Description:
ROBERT STUTMAN OF DEA WARNS BOSTON ABOUT ADVENT OF CRACK from NYC. Ray Flynn.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
08/19/1986
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Description:
Boston City Council votes to accept needle exchange plan to reduce transmission of AIDS. Dapper O'Neil creates a fuss. Bruce Bolling, David Scondras, Ray Flynn. Drug paraphernalia, shooting up.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
04/27/1988
Description:
Influx of crack to Boston. Interview with addict in detox center.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
08/19/1986
Description:
Press conference held by the South End Drug Committee. They are protesting Mayor Kevin White's drug program Project Turn-off, especially the housing of the program Franklin Square House. They say that this program is not serving the needs of the black community. They accuse the program of pushing methadone into the community because of incorrect distribution methods. African American man and a white clergyman from St. Stephen's address the press. They discuss a meeting the next day which will present community programs which will better serve the community. Bottles of liquid methadone.
Collection:
WHDH
Date Created:
08/24/1970
Description:
A hearing with a panel of men ask another man questions about drug use, specifically speed, heroin, and LSD in the hippie movement. They ask another man questions about his personal drug use and dealing. He calls marijuana a harmless drug. They ask questions about drug trafficking in the hippie movement on the Boston Common. The man tells a story about young suburban kids coming to aggravate the hippies living on the Common, and start fights.
Collection:
WHDH
Date Created:
1968
Description:
INTERVIEW WITH NATHANIEL ASKIA, DIRECTOR OF FIRST INC, DRUG REHABILITATION CENTER. CLIPS FROM "SUPER FLY" AND "MIAMI VICE" GLAMORIZING COCAINE
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
05/01/1987
Description:
Heroin samples at state police drug lab. White powder in glassine envelopes and individual packets of injectable doses. Contents of envelopes poured onto balance scale, weight recorded. Four samples put through lab procedures: diluted with unspecified liquids, shaken in test tubes, turn colors.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
02/07/1979
Description:
Compilation of silent and sound footage about the presence of hippies in Cambridge and Boston. Harvard Square and Cambridge Common environs. Reporter standup on a police raid at a "hippie apartment" arresting members of a group called "the Diggers." Interviews with Police Sergeant Duncan O'Neill and Digger member Vernon Becker. Rock band plays to a crowd. Hippies playing music surrounded by people sitting on grass of the Cambridge Common. Interview with Dr. Faderman and Dr. Allen on the hippie lifestyle and societal reactions to the movement. Interviews with Ian Frankenstein, Lou Crampton, Sofia Gibbons, Patricia Keating and other commune members, who describe their communal accommodations and lifestyle on Fort Hill. Discussion of drug use in the hippie movement. Interview with Cambridge Mayor Daniel Hayes on his legal crackdown on hippie communities. They shoot the cutaways of the reporter Jim Pansullo reasking the questions.
Collection:
WHDH
Date Created:
1967...1968
Description:
4 days of testimony in Jesse Waters / George Vest dope & graft trial.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
09/23/1986
Description:
Methadone clinic criticized for not allowing enough time (18 months) for detox from maintenance program. Heroin.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
01/06/1988
