VPN-813

OCT 16, 1995
GENERAL COLIN POWELL SIGNING BOOKS AT BARNES AND NOBLE
600 FIFTH AVE, MANHATTAN
-HUGE LINE OF PEOPLE LINING UP OUTSIDE BOOKSTORE
-STREET SIGN: 6 AVE, AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
-MS OF NEW YORKERS READING THE BIOGRAPHY WHILE THEY WAIT, MANY WEAR A "COLIN POWELL FOR PRESIDENT IN 1996" BUTTON, FAN HOLDS HIS COPY OF POWELL'S YEARBOOK FROM JANUARY 1954 "THE TOWER"
-MAN HANDS OUT STICKERS, CAMPAIGNING, ASIAN SOLDIER ON LINE, EXT OF BARNES AND NOBLE
-INT OF BARNES AND NOBLE, COLIN POWELL SIGNING BOOKS WITH A SHARPIE AND SMILING, VERY LONG LINE

OCT 17, 1995
FULTON'S FULL OF FISH
FULTON FISH MARKET, SOUTH STREET AND NASSAU ST, LOWER MANHATTAN
-NYPD POLICE OFFICERS PATROL MARKET, FORKLIFTS AND MEN IN RUBBER BOOTS UNLOADING FISH
-SIGN FOR SOUTH STREET SEAPORT
-FISH ON A SCALES, LARGE BINS OF FRESH FISH, WOODEN CRATES, MAN TOSSES GUTTED FISH, CU OF FISH, PACKING UP STYROFOAM COOLERS OF FISH, MEN AT WORK, DIRTY JOBS

OCT 17, 1995
STRAP HANGER'S ASSOCIATION HOLDS PRESSER
CITY HALL TRAIN STATION, BMT N AND R LINES, MANHATTAN
-SPOKESMAN, DENNIS WOLCOTT, PRESIDENT OF THE NY URBAN LEAGUE, ALONG WITH LAWYERS, STATEMENT ABOUT THE PROPOSED RATE INCREASE, CALLS IT DISCRIMINATORY AND "JIM CROW"
-OUTDOOR PRESS CONFERENCE ABOUT PENDING LAWSUIT, CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE, MANY SPEAKERS, TAKE QUESTIONS FROM THE PRESS, TALKS ABOUT PATAKI, THE STATE BUDGET, THE LIRR AND TWO FARE ZONES, CHART POSTED ON SUBWAY ENTRANCE ABOUT 1.50 FARE

OCT 17, 1995
WOMAN FLEEING SHOOT OUT TURNS SCHOOL BUS
STUYVESANT AND PUTNAM AVES, BED-STUY BROOKLYN
-OVERTURNED MINI SCHOOL BUS ON STREET, DAYTIME, NYPD POLICE OFFICERS AND DETECTIVES, RESIDENTS AND BYSTANDERS WATCH BEHIND POLICE TAPE
-EMERGENCY SERVICES TRUCK TRIES TO FLIP BUS, DRAGS IT ACROSS ROAD
-SPOKESMAN FOR NYPD, DESCRIBES THE ACCIDENT, WOMAN WAS STARTLED BY GUNFIRE AND HIT SCHOOL BUS WITH CHILDREN
-STREET SIGN: JEFFERSON AND STUYVESANT, BULLET CASINGS, 81 PRECINCT CAR ON SIDEWALK
-STREET SIGN: LEWIS AVE AND QUINCY ST
-DETECTIVE EXAMINES EVIDENCE IN STREET, CAR SERVICE CAR AND CORNER BODEGA, DAYTIME POLICE INVESTIGATION
-STREET SIGN: HART ST AND LEWIS AVE

OCT 19, 1995
SMALL PLANE GOES DOWN IN THE WATER
ATLANTIC BEACH BRIDGE AREA, NASSAU COUNTY
-MANY EMERGENCY RESPONSE PERSONNEL AND QUEENS DISTRICT ATTORNEY ON SCENE, LONG BEACH FIRE RESCUE ARGUING WITH NYPD, FIGHTING AND CURSING AT EACH OTHER
-MANY PHOTOGRAPHERS, MANY RESCUED ON GURNEYS, PLUCKED FROM WATER ?, WRAPPED IN BLANKETS
-WHITE MALE IN AMBULANCE SHIVERING UNCONTROLLABLY, IN SHOCK

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