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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 back to main record. Full Description 0:00:05 Visual: Members of the media pass two police officers as they enter the enclosure surrounding the Bunker Hill Monument in Monument Square. Shot of three US Marshals walking toward Charlestown High School. An MDC Police officer exits a police vehicle parked near the high school. Shot of the exterior of Charlestown High School. A few police officers stand in front of the high school. Two US Marshals confer near the high school. 0:03:08 V: A police officer with a riot helmet exits a Boston Police car and enters the high school. Shot of Charlestown High School; of name carved in stone at the top of the building. Robert DiGrazia confers with a police officer across the street from the school. Cars pass by in front of the school. Shot of a car with a US Department of Justice Seal. A white woman enters the school. A posted sign reads "No person shall enter this building without permission of the headmaster. . . ." A white man and a white woman enter the school. 0:05:33 V: Shot of three people standing beside the Bunker Hill Monument; of DiGrazia standing on street corner across from the school; of US Department of Justice Seal on car. DiGrazia confers with a Boston Police officer and an MDC Police officer. Groups of police officers are gathered in front of the school. Members of the press stand across the street; some are gathered at the foot of the Bunker Hill Monument. DiGrazia surveys the scene from the street corner. A group of white students enters the school. 0:10:09 V: Police are stationed along Monument Square near the high school. Police motorcycles escort a line of six or seven school buses toward the high school. At least two of the buses are nearly empty. The buses pull up in front of the school. A group of white students exits one of the buses, then gets back on the bus. African American students exit one of the buses and enter the school. Shots of school buses double parked in front of the school. A group of buses slowly pull away from the school, accompanied by a police motorcycle. Two buses remain in front fo the school. A crowd of white youth is gathered near the high school, on the corner of Monument Square and Concord Street. The two remaining buses pull away, accompanied by a police motorcycle. 0:15:15 V: The crowd of white youth watches the high school from Concord Street. Police are lined up in the street in front of the school. Dennis Kearney (State Representative) and Captain Bill MacDonald (Boston Police Department) confer near the crowd. Kearney speaks to a few of the youth. A police radio is audible. Two white students and an older white man enter the school. A group of white female students pass by the crowd of youth and enter the school. Kearney escorts an older white woman into the high school. Kearney returns to talk to the crowd of youth, who have been joined by a few older women. A bus pulls past the crowd and heads toward the school. Robert Murphy (Headmaster, Charlestown High School) joins Kearney in talking to the crowd. DiGrazia confers with MacDonald and other officers on the corner of Monument Square. |
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