Description: Interiors scenes in the Somerville Boxing Club. Trainers working with boxers. Two boxers sparring in the ring. Callie Crossley interviews boxers and trainers on the alleged dangers of boxing compared to other sports and the American Medical Association's proposal to ban amateur and professional boxing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/12/1984
Description: Intersection Boylston and Tremont Streets; potential site for GSA building. Boston Common sign. Path with bare trees through the Common. Entrance to Washington-Essex Building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1980
Description: Domenic Bozzotto negotiated affordable housing trust fund in hotel workers' union contract but required amendment to Taft-Hartley Act has not been legislated. Ray Flynn vows support to Local 26.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/20/1989
Description: Local 26 hotel workers union president Domenic Bozzotto wins struggle in contract negotiations: establishment of affordable housing fund by hotel management,pending enabling legislation. Union sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/01/1988
Description: Reviewing opinions on the dangers of boxing and risk of brain damage. Scenes of bowers training and sparring in the ring at Connolly's Gym. Interview with doctor Francis Rocket on the danger of brain damage. Interview with Boxing Commissioner James McCarin, using Muhammad Ali as an example of a boxer affected by brain damage from the sport. Footage of Ali, he slurs his speech. Boxing can also cause blindness. Interview with eye doctor Edward Ryan. Gym owner Jim Connolly defends boxing in comparison to other more dangerous sports like hockey and football.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/31/1986
Description: Man preparing slices of brain tissue in lab. Alzheimer's disease.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/01/1984
Description: Brains, McLean Hospital. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/16/1982
Description: Braintree, MA MBTA visuals; rain.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/21/1980
Description: Braintree residents protest at Clean Harbors site for proposed toxic waste incinerator. Rep. Brian Donnelly, Sen. William Golden.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/18/1990
Description: Christy George reports on the end of a two-week fast by chaplains at Brandeis University. George notes that the chaplains fasted to protest the university's investments in South Africa. George's report includes footage from a gathering of apartheid protesters on the Brandeis campus. Father Maurice Loiselle, Rabbi Albert Axelrad and Reverend Diane Moore discuss their fast and the university's policy regarding South Africa. The protesters sing and hold hands at the gathering. George reports that the chaplains' fast serves as the last phase of a community protest against apartheid. George notes that Brandeis trustees will review their investment policy at an upcoming meeting. George reviews the apartheid protest at Brandeis University since last year. George's report includes footage of Brandeis students at a shantytown on campus from the previous year.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/13/1987