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 [Buses at Charlestown High School on the first day of school] Original Airdate: 9/8/1976 Length: 00:20:59 Item Type: newstape - original footage Go to full description for this item. Description : Abstract Police officers and US Marshals are present outside of Charlestown High School on the first day of school during the third year of court-ordered busing in Boston. The media is gathered across the street from the school, at the foot of the Bunker Hill Monument. Robert DiGrazia confers with police and surveys the scene outside of the school. A group of buses with a police motorcycle escort pulls up to the school. African American students exit the buses and enter the school. A crowd of white youth gathers near the school. Dennis Kearney (State Representative) and Robert Murphy (Headmaster, Charlestown High School) talk to the crowd of youths. DiGrazia and Captain Bill MacDonald (Boston Police Department) confer near the crowd.
Subject : Keywords Busing for school integration - First day of school Busing for school integration - Police patrol Busing for school integration - School buildings and classrooms Busing for school integration - Students Charlestown High School Police patrol Subject : Personal Names DiGrazia, Robert Kearney, Dennis MacDonald, Bill Murphy, Robert Subject : Corporate Names (Organization names) Boston Police Department MDC (Metropolitan District Commission) Police Department US Marshals Subject : Geographic Locations Charlestown (Boston, Mass.) Type : Genre News - Unedited |
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