Description: Interview with the gas station owner about the motivation behind the firebombings and why he is open 24 hours. Interview with another man from the neighborhood. Shot of the gas pumps. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Service Station Firebombings - A Codman Square gas station has been firebombed three times in last three months... racially motivated... the owner is taken to sleeping at the station."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/24/1976
Description: Footage includes the exterior of the gas station with a burned sign, fire damage inside, a man pouring water in a radiator, Anchor gas sign, and gas pumps. Mix of silent and wild sound. This is 2 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Service Station Firebombings - A Codman Square gas station has been firebombed three times in last three months... racially motivated... the owner is taken to sleeping at the station."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/24/1976
Description: Bill Baird News Conference with 3 underage girls who want to have an abortion, but can't get parental permission. The girls have scarves around their heads to protect their identity. Baird and one of the girls speak about the issue. B-roll footage of the press conference. Mix of sound and silent. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Bill Baird produces the 15-year ... who is 11 weeks pregnant and wants an abortion, but her folks say no."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: Cars driving down a flooded road. A woman out of her car on the side of the road with a tow truck and several over cars. A police car pulls over. Mix of wild sound and silent. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Today was rainy and crappy. Film shows puddles and accidents on rte. 128. Car hoods up, people getting soaked."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: The Australian Prime Minister and a man from Harvard each sign an agreement as a crowd applauds. Wild Sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Australian Prime Minister comes to Harvard to formalize a $1M grant ceremonial and a [news conference]"
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: A "place to run dirty movies masquerading as a church"* was raided the day before and the people arrested went to the Boston Municipal court for arraignment. Silent footage of two people in a hallways, a couple women leave a room and then hide their faces, and a shot of a court sign. *quoted from the Original WCVB Rundown
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: Interview with Kevin Harrington about remolding at the state house to create an executive conference room. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: Silent footage of a junkyard in the rain.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: News conference with Martin Luther King, Sr. and others regarding voter registration. Footage includes shots of King and others at the press conference, the insides of a damaged church, and b-roll of the press conference. Mix of silent and wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: A child runs down the street and gets on a bus. Cuts between an interview with Governor Dukakis and woman refuting what the governor says about the Metco program. Mix of sound and silent. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Metco [Program] is a hot issue in Newton and Framingham. This is a folo featuring the Metco folk and the [governor] ([yesterday]). Plus [real estate] of [Framingham] and Newton."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: Reporter voiceover about the killing of a cop over a year ago. Reporter standup in front of police station about a witness who came forward. Shot of a wanted poster with a look alike pictured. Interview with a detective about the break in the case. Footage of police working at night. Reporter voice over, more of the interview with the detective, interview cutaways, and a closing reporter standup. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: Shot of a map, seismograph and other equipment, a man explains some data, and an interview with the man about the history of earthquakes in New England and the Chinese's ability to predict earthquakes. Mix of sound and silent. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Last night, in Candia, NH, there was a small quake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale/this is a head with someone from the Weston Observatory about this second quake within a week."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: Footage of police lined up and awaiting orders, construction workers on the job, and police marching down the road. Wild sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "More than 100 cops showed up at the site of the recent trouble because they expected more. It never happened. However, there was a court hearing today in conjunction with this story."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: Bill Rodgers, winner of the Boston marathon in 1975, 1978,1979, and 1980, accepting an award in Melrose. Followed by an interview with Rodgers outside. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/07/1976
Description: Edited footage of the 8/6/1976 football game between the New England Patriots and the San Diego Chargers. Sections of the game with cutaways to the scoreboard, crowd, and coaches. Wild Sound. (Leader: Game from 8/6)
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/08/1976
Description: Interview with a couple different swimmers after the race. One discusses the race,and the second talks about why he participated. Followed by b-roll of spectators and people milling around the harbor. Footage of people swimming, spectators watching from boats, rain on the water, and a men finishing to the cheers of the crowd and congratulating each other after the race. Sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Marathon Swim - Revival of Old Boston-Light-To-Aquarium race. Twelve mile swim."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/14/1976
Description: Two men working a tow track. A police officer and others watch at the truck pulls a car out of the water. Different shots of the tow truck and car. Footage of divers in the water. Police officer walks around the car pointing out different areas. Silent. B-roll. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "For second Saturday in a row the registry, MDC, and Cambridge Police bob for Buicks. Shots of scuba diver & auto hauled out."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/14/1976
Description: Footage of different Drum and Bugle Corp teams performing in an outdoor stadium intermixed with shots of the crowd. Sound. B-roll. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Guts Among the Drum & Bugle Corps. - With two solid weeks of heavy-duty competition ahead of them, the North Stars lose all uniform & instruments to truck fire. But Andy Hardy & group won't give up so they go with borrowed instruments & jeans. We film semi-finals in afternoon... includes three other fully-garbed groups."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/14/1976
Description: Night footage of emergency vehicles on the street. Close up on a burned and crushed car. People walk around the car. Police officers looking at car and talking. Silent. B-roll. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Fiery crash leaves mangled, scorched cars on Route Nine in Natick."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/14/1976
Description: Long shot of a beach full of people, followed by some closer shots of both nude and clothed people on the beach. Interview with two separate women about the nude beach-goers. Several shots of different men with cameras and binoculars on and around the beach. Reporter voice over with no image. Interview with a nude woman on the beach who had been arrested in the past for indecent exposure. More footage of people on the beach, both clothed and nude. Reporter voice over with no image. Several attempts to interview the men with cameras and binoculars around the beach, but they turn away. Shot of a naked man on the beach surrounded by clothed people and a shot of a naked man on a blanket. Two police officers standing on the beach. Shot of a person getting her leg painted. Reporter voice over with no image. Sound. Unedited story.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/14/1976