Description: WHAT TO DO ABOUT AIDS TESTING IN PRISON. ROBERT RUFO MULLS IT OVER
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/16/1987
Description: ILLEGAL ALIENS APPLY FOR CITIZENSHIP UNDER IMMIGRATION AMNESTY
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/05/1987
Description: SUPPORTERS SPEAK ON BEHALF OF SOVIET DISSIDENT PSYCHIATRIST ANATOLY KORYAGIN
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/13/1987
Description: PRO AND CON ON CAMBRIDGE ORDINANCE COVERING ANIMAL RIGHTS IN LAB EXPERIMENTS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/28/1987
Description: ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PROTEST AT BU AGAINST TREATMENT IN LAB EXPERIMENTS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/24/1987
Description: THREE PROFESSORS GIVE ADVICE FOR REAGAN'S RECOVERY AFTER IRAN CONTRA SCANDAL
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/25/1987
Description: Summary of Albert Gore's positions on taxes, defense spending, trade, AIDS, education. He wants to get to "specifics" from other candidates but does not state them himself.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/03/1987
Description: Fear of family separation causes illegal aliens to shun immigrant amnesty. Charles Cobb of INS claims apprehension is unjustified. Ray Flynn and Cardinal Bernard Law want application deadline extended.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/05/1987
Description: Archibald Cox recalls "Saturday night massacre" - when Robert Bork (illegally) fired him as special prosecutor for Watergate.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/11/1987
Description: Law enforcement speculates on nature of Asian gang activity. Vietnamese community.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1987
Description: BILINGUAL EDUCATION IN CHELSEA FOURTH GRADE. CLASS PUTS ON “CINDERELLA”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/10/1987
Description: HISTORY OF LAWRENCE MILLS BREAD AND ROSES STRIKE THRU PLAY DONE BY EMERSON STUDENTS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/27/1987
Description: Background of CIA recruitment protest trial with Amy Carter and Abbie Hoffman. Footage of protest from year earlier. Court scenes. Interviews with Leonard Weinglass, Abbie Hoffman, Daniel Ellsberg, and Ralph Mcgehee. B-roll follows of interiors of court house, Weinglass talking to Amy Carter, and Amy and Abbie talking.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/07/1987
Description: Third day of jury selection for CIA recruitment protest trial of Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman, and others. David Boeri comments on the media's intense focus on Amy Carter. Court scenes. After the court lets out without having selected a jury, Abbie Hoffman talks to the press about the importance of this trial in revealing the true nature of the Central Intelligence Agency. He also comments that despite his age, he's remaining active in the causes he believes in.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/08/1987
Description: Students and camera men walk together. Attorney Leonard Weinglass in court argues in defense of students who protested CIA recruitment at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, due to CIA involvement in Central America. Activist Abbie Hoffman nervously reads from a notebook in defense of the students. Prosecutor Diane Fernault argues that the case is about trespassing, not protest. Footage of jury acquitting students; Amy Carter of charges. Brief individual interviews after trial with Hoffman, Fernault and student. Hoffman says, "good luck, Celtics. They'll need it." Reporter David Boeri appears on screen to sign off among crowd of students.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/15/1987
Description: Jury for CIA recruitment protest trial gets sworn in. Other court scenes. Footage of the 1986 protest. Assistant District Attorney Diane Fernauld makes the prosecution's case. Defense attorney Leonard Weinglass and UMass Amherst student Jennifer Johnston make opening arguments for the defense, accusing both the CIA and UMass Amherst of committing crimes, which the defendants were only trying to prevent. Judge Richard Conan allows defense witness to testify as to the crimes of the CIA, but has yet to decide if the jury will be allowed to consider this testimony.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1987
Description: COASTAL COUNSELING CENTER EMPLOYEES PICKET SOUTH SHORE BANK FOR BACK PAY
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/03/1987
Description: Violence against Cambodians in Revere.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1987
Description: 13 year old Cambodian boy in Lowell drowns, pushed into canal by white boy. Racial prejudice apparent in city with largest Cambodian community on east coast.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/25/1987
