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Charlotte Schools

Description: Broll of Charlotte skyline and downtown; Black families walking on street; children playing; interview a woman about education for her children; White students outside school; some Black children; Mike Taibbi Reporter V/O with plane landing; interview with a Black mother; B roll of integrated classroom; we love Bostonians sign; V/O with parking lot image. Sound bite from a White man; More V/O Reporter standup about busing in Charlotte; B roll of kids in Black neighborhood; More interviews; Taibbi interview: a group of Black kids who all ride the bus; Asks them about their experience and messages for kids in Boston; Black and White construction crew; Broll of city; More interview w/ Betty; Kids getting off school bus; interview w/ D. Robison
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/23/1974

School Committee Kerrigan Plan

Description: Leader: F1 School Committee Kerrigan Plan #7010 1/14/74; Boston school committee meeting. Chairman John Kerrigan on busing plans and METCO. Silent b-roll of the meeting and more of Kerrigan's statement to the committee.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/14/1974

Wellesley High School

Description: Footage of the exterior of Wellesley High School and students coming out the doors and getting on the buses. Silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/10/1974

Hyde Park High School

Description: Leader: P2 Hyde Park H.S. #10221 10/16/74; External footage of Hyde Park High School with state police on guard in the rain outside. Students arrive on buses; students leave the building and walk down the street; a student is escorted from the school by police officers and put in the back of a police van. Busses arrive and students wave at the camera.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/16/1974

Boston School Committee

Description: Leader: P1 Boston School Committee #10693 12/6/74; Boston School Committee meeting [buzzing in the audio]. SIlent b-roll of parents in the audience wearing anti-busing buttons.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/06/1974

Firefighters

Description: Leader: P1 Firefighters #9291 7/9/74; 70 fire chiefs from Boston sit in desks and listen as a man from the Mayor's office, Richard Kelliher, outlines the school busing plan. Mary McKay reporter standup about a meeting between the Mayor's office and the Fire Department to coordinate operations around the busing plan that will begin in the fall. Fire Commissioner James Kelley, Fire Chief George Paul, and Kelliher answer questions at a press conference about how they are working to ensure that fire operations do not interfere with the school bus routes. Reporter outtakes, fire engine drives away from the station, silent b-roll from press conference. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/09/1974

Taibbi in North Carolina with HP students

Description: Leader: P1 Taibbi in North Carolina with HP students #10278 10/22/74; People in an airport hold up signs welcoming Bostonians. Kids exit a school bus and walk toward a school. Students in class. Mike Taibbi reporter voiceover about students from Hyde Park High School in Boston visiting West Charlotte High School in North Carolina. Interview with Charlotte students about when their school was integrated a couple years ago. A group of students exit an airplane and are greeted with signs in the airport. School buses arrive at West Charlotte High School; students enter school. Interview with Mr. Russo about long school bus routes. Students from Hyde Park ask Charlotte students questions about their integration experience. More of the interview with a West Charlotte student. Group discussion with students about integration. CU of a homemade pin on a student that reads We Love You Bostonians.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/22/1974

US Attorneys

Description: Leader: P1 U.S. Attornies #10189 10/11/74; Press conference with five attorneys from the US Justice Department Civil Rights Division who were sent to Boston by Attorney General William B. Saxbe to help prosecute Federal crimes arising from violence over school busing. Attorney John Conroy answers questions from the press. William C Gardner, John Scott, Dennis Dimsey, and David Rinzel also in attendance. Film speeds up during one section. Possibly unrelated silent footage of a Boston police car stopping and fire trucks on the street.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/11/1974

Roslindale High Trouble

Description: Leader: P1 Roslindale High Trouble #10136 10/7/74; Silent footage of police officers directing buses and a crowd of parents and students in front of Roslindale High School. Black children get onto a school bus; buses led by police on motorcycles. A woman on the sidewalk yelling at a plain clothed policeman; students chanting; police disperse a crowd at an intersection; Popular and Washington street signs; students leave school and get on busses. Unrelated footage of a house fire. Crowds on the street with police; police march down the sidewalk.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/07/1974

Hyde Park Parents

Description: Leader: P1 Hyde Park Parents #10219 10/15/74; Meeting about school integration and busing in Hyde Park High School with parents, students, and local politicians. Parents and students come to a microphone in the crowd to make comments and ask questions; crowd screams and yells at each other. Some speakers include Joseph Timilty, John Kerrigan, and Louise Day Hicks.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/15/1974