Description: Principal, teacher and secretary at Somerville High School recall the day JFK was assassinated 25 years ago.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/21/1988
Description: "Memphis to Montgomery" B+W footage of the Montgomery bus boycott, Selma march, and other civil rights actions in the 1950s through 1968. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Description: Newly appointed mental health commissioner Henry Tomes addresses need for funding and proclaims his commitment to improving services. Lobbyists wary of budget priorities in legislature.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/16/1989
Description: Mentally ill persons march to State House in rain to protest elimination of funds that support day treatment programs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/26/1990
Description: Mental health advocates try to regain crisis care funding which they say Dukakis administration has withdrawn. Frank Keefe defends budget "reversions" in mental health services.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/02/1988
Description: Community mental health services are jeopardized by state budget cuts. Boston administrator Gerry Morrissey pleads for $$$ for the many patients who will suffer. Beds in night shelter for mentally ill.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/22/1989
Description: Acute overcrowding in state mental hospitals; human warehouses for people who need care in other facilities. Bunk beds, mattresses lined up on floor.Edward Murphy, mental health commissioner. B-roll of Danvers State Hospital, exterior & interior.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/21/1988
Description: Senate commission recommends sweeping improvements for conditions in state mental hospitals. Sen. Nicholas Costello, John Houston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/03/1989
Description: Mental patients and their therapists demonstrate for continued funding of East Boston - Winthrop Counseling Centers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/17/1990
Description: House proposes increase in income tax rather than sales tax. POS on tax preference. Michael Dukakis explains advantage of out-of-staters crossing border to make purchases with lower sales tax.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/11/1990