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Blue Line expansion

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

Boylston and Tremont intersection

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

Charles Street jail

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

Crime on Orange Line

Description: Passengers at Egleston Square T station say security is an important issue in light of recent spate of assaults and muggings by teenage gangs. MBTA will put police decoys on the trains to deter crime. Four-car Orange Line train pulls up to platform. Camera rides on train, looks down row of passengers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/06/1980

Grove Hall environs

Description: Grove Hall Dorchester environs. Blue Hill Avenue storefronts. Regal Foods, liquor store, photography studio, Grove Hall Savings Bank. Interview with Emanuel Horne, director of business development office of the Boston Plan, focusing on commercial revitalization of Dudley Station and Grove Hall. Talks about long-term aftermath of 1967 riots: area continues to suffer from lack of investment and entrepreneurial expertise. Cites need for bakeries and supermarket. He is hopeful for housing renewal to accommodate immigrants. Looks for ethnic diversification in consumer habits.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/27/1980

Hyde Park High clash

Description: Horse mounted police in front of Hyde Park High. Boston police cruisers and motorcycles. Black students exit school. Interview with Boston Police Superintendent Connolly about clash inside school, calling it minor incident. Interview with ninth grade boy who attributes fight to racial tension and reaction to previous day's shooting at Cambridge school. Wide exterior of school.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/08/1980

John Williams

Description: Conductor John Williams in rehearsal with the Boston Pops Orchestra at Symphony Hall.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/21/1980

Quincy Market

Description: Quincy Market Environmentals.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/07/1980

Robert Foster resignation

Description: Robert Foster resignation. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/09/1980