Description: Telephone survey about Boston and state elected officials. Pollsters make phone calls, fill in responses on typed questionnaires.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/02/1979
Description: Timility political ads
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/07/1979
Description: Boston mayoral candidate David Finnegan speaks outside Faneuil Hall in opposition to low property taxes paid by developer of Quincy Market pursuant to deal made with city. He compares the tax rates paid by Faneuil Hall and Milton Street in Dorchester.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/23/1979
Description: Joseph Timilty campaigns in East Boston in mayoral race. B-roll of support signs for Kevin White and Joseph Timilty. An East Boston man denounces Kevin White for mayor. Timilty greets supporters at Maverick Square outside T station. Talks about his campaign strategy. Says main issues for the East Boston neighborhood are water and sewer costs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/19/1979
Description: Campaigning in mayoral race: Joseph Timilty in Ashmont Hill, Dorchester. He speaks on displacement and discusses issues with local families. David Finnegan speaks to press at Boston harbor on returning harbor to its primacy. He explains the importance and efficiency of commuter transportation across the water during an energy crisis.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/02/1979
Description: Senator Howard Baker announces opening of his Massachusetts campaign office for Republican presidential nomination. Introduced by Representative William Robinson, house minority leader. Thomas Trimarco. Baker states his view on the United States' relationship with the Soviet Union and the SALT II treaty (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks). He also speaks on energy policy; gas and oil.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/28/1979
Description: Elliot Richardson holds press conference to announce that he will not run for Senate. Discusses his predictions on the 1980 presidential election.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/16/1979
Description: George Bush as prospective presidential candidate at Logan Airport press conference. Introduced by William Saltonstall.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/01/1979
Description: Kevin White refuses to debate mayoral candidate Joe Timilty. Chuck Turner wants Boston construction jobs to go to city residents. Controversy over Boston Water & Sewer Commission rate increase. 1637 tulip bulb speculation in Holland. Jerry Brown interview.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/22/1979
Description: A pageant of Kennedy family members (including matriarch Rose and Jackie Onassis) assembles at Faneuil Hall to hear Sen. Edward Kennedy announce his presidential candidacy. Ted appears but the tape does not include the announcement itself.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/07/1979