Description: EXAMPLES OF ARCHITECTURAL BARRIERS FOR WHEELCHAIRS. RAMPS, VAN LIFT. handicapped, disabled, accessibility. Jack Backman.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/27/1986
Description: B-roll from Dukakis '88 presidential campaign. With Lloyd Bentsen in Mass. House chamber. With hard hats in Illinois. At party for handicapped children. Iowa tv coverage of Mass. farming.@ Employment Connections
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Description: BRAILLE CLASS AND OTHER TRAINING FOR BLIND PEOPLE AT CARROLL SCHOOL
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/02/1986
Description: Interview with June Howe of Back of the Hill Community Development Association (BOTHCDA) about Mission Hill neighborhood development and revitalization. Calls it “the country in the city.” Memorandum of Agreement to buy vacant land from Lahey Clinic to build owner occupied mixed income family housing, elderly and handicapped housing, and/or subsidized rental housing. Environs of undeveloped parcel of interest. Ellingwood Street site. New England Baptist Hospital on Parker Hill Avenue in background. Tilt down to abandoned lot with construction materials left behind. Brief view of Harvard Medical Area Power Plant.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1979
Description: Residents of Belchertown State School, which is about to close, were often misdiagnosed and institutionalized too long. Ruth Sinkiewicz-Mercer. Cerebral palsy, mental retardation. School grounds.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/27/1989
Description: Final stretch and finish line of the Boston Marathon. Wheelchair competitors crossing finish line. Blimps in above the crowd. Announcer makes comments on how closer the leading runners are to each other. Runners cross finish line. Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley finish very close together, running the marathon faster than anyone had in the history of the race. Kevin White awards winner Alberto Salazar with medal and laurel wreath. Third place runner, John Lodwick, crosses finish line. Fourth place runner, Bill Rodgers, crosses finish line. Other runner cross finish line. Charlotte Teske, winner of the women's race of the Boston Marathon, awarded medal and laurel wreath. Women's second place runner, Jacqueline Gareau, crosses finish line. Glenda Manzi does several takes of reporter standup. Interview with Charlotte Teske.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/19/1982
Description: Boston Marathon finish line. Wheelchair finisher. Bill Rodgers on Hereford Street. Man running in a tutu.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/21/1980
Description: Mass of spectators gathered at Prudential Center finish line of Boston Marathon. David Ives watches. Cloudy, cold day. Airplanes fly around trailing message banners. First wheelchair finisher George Murray rolls in with police escort. Press photographers truck. Bill Rodgers wins a close race in 2:10:15. Randy Thomas and Kevin Ryan cross line. Rodgers climbs up to platform for Gov. Michael Dukakis, Mayor Kevin White and Will Cloney to congratulate him with laurel wreath and medal. He is then surrounded by press horde and police. More top runners cross. Bob Hall places third in wheelchair division. Other runners cross the finish line.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/17/1978
Description: SPECTATOR “PARTICIPATION” at Boston MARATHON. FILE OF RACE. WHEELCHAIR COMPETITORS.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/20/1987
Description: HANDICAPPED STUDENTS AT COTTING SCHOOL USING COMPUTERS, INTERVIEWS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/26/1982