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Busing

Description: Air piece on a program, called Operation Discovery, which will bus African American students from Roxbury to a school in Sharon for summer school classes. Reporter standup in Post Office Square in Sharon. Interview with Reverend Donald Al Wasserman of the Unitarian Church, who originated the program.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 05/21/1965

Crawford, Joan

Description: Joan Crawford cut the ribbon at a dedication ceremony for a dance studio. Interview with Crawford about her feelings towards Boston. She also discusses the current dance crazes. She quotes Barbara Streisand. She discusses actors who become politicians.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1966

Kennedy, Joan

Description: Joan Kennedy at Cardinal Cushing College, a private Catholic women's college in Brookline. She stands with a nun and greets women as they go by.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1965...1966

Kennedy, John F.

Description: Silent B-roll of Ted and Joan Kennedy and others at a Democratic Party fundraising dinner held at the Commonwealth Armory. John F. Kennedy arrives and walks through a cheering crowd. He makes a speech praising the Massachusetts Democratic Party. He cracks jokes, and then goes on to passionately talk about the achievements of the Democratic Party and the current session of Congress.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1963

Kennedy, Senator Ted

Description: Silent footage of Senator Edward Kennedy speaking while sitting at a desk with microphones in front of him. Reporter Jack Hynes taking notes
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1967

King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr.

Description: in Boston 10/28/1967 2:00 sof 10/20/1967 air piece 04/04/1668 air piece 10/20/1967 sof cuts B&W Silent - no date - looks like visit to Roxbury B&W Vietnam summer press conference cuts 700' [card reads 1967-1968 films]
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1967...1968

Nicaragua

Description: Short cuts of b-roll from Nicaragua. Sign for Managua. Landscapes. Cars in traffic. Soldiers outside of buildings. Handwritten signs in Spanish.
Collection: WHDH

Old Age Assistance Benefits

Description: Man speaks to a legislative subcommittee about extending Old Age Assistance Benefits to cover elderly people suffering from mental illness. He discussed the matter with Senator John F. Kennedy to add the endeavor to the Senator's mental Health Program for 1960.
Collection: WHDH

Riots

Description: Mostly black and white footage, with some color. Shots of police responding to riots after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Police patrolling the streets, arresting men and loading them into police van. Crowd of young people calling to the camera. Fires and fire fighters with ladders, hoses, fire engines. Man on a stretcher in an ambulance. Destroyed gas pump. People sitting in at Boston public welfare office. Police officers jumping through open window. Broken storefront windows. Overturned cars. Exteriors of Boston City Hospital. Boston Police Radio Field Operations Unit. Crowd of police and army officers in a stadium. People being treated in hospital. Pedestrians. Police officers board MBTA buses en masse. Sounds comes in for a little bit halfway through the video.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 04/05/1968

UFO

Description: Interview with many people on whether or not they believe in aliens. One man recounts a UFO sighting.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 07/21/1965