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Ten O'Clock News; South Boston High School
09/13/1976
State and Boston police and US marshals outside South Boston High School. Black students get off buses. Headmaster Jerome Wynegar. Girls in parochial school uniforms walk by. More black students get off buses, walk up to school. Police on motorcycles escort empty buses away from school. Mass of white students wait at iron fence. TV cameramen and news photographers stand by. Girl wearing Southie sweatshirt. White students are allowed to enter school.
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- Series
- Ten O'Clock News
- Title
South Boston High School
- 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
00:20:36
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- School integration
- Students
- Police
- Massachusetts. Dept. of State Police
- Busing for school integration
- Schools
- Boston (Mass.). Police Dept.
- African American students
- School uniforms
- Locations
- South Boston (Boston, Mass.)
- Genres
- News Report
- Topics
- News
- Contributors
- Bullard, Pam (Reporter)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Ten O'Clock News; South Boston High School,” 09/13/1976, GBH Archives, accessed December 6, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_76E87A4D25DB44F4B18C8DD5C919D3F6.
- MLA: “Ten O'Clock News; South Boston High School.” 09/13/1976. GBH Archives. Web. December 6, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_76E87A4D25DB44F4B18C8DD5C919D3F6>.
- APA: Ten O'Clock News; South Boston High School. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_76E87A4D25DB44F4B18C8DD5C919D3F6