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Evening Compass

Description: Evening Compass late edition newscast covering day 3 of Phase II desegregation in Boston Schools. Ed Baumeister summarizes events and report on school attendance figures. Pam Bullard reports that attendance figures show white students to be in the minority: Peter Meade (Mayor's Office) comments on racial makeup of the school system; Cardinal Medeiros (Archdiocese of Boston) comments on influx of Boston students to parochial schools to avoid busing. School officials comment on the opening of schools: Charles Leftwich (Associate Superintendent of Schools) reports a missing bus and problems with buses arriving late; Robert Donahue (Boston School Department) reports on registration for unassigned students; Frances Condon (Boston School Department) reports on kindergarten registration. Bullard interviews Thayer Fremont-Smith (Lawyer, Boston Home and School Association) about the court action to overturn forced busing. Fremont-Smith says that the court-ordered busing plan is too broad and will result in racially imbalanced schools as a result of declining white enrollment. Edwin Diamond (media critic) analyzes Boston Globe coverage of busing crisis with guests Mike McNamee (MIT student) and Robert Healy (Executive Editor, Boston Globe). Healy says that a local newspaper has to deal with the crisis differently than a national newspaper.
Collection: Evening Compass, The
Date Created: 09/10/1975

Stills of Boston 1850-1920

Description: Subway maps from Boston Transit Commission. Archival photos of downtown Boston and environs 1850-1920. Park Street, Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall, Copley Square, Bowdoin Square, Tremont, School, Arlington, and Newbury Streets, Commonwealth Avenue, Washington Street, Scollay Square, India Wharf, State House.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1977

Amtrak and Orange Line

Description: Back Bay Amtrak station entrance. Train, viewed from above, starts up and moves slowly along tracks. Train histle and bells. Railroad bed. Commuter train pulls up, passengers board. Two trains pass in opposite directions. Looking down tracks to old and new Hancock buildings. Orange line elevated structure along Washington Street. T train passes overhead with typical clunking sound; congested vehicular traffic below. Camera moves on complex steel skeleton of tracks above.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1977

Orange line in southwest corridor

Description: Orange line Egleston station. POV riding up escalator to outdoor platform with few passengers waiting. Empty train pulls up, people board. POV riding along track, looking inbound to Boston and down onto track bed. Train interior. Characteristic screeching and locomotion clunking sounds. Train passes through Dudley station. Map sign of MBTA subway system.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1977

North Station

Description: Commuter train terminal of North Station. Commuters wait on outdoor platform. PA voice announces track numbers, train stops, departure times. Two conductors talk to passenger. Railroad bed strewn with litter. Blue engine car. B&M (Boston and Maine) logo. Man reads newspaper while waiting. Man carries bouquet of flowers. Men carry briefcases. People move en masse to board train. Man smokes. Train slowly pulls out of station, sounds whistle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1978

Park Square environs

Description: Park Square environs. Carl Fischer Music store on Boylston Street. Entrance to Colonial Theater. Gilbert and Sullivan posters flank doors. Continental Trailways Bus sign and terminal. Park Square traffic. Emancipation statue of Abraham Lincoln and kneeling slave. Inscription on base: “A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors.” Avis Rent a Car, Club Max, Teddy Bear Lounge, Park Square Lounge (“ladies invited”), Mouse Trap Cabaret marquee.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/24/1978

Brock Adams on southwest corridor

Description: Outdoor press conference with Brock Adams, US Secretary of Transportation, flanked by Sens. Edward Brooke and Edward Kennedy, on southwest corridor mass transit project. Fred Salvucci stands behind them. $669 million in federal funds approved. An additional $1 billion will be invested through public/private initiatives for urban development contingent with relocation of the orange line. Kennedy and Brooke make grateful remarks. Reps. Mary Good and James Craven. Mel King appears (in t-shirt and baseball cap) to acknowledge the efforts of community activists. This very large scale public works project will create jobs and keep the neighborhoods from being physically divided along racial lines. Adams answers question on air traffic congestion expected at large airports.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/11/1978

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

Green line MBTA

Description: Green line T pulling into and out of Kenmore station underground during rush hour. Old style PCC trolley and newer LRV cars. Driver's point of view, looking down tracks into dark subway tunnel. Passengers get on and off.Passenger reading Benjamin Disraeli. Passenger complains about MBTA service.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/15/1979

MBTA

Description: MBTA, shots of Red Line and Green Line Trains at Park Street Station, standups of reporter Bennett.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/31/1980