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Smoking ban and police/fire recruits

Description: Police and fire recruits are forbidden from smoking on or off the job. Law is enacted to lower disease risk (and health benefits payout) for public safety officials. Black firefighter packs equipment on hose truck. Rep. Kevin Blanchette.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/07/1988

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) Interview with Everett Mendelsohn describing what he saw in Beirut after Israeli bombardment. 2) Brief on corruption in state revenue department and suicide of John Coady. 3) Dukakis campaign strategy against Ed King on taxes and corruption. 4) Human services advocates oppose repeal of 7.5% surtax on state income tax; David Bartley, secretary of administration and finance, Sen. George Bachrach. 5) AIDS symptoms, infections, high death rate, lack of response to treatment, preponderance of cases among gay men and concern about moral backlash; Dr. Matthew Hirsch, MGH virologist. 6) Blue Hill Avenue used as drag strip - high accident rate and unsafe for pedestrians; Sen. Bill Owens, Deputy Supt. William Celester, Minister Don Straughter (aka Muhammad). 7) Brief on Leo Beranek's $1 million gift to Boston Symphony Orchestra. Anchor Lydon.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/02/1982

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) Questions about BU investments through Commonwealth Partners; trustees and officers benefit privately, violate fiduciary responsibility; John Silber on Seradyn. 2) Daniel Ellsberg on US troop buildup in Saudi Arabia parallel to Vietnam. 3) Increasing incidence of AIDS among women; interview with Maryalice Guilford. 4) Gov. Dukakis on tax on professional services needed to make up budget deficit; Sen. Paul Cellucci.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/30/1990

Tattoos, hepatitis, and AIDS

Description: Risk of contracting hepatitis B or AIDS from unclean needles in tattoo process.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/02/1987

Teens and condoms

Description: Teens talk candidly about their use of condoms and their awareness of disease risk. Boys playing basketball. Girls congregate on benches outside Cambridge Library. High school students.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/01/1991

Venereal disease

Description: Film transfer of “VD: Old Bugs, New Problems.” Cautionary public health explainer on sexually transmitted diseases with bad teen actors. Venereal. (c. 1983?)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Warning on alcoholic beverage labels

Description: Health warning proposed for labels on alcoholic beverages. Liquor in package store.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/23/1986

Winston man

Description: David Goerlitz, a former model for Winston cigarette ads, has quit smoking and now visits schools to teach children dangers of the habit. Goerlitz speaking a at school assembly. Print ads featuring Goerlitz. Goerlitz accuses the tobacco industry on targeting children and young teens. Interview with students after assembly on teh lack of smoking education in schools. Interview with Goerlitz on why kids listen to him more than other antismoking advocates. Goerlitz talks with school kids after the assembly. Marcus Jones reports in front of a Winston cigarette ad featuring Goerlitz that is still up in Boston. Following the edited story is b-roll of Goerlitz talking to kids after school assembly. Closeups on print ads.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/25/1989

Woburn awaits Superfund cleanup

Description: Woburn hazardous waste cleanup awaits Superfund reauthorization. EPA regional administrator Michael Deland says “public health is not being threatened at the Woburn site.” Rep. Edward Markey.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/26/1985

Women's Health Center

Description: Interview with two Women's Health Center representatives explaining choices and implications of using birth control. Discussion of birth control experimentation on women without consent, women's health movement, and contraceptive options. Followed by b-roll of Giger and interviewees discussing past fertility medicine and Western perception of pregnancy. Discussion of legislation around midwives. Interviewees talking about sterilization, cesarean sections, induced labor. Visuals of contraceptives— diaphragm, IUDs, foam, package of birth control pills. Giger and interviewees discuss women's health in background. Clip of books "Our Bodies, Ourselves" and "Contraceptive Technology 1976-1977." Poster "Freedom for Women" on wall.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/20/1977