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TENT CITY ENVIRONS, BROWNSTONES, PRUDENTIAL CENTER, GARBAGE, SANDWICH SHOP
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
02/29/1984
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At Park Plaza Hotel, TRIBUTE TO TIP O'NEILL FROM MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS on the occasion of his retirement. Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, George Keverian, Robert Crane, Edward Kennedy, William Bulger. Tip leads singing of Irish song at end. Also present bearded Paul Tsongas, Niki Tsongas, Tom O’Neill, Chester Atkins.
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Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
02/24/1986
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Profiles of five people who will make a difference in the 90s. 1) Nurse Connie Hagerty runs Boston City Hospital adult AIDS program. 2) Marco Kaltofen, lab director of National Toxics Campaign, identifies industrial polluters and seeks remediation and prosecution. 3) Tina Gaudette, advocate for homeless children at Crossroads Family Shelter. 4) Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald of Mission Hill, dedicated to serving his neighborhood. 5) Marshall Smith, founder of Paperback Booksmith and Videosmith.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
01/01/1990
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Clash between white and Hispanic residents in Lawrence. Gerald Ford visits Boston to endorse Elliot Richardson for Senate. Interview with film director James Ivory and actor Madeleine Potter on Henry James' “The Bostonians” starring Christopher Reeve and Vanessa Redgrave (clip). Artist Maggie Sherman's fanciful plaster face masks of residents of Montgomery, Vermont exhibited at Children's Museum. Anchors Lydon and Bennett.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
08/10/1984
Description:
Advocates for poor protest outside House Ways and Means chair Rep. Thomas Finneran's office against budget cuts; Reps. John McDonough, Stanley Rosenberg. Parcel 18 Ruggles Center in Roxbury to be occupied by Registry of Motor Vehicles; Mayor Raymond Flynn, Gov. William Weld, BRA executive director Stephen Coyle, Rev. Tony Bethel. Architect's scale model of City of Boston development in Coyle's office. Studio interview with Myron Weiner (MIT) and Kishore Mandhyan (BC) on assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and election violence in India. Young Boston children make fanciful, recycled art of objects from industrial surplus bins. Dr. Walter Drew of Institute for Self Active Education encourages this for its free-spirited creativity and joyous expression.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
05/21/1991
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1) In State of the City address at JP High Mayor Ray Flynn laments struggling economic health of Boston even as state is booming. 2) Interview with Samuel Tyler of Boston Municipal Research Bureau on city's tenuous finances. 3) Gov. Michael Dukakis signs bill to hasten conversion of abandoned buildings to affordable housing. 4) Reps. William Robinson and David Cohen debate rules reform on late night legislative sessions; Reps. Gregory Sullivan, Lawrence Alexander, Andrew Natsios; Robinson on speaker's platform with George Keverian. 5) Brief on aggressive tactics of anti- abortion protesters, reporting that Joseph Stanton of Citizens for Life denies escalating attacks on clinics, calling protesters “sidewalk counselors.” 6) Interview with Roger Fisher on Geneva arms limitations talks. 7) Felicia Lamport verse on arms talks. Anchors Lydon and Vaillancourt.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
01/07/1985
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1) Attorney general Frank Bellotti on trying to stop Seabrook full power operating license. 2) Interview with NH governor candidate Paul McEachern on Seabrook. 3) Public health commissioner Bailus Walker on studying incidence of cancers near nuclear power plants; testifies before House Ways and Means chair Richard Voke. 4) Jesse Jackson at State House urges access to higher education by keeping state college tuition affordable. 5) Interview with Dudley Herschbach, professor of chemistry at Harvard, after winning Nobel Prize. Likes teaching freshmen because it keeps him focused on fundamentals. Compares science to art and music because they "can change they way you look at things." He assigns poetry writing to his students and reads a sample on quantum mechanics. Anchor Lydon.
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Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
11/26/1986
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Brief on state senators making hateful comments about gays. Mayor White's liaison to gay community releases report on discrimination against gays. Mental health commissioner James Callahan on opening of group home in Jamaica Plain for deinstitutionalized patients. Brief on Wang Labs computer system for businesses to store records electronically, replacing paper documents. Profile of “liberal” Boston - part two of “Five Bostons” series looking at ethnic and political divisions of the city. Interview with Dennis Kearney, candidate for Boston mayor. Anchors Lydon and Harris.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
10/04/1983
Description:
COPLEY SQUARE AND TRINITY CHURCH ON GREY DAY
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
11/18/1982
Description:
TRUCK ACCIDENT VISUALS, HEAVY TRAFFIC, TRUCK HIT BRIDGE ON STORROW DRIVE
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
04/30/1985
