Description: REP MARJORIE CLAPPROOD APPEALS FOR ABORTION / COUNSELING FUNDS FOR RAPE VICTIMS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/11/1987
Description: ACTON CAMPAIGN TO REDUCE TV WATCHING, TOWN ENVIRONS. PEOPLE USING TELEVISION REMOTE CONTROL.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/26/1987
Description: LACK OF DETOX CENTERS AND TREATMENT FOR AIDS VICTIMS WHO ARE DRUG ADDICTS. MAKING ADDICTS AWARE OF AIDS SPREAD BY NEEDLE SHARING.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/23/1987
Description: Archival VISUALS OF ANNE FRANK AT BPL EXHIBIT
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/13/1987
Description: JOINT LEGISLATIVE SESSION WILL VOTE ON ANTI- ABORTION AMENDMENT. REP. MARJORIE CLAPPROOD. ROLL CALL.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/12/1987
Description: Controversial content of 'Amerika' tv program about fictionalized Soviet takeover of USA.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/22/1987
Description: Leonard & Martha Friedman made film in Nicaragua to illustrate the evils of US policy backing contras.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/08/1987
Description: LEN BIAS' mother Lonise and ATHLETES URGE STUDENTS TO SHUN DRUGS. Nancy Lieberman, M.L. Carr, Michael Dukakis.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/05/1987
Description: Harold Washington (Mayor of Chicago) and W. Wilson Goode (Mayor of Philadelphia). The city of Hartford, Connecticut has elected Carrie Perry, an African American woman, as mayor of the city. Marcus Jones notes that Hartford is the only major city in New England with an African American mayor. Jones' report includes footage of Perry at a polling station and at a press conference. Jones reports that Bruce Bolling (Boston City Council) is seen as having the best chance at becoming Boston's first African American mayor. Interview with Bolling, who says that he might run for mayor someday, but that he is concentrating on his agenda in the City Council. Jones notes that Bolling differed with Mel King (candidate for Mayor of Boston in 1983) and other African American community leaders over the issue of Roxbury's secession from Boston. Footage of Bolling, King, Andrew Young (Greater Roxbury Incorporation Project) and Charles Stith (Union United Methodist Church) on the Phil Donahue Show in 1986. Jones notes that the minority community in Boston is becoming impatient for an African American mayor. Interviews with Charles Weeks (Black Political Task Force) about the chances of Boston electing an African American mayor.
1:00:09: Visual: Shots of Harold Washington (Mayor of Chicago) celebrating his victory at the polls; of W. Wilson Goode (Mayor of Philadelphia); of an African American man official from the campaign of Carrie Perry in Hartford. Shot of Carrie Perry (Mayor of Hartford) entering a polling booth. Marcus Jones reports that Carrie Perry is the first African American to be mayor of Hartford; that Hartford is the only major city in New England with an African American mayor. V: Footage of Perry at a press conference. Footage of Bruce Bolling (President, Boston City Council) being interviewed by Jones. Bolling says that the city of Hartford deserves a lot of credit; that Hartford voters have looked beyond race in electing city officials. Jones reports that Bolling is seen as having the best chance of becoming Boston's first African American mayor. V: Footage of Bolling saying that he is not preoccupied with the thought of running for mayor. Bolling says that he is pursuing his agenda in the City Council. Jones notes that Bolling was once seen as a successor to Mel King (candidate for mayor of Boston in 1983); that King and Bolling differed publicly on the issue of Roxbury's proposed secession from Boston. V: Shot of King campaigning in Roxbury in 1983. Footage of Bolling, King, Charles Stith (Union United Methodist Church) and Andrew Jones (Greater Roxbury Incorporation Project) on the Phil Donahue show on October 30, 1986. Bolling says that African Americans and voters from other races supported King's candidacy in 1983 because they wanted a change in the city. Footage of Charles Weeks (Black Political Task Force) saying that there will be an African American mayor in Boston; that the African American mayor will need to be the mayor for all residents, not just African Americans. Jones notes that the Black Political Task Force endorsed Bolling's last bid for re-election to the City Council. V: Footage of Weeks saying that whites are becoming more accustomed to seeing African Americans in positions of authority; that an African American will eventually become mayor of Boston. Footage of Bolling saying that it is possible that he might become mayor someday. Bolling adds that an African American will become mayor of Boston in the future. Footage of African American audience members debating on the Donahue show. Marcus Jones notes that the minority community in Boston is becoming impatient for an African American mayor.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/04/1987
Description: BCH residential care unit for children with AIDS. Boston City Hospital.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/02/1987