Description: Gerard Indelicato indicted for stealing state adult education funds,mail+income tax fraud.More criminal investigations underway on his tenure as education advisor+Bridgewater State College president.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/18/1987
Description: ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES SHANNON SUES COALITION FOR RELIABLE ENERGY FOR FALSE ADS. SEABROOK
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/06/1987
Description: ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES SHANNON DISPUTES COALITION FOR RELIABLE ENERGY ADS. JOHN SUNUNU, SEABROOK
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/04/1987
Description: Early detection of colo-rectal cancer (such as Tip O'Neill's) would increase probability of cure dramatically. Description of symptoms & recommended exams.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/18/1987
Description: Cambridge scientist N. Dak Sze researches depletion of earth's ozone layer, which has dire consequences for continuation of life on the planet. global warming length 2:42
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1987
Description: Hull man (not seen) threatens to shoot police and kill self with sedative overdose while locked in his home. State troopers surround house; no communication. No action.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/11/1987
Description: David Boeri reports that the US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Boston Public School System is desegregated. Boeri reports that the Marshall Elementary School is less racially integrated now than it was before court-ordered desegregation began in 1974. He notes that the school population was 50% white when the school opened in the 1970s; he adds that the school population is now 8% white. Boeri interviews Jack Wyatt (Teacher, Marshall Elementary School), Elaine Rundle (teacher, Marshall Elementary School) and Lou Tobaski (Principal, Marshall Elementary School) about school desegregation at the Marshall Elementary School. Boeri notes that there are no educational problems at the school. He adds that the school faculty has been successfully integrated. Boeri interviews Jane Bowden (parent). Bowden says that the school is excellent. Boeri notes that the school is not racially balanced but that it is in compliance with the court order. Boeri's report is accompanied by footage of students and teachers in classrooms at the Marshall Elementary School. This edition of the Ten O'Clock News also included the following item: Marcus Jones reports on integration at the Lee Elementary School Lee School is a successful integrated school
1:00:05: Visual: Footage of a white teacher singing a song with elementary school students in a classroom at the John Marshall Elementary School. Most of the students in the class are African American. Shot of a white male student in the classroom. David Boeri reports that the Marshall Elementary School opened 17 years ago as a neighborhood school; that 50% of the students were African American and 50% of the students were white when the school opened. Boeri notes that 8% of the school population is white in 1987. Boeri adds that the US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Marshall School is desegregated. V: Footage of Jack Wyatt (teacher, Marshall Elementary School) saying that the school is not racially balanced; that the school was racially balanced when it opened. Shot of a white male student standing at the front of the classroom. Footage of Elaine Rundle (teacher, Marshall Elementary School) saying that many of the bright African American students are bused to the suburbs through METCO (Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity). Shots of an African American teacher teaching to a classroom of African American students. Boeri reports that two buses transport children to and from the school; that one of the buses brings African American students to the school; that African Americans comprise 61% of the school's enrollment. V: Footage of Rundle saying that she does not know why African American students are bused to the school. Shot of African American students walking away from the school. Boeri says that there do not seem to be educational problems at the school. V: Footage of Boeri interviewing Jane Bowden (Marshall School parent). Bowden says that she did opposed busing at first; that she refused the opportunity to put her children in a different school. Bowden notes that the Marshall School is "excellent." Shot of Bowden's children getting into her car. Footage of Boeri interviewing Lou Tobaski (Principal, Marshall Elementary School). Tobaski says that the school has been able to convince the white parents to keep their children in the school; that the children are receiving a good education. Tobaski says that the school is mostly African