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Ten O'Clock News; Blue Hill Avenue
06/20/1979
Ride along Blue Hill Avenue. Decrepit, boarded up and abandoned storefronts. Many defunct businesses. Vacant lot. Zion Apostolic and Immanuel Pentecostal Churches. Warren Street intersection. Bridge Free Medical Van. Houses on Supple Road. Prince Hall Masonic Lodge. Sign for the Mayor's Office of Housing. Street sweeping vehicle. Mayor Kevin White walks with Julian Bond through neighborhood with press entourage. White answers questions about his candidacy and housing policy decisions as mayor especially involving the Boston Housing Authority, and says urban revitalization will come to reality within 3-5 years but need more federal $$. White and Bond meet local business owners and community members.
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- Series
- Ten O'Clock News
- Title
Blue Hill Avenue
- Series Description
NIGHTLY NEWS WITH CHRISTOPHER LYDON AND CARMEN FIELDS Began January 1976. Replaced evening news show EVENING COMPASS. Original host: Steve Nevas. Other anchors, Christopher Lydon (1977-91) and Gail Harris (1983). In 1980 - hour long. Ended in 1991.
(PREDECESSORS: Louis Lyons began news operations at WGBH in 1952. The News at 10 began in 1966. The Reporters premiered in 1970. The Evening Compass started in 1974.) Series release date: 1/1976
- Duration
00:21:44
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Neighborhoods
- Bond, Julian, 1940-
- Urban renewal
- White, Kevin H.
- Business
- Boston Housing Authority
- Locations
- Roxbury (Boston, Mass.)
- Genres
- News Report
- Topics
- News
- Contributors
- Husock, Howard (Reporter)
- White, Kevin H. (Speaker)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Ten O'Clock News; Blue Hill Avenue,” 06/20/1979, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed May 25, 2019, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_AF2B99C9C5D24023AC53335E26CC56AD.
- MLA: “Ten O'Clock News; Blue Hill Avenue.” 06/20/1979. WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. May 25, 2019. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_AF2B99C9C5D24023AC53335E26CC56AD>.
- APA: Ten O'Clock News; Blue Hill Avenue. Boston, MA: WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_AF2B99C9C5D24023AC53335E26CC56AD