Description: POLICE SUPERINTENDENT AL SWEENEY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS TALKS TO AUDIENCE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/22/1978
Description: Business district in Ayer. Main Street storefronts, diner, gas station, dry cleaner, liquor store, pedestrians. Sign for Routes 2A and 111. Old man sweeps sidewalk. Police station. Man smoking in front of VFW hall. Old fashioned department store. Soldier at Fort Devens training to use mine detector, sweeps instrument over ground and listens for beeps. Rifle propped against tree. Camouflage helmet on ground. Group of soldiers eat rations.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/19/1978
Description: No audio through first half of video. Aftermath of blizzard of '78. Sunny day on impassable highway with abandoned, buried cars. Snow removal by bulldozer. Tire skidding. Driver cleans off covered car. Interview with John Tarbox, a driver from Rockland, MA who was stranded. He gets in his still buried car and starts it up. Interview with Donald Jones, a young army man from California, who has never seen snow. State police cruiser, helicopter.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/09/1978
Description: Interview with Boston Police officer Francis Mickey Roache of recently formed Community Disorders Unit to address racial violence in the neighborhoods. He comments on fire bombing of Rodriguez family in Orient Heights housing project. Interview with black female plainclothes officer about role of Community Disorders Unit.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/27/1978
Description: Mounted Boston police officer near Quincy Market. Crowds of children pet horse. Street performer. Angled view of upper facade of Faneuil Hall juxtaposed with Sixty State Street high rise. Quincy Market plaque. Grasshopper weather vane. Sign for “Where's Boston?”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1978
Description: Massachusetts Hospital Workers union local 880 of SEIU/AFL-CIO on strike. Workers march, chant, picket outside Otis Hospital chronic care facility in East Cambridge. Hanging effigies of three hospital executives. Several police officers stand by.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1978
Description: South Boston High. Walking shot down corridor and dark stairs. In library, a group of black and white students discuss their experience in school since desegregation started four years ago. They attest to better educational programs and improved racial harmony now. “No fights.” They think police presence in the early years worsened tension.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/08/1978
Description: South Boston High exterior. Parking space designated for press. Graffiti on street: “print the truth.” Two Boston police officers in front of school. Five school buses approach with lights blinking. Mostly black students stream off buses, go up steps to school entrance. Jerome Wynegar walks up. More buses arrive with black students. Long line of buses depart, descend hill. Students enter main hallway, walk through metal detector. Close-up on needle meter. Students in art class draw on large sheets of paper; teacher gives individual attention. Shots of empty classroom, with PA announcements being made in the background. Walking shot down dark hallway with lockers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/08/1978
Description: English class of four white students at South Boston High School. Teacher addresses whole class and works individually with students. Students work on essays at desk. Teacher talks to one student about restructuring his essay. View from second story window onto parking lot and over rooftops of South Boston buildings and houses. Boston Police Tactical Patrol Force cruiser drives off. Three white students in math class.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/08/1978
Description: 1) Boston TPF plainclothes patrolmen Dennis McKenna and Edward Holland involved in mistaken identity shooting death of James Bowden on Smith Street Roxbury while seeking suspect in Cambridge robbery. Phoenix reporter Dave O'Brien who was present gives his version. Police commissioner Joseph Jordan on internal investigation of incident. Attorney Lawrence O'Donnell says civilian review of police misconduct is necessary. 2) Brief on crackdown on gay solicitation in Boston Public Library bathroom. 3) Brief on Judge Walter Jay Skinner approving verdict that Wampanoags have no land claim in Mashpee. 4) Solman business report on closing of Kennedy's branch stores; cash value of US human life calculated at $280,000; J.P. Stevens boycott; price of diamonds. Anchor Lydon.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/24/1978