American because the surrounding neighborhood has mostly African American residents. Boeri notes that African American and Hispanic residents have moved into the neighborhood surrounding the school. V: Footage of an African American teacher in a classroom with mostly African American students. Shots of individual students. Boeri notes that the school has received more money from the School Department because of desegregation; that the staff at the Marshall School is integrated. Boeri adds that the school is not racially balanced; that the school is in compliance with the court order. V: Footage of Tobaski saying that the Boston School Committee has done its best to integrate the public schools; that not much more can be done.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/29/1987
Description: MIT physicist Kosta Tsipis explains destruction of INF missiles as called for in arms control treaty.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/09/1987
Description: Ray Flynn wants Boston State Hospital site to be used for light industry and affordable housing. Dukakis also supports this, but bill is held up in House Ways & Means. Pat McGovern, Angelo Scaccia.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/24/1987
Description: At DECWorld convention, Digital uses bombardment technique to market new VAX III computer network. Kenneth Olsen, president.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/09/1987
Description: ARMS EXPERT EXPLAINS DEPLOYMENT OF VARIOUS medium range MISSILES IN EUROPE. PERSHING II, NUCLEAR WARHEADS.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/03/1987
Description: EXPLANATION OF CLEMENTE'S SCHEME TO STEAL POLICE PROMOTION EXAMS. corruption.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/05/1987
Description: Success of Gov. Michael Dukakis' Employment & Training Program (ET) for former welfare recipients - a perceived asset in his presidential campaign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/28/1987
Description: Trial of Gerald Clemente (MDC police captain) & Thomas Doherty (Medford officer) who broke into Civil Service vault to steal promotion exams & sell them for $3000 each. Corruption.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/30/1987
Description: Aftermath of Fall River mill fire. Rubble, cleanup, wrecking ball, smoldering building skeletons. Fall River environs (WS). B&W visuals of Fall River mills.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/14/1987
Description: EPA announces huge potential fines for non- compliance with harbor cleanup schedule. MWRA vows to keep up with deadlines for improved sewage treatment. Michael Deland, James Hoyte, Paul Levy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/16/1987
Description: Greenpeace tries to deliver barrels of ash residue (which they consider hazardous waste) from Saugus RESCO incinerator to regional EPA office. Police scuffle at elevator in federal building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/11/1987
Description: GARY HART FACES PRESS IN NH AFTER REVELATIONS ABOUT DONNA RICE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/06/1987
Description: REFLECTIONS ON GARY HART'S COMPOSURE UNDER INTENSE, HOSTILE SCRUTINY. SOUND EFFECTS OF MANY CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING AT PC
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/07/1987
Description: Reaction to and explanation of self-immolation of Haitian man on State House steps as act of martyrdom in protest of repressive conditions in Haiti and US support of its military government.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/02/1987
Description: David Boeri reports that five Harvard alumni and other protesters were arrested for an apartheid protest outside the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in November of 1986. Boeri notes that the protesters are acting as their own lawyers in court this week. Boeri reports that the defendants claim to have committed the lesser crime of civil disobedience in order to prevent the greater crime of economic support to the apartheid regime. Boeri reports that the judge has ruled that the defendants cannot use this line of defense and has refused to hear testimony about apartheid. Boeri notes that the defendants are testing the limits of the judges' ruling by continuing to introduce testimony about apartheid. Footage of the proceedings in the courtroom. Don Carney (Cambridge Police Department) testifies against the defendants. Peter Bellotti (Assistant District Attorney, Middlesex County) objects to testimony by Sarah Browning (defendant) and Joel Reisman (defendant). Wendy Gershengorn (judge, Middlesex County) issues instructions from the bench. Interviews with defendants Peggy Schirmer and Robert Wolff. Boeri notes that the trial will be slow and tedious. Footage from an apartheid protest at the Fogg Art Museum.
