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Bus terminals

Description: Greyhound bus terminal in Boston. Passengers enter. Bank of pay telephones. Student sits on duffel bag on floor in front of coin lockers. People buy tickets, board bus. Bonanza and Vermont Transit buses parked. Inside station elderly and young people wait in chairs, some with small tvs. Continental Trailways revolving sign. Gray Line bus parked outside Trailways terminal. Travelers carry suitcases. Peter Pan and Almeida buses.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/09/1979

Cleveland Circle stabbing

Description: Cleveland Circle storefronts on Beacon Street. Cars parked at angle to curb. Interview with Billy Ward, Brookline High School senior, about stabbing murder at pizza parlor during altercation among teens. Trucking shot of brick houses in affluent neighborhood.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/21/1979

Mondale at Boston College graduation

Description: Boston College's 103rd commencement. Walter Mondale speaks to press on strategic arms reduction, before addressing Boston College commencement. He states the need to ratify the recently concluded strategic arms agreement with the Soviet Union. Graduates of the class of 1979 file onto field while band plays. Views of crowd, graduates. Speech welcoming friends and family.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/21/1979

Vote to oust Silber

Description: People leaving meeting at Boston University. Interview with Howard Zinn on vote to remove John Silber as BU president. Zinn says acts of conscience and criticism of administration result in retribution. He calls for a change in the situation at BU. Interview with John Silber, who says BU is a place of debate and academic freedom without repression. Faculty assembly votes (456 to 215) to ask Board of Trustees to dismiss Silber. Press conference held by psychology professor Joe Speisman, who speaks on behalf of faculty. Other professors, student leader Maureen Sultzer, and District 65 labor union representative Carol Yorman speak about their support of the vote to remove Silber from office and other related matters.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/18/1979