Description: Dukakis speaks in Lowell, inaugurates his train campaign à la Truman's whistle stops. He answers suggestion that he is not campaigning aggressively enough against Bush. Paul Tsongas.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/22/1988
Description: Funeral of Lowell bookie Jackie McDermott (outside church). Speculation he was murdered because he could inform police about both organized crime and political corruption. Scott Harshbarger.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/13/1988
Description: Lowell teachers vote to strike (illegally) because of unsatisfactory contract raise. Teachers picket. Lowell street scenes. Boys on skateboards.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1988
Description: 8 Lowell families must relocate because their homes are on hazardous waste site. Rep. Chester Atkins says developers should have known not to build on contaminated soil.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/26/1988
Description: Lowell faces major budget deficit in trying to serve large population of Southeast Asian refugees; requests federal assistance. Cambodian immigrant workers in restaurant & grocery. Mayor Richard Howe
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1988
Description: Profile of University of Lowell as affordable institution where high tech education is paramount. Student union building. Classrooms where computer graphics and robotics are developed. Cafeteria, lab.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/13/1988