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Jimmy Carter late to reelection campaign

Description: "Man on the street" interviews at Faneuil Hall seeking reaction to President Jimmy Carter's late entry into campaigning for reelection.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1980

Mashpee visuals

Description: Wampanoag Indian visuals: mural, photographs, drawing and diorama depicting Native American life. Flume Restaurant, Wigwam Motel in Mashpee. Small Cape Cod houses. Sign to New Seabury development (on disputed land). Real estate for sale signs. Ames Landing Road. Lot for $9900.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/14/1977

Mayor's Older Bostonians

Description: Office of MOB (Mayor's Older Bostonians) senior citizens support services. Framed photo of Kevin White. Shuttle provides transportation for elderly citizens. Van leaves Allston Brighton Little City Hall, rides along streets. Elderly man pulls grocery cart. Interview with Mr. Nissenbaum who is happy with Mayor White's senior services. Interview with Anne Nissenbaum also endorses White. Interview with Joseph Rothfarb, unhappy that "White has overstaffed his pet projects." Another man says too much crime.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/16/1979

Norfolk jail

Description: Norfolk County House of Correction exteriors. Courtroom sketches of school committee member Paul Ellison, attorney Monroe Inker, Judge Walter McLaughlin. The Norfolk County House of Correction is a minimum security prison. It is considered the cleanest, and one of the oldest in the Commonwealth. It is overcrowded, like many other correctional institutions. Its capacity is 72 inmates, while the current population is 126. The facility has a work release program, a welding class, educational programs, and maintenance crews. Recently convicted, Paul Ellison was previously a history teacher in the Boston Public School system.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1976

Ronald Reagan Administration Staff Positions

Description: Gary Griffith story on "handicapping the race" for Ronald Reagan Administration Staff Positions.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/13/1980

Sen. George Rogers convicted

Description: State Sen. George Rogers of New Bedford convicted of corruption (bribery and conspiracy via fraudulent $5000 consulting contract in vocational education scandal) in Suffolk Superior Court. Defense attorney Sullivan mobbed by press. Rogers fainted in court and is wheeled out on stretcher. Prosecutor Stephen Delinsky says sentence is fair. Rogers will serve time in Barnstable House of Correction. Sullivan will appeal. Glimpse of Gail Harris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/24/1978

Sen. John Anderson

Description: How will party allegiances play out in Massachusetts given the potentially divisive independent presidential candidacy of Sen. John Anderson against Jimmy Carter? Robert Kiley is running Anderson’s campaign in state. Moffett speaks for Reagan. Terry Straub, Carter coordinator. Sen. Edward Kennedy stands with Anderson. Kennedy on Park Plaza stage in March 1980 with extended family including Joan, Caroline, John Jr.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/17/1980

South Boston High

Description: Exterior South Boston High, first day of school on staggered opening schedule. Police on steps. Tilt up facade. White students walk up to school. Jerome Wynegar out front. Boston Police bus pulls up. Wynegar comments on insufficient buses to bring black students from distant neighborhoods because of contract dispute and the disruption of the staggered opening schedule. Press photographers. Person on the street interview with white mother, Evelyn Gorhan, who waited with daughter for bus that never came. Black mother, Edna Calhoun from Roxbury says she will not send her son to school until buses are available. Calhoun and another black woman, Frankie MacDonald, report rocks and expletives hurled at them. Shots of the children. “Nigers suck” graffiti on brick housing project.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/07/1977

South Boston tension

Description: South Boston teens on street. Police on motorcycles. Exterior South Boston High School with broken windows. Hill Stop Deli. “White Power” graffiti painted on street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/25/1976

TOCN show tape

Description: First day of school in Boston, Phase IIB of court ordered desegregation. 1) Superintendent Marion Fahey is proud of faculty and students. Associate superintendent Charles Leftwich reports van and three buses were stoned. Mayor Kevin White says unlawful conduct will not be tolerated. 2) Gary Griffith reports on opening commotion at Charlestown High. One-third of enrolled students show up. Federal marshals and police outside. One arrest for disorderly conduct. Neighborhood crowd gathers in street. 3) Pamela Bullard at South Boston High. Black students get off bus to less tension than last year. Police are present but not in riot gear. 4) Art Cohen at Mackey Middle School where teacher student ratio is 1:18. Principal Lloyd Leake. 5) Bullard on magnet program encompassing 21 schools. Exterior, interior of English High. Gregory Anrig, state commissioner of education. Headmaster William Peterkin. 6) Karin Giger on bilingual program at Grover Cleveland Middle School. 7) Bullard talks to boycotting (white) Cormiers of Charlestown. Mother keeps son out of Timilty School where he was assigned to be bused; he has part-time tutoring. 8) Steve Curwood talks to participating (black) Price family from Roxbury, whose children are bused to white neighborhoods. 9) 5 Hyde Park High students, 3 minority, 2 white, discuss racial separation inside school. They expect conflict to be less than last year. 10) Steve Nevas was almost thwarted from covering a Kevin White press conference because mayor felt Nevas could not be objective. (He had investigated fundraising in White campaign.) White attempts to disassemble Channel 2 microphone and asserts he can exclude any reporter from access. Ed Baumeister says this raises First Amendment issue.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1976