Description: Interview with Taylor Branch, author of "Parting the Waters" on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1989
Description: Boston Teachers Union reaches tentative agreement with city on 3-year contract. Ray Flynn, Laval Wilson, Thomas O'Reilly, Edward Doherty. Young children walk behind teacher into corridor.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/22/1989
Description: KLVX -- Las Vegas story: Teamsters Convention in Las Vegas, 6/1/1981.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/01/1981
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
Description: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS DISCUSS TEEN SEX, PREGNANCY, CONDOMS. C. EVERETT KOOP
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/13/1987
Description: Theresa Leger of Somerville is a teenage drug and alcohol counselor who encourages her contemporaries to speak out and stand up for themselves instead of following the crowd.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/13/1988
Description: State public health study shows alarming incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) among teens. David Mulligan, Philip Johnston. Pedestrians at Downtown Crossing in spring coats.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/10/1990
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
Description: Rebecca Rollins reports that the murder rate in the city is rising. She notes that an overwhelming number of teenagers are involved in these homicides. Rollins interviews teenagers Grantley Payne, Michael Duval, and Pinto Triplett about why teenagers carry guns. Payne says that guns provide protection and grant status to teenagers. Payne and another teenager play basketball on an outdoor court. Rollins interviews Franklin Tucker (counselor) about teenagers and guns. Tucker talks about how teenagers obtain firearms. Tucker talks about the lack of programs aimed at preventing violence. He adds that many teenagers involved in violence come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Rollins' report is accompanied by footage of an African American teenager being treated by paramedics. This tape includes additional footage of Payne and another teenager playing basketball on an outdoor court.
1:00:01: Visual: Footage of a body on a stretcher being wheeled by medics to an ambulance; of an African American police officer speaking to an African American male suspect. Shots of Grantley Payne (age 18) and another teenager playing basketball on an outdoor court. Rebecca Rollins reports that the death toll in the city is rising at record pace; that the number of homicides may total 150 by the end of the year. Rollins notes that an overwhelming number of teenagers are involved in the homicides as victims or suspects. V: Shot of medics lifting the body of an African American teenager onto a stretcher. Shots of guns and weapons laid out on a table. Footage of Payne being interviewed. Payne says that guns provide protection and grant status to teenagers. Footage of Franklin Tucker (Barron) being interviewed by Rollins. Tucker says that teenagers are importing their own guns; that teenagers are ordering them by mail from states with lenient gun laws. Barron says that guns are being brought in by bus and car. Tucker says that teenagers are carrying new guns and serious firearms. Rollins reports that Tucker is an expert on the subject of kids, guns, and schools; that Tucker directs counseling services for kids caught with weapons on or near school property. V: Footage of Tucker being interviewed by Rollins. Tucker says that many teenagers carry guns for protection. Footage of Michael Duval (age 16) being interviewed by Rollins. Duval says that fighting and violence have progressed from hands to knives to guns. Duval says that a lot of movies have violence. Duval mentions the 1988 film Colors. Rollins asks why kids carry guns. Pinto Triplett (age 18) says that it is difficult to be a teenager in the projects; that teenagers who carry guns live in rough neighborhoods. Triplett says that many of these teenagers do not come from good backgrounds; that many teenagers cannot get jobs. Triplett says that some of these teenagers are the victims of racial discrimination. Footage of Tucker being interviewed by Rollins. Tucker says that there are no programs focusing on prevention; that society is trying to put these kids in jail. Tucker says that prisons are already overcrowded. Rollins stands in front of a basketball court. A group of teenagers play basketball on the court. Rollins says that the Boston Police Department and City Hall will officials will meet to discuss the problem of guns and violence.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/19/1990
Description: Teenagers act in AIDS education play to convey to their peers message about safe sex.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/02/1988