MIT Commencement

Description: "Leader: "P1 MIT Commencement #8403 5/31/74"; Jerome Wiesner talks about Watergate in his MIT commencement address. Silent b-roll footage of the graduates, audience, graduates receiving their diplomas, and the ceremony. More of Wiesner's speech about Watergate, illegal electronic surveillance. Interview with women graduated about prospects for a female graduate of engineering and whether they would recommend MIT to other women interested in enrolling."

Collection: WCVB Collection

Date Created: 05/31/1974

MIT Explosion

Description: Silent footage of police and fire trucks in front of a building, men talking, a firefighter taking a hose off the truck, students walking through clouded halls, a room covered in ash, and people getting into an ambulance.

Collection: WCVB Collection

Date Created: 07/18/1975

Evening Compass

Description: Evening Compass late edition newscast covering day 3 of Phase II desegregation in Boston Schools. Ed Baumeister summarizes events and report on school attendance figures. Pam Bullard reports that attendance figures show white students to be in the minority: Peter Meade (Mayor's Office) comments on racial makeup of the school system; Cardinal Medeiros (Archdiocese of Boston) comments on influx of Boston students to parochial schools to avoid busing. School officials comment on the opening of schools: Charles Leftwich (Associate Superintendent of Schools) reports a missing bus and problems with buses arriving late; Robert Donahue (Boston School Department) reports on registration for unassigned students; Frances Condon (Boston School Department) reports on kindergarten registration. Bullard interviews Thayer Fremont-Smith (Lawyer, Boston Home and School Association) about the court action to overturn forced busing. Fremont-Smith says that the court-ordered busing plan is too broad and will result in racially imbalanced schools as a result of declining white enrollment. Edwin Diamond (media critic) analyzes Boston Globe coverage of busing crisis with guests Mike McNamee (MIT student) and Robert Healy (Executive Editor, Boston Globe). Healy says that a local newspaper has to deal with the crisis differently than a national newspaper.

Collection: Evening Compass, The

Date Created: 09/10/1975

MIT Commencement

Description: Students and faculty process in the MIT commencement ceremony. Silent.

Collection: WCVB Collection

Date Created: 05/28/1976

BU and MIT exteriors

Description: Exteriors with snow of Boston University buildings on Commonwealth Avenue. George Sherman Union, Marsh Chapel. Peter Fuller Cadillac Olds building. MIT exteriors along Memorial Drive. Walker Memorial, dome building, gray edifices. Peabody Terrace contemporary complex (Harvard graduate student housing).