Description: Interview with pregnant girl needing AFDC, which is endangered by state budget cuts. Jack Backman says these benefits are necessary for healthy births. Premature baby in incubator. welfare.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/11/1991
Description: AIDS activists protest against the Catholic Church for its intolerance of gays and prohibition of condom use. ACTUP demonstration.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/02/1991
Description: While Bush is in World Trade Center, outside is abortion rights protest of Supreme Court decision prohibiting mention of abortion at federally funded family planning clinics. “Hail to the Chief” music.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/24/1991
Description: Fletcher School professor Hannes Adameit discusses Soviet referendum on preserving the union, and Gorbachev's rivalry with Yeltsin.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/18/1991
Description: Former Singapore political prisoner Francis Seow tells how Amnesty International helped obtain his release through letters protesting human rights abuses. Graphic visuals of torture. Harvard Law School.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/23/1991
Description: Interview with peace activists John and Carrie Schuchardt on John's interruption of Kennebunkport church service to plead with Bush for cease-fire in gulf. File of Schuchardt being arrested.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/20/1991
Description: Three antiwar activists from different interest groups discuss what is wrong with Persian Gulf war and media coverage: military censorship, ignoring peace movement, failure to portray human element.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1991
Description: On brink of Persian Gulf war, protesters amass in Government Center chanting 'no blood for oil,' block traffic on Storrow Drive and in financial district. Police break up blockade in front of JFK building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1991
Description: Israelis protest James Baker's meeting with Palestinian leaders, including PLO supporter Faisal Husseini. Israeli Saadia Touval and Palestinian Souad Dajani tell their positions on giving land for peace.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/12/1991
Description: Sen. John Kerry and a banking attorney reassure depositors in the failed Bank of New England that their accounts are insured by the FDIC.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/07/1991