Description: Story #1201. A council meeting about the new Racial Imbalance law. Footage includes community activist Mel King in the audience arguing with the people running the meeting, different men talking about segregation in Boston and legal concerns, the audience asking questions, and b-roll of the audience and men running the meeting. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/18/1972
Description: Story #1200. Silent footage of the neighborhood around Blackstone Park after several days of riots. The riots began at the annual Puerto Rican Festival in Blackstone Park when the police came in to stop a fight and dozens of people were injured and arrested. Footage includes a building on fire at night, damaged storefronts, the interior of looted stores, police in the street, a woman being interviewed by the police in her damaged apartment, and men boarding up windows.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/18/1972
Description: Story #1456. Silent footage of paintings, woodwork, and sketches on display at an art fair.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/15/1972
Description: Story #1491. Silent and sound footage of John Kerry press conference. He speaks on withdrawal from Vietnam, and criticizes the actions of the current administration, especially the extent of the bombing. Closeup on the written speech from which Kerry is reading. Closeup on reporter Roger Goodrich listening to the speech. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/18/1972
Description: Story #1490. Exteriors and interiors of Nixon Massachusetts headquarters. Campaign workers in the office. Press conference, with man speaking about the challenge of the Nixon campaign in Massachusetts. Reporter standup. Additional footage of press conference and campaign headquarters. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/18/1972
Description: Story #1534. Sound bites of several people testifying in front of a committee about the effectiveness of methadone and a particular methadone clinic in Boston. Speakers include a couple of drug addicts who are currently using methadone, a man who works with the methadone program, a man against the use of methadone, and a man who thinks the clinic is creating an unsafe environment in the surrounding hospital. Silent b-roll of the committee listening to the testimony, the courtroom, people testifying, and the audience. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/23/1972
Description: Story #1534. Footage from a hearing about a Methadone program in the city. Testimony from drug addicts who use the Methadone program, people who work with the Methadone users, a man who thinks that the Methadone clinic in the hospital is creating an unsafe environment, a man who is against the use of methadone to treat drug addicts. One of the members of the committee listening to testimony gets into an argument with the man who is against the use of methadone. Followed by silent b-roll footage of the courtroom during the proceedings. Mix of sound and silent. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/23/1972
Description: Story #1557. Women in costumes perform skits. Closeup on a sign that reads "International Tribunal on Abortion, Contraception and Forced Sterilization, October 21-22, New York City." B-roll of the people walking around the fair. Skits include a "dating game" spoof and satire of the office girl and businessman. Closeups on feminist buttons and signs. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/26/1972
Description: Footage of a woman being sworn in by Governor Sargent mixed with shots of the audience. The woman and Sargent shake hands and the audience claps. Silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/31/1972
Description: Story #1858. Interview with Dr. Rankin about birth control effectiveness and possibilities of other forms in the future. Silent footage of people on stage seated and speaking. Shots of the crowd. Reporter standup in front of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology. Followed by cuts, which include more of the interview with Dr. Rankin (muffled at the end), interview with another man about family planning in Massachusetts, reporter standup outtakes, speakers at the conference, and silent b-roll of speakers and audience at the conference. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/27/1972
Description: Story #1873. Interview with artist Don Potts about the art in the exhibit at the Hayden Gallery, b-roll of the different sculptures, reporter standup. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/28/1972
Description: Silent b-roll footage of Mike Taibbi interview with a man from the John Hancock Company (believe it to be Vice President