Description: Boston skyline. Waterfront buildings from boat moving across harbor. Marina, rows of piers, drain pipe dripping into harbor, oily surface of water, pollution.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/22/1987
Description: Retrospective of fifty years of the Boston Housing Authority, the largest landlord in the city, and one of the largest such agencies in the country. 50th anniversary ball at Park Plaza Hotel; guests include Doris Bunte, Edward Brooke, Byron Rushing, Michael Dukakis, Mel King, Ray Flynn, Bruce Bolling, William Bulger, Harry Spence. Interviews on BHA history include Lewis Weinstein, Joseph Slavet, Paul Garrity, Peter Dreier. Scenes of squalor inside housing projects. Many families remain residents for generations. Tenants' class action suit led by Armando Perez. On the need for racial integration, Doris Bunte says “separate always means separate and unequal.” Scenes of the city's subsidized developments in varying degrees of neglect or renovation. Examples of the breadth and density of the projects. Archival film and stills. Compiled from five-part series from 11/1986. ,Harris
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/01/1987
Description: Hotel workers union Local 26 is not being permitted to protest against Boston Marathon sponsor and Back Bay Hilton owner, John Hancock, during the race. Start of the Boston Marathon. Interview with union leader Domenic Bozzotto. Hearing on the protesting. Several union protests. Footage from a John Hancock Boston Marathon commercial.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/16/1987
Description: SPECTATOR “PARTICIPATION” at Boston MARATHON. FILE OF RACE. WHEELCHAIR COMPETITORS.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/20/1987
Description: BU NURSING SCHOOL LIKELY TO CLOSE FOR LACK OF FUNDS, LOW ENROLLMENT
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/13/1987
Description: Ray Flynn is confronted by William Bulger at press conference on controversial South Bay site for proposed incinerator.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/17/1987
Description: CONSTRUCTION WORKERS OUTRAGED AT NON-UNION JOBS IN BOSTON, PICKETERS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/29/1987
Description: Father Peter Conley, Boston Archdiocesan spokesman, defends Pilot's editorial opposing gay rights bill. He explains Church's stance against homosexuality. Anti-Catholic protesters. Altar boys.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/20/1987
Description: Portrait of Boston's Charles Street neighborhood through Jeff Dunn's B+W photographs intercut with comments from subjects of the photos.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/20/1987
Description: Show of Chinese wares from Gwangdung (Canton province) at Boston World Trade Center to promote commerce. Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy. Economic Affairs Secretary Joseph Alviani.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/24/1987