Description: Mayor John Brennan, Jr. explains Chelsea's economic plight requiring layoffs of teachers, police, firefighters. Voters failed to override Prop 2 1/2 despite the dire straits. Triple deckers. Tobin Bridge.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/10/1991
Description: On fifth anniversary of Chernobyl explosion, commemoration brings attention to grave illnesses caused by radiation+spreading contamination. Little boy from evacuation zone being treated in Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1991
Description: Chess grand masters gather outside Holyoke Center to play all comers to raise money for homeless people under the auspices of Philips Brooks House, charitable organization at Harvard. Forbes Plaza.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/03/1991
Description: Peggy Charren of Action for Children's Television urges more educational content + fewer commercials in children's programming. Three 9 year olds tell why they enjoy tv.Cartoons,Capt. Kangaroo,Sesame Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/23/1991
Description: Compilation of clips attesting to prevalence of violent crime on Boston streets. Ray Flynn calls for economic justice and opportunity. Funeral of murder victim.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/26/1991
Description: Interviews with three clergy members on the Persian Gulf war, covering a range of opinions. Rev. Peter Gomes of Harvard University, supports U.S. intervention in the Middle East. Father Jack Seery, a pacifist, completely opposed the war. Rabbi Emily Lipof, believes in peace, but does think that U.S. has done the right thing by stopping a madman in order to bring about peace.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1991
Description: Cold fusion experiments of two years ago, received skeptically then, are now reconsidered in two books: one granting credence, the other doubting. Laboratory.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/29/1991
Description: Boston comics perform at benefit against gang violence.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/08/1991
Description: Computer programmer Richard Stallman, known as a premier 'hacker' and winner of a MacArthur grant, tells of his lifelong fascination with computers and his crusade to stop software monopolies.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/28/1991
Description: Members of Concord New Life Community Church put on "A Christmas Carol," and talk about their evangelical Christian bible study group.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1991