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Description: "Leader: "9162"; Boston Mayor Kevin White and 3 other people sit in a room. White announces the Bicentennial Forum, sponsored by New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Parkman Center, which will include a variety of talks, discussions, and events that will celebrate the history of the country. White introduces the other people with him (Harold Miller and Mr. Cartier), the sponsors of the event, and they speak. White also answers questions from the press about busing."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/25/1974

Mattapan Revitalization

Description: "Leader: "P1 Mattapan Revitalization #7711 3/28/74"; Mayor Kevin White in front of Alson's Men Shop; interview with merchants around Mattapan Square; footage of store fronts and traffic, people walking down the street; Mayor White speaks to a crowd about the planned revitalization of the community; Jim Boyd reporter standup about the revitalization of Mattapan Square. Outtakes include more interviews with store owners, footage of buildings and the street around Mattapan Square; Mayor White answers questions about the Racial Imbalance law."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/28/1974

Year Ender

Description: Special summarizing several top news stories from 1975. Topics include budget cuts, desegregation policies, Carson Beach racial violence, Mayor Kevin White's re-election, fire deaths, Mohammand Ali at Harvard, Governor Dukakis, Charlestown busing demonstrations, Susan Saxe, Dr. Kenneth Edlein. Footage includes traffic driving through flooded roads and rain, baseball, workers trying to dig out flooded drains and plow flooded roads, riots in Carson beach, police and hurt people, reporters crowding around Susan Saxe being arrested, Dr. Edelin walking through the courthouse, Muhammand Ali speaking at Harvard, stills of a man, aerial view of the countryside, shot of a city street, reporter stand-ups, shots of research equipment, prescription bottles, a welfare demonstration, Mayor White speaking, fire damaged homes, shots of politicians and personalities, a large ship, a barking dog, Princess Ann on a Horse, boxes of Coors beer, cars in the snow. Damaged mag track causes volume to drop or sound to drop out completely in sections. Edited footage, but sound and picture are separate. Mix of sound, wild sound, and silent. Slug: "1/1/75: Year Ender 1975, Taibbi for 1/1/75 air". [Airdate on slug 1975, but all of the footage is from 1975 so airdate should be 1/1/76]
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/01/1976

Racial Imbalance Hearing, pt.1

Description: Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, Kevin White, Joseph Timilty, Louise Day Hicks speak at the racial imbalance hearing held by the Massachusetts legislature. B-roll of audience, closeups on some anti-busing buttons and armbands. Silent footage of Royal Bolling Sr. speaking. Police standing guard outside State House. B-roll of preparations for the hearing. Closeup on Mel King on the panel. B-roll of demonstration in front of the State House. Several Boston residents come up to the podium to speak. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/03/1974

Busing Charlestown Demonstration

Description: "Leader: "Busing Charlestown Demo 9-30-74 #10073"; Anti-busing demonstration. People marching, chanting, and holding signs. Reporter voiceover about the march. A Woman leads a pledge against the courts and Judge Garrity. Reporter voiceover about a small turnout at the demonstration (blames Mayor Kevin White). More footage of the march. Reporter standup. Outtakes: Interview with a woman marcher. Footage of protesters and signs."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/30/1974

[Year Ender: Evelyn Wagler]

Description: Slug: "Wagler Henning Feature." Overview of the murder of Evelyn Wagler and the aftermath. In October Wagler ran out of gas and was attacked and killed by teenagers when she was returning to her car from the filling station. The teens forced her to douse herself in the gasoline she was carrying and then they lit her on fire. Footage of neighborhood where Wagler was killed, a man discussing the crime at a press conference, police removing a body from the river while people look on, Mayor White discussing the the Wagler case and other unrelated violent incidents that occurred at the same time, a man discusses racial crime in Boston. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/24/1973, 12/26/1973, 12/31/1973

Family Connection

Description: Leader: P2 Family Connection #9569 - 6 Aug 74; Women sit with their kids. A man talks about the terrible twos. Reporter standup about a sign that reads Rated PG... When Families need guidance The Family Connection Roslindale Square. The Family Connection sign outside a storefront. Silent footage of kids, a boy holds up a microphone to some girls, Mayor Kevin White interacts with the crowd. More footage of the women with name tags on sitting in a group with their kids; kids with video cameras; White speaks to the group of women; White with the video camera; People walk into the Family Connection. Reporter outtake. More sound footage of the women in a group talking with an expert about their children and parenting.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/06/1974

BHA Death Demo

Description: "Leader: "P! BHA Death Demo #8053 4/29/74"; Boston city officials meet with protesters after a nine year old boy, Alfonso Johnson, was found dead in an elevator shaft in the Mission Hill housing project. Protesters with signs enter the state house. Crowd chants "we want the mayor!" Boston Mayor Kevin White answers questions from the crowd. Angry crowd yells at city officials and move to the main city council chamber to wait for the Mayor. Protesters question a different man about the broken elevator and other unaddressed maintenance issues in the Mission Hill housing project. Interview with a woman about Mayor White's past promises to fix the inhumane conditions in the housing projects."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/29/1974

Busing Tale of Two Cities Tease

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