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TOCN show tape

Description: 1) Boston Teachers Union president Kathy Kelly decries layoffs. Boston Schools Superintendent Robert Spillane says staffing will remain steady. 2) Gov. Michael Dukakis on local aid package. 3) State Supreme Court upholds ban on urea formaldehyde foam insulation; UFFI being blown into shingles. 4) Interview with Michael Rezendes on political favors inside Boston City Hall and BRA. 5) People scurry to open IRAs at Fidelity by tax deadline; Shawmut Bank exterior. 6) Film critic Sam Kaplan comments on Oscars. Anchors Lydon and McGrath.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/12/1983

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) Attorney general Frank Bellotti on trying to stop Seabrook full power operating license. 2) Interview with NH governor candidate Paul McEachern on Seabrook. 3) Public health commissioner Bailus Walker on studying incidence of cancers near nuclear power plants; testifies before House Ways and Means chair Richard Voke. 4) Jesse Jackson at State House urges access to higher education by keeping state college tuition affordable. 5) Interview with Dudley Herschbach, professor of chemistry at Harvard, after winning Nobel Prize. Likes teaching freshmen because it keeps him focused on fundamentals. Compares science to art and music because they "can change they way you look at things." He assigns poetry writing to his students and reads a sample on quantum mechanics. Anchor Lydon.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/26/1986

Tip O'Neill scholarship

Description: Tip O'Neill presents college scholarship to East Boston High School senior. Award is sponsored by Massport and named in his honor. Tip tells anecdote about JFK inauguration.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/29/1991

William French Smith

Description: Attorney General William French Smith and US Attorney William Weld at press conference on drug trafficking task force. Interview with Smith on receiving “Conservative of the Year” Award from Tufts students. He comments on Justice Department investigating possible leaks of classified information.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/30/1983

Zwelakhe Sisulu

Description: Christopher Lydon reports that the Nieman Foundation has awarded Zwelakhe Sisulu (South African journalist) the Louis Lyons Award. Sisulu has been jailed by the South African government and has not been charged with a crime. Michael Pride (Concord Monitor of Concord, NH) and Al Max (Chairman, Lyons Committee) at a press conference. Pride talks about Sisulu's courage. Max says that Sisulu is the third South African journalist to win the award. Lydon notes that Zwelakhe Sisulu is the son of Walter Sisulu (founder of the African National Congress), who has been jailed since 1964 and is featured prominently in a new documentary film about the life of Nelson Mandela. Lydon's report includes photos of Zwelakhe Sisulu and footage from the HBO film Mandela. Fernando Lima (Mozambique News Agency) speaks about Zwelakhe Sisulu.
1:00:03: Visual: Footage of Mike Pride (Concord Monitor of Concord, NH) at a press conference. Pride talks about Zwelakhe Sisulu's great courage in the face of adversity. Shots of photos of Sisulu. Christopher Lydon reports that Sisulu's father was the founder of the African National Congress (ANC); that Walter Sisulu and Zwelakhe Sisulu are both in jail in South Africa. V: Footage from the Home Box Office (HBO) film Mandela. Lydon reports that Walter Sisulu is a major figure in the HBO film about the life of Nelson Mandela (ANC leader). Lydon notes that Mandela has been jailed since 1962; that Walter Sisulu has been jailed since 1964; that Oliver Tambo (ANC leader) has been exiled from South Africa. Shot of a black and white photo of Zwelakhe Sisulu. Lydon reports that Zwelakhe Sisulu has been jailed; that Zwelakhe Sisulu has not been charged with any crime. Lydon notes that Zwelakhe Sisulu will be honored by the Neiman Foundation. V: Footage of Al Max (Chairman, Lyons Committee) at a press conference. Max says that Sisulu is the third South African to have won the award. Max says that he hopes that Sisulu will be the last South African to win the award while in in prison. Footage of Fernando Lima (Mozambique News Agency). Lima speaks for Zwelakhe Sisulu, saying that apartheid is the cause of the trouble and disturbances in South Africa.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/18/1987