1:00:00: Visual: Footage of court proceedings in the Middlesex County Courthouse. Shots of the judge, bailiff and co-defendants in the trial of Harvard alumni and alumnae. David Boeri reports that five Harvard alumni and other protesters were arrested outside of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University last November; that the protesters were demonstrating against apartheid outside of a fundraising dinner at the museum. Boeri notes that the fundraising dinner had originally been scheduled for September; that apartheid protests forced the dinner to be postponed until November; that arrests were made at the demonstration in November. V: Footage of apartheid protesters sitting in the museum. The protesters are clapping and chanting. Footage of Don Carney (lieutenant, Cambridge Police Department) in court. He testifies that the protesters were told to leave the area; that the protesters were arrested when they failed to comply with the order. Footage of Peter Bellotti (Assistant District Attorney, Middlesex County) saying that no one was arrested for protesting. Shots of the audience in the courtroom; of a man standing before a blackboard in the courtroom. He indicates locations on a map drawn on the blackboard. Boeri reports that the defendants did not contest the testimony of police officers who arrested them; that the defendants want to use their trial to put Harvard on trial. V: Footage of Peggy Schirmer (defendant, Radcliffe Class of 1938) saying that Harvard has almost $300 million invested in companies doing business in South Africa; that Harvard has no plans to divest those stocks. Shots of the defendants conferring in the courtroom. Boeri reports that the defendants claim to have committed lesser crimes to prevent the greater crime of economic support of apartheid; that Judge Wendy Gershengorn (Middlesex County) has ruled that the defendants cannot use the necessity defense. Boeri adds that the defendants are acting as their own lawyers; that the defendants are testing the limits of the judge's ruling. V: Shots of Gershengorn conferring with the defendants who stand in front of her bench. Footage of Bellotti objecting to testimony by Sarah Browning (defendant, Harvard Class of 1984); of the Bellotti objecting to testimony by Schirmer. Gershengorn sustains the Bellotti's objections. Footage of the Bellotti objecting twice to testimony by Joel Reisman (defendant, Harvard Class of 1975). Shots of Gershengorn issuing instructions from the bench. Boeri reports that the defendants were frustrated by Gershengorn's refusal to hear testimony relevant to apartheid. V: Footage of Robert Wolff (defendant, Harvard Class of 1954) saying that they were at the museum to protest apartheid; that the reason for the protest is relevant evidence; that the jury should be allowed to hear that evidence. Boeri reports that the trial will be slow and tedious. Boeri notes that the defendants are trying to use the necessity defense; that the prosecution objects to much of their testimony.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/28/1987
Description: Traveling exhibit at State House commemorates Holocaust with gruesome photos and artifacts from Auschwitz. Concentration camp survivors attend.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/07/1987
Description: Irish priest, Father Cathal O'Ferrai, in Boston helps illegal Irish immigrants.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/25/1987
Description: First immigrants granted amnesty in Boston under new immigration law. Luis Tiant, INS liaison. Charles Cobb.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/26/1987
Description: Anthony O'Reilly, one of America's highest paid executives, heads Ireland Fund to raise huge $$$ "to promote peace, create jobs & stabilize Irish culture." Boston's Irish celebrities attend fundraiser.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/20/1987
Description: ROBERT RUFO AND OTHER SHERIFFS PLEAD FOR RELIEF OF JAIL OVERCROWDING. PATRICIA MCGOVERN. CHARLES STREET JAIL.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/09/1987
Description: Sen. John Kerry explains why he opposes aid to contras.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/23/1987
Description: JOURNALIST AND FORMER HOSTAGE JEREMY LEVIN COMMENTS ON CURRENT HOSTAGES.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/17/1987
Description: Local Palestinian women's organization protests Israeli heavy-handedness toward inhabitants of occupied territories. West Bank, Gaza Strip.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1987
Description: Lyndon LaRouche's trial begins for credit card fraud and obstruction of justice. Mostly courtroom sketches and file tape.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/17/1987
Description: Mixed reviews for Ray Flynn's 1986 performance from city councillors and others.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/06/1987