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Ruby Braff

Description: Cornetist Ruby Braff reminisces about Boston in an earlier era. Offers an appreciation of Louis Armstrong.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/11/1984

SPEECH RECOGNITION

Description: IBM film on computer software that produces words on the screen by human speech recognition. Two speakers using technology to write memos. Demonstration of several features, like adding new words to the dictionary and editing previously written memos.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/01/1984

Slandering Kerry and Shamie?

Description: Mid America Conservative Political Action Committee (MACPAC) organized conservative callers to talk radio programs to falsely accuse US Senate candidate John Kerry of being a Communist or “Viet Cong sympathizer” because of his leadership in Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Peter Meade, David Brudnoy, Jerry Williams. Globe reports opponent Ray Shamie belonged to John Birch Society. Kerry says he has been slandered in the campaign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/23/1984

Soviet émigré family

Description: Soviet émigré family at Nantasket Beach tell why they left Leningrad. (Spoken in Russian with translation.)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/17/1984

St. William's parish

Description: The troubles of St. William's parish. High view of Savin Hill rooftops. B+W photo of church band. Demise of band and youth activities as metaphor for deterioration of the parish. Father Frank Crowley.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/03/1984

Tax amnesty

Description: Massachusetts offered three months of amnesty for delinquent state taxpayers. Should the IRS adopt a similar program to capture lost revenue? People line up to pay state. Paperwork being stamped. Sen. John Kerry. Ira Jackson. Exterior IRS Service Center.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1984

Ten years after court order

Description: Review of the first few years of court ordered desgregation, including explosion of racism and violence, and the heavy police patrol required to keep things under control. Garrity is still in charge of the Boston schools. Although things are more quiet, and certain programs are working , like magnet schools, a high percentage of Boston students are still significantly under the national average. The Boston school system is also still overwhelmingly made up of minority students. Black parents propose ‘freedom of choice’ plan. Interviews with Robert Peterkin, Robert Spillane, and other officials. Classroom scenes of the current school system,highlighting Mildred Reed and her daughter Kim. They are Jamaica Plain residents, and Kim is bused to Brighton High School. Interview with Kim, where she talks about the benefits of being bused. Scenes of Kim getting on the bus, the bus ride, and in school.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1984

The Five States of Massachusetts

Description: Profiles of five demographic/ideological groups in Massachusetts: Yankee towns, urban ethnic centers, liberals, conservatives, suburbs. Hanover Town Hall and mall, suburban home, boat in driveway, dog on lawn. Golfers, tract housing, ranch house. Goose, duck, Ashby market and hardware. Lunenberg post office, cows. Lowell. Bulldozer, scaffolding, brick factory, smokestacks, McDonald's, Cambodian market. State Police mounted unit, horses. Lincoln Guide Service. B+M train goes through railroad crossing, commuters alight. Conservation land. more…
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/14/1984

Voter registration drive

Description: Drive takes place at downtown T stations to sign up some of the state's 1.3 million unregistered voters. Sen. David Locke complains that the appeal is mainly to potential Democrats. Gov. Michael Dukakis denies partisanship, though the disenfranchised tend to be poor and minority people … a more likely fit with the Democratic party.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1984

Women voters on Ferraro

Description: Story on the changes in the way women are voting, and the way they voted specifically in the 1984 presidential election. Interviews with women voters about the Mondale-Ferraro ticket. One woman says “If Godzilla were running against Reagan, I would have voted Godzilla." Interview with Rep. Susan Schur on the way the voters decided who to vote for in the 1984 presidential election, especially women voters. Footage from Bush/Ferraro vice-presidential debate. Interview with man on contemporary women's voting practices. Examination of women's voting in Massachusetts specifically, including for both Mondale/Ferraro, and for John Kerry in the Senate. Footage of many campaign rallies, including for Gary Hart, Mondale, Ferraro, Kerry, and Reagan. Massachusetts Republicans applaud Reagan, who embraces Dapper O'Neil on City Hall Plaza.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/08/1984