Description: Lobster fishermen are losing much boat tie-up space on the piers because of high dockage fees and eviction resulting from waterfront development.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1988
Description: Local Central American support organizations, CISPES + CASA, continue struggle against US policy. Contra aid protest. Parachute descending. Old Cambridge Baptist Church (OCBC).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/24/1988
Description: Lonnie Lee Gilchrist, a fired stock broker who fatally shot his former Merrill Lynch boss, pleads not guilty to murder.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/08/1988
Description: Breakfast with Louis Rukeyser, host of Wall Street Week. He requires his financial analyst guests to explain stock market in lay language. He makes whimsical comments, keeps perspective, winks.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/01/1988
Description: Lowell teachers vote to strike (illegally) because of unsatisfactory contract raise. Teachers picket. Lowell street scenes. Boys on skateboards.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1988
Description: 8 Lowell families must relocate because their homes are on hazardous waste site. Rep. Chester Atkins says developers should have known not to build on contaminated soil.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/26/1988
Description: Harvard University Hasty Pudding Club names Lucille Ball the 1988 Woman of the Year. Harvard University marching band plays "I Love Lucy" theme song as they accompany Lucy along the street. Footage of the actress accepting the award on stage. Reporter Marcus Jones gives a brief retrospective on the 76-year-old actress's rise to fame before "I Love Lucy," and off-screen involvement in radio and Broadway performances. Clips from feature films that Ball had roles in alongside Catherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, and Fred Astaire. Still image of Ball with Marx Brothers. Clip of Lucy and husband Ricky (Desi Arnaz) announcing pregnancy. Ball tells Hasty Pudding Club a story about inspiration for a chocolate comedy routine. Closing sequence of slapstick clips from "I Love Lucy."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/19/1988
Description: Fire bomb destroyed Lynn home of 40 Cambodian refugees. Red Cross gave food and clothing assistance but could provide only limited shelter. Emergency aid.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/28/1988
Description: Severe overcrowding at MCI Framingham for women inmates. Prisoners voice complaints about treatment. Rows of beds in large dormitory room. Rep. Richard Voke, Angelo Scaccia.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/22/1988
Description: State auditor Joseph DeNucci criticizes MWRA procurement practices. Paul Levy promises to channel spending to sewage treatment for harbor cleanup.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/29/1988