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Boston schools Winners Circle

Description: Dorchester youth seeking haven from gangs attend Winners Circle after school program offering recreation away from the streets. Teens swimming in indoor pool. Cleveland Middle School exterior.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/26/1991

Guns in schools

Description: John Sisco of Boston school police says that guns are common in schools and few are confiscated by safety officers. Ray Flynn appeals for getting guns out of the hands of youth.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/23/1991

Shakur Ali

Description: Shakur Ali, negotiator of Roxbury gang truce and guardian to delinquent boys, offers himself as role model to youth in crisis & his home as constructive environment. Highland Avenue sign, boarded up house.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1991

TOCN show tape

Description: Advocates for poor protest outside House Ways and Means chair Rep. Thomas Finneran's office against budget cuts; Reps. John McDonough, Stanley Rosenberg. Parcel 18 Ruggles Center in Roxbury to be occupied by Registry of Motor Vehicles; Mayor Raymond Flynn, Gov. William Weld, BRA executive director Stephen Coyle, Rev. Tony Bethel. Architect's scale model of City of Boston development in Coyle's office. Studio interview with Myron Weiner (MIT) and Kishore Mandhyan (BC) on assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and election violence in India. Young Boston children make fanciful, recycled art of objects from industrial surplus bins. Dr. Walter Drew of Institute for Self Active Education encourages this for its free-spirited creativity and joyous expression.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/21/1991

Teen justice

Description: Meg Vaillancourt interviews South Boston high school sophomore boys about their view of confessed teenage murderer William Flynn in the Pamela Smart trial. Interview with Edward Loughran, Commissioner of the Department of Youth Services, about regulations surrounding juvenile offenders charged with capital crimes in Massachusetts.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/18/1991

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