting of the Alliance for Economic Justice on Massachusetts budget cuts and welfare proposals. A woman speaks at the meeting on the poor treatment of the elderly. A man says the tax cuts will benefit the white suburbs, not the urban minorities. A state official addresses a crowd, asking for the people to give the government a chance to perform before criticizing. A man speaks against Governor Dukakis's proposed economic plans. Another man speaks against State Senator Kelly. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/24/1975

Hancock Glass

Description: Silent footage of men installing a window into the John Hancock Tower at ground level with a crowd watching.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/14/1975

Governor Dukakis

Description: Outtakes footage of Governor Michael Dukakis speaking at a press conference intermixed with silent shots of people in the room. Dukakis discusses budget cuts and assistance payments. This is a very choppy clip and most of what Dukakis is saying is cut off mid-sentence. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/18/1975

Jewelry Robbery

Description: Footage of police looking at jewelry cases, open safes, and scattered jewelry. Silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/18/1975

Joan Baez

Description: Interview with singer Joan Baez about her experiences in Boston, where she is professionally, and other topics followed by silent b-roll of Baez speaking at a luncheon. Reporter cutaways. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/18/1975

MIT Explosion

Description: Silent footage of police and fire trucks in front of a building, men talking, a firefighter taking a hose off the truck, students walking through clouded halls, a room covered in ash, and people getting into an ambulance.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/18/1975

Prostitutes

Description: A police official at a press conference talking about the arrest of Johns, and the high amount of prostitution around LaGrange Street. Silent footage of cars driving down a street, street signs for LaGrange and Newbury streets, cars driving down the road. A police officer at a press conference discussing law enforcement involving prostitution. Silent footage of people in a hallway, shot of "Good Time Charlie's" bar. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/18/1975

Racism Demonstration

Description: A group of students walk through a hall, then shots of them outside marching, and an overhead shot of them marching in a circle. Silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/18/1975

Saia Hearing

Description: Footage of a City Council Hearing on Police Commissioner DiGrazia having demoted Deputy Superintendent Joseph V. Saia. Silent footage of people sitting in a city council room. People at a table testifying. One woman and several men testify, mostly on Siai's behalf. One man says that the Knights of Columbus are not the mafia. More silent b-roll of people in the room. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/18/1975

Summer Jobs

Description: Shot of a street with reporter voice over about finding summer jobs. Interview with a woman, Simone, about why the Greater Boston Area Chamber of Commerce is involved in a student summer job program. Silent footage of a girl, 17 year old Caroline Lawhorn, working on a typewriter at the Charles Draper Laboratories in Cambridge. A young man, Jim Wong, counting money and working as a teller in Suffolk Franklin Savings Bank, exteriors of the bank. Reporter voiceover, followed by interview with Caroline Lawhorn. Reporter standup. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/18/1975

Bi-Racial Council - part 2

Description: Footage of men and women of different racial groups sitting around a table talking about school issues. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/16/1975

Committee Against Racism N.C.

Description: Committee Against Racism press conference. An African American man speaking outdoors, discussing permits that had been revoked for their group, and a white man talks about a permit that they do have to gather on Boston Commons. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/16/1975

Frank Power interview

Description: Exteriors of Charlestown High School. Stop sign, with "Forced Busing" written under the "Stop." Pam Bullard interviews Frank Power (Headmaster, Charlestown High School) about preparations for school desegregation and the coming school year. Power says that his first priority is the safety of students. Power says that flexible campus options will be cut back for safety reasons. Power says that many Charlestown students have transferred to parochial schools and schools outside of Boston to avoid busing. Power discusses about the inadequate facilities at current Charlestown High School building, and is hopeful about the potential of the newly planned building. Powers says that the physical education program at the Charlestown Boys Club will be cut due to safety concerns. While shooting cutaways, Power and Bullard informally discuss his frustrations with the limitations of the school's facilities. Students will eat lunch at their desks because there is no lunchroom at the high school. Bullard does several takes of reporter standup to the Charlestown busing story.
0:00:20: Visual: Shots of the exterior of Charlestown High School school; closeup of stop sign with graffiti reads "STOP forced busing." 0:02:12: V: Pam Bullard interviews Frank Power (Headmaster, Charlestown High School) outside of the school in Monument Square. Power says that he is concerned about safety at Charlestown High School; that safety concerns will force a cut back on the flexible campus program; that the school is ready to open; that he will not speculate on the reaction of Charlestown residents to busing; that students have transferred out of Charlestown to schools outside of the city to avoid busing; that there are plans for a new high school in Charlestown; that programs like physical education at the Charlestown Boys Club will be cut due to safety concerns; that he has worked in integrated schools before; that there are security plans in place for the opening of school. Powers and Bullard talk informally about cutting physical education at the Boys' Club for safety reasons; about lack of space at Charlestown High School; about cutting out the flexible lunch option for safety reasons; about the lack of lunchroom at Charlestown High School. 0:09:28: V: Shot of Charlestown High School exterior. Bullard does a few takes of her introduction to the story on busing at Charlestown High School. Bullard introduces story: Charlestown is expected to have 236 African American students and 524 white students; Charlestown residents are angry about busing; police fear that resistance to busing will be strong. 0:13:04: V: A car circles Monument Square with a loudspeaker blaring an anti-busing message. Bullard does several more takes of the introduction to the story.
Collection: Evening Compass, The
Date Created: 08/19/1975