Description: Comments on flag desecration. File of flag being burned, used as clothing, symbol of protest, flying from buildings. Sen. David Locke. Fireworks, Hatch Shell concert at night.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/03/1989
Description: Michael Dukakis press conference to announce drastic line item vetoes to balance FY90 budget. Calls $500 million cuts "worst thing I've ever had to do in my political career." Mothers with children protest at Dukakis' office.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/13/1989
Description: Human services workers and children march to State House with placards to demand more money for day care, foster care, homeless and social welfare agencies. Rep. Barbara Hildt, Judy Meredith.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/04/1989
Description: Planned Parenthood staff and patients in Brookline incur harassment after Supreme Court abortion decision. Empty waiting room, exam room, office interior. Protesters and police scurry outside clinic.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1989
Description: In corridors of State House, Rep. Byron Rushing addresses pro-tax rally organized by Tax Equity Alliance for Mass. They assemble to demand support for human services. James Braude, Barbara Anderson.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/31/1989
Description: Silent procession up State House steps to protest massive funding cuts in mental health programs. Mock funeral in St. Paul's Cathedral for endangered human services.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1989
Description: Walpole residents protest in front of State House against siting grit landfill in their town. Meanwhile at board meeting, MWRA votes to approve the site. Sewage disposal.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1989
Description: MIT students build robots at artificial intelligence lab and demonstrate their designs in competition.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/03/1989
Description: 1) Operation Rescue prepares for protest at St. Agatha's Church in Milton. Mildred Jefferson, Bill Baird. Pro-choice march outside church. 2) Cocaine abuse among white collar people. 3) Aflatoxin - liver carcinogen produced by fungus on drought-affected corn. 4) Interview with Rep. Frank Hynes and Sen. Michael Barrett on legislators earning outside income. 5) Felicia Lamport verse on John Tower's dilemma. Anchors Lydon and Fields.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/02/1989
Description: High performance driver Bob Bondurant takes road tour of Boston, negotiating traffic to demonstrate evasive maneuvers + emergency tactics he learned as Formula One racer. Race track.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/21/1989