Word: whdh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stuart Hughes and George Cabot Lodge '50 clashed at East Boston High School last night in their second debate of the current Senatorial campaign. The debate was televised by WHDH...
...labeled the Hughes candidacy "frivolous." This is hardly a decision for him to make. Nearly 150,000 people signed the Hughes nominating petitions, ostensibly because they thought the candidate should be able to participate in the campaign. Lodge agreed to debate with Hughes immediately after the primary, and now WHDH-TV, the CBS station in Boston, has agreed to carry Wednesday's debate. The final authority to decide which Senatorial candidates are serious and which are not does not rest with Ted Kennedy...
...second debate between U.S. Senate candidates H. Stuart Hughes and George Cabot Lodge '50 will take place next Wednesday night, October 10, in Waltham, with the exact location to be agreed upon shortly by the participates. The debate will be televised by WHDH...
Last night WBZ-TV (channel 4) had "made no decision," WHDH-TV (channel 5) had decided not to carry the debate, and WNAC-TV (channel 7) had "not been contacted by any of the participating candidates...
These officials, to be sure, had a perfect right to exercise their option and refuse the film; despite much talk about public service, a television station is a commercial enterprise, and any movie about abortion will certainly offend some customers. But it is too bad that WHDH didn't take the risk. There would have been a fuss (though few people seem to mind when a "perfect crime" or a sympathetic criminal is shown on a normal program)--but it is hard to believe that a station with network programs would lose much advertising or many viewers for showing such...