Description: Interview with June Howe of Back of the Hill Community Development Association (BOTHCDA) about Mission Hill neighborhood development and revitalization. Calls it “the country in the city.” Memorandum of Agreement to buy vacant land from Lahey Clinic to build owner occupied mixed income family housing, elderly and handicapped housing, and/or subsidized rental housing. Environs of undeveloped parcel of interest. Ellingwood Street site. New England Baptist Hospital on Parker Hill Avenue in background. Tilt down to abandoned lot with construction materials left behind. Brief view of Harvard Medical Area Power Plant.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1979
Description: Black students rally on City Hall Plaza because of shooting of black football player Darryl Williams during high school game. Interview with several students who plead for racial unity so everyone can go to school together in peace. Black adult representatives demand that Mayor Kevin White guarantee the safety of students with police details.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/03/1979
Description: Ride along Blue Hill Avenue. Decrepit, boarded up and abandoned storefronts. Many defunct businesses. Vacant lot. Zion Apostolic and Immanuel Pentecostal Churches. Warren Street intersection. Bridge Free Medical Van. Houses on Supple Road. Prince Hall Masonic Lodge. Sign for the Mayor's Office of Housing. Street sweeping vehicle. Mayor Kevin White walks with Julian Bond through neighborhood with press entourage. White answers questions about his candidacy and housing policy decisions as mayor especially involving the Boston Housing Authority, and says urban revitalization will come to reality within 3-5 years but need more federal $$. White and Bond meet local business owners and community members.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/20/1979
Description: Wonderland Blue Line station in Revere. Train pulls up to platform, passengers get on. Walking tour of Central Square in Lynn, where transit station is proposed as necessary for much needed economic development. Comments from Urban Mass Transportation (UMTA) administrator Theodore Lutz about rapid transit extension.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/06/1980
Description: Intersection Boylston and Tremont Streets; potential site for GSA building. Boston Common sign. Path with bare trees through the Common. Entrance to Washington-Essex Building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1980
Description: Charles Street jail interiors. Four tiers of cell blocks seen through chain link fence. Zoom into guards on ground level. Guard patrols upper walkway. Cell behind bars with toilet and cot. Interview with Suffolk County Sheriff Robert Rufo about delay in transferring inmates to state prisons after sentencing. Charles Street is supposed to serve only as pretrial detention center but prison system is so overcrowded that inmates stay there much longer than intended in inappropriate incarceration, without rehabilitation support and furlough programs. They shoot cutaways. Howard Husock does several takes of reporter standup in front of the jail.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/03/1980
Description: Cleveland Circle storefronts on Beacon Street. Cars parked at angle to curb. Interview with Billy Ward, Brookline High School senior, about stabbing murder at pizza parlor during altercation among teens. Trucking shot of brick houses in affluent neighborhood.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/21/1979
Description: Street environs of Codman Square Dorchester. Hardware store, First National Bank, Woolworth, Grant Building. Abandoned building plastered with posters. Branch library, small business storefronts. Interview with merchant Joe Katz who is optimistic about future of area, particularly as new grocery store opens. Female police officer on mounted (horse) patrol in rain. Mayor Kevin White on scene to inaugurate opening of Our Market (tape ends before he speaks). Timmy Clegg of Codman Square Community Development Corp tells of rejuvenation of closed supermarket with neighbor involvement.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/25/1979
Description: Community disorders unit of Boston Police to address racial violence incidents. Staff roster lists Sgt. Francis M. Roache as director. Map shows locations of stonings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1979
Description: Interview with cranberry cultivator. Wide shot of bogs. Close-up of fruit on plants. Inside Ocean Spray processing plant. Extracted juice pours from faucet. Cartons prepared for packaging. Bottles on conveyor belt. Bright ruby berries in crates.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/12/1979