Description: Leader: P1 Sargent on ABCD [Action for Boston Community Development] Poverty Funds #6753 12/11/73 ; Governor Francis Sargent speaking with a group of people at the South Boston Action Center. Exterior footage of the building. Sargent signs a bill that extends funding that will support programs at the Center.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/11/1973
Description: Leader: P2 School Committee #6700 12/5/73; Silent and sound footage of a Boston school committee meeting.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/05/1973
Description: Leader: P1 School Committee #6752 12/11/73; Mix of silent and sound footage of a Boston School Committee meeting. Paul Ellison speaks about appealing the busing decision to the Supreme Court. Paul Tierney voices concern about losing funding if they appeal to the Supreme Court.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/11/1973
Description: Leader: P2 School Comm. #6747 12/10; Mix of silent and sound footage of a Boston school committee meeting where the racial imbalance law is discussed.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/10/1973
Description: "Leader: "F2 Senator Kennedy #6725 12/8/73"; Senator Edward Ted Kennedy speaks about Watergate at the "Strategy for 74" democratic conference at the Boston Sheraton Hotel. Silent b-roll of Kennedy, the crowd, including Attorney General Robert Quinn, and excerpts from Kennedy's speech. Kennedy talks about their strategy for the future and Watergate."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/08/1973
Description: Leader: P2 Shotguns #6776 12/13/73 (Portions removed for Eisenstadt story of 1/16/1974); Interview with a police officer about the problem of people owning shotguns in Boston and how the police might need to carry them at well. Silent footage of a press conference with the Committee to Improve Community-Police Relations in Roxbury. Buckets of shotguns. A man demonstrates opening his trench coat and pulling out a shotgun, which he aims at the camera. Elma Lewis and others at the press conference discuss their opposition to arming the police force with shotguns. Reporter Natalie Jacobson asks a questions about gun control. Silent footage of a man with a shotgun.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/13/1973
Description: Leader: P1 Soviet Jews Conference #6739 12/10/73; Silent footage of a meeting. Bob Clinksdale reporter standup. Interview with a man about why Jewish Americans need to be concerned for Jewish people in the Soviet Union. More silent footage of the meeting. A woman points at a map of the Soviet Union while speaking to the audience.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/10/1973
Description: "Leader: "P2 Special Session #6870 12/26/73"; Bill Harrington stand up about Special Session of the state legislature to consider giving Governor Francis Sargent emergency powers to deal with the energy crisis. In a session that lasted 13 seconds they refused. Interview with the majority leader about why they didn't grant the Governor special powers. Silent b-roll of politicians going in and out of the state house chamber and interview b-roll. Press conference with Governor Sargent, followed by more b-roll and cuts from around the state house, interviews, and Governor Sargents statement."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/26/1973
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/17/1973
Description: Leader: P1 Spts Cronin #6837 12/20/73; Joe Cronin, president of the American Baseball League, press conference on a conflict between baseball clubs about the rules around signing a manager. The Detroit Tigers wanted to sign Ralph Houk to a managerial contract and the New York Yankees wanted to sign Dick Williams. After listening to testimony from all involved parties Cronin ruled that the Tigers contract was ok, but the Yankee's contract violated the rules.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/20/1973