Series: The Ten O'Clock News
Date: 1984-03-29
Duration: 00:20:17

People: deTemple, Patrick; King, Mel; Putnam, Martin;
Geography: El Salvador|

Clip Description
Mel King (social activist), Patrick deTemple (attorney, City of Cambridge) and Martin Putnam (attorney) hold a press conference to report on their nine-day trip to El Salvador to observe elections. The delegates discuss the Salvadoran people's view of the US; US policy in El Salvador; their treatment by the Salvadoran governement; the Salvadoran government's response to public protest during the election; the reluctance of Salvadoran citizens to criticize their own government; the willingness of Salvadoran citizens to criticize the US government's policy toward El Salvador.King discusses the role of the "guerillas" in El Salvador and their impact on the election. King and Putnam talk about the problems in the election and the likelihood that the same problems will occur in the runoff election.Tape 2 of 2.

Series Description
A local program aimed at the Boston audience, The Ten O'Clock News debuted on January 15, 1976. Its two immediate predecessors were The Reporters and Evening Compass. A news and public affairs show focusing on neighborhood, local and state issues, The Reporters was produced and broadcast on WGBH from 1970 to 1973. The Reporters was then replaced by Evening Compass, which expanded into a twice-nightly news broadcast during the tense moments of Boston's busing crisis. On the air from 1973 to 1975, Evening Compass found an audience through its in-depth coverage of school desegregation in Boston, which began in 1974. The Ten O'Clock News stood out as an in-depth news program. It strove for a balance between local and national stories, between politics and the Arts. The last The Ten O'Clock News program was broadcast on May 30, 1991.

See also: http://main.wgbh.org/ton/programs/2657_02