Description: JOHN KERRY, EDWARD KENNEDY, RAY FLYNN, MICHAEL DUKAKIS AT FERRARO CAMPAIGN RALLY AT BOSTON CITY HALL
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/26/1984
Description: MICHAEL DUKAKIS AND KENNEDY CAMPAIGNING FOR MONDALE / FERRARO RALLY, KENNEDY, RAY FLYNN, TOM MCGEE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/26/1984
Description: In US Senate race Republican candidate Ray Shamie speaks on State House steps in rain. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige appears on his behalf, endorsing Shamie's emphasis on job creation. Shamie says he will support no new taxes. Expects Ronald Reagan to campaign in Massachusetts. Says state should commit surplus funds to alleviate child malnutrition. Group of West Point cadets speak to Shamie and Baldrige.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/26/1984
Description: WALTER MONDALE RALLY ON BOSTON COMMON. Tip O'Neill, Edward Kennedy, Michael Dukakis, John Kerry.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1984
Description: George McGovern for president rally in Copley Square. Arlo Guthrie sings “Blowin' in the Wind.” Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. McGovern also speaks inside Copley Plaza Hotel.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/12/1984
Description: RALLY ON CITY HALL PLAZA, RONALD REAGAN ENDS SPEECH, GETS POT OF BOSTON BAKED BEANS. RAY SHAMIE AND MARGARET HECKLER PRESENT.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/01/1984
Description: Interview with John Kerry during his first campaign for a Senate seat. He discusses his motivation for becoming a national politician. He talks about the impact fighting in Vietnam had on him, and how the lessons from Vietnam are still relevant. He discusses public opinion about himself. He talks about the positives and negatives of campaigning. He talks about what he would like to do if he wasn't in politics, including producing a movie. There is some video dropout at the end.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/19/1984
Description: Barney Frank at a press conference. He discusses the threat that the John Birch Society poses to rational politics. He quotes their opinion that America is being increasingly controlled by communism and on their attack on the genocide convention. He discusses Ray Shamie's connection to the John Birch Society, especially in the context of his campaign for the Senate, running against John Kerry. Frank mentions his relationship with Republicans and his fear of the effect far right wings groups, like the John Birch Society, are having on American politics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/11/1984
Description: Mid America Conservative Political Action Committee (MACPAC) organized conservative callers to talk radio programs to falsely accuse US Senate candidate John Kerry of being a Communist or “Viet Cong sympathizer” because of his leadership in Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Peter Meade, David Brudnoy, Jerry Williams. Globe reports opponent Ray Shamie belonged to John Birch Society. Kerry says he has been slandered in the campaign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/23/1984
Description: Clash between white and Hispanic residents in Lawrence. Gerald Ford visits Boston to endorse Elliot Richardson for Senate. Interview with film director James Ivory and actor Madeleine Potter on Henry James' “The Bostonians” starring Christopher Reeve and Vanessa Redgrave (clip). Artist Maggie Sherman's fanciful plaster face masks of residents of Montgomery, Vermont exhibited at Children's Museum. Anchors Lydon and Bennett.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/10/1984