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Ten O'Clock News; Police outside South Boston High
09/14/1976
Commissioner Robert DiGrazia, Boston police and US marshals stationed outside South Boston High. Black students exit school, get on bus. Buses slowly come and go. Many officials mill about on sidewalk. Headmaster Jerome Wynegar talks to Joseph Jordan. Later, white students flow out of school en masse. Comments, some racist, from the crowd waiting outside the school can be overheard.
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- Series
- Ten O'Clock News
- Title
Police outside South Boston High
- 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
00:16:10
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Police
- Jordan, Joseph M.
- Busing for school integration
- Schools
- School buildings
- DiGrazia, Robert J.
- School management and organization
- African American students
- Boston (Mass.). Police Dept.
- Locations
- South Boston (Boston, Mass.)
- Genres
- News Report
- Topics
- News
- Citation
- Chicago: “Ten O'Clock News; Police outside South Boston High,” 09/14/1976, GBH Archives, accessed October 3, 2023, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_099660EC980947D0AAAD919D3ABB5AF2.
- MLA: “Ten O'Clock News; Police outside South Boston High.” 09/14/1976. GBH Archives. Web. October 3, 2023. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_099660EC980947D0AAAD919D3ABB5AF2>.
- APA: Ten O'Clock News; Police outside South Boston High. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_099660EC980947D0AAAD919D3ABB5AF2