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Recycling initiative

Description: Petition is rejected on a technicality for ballot initiative on recyclable packaging. Excess wrapping being removed from junk foods. Seafood cartons, lobster boxes. Styrofoam manufacturing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/16/1990

Red Auerbach

Description: Alan Dershowitz interviews Red Auerbach. They discuss his career in sports as a coach. They talk about basketball and it's national and international prominence. They talk about Auerbach's discovery of Bill Russell, and Russells' career, as well as many other Celtics players. Auerbach reviews some of his coaching techniques. Auerbach talks about his old-fashioned views, especially not having women in the locker rooms. He also talks about women both playing and watching basketball. He talks about K. C. Jones as a coach. Auerbach talks about his teaching a class for lawyers at Harvard. Reporters Christy George and Christopher Lydon also asks questions, often rephrased by Dershowitz for editing purposes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/28/1985

Red Cross / Huntington Ave Blood Bank

Description: Red Cross / Huntington Ave Blood Bank, blood freezing, cryo blood process.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1982

Red Cross blood center

Description: Northeast Regional Red Cross Blood Program Center building in rain. Inside lab technicians process blood and components in rotating coiled tubes. Numbered vials of blood in racks. Lab worker peers into microscope. Centrifuge spins and slows to stop. Technician with gloved hands draws plasma from test tubes. Typed units (A positive, B negative, etc.) in plastic packs on refrigerated shelves. Units packed in carton marked "Rush Human Blood" lined with styrofoam and covered with ice bag for shipping to University Hospital.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1979

Red Sox - Yankees playoff

Description: American League East one-game playoff: Red Sox vs Yankees at Fenway Park. Announcers Keith Jackson and Don Drysdale. Starting pitchers Mike Torrez and Ron Guidry. New York lineup: Mickey Rivers, Thurman Munson, Lou Piniella, Reggie Jackson, Graig Nettles, Chris Chambliss, Roy White, Brian Doyle, Bucky Dent. Boston lineup: Carl Yastrzemski, Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Jack Brohamer, Rick Burleson, Jerry Remy, George Scott, Carlton Fisk, Butch Hobson. Game through top of fourth inning, Boston leads 1-0. (Yankees won championship 5-4…not on this tape.)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/02/1978

Red Sox make the playoffs

Description: POS on the Red Sox attaining American League East Division championship. Fans holding playoff tickets. Souvenir caps.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/03/1988

Red Sox versus Indians

Description: Clip of Boston Red Sox versus Cleveland Indians
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1988

Red tide and clams

Description: Testing clams for effects of red tide. Samples in plastic bag collected from Gloucester. Shells pried open with knife, innards scraped out, rinsed in sieve, pureed in blender, poured into beaker, weighed on balance scale, diluted with acid, placed on burner, transferred to vial, placed in centrifuge. Chart and map of shellfish sampling areas on North Shore for red tide measurement.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/13/1977

Redistricting

Description: Christy George reports that shifts in the state's population have forced the Massachusetts House of Representatives to draw up a redistricting plan for the state's legislative districts. State Rep. Jim Brett has been charged with drafting a redistricting plan. Interview with Brett on his plan. Boston and Cambridge will each lose one seat while the South Shore and Cape Cod will each gain a seat. George notes that the Republican Party and minorities are protective of their legislative districts and that both groups seem to be happy with the plan. Interviews with State Rep. Peter Forman and Byron Rushing. Brett and Peter Vellucci will lose their districts and be forced to run against other incumbent legislators. Interviews with State Rep. Vellucci and Paul White. The legislature has voted in favor of the plan. Speaker of the House George Keverian presides over the proceedings in the House chambers.
1:00:00: Visual: Footage of Jim Brett (Massachusetts House of Representatives) and another lawmaker discussing the Massachusetts House of Representatives' redistricting plan for the state of Massachusetts. Brett and the other lawmaker look at a map of the districts. Shots of Brett and the other lawmaker walking into Brett's office; of Brett sitting down behind his desk. Christy George reports that Brett is the architect of the House redistricting plan; that the job of redistricting is difficult; that Brett's colleagues are eager to have input on the borders of their districts. George reports that Brett appears to have done an excellent job in drafting the redistricting plan. V: Footage of Brett and the other lawmaker looking at the map in Brett's office. Brett gives the map to the other lawmaker, saying that he is tired of looking at the map. The other lawmaker exits Brett's office. George notes that Brett has done a heroic job in performing a thankless task. V: Footage of Brett saying that he was told that the redistricting job was a "losing proposition." Brett says that he thinks that he has managed to please all of the people involved. George reports that Brett's task was to keep all 160 state representatives secure in their districts while making shifts in almost all legislative districts. George notes that a shift in the state's population forced the redistricting of the state. [Shot of Brett explaining the redistricting proposal. Brett stands in front of a map of the districts. George notes that the most recent state census shows that Massachusetts' cities have shrank while suburbs have grown. V: Shot of the districts near Boston shown on Brett's map. George notes that Boston and Cambridge are each losing a seat in the legislature; that two new legislative seats will be created on the South Shore and Cape Cod. V: Shots of Brett pointing to the map; of the audience members. Footage of Brett joking that he might need a security fence around his house after the redistricting plan is filed. Shots of audience members listening to Brett. George reports that minority voters and Republican voters want to protect their districts; that the redistricting may allow Republicans to win one of the new seats on the South Shore. V: Footage of Peter Forman (State Representative from Plymouth) saying that he is very happy with the plan because there are two new districts in suburban areas. Footage of Byron Rushing (State Representative) saying that Brett asks representatives in neighboring districts to come to him with group proposals for redistricting; that Brett's efforts to take those proposals into account have led to acceptance of the plan. Shot of Brett entering the House Chambers with another lawmaker. George reports that it is difficult to combine districts; that the act of combining districts pits two incumbent lawmakers against one another. V: Shot from above of Harvard Square in Cambridge. George notes that the shrinking population in Cambridge forced the combinations of three districts into two districts. George reports that Peter Vellucci (State Representative from Cambridge) voted for the redistricting plan; that Vellucci will lose his Cambridge district and be forced to run in Somerville. V: Footage of Vellucci saying that he does not believe that the plan was drawn up according to the wishes of Charles Flaherty (Majority Leader, Massachusetts House of Representatives). Vellucci says that Flaherty and Saundra Graham (State Representative) have always had districts in Cambridge. George notes that Brett's own district in Dorchester was combined with the district of Paul White (State Representative); that White is expected to run for Senate next year. V: Shots of a residential street in Dorchester. Footage of White saying that Brett will have a long political career ahead of him; that Dorchester voters will have a chance to vote for him and Brett in the future. Shot of an electronic board indicating the results of the vote in the House Chambers; of George Keverian (Speaker of the House) presiding proceedings in the House Chambers. George stands outside of the House Chambers. George reports that the vote was 151 to 1 in favor of the proposal. George notes that Keverian picked Brett to draw up the redistricting plan; that Keverian himself was in charge of a previous redistricting plan years ago.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/13/1987

Redistricting (Dorchester) part 1

Description: Profile of changing Dorchester demographics. Population shifts in overall numbers and in ethnic composition. Rep. James Brett, architect of House redistricting plan. part 1 of 3.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/22/1987