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Description: Reporter Christopher Lydon talks about presidential campaign. Reporter Gail Harris reports on President Ronald Reagan's press conference about an environmental report; footage of Lieutenant Governor John Kerry, David Bartley, and Congressman James Shannon (all candidates for US Senate) commenting on acid rain. Bartley says Kerry and Shannon are not doing enough about acid rain. Harris reports on new seat belt and air bag regulations. Lydon presents mobster Raymond Patriarca obituary, compares Patriarca to "The Godfather." Harris reports on new technology for detecting cancer. Footage of South Norfolk Council for Children representative Cathy Wheeler telling story of "Angie." Reporter Meg Vaillancourt gives stats for residential programs for youth with mental health issues. Footage of New Bedford Council for Children representative Jean Peterson talking about budget. Philip Johnston, human services secretary talks about state of children's mental healthcare. Dr. Eli Newberger (of Children's Hospital) testifies on state funding of mental health support services for children. Dr. Michael Jellinek (Chief of Child Psychology at Mass. General Hospital) talks about budget. Vaillancourt talks about growing difficulty of mental health over time. Charles Fried (Harvard Law School) and Anthony Lewis (New York Times) studio interview on Supreme Court at term's end: apparently conservative trend and states' rights inclination in recent decisions. Broadcast ends with international news: OPEC; Libyan bombing; dock worker strike in Great Britain; correspondent in England talks about economic situation of British Pound Sterling.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/11/1984

TOYS

Description: Footage for a story on the commercialization of cartoons and the link between cartoons and toys. Interiors of a toy store with closeups on individual toys, especially action figures. Shots of shoppers in the story, a child with her grandparents. Interview with shopper, Virginia Bernard, on toys, TV and how she buys her granddaughter toys from shows she doesn't actually like. Several takes of each section of reporter stand up. Interview with psychiatrist from Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School about the link between cartoons, toys, and the effect on children.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/18/1985

TRIPLE DECKERS

Description: TRIPLE DECKERS IN DORCHESTER, KIDS PLAYING IN PARK, HOUSING RENOVATION
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/31/1982

The Jason Project

Description: Children visit Museum of Science to see live undersea pictures via robot camera from a Mediterranean exploration ship. The Jason Project.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/10/1989

The real Mission Hill

Description: Mission Hill residents gather to discuss the real character of their ethnically mixed, stable neighborhood. Mission Hill streets and triple deckers. Children on playground.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1990

UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE

Description: UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE EXTERIORS AND INTERIORS, STAGED MAN WAITS IN LINES, GETS CHECK. CHILDREN PLAYING BASEBALL IN STREET, RIDING BICYCLES
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/04/1983

VIDEO GAMES

Description: KIDS PLAYING VIDEO GAMES AT 1001 PLAYS IN CAMBRIDGE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1983

Vietnam Present Tense

Description: Reporter's journal on life in Vietnam 15 years after the US left. People bicycling in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Water buffalo. Elderly man practicing tai chi. Rice paddy. River in Mekong Delta with brown water and shabby boats. Destitute families sleeping in street in Saigon. Historical novelist Anthony Gray. Comment from Vietnamese man about new freedom of expression in press and government. Comments on the forgiving attitude toward Americans; they see the war as history and move forward without animosity. Faces of smiling children en masse. Amerasian children. Market with bins of beans and bananas. Da Nang Hospital exterior and primitive ward; doctor tells of dire lack of medical equipment and antibiotics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/19/1989

Voke's children's budget

Description: Richard Voke is honored for advocating Healthy Start program to safeguard infant care. As House Ways & Means chair, he fights for "pro-children's" budget.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/26/1988

WORKFARE

Description: An African American mother and her children are at home in their apartment in the Columbia Point Housing Project in Dorchester. The children eat a meal in the kitchen while their mother washes dishes in the sink. Three girls watch television in a bedroom. Another girl tidies up a bedroom in the apartment. Shots of members of the family leaving the apartment building. African American children play in the courtyard of the apartment building.
1:00:00: Visual: An African American mother and her children are in the kitchen of their apartment in the Columbia Point Housing Project in Dorchester. The mother works at the sink. Her children are eating a meal at the table. Music plays in the background. One of the boys at the table picks at the meat on his plate. The mother continues to wash the dishes. Some of the children are finished with their meal and stand around the kitchen. Three of the children eat their meals at the table. Shot of an adolescent girl eating her meal at the table. A teenage girl checks on food in the oven. The mother continues to wash the dishes. Shot of the food on a plate on the table. The children and the mother talk amongst themselves. Shot of a young girl seated at the table, picking meat off of a bone. Shot of the mother's hands washing dishes. Shot of two young boys who are sharing a seat at the table. 1:05:06: V: The mother clears the table as the children leave the kitchen. A young African American man stands in the kitchen with the mother. 1:05:21: V: Three girls sit on a bed in a bedroom, watching Three's Company on television. Shots of the television; of a teenage girl watching television; of a young girl sitting on the bed. 1:07:23: V: A teenage girl plays a song by Michael Jackson on the stereo in another bedroom. She tidies up the bedroom while listening to the music. Shots of the stereo, photos, and a greeting card on top of the dresser. 1:11:02: V: The crew sets up a shot of the young man and the children exiting the apartment building. The young man holds the hand of one of the young children. Shot of the exterior of the apartment building. African American children play in the courtyard of the building. The children jump rope. Shot of the other buildings in the housing project. Children play in courtyards of the buildings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/24/1983