Description: Massachusetts State House interiors. Senate door with sign on transom. House of Representatives door. House chamber empty; wide shot of rows of seats, podium, balcony. Reporter and camera operator discuss shots off camera. Several takes of reporter standup on the new 1979 state congress, specifically the power of Speaker Tom McGee.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/26/1978
Description: Howie Carr asks State House superintendent to justify costly installation of marble floor and renovation of parking garage. Rep. Gregory Sullivan. Cement mixer and trowel spreading cement.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/21/1989
Description: State House renovation inconveniences visitors. It will take place in stages over 7 years, while occupants change offices. Bulldozer shovels dirt. Torn up interiors.Barbara Hildt. People walk up steps.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/13/1988
Description: Long term renovation of State House is suspended for lack of money. Holes in ceiling and wall, exposed wiring. Rep. Jeff Haywood. Governor's Councillor Daniel Hurley. State House clock and parking garage.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/24/1991
Description: State college students march to State House to protest decreased education funding. James Braude, Barry Crimmins.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/12/1990
Description: Convening of a Joint Committee of the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives. Interiors of the State House. Michael Dukakis proceeds into the chamber and delivers the State of the State address (for his first term as governor). His address touches on the state of Massachusetts towns, specifically North Adams, and the great benefits Massachusetts is able to provide people who need extra attention, including the elderly, handicapped, mentally disabled, mentally ill, and disadvantaged children. George Keverian, Kevin Harrington, William Bulger, Tom O'Neill and other state government dignitaries are present. Some video dropout. reel 1 of 2.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1978
Description: Statehouse environmentals in Spring. Mrs. Healy and others.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/31/1977
Description: 1) Attorney general Frank Bellotti on trying to stop Seabrook full power operating license. 2) Interview with NH governor candidate Paul McEachern on Seabrook. 3) Public health commissioner Bailus Walker on studying incidence of cancers near nuclear power plants; testifies before House Ways and Means chair Richard Voke. 4) Jesse Jackson at State House urges access to higher education by keeping state college tuition affordable. 5) Interview with Dudley Herschbach, professor of chemistry at Harvard, after winning Nobel Prize. Likes teaching freshmen because it keeps him focused on fundamentals. Compares science to art and music because they "can change they way you look at things." He assigns poetry writing to his students and reads a sample on quantum mechanics. Anchor Lydon.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/26/1986
Description: Several takes of reporter standup. Report on the "domino effect" created by the swearing in of ex-auditor Thaddues Buczko as a judge. John Finnegan will most likely replace him, and then someone else will have to replace Finnegan. B-roll of Speaker of the House Thomas McGee, President of the Senate William Bulger, and other state legislators in the State House Chambers. Buczko's swearing in ceremony. Bulger, McGee, and Governor King preside over the ceremony. McGee makes a heartfelt speech about his admiration for Buczko. King swears in Buczko. Buczko addresses the audience. A judge also addresses the audience.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/11/1981
Description: History of Thomas Finnerty's career and association with William Bulger. Harold Brown misquotes Shakespeare. 75 State Street. Moving aerial of downtown. Various senators enter Senate chamber.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/16/1989