Description: "Leader: "P1 School Busing Budget #8034 4/26/74"; School Committee meeting about the cost of school busing and how to integrate it into the budget. Superintendent William Leary, Paul Tierney, Kathleen Sullivan, John Kerrigan, Paul Ellison, and other are in attendance. Louise Day Hicks is in the audience. Leary breaks down the costs, discusses where they can get the number of busses that will be needed, and answers questions."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/26/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Busing Plan #10506 11/14/74; Natalie Jacobson reporter standup at a Boston school committee meeting about the committee's school busing plan and attendence. Mix of sound and silent footage of the committee meeting.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/14/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Busing Hearing #7695 3/25/74; A legislative committee hearing on the Boston Schools busing plan. Louise Day Hicks, Senator Edward L. Burke, and Congressman Tip O'Neil are present at the meeting.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/25/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Springfield Busing 8/29/74 #9754 2 of 2"; Interview with a man (Dr. Dedee?) about the possible delay in the opening of school, and a woman on her expectations for busing program. Silent b-roll of men and students bringing desks, books, chairs, and other school supplies into a school; women in an office processing paperwork; black kids playing basketball; exterior footage of a school and Springfield streets; interview b-roll; parked school buses; white kids playing football in school parking lot. More of the interview with man about school integration in Springfield, and interview with a woman about history of school integration in Springfield (image unstable)."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/29/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Busing Special #9754 8/26/74 1 of 2"; A summer camp in Wellesley to help kids integrate before the start of school busing. Children in a cafeteria and talking to each other outside. Interviews with campers about the pros and cons of the program. Jim Boyd standup about the camp. Outtakes include more silent footage of the kids hanging out and eating together, more interviews with the children (unstable image), andreporter outtakes."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/26/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Busing Police #10437 11/7/74; Silent footage of buses on the road and police officers lining the street. Police outside a school and standing on a sidewalk while buses drive by. Interview with a Boston Police Superintendent Joe Jordan about the continued need for police presence at the schools. More silent b-roll of police and police cars outside a school and patrolling the streets. More of the interview with superintendent Jordan.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/07/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Police Busing Prep #9321 7/11/74; Silent footage of a street with traffic; the front of school including South Boston and Dorchester High Schools; street signs; more footage of streets around Boston; Mary McKay reporter standup. Interview with a police officer. More b-roll footage of the schools and streets. Reporter outtakes.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/11/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Pro-busing Demo #10074 9-30-74"; Woman speaks to crowd about enforcing laws. Reporter standup in front of the state house. Footage of the crowd. Outtakes: More of the woman speaking about desegregation of schools. Interview with the speaker. More footage of people in the crowd. Reporter outtakes. Black Community Caucus for Equal Education."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/30/1974
Description: "Leader: " P1 Model Cities Busing #9853 9/4/74"; Silent b-roll of a meeting with mostly non-white attendees about busing. Some women speak about the need for parents from the different communities to band together and communicate. One woman argues that the kids that go to the schools in Southie have more opportunities than those that graduate from Roxbury. A police officer states that this is the law and kids will be bussed. "
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/04/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Busing Tale of Two Cities Tease 9/6/74"; Two men playing drums on a hill overlooking San Francisco. Footage of San Francisco including people on a crowded street, residential neighborhoods, a street car, the Golden Gate Bridge, and aerial shots of the skyline and streets. Sound bites from parents and administrators in California followed by interviews with parents and students in Boston and people speaking an an anti-busing event. Mayor Kevin White speaking with parents. More footage of parents discussing Freedom schools in the Chinese neighborhoods in San Francisco. Footage of schools in Boston and more interviews with kids. Interviews with California parents and kids about violence during the beginning of busing. Reel 2 of 2. See Acc. 2394.00637"
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/06/1974