Description: Kathryn Silber, Melvin Miller, and BU colleagues reminisce on John Silber's life leading up to his gubernatorial candidacy. Helen Vendler. Photos of young Silber, wedding, college, with family.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/30/1990
Description: Speaking at Biogen, John Silber says service cuts not the solution to state budget; wants to streamline workforce instead, and change corporate and capital gains taxes to encourage business.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/05/1990
Description: Day after election, John Silber holds press conference in which he is bitter about Natalie Jacobson interview and Ray Flynn's absence, and generally vindictive.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/07/1990
Description: John Silber evades issue of filing his federal tax return and third request for extension from IRS. He states only that he is not in violation.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/29/1990
Description: John Silber denies profiting f/Seradyn investment. Documents show BU trustees & officers did benefit f/Seradyn sale. Henry Morgan charges conflict of interest in Seragen ownership.Commonwealth armory
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1990
Description: 1) Questions about BU investments through Commonwealth Partners; trustees and officers benefit privately, violate fiduciary responsibility; John Silber on Seradyn. 2) Daniel Ellsberg on US troop buildup in Saudi Arabia parallel to Vietnam. 3) Increasing incidence of AIDS among women; interview with Maryalice Guilford. 4) Gov. Dukakis on tax on professional services needed to make up budget deficit; Sen. Paul Cellucci.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/30/1990
Description: TOCN special on John Silber as Democratic gubernatorial candidate. ,Fields
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/31/1990
Description: Examples of what was on television against the first Weld Silber debate: Cosby Show, The Simpsons, Patriots football. Monica Collins comments on what viewers chose.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/19/1990
Description: Analysis of second debate between gubernatorial candidates John Silber and William Weld.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/30/1990
Description: Silber and Weld are men of means, but Weld denies self-consciousness about it and Silber downplays it. Family backgrounds. BU president's house. Photos of Silber as a boy. Weld home,boathouse,hall at Harvard.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/11/1990