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Evening Compass, The; Evening Compass (09/11/1975); Evening Compass broadcast
09/11/1975
Evening Compass newscast during the first week of Phase II integration of Boston schools. Ed Baumeister reads school attendance statistics and reports on the stoning of a bus in Jamaica Plain. Pam Bullard reports on resistance to busing among Hyde Park parents. She interviews Hyde Park residents Paul Murphy, Ginny McCarthy, William Wager, Sylvia Connaughton, Pauline Haley, and Eddie Remondi. Remondi invokes the civil disobedience of Martin Luther King as a model for the antibusing movement. Gary Griffith reports on complaints of police brutality by Tactical Patrol Force officers in South Boston, Charlestown and Roxbury. Bill MacDonald, Joseph Rowan, William Johnston, Val Williams, and Kathy Fitzpatrick (all of the Boston Police Department) talk about the TPF and respond to the charges of brutality. Baumeister reports on how busing has affected East Boston. He interviews East Boston residents Rose DiScisio, Mina DeFilippo, Mrs. Jay DiGiangregorio and Evelyn Babin about busing. Judy Stoia interviews Dennis Kearney (State Representative), Gloria Conway (Editor, Charlestown Patriot) and Mon O'Shea (Associate Dean, Bunker Hill Community College) about youth violence in Charlestown. Conway, Kearney and O'Shea complain that the media has exaggerated the violence in Charlestown; that youth violence is a problem across the city. Greg Pilkington reports on his conversation with James Nabrit (attorney for the plaintiffs, Brown v. Board of Education) about busing as a means to achieve school desegregation. Pilkington reports that Nabrit says that busing is a necessary remedy for school desegregation.
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- Series
- Evening Compass, The
- Program
- Evening Compass (09/11/1975)
- Title
Evening Compass broadcast
- Series Description
Premiered January 1974
The Evening Compass was a half-hour program airing Monday - Friday at 7 pm, repeated at 10:30. With co-anchormen Ed Baumeister and Louis Lyons, its purpose was to interpret news already reported elsewhere and to recognize, report and interpret news not reported elsewhere. Compass Specials were occasional broadcasts at other times that usually covered actual events as opportunities and resources permitted. Evening Compass incorporated the staff of Louis Lyons/News and Comment and The Reporters.
See Prime Time January and February 1974 for cover stories. Series release date: 1/2/1974
- Program Description
Evening Compass newscast during the first week of Phase II integration of Boston schools. Ed Baumeister reads school attendance statistics and reports on the stoning of a bus in Jamaica Plain. Pam Bullard reports on resistance to busing among Hyde Park parents. She interviews Hyde Park residents Paul Murphy, Ginny McCarthy, William Wager, Sylvia Connaughton, Pauline Haley, and Eddie Remondi. Remondi invokes the civil disobedience of Martin Luther King as a model for the anti-busing movement. Gary Griffith reports on complaints of police brutality by Tactical Patrol Force officers in South Boston, Charlestown and Roxbury. Bill MacDonald, Joseph Rowan, William Johnston, Val Williams, and Kathy Fitzpatrick (all of the Boston Police Department) talk about the TPF and respond to the charges of brutality. Baumeister reports on how busing has affected East Boston. He interviews East Boston residents Rose DiScisio, Mina DeFilippo, Mrs. Jay DiGiangregorio and Evelyn Babin about busing. Judy Stoia interviews Dennis Kearney (State Representative), Gloria Conway (Editor, Charlestown Patriot) and Mon O'Shea (Associate Dean, Bunker Hill Community College) about youth violence in Charlestown. Conway, Kearney and O'Shea complain that the media has exaggerated the violence in Charlestown; that youth violence is a problem across the city. Greg Pilkington reports on his conversation with James Nabrit (attorney for the plaintiffs, Brown v. Board of Education) about busing as a means to achieve school desegregation. Pilkington reports that Nabrit says that busing is a necessary remedy for school desegregation.
- Duration
00:28:37
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- White, Kevin H.
- Atkins, Thomas I., 1939-2008
- School attendance
- Police brutality
- Race relations
- Busing for school integration
- Women
- Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Violence
- Locations
- Hyde Park (Boston, Mass.)
- Jamaica Plain (Boston, Mass.)
- Genres
- News Report
- Topics
- News
- Creators
- Stuart, Charles (Series Producer)
- Contributors
- Griffith, Gary (Reporter)
- Stoia, Judy (Reporter)
- Baumeister, Ed (Reporter)
- Pilkington, Greg (Reporter)
- Bullard, Pam (Reporter)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Evening Compass, The; Evening Compass (09/11/1975); Evening Compass broadcast,” 09/11/1975, GBH Archives, accessed December 7, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7466D4E75C7C43F1B3D85962FE4ED440.
- MLA: “Evening Compass, The; Evening Compass (09/11/1975); Evening Compass broadcast.” 09/11/1975. GBH Archives. Web. December 7, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7466D4E75C7C43F1B3D85962FE4ED440>.
- APA: Evening Compass, The; Evening Compass (09/11/1975); Evening Compass broadcast. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7466D4E75C7C43F1B3D85962FE4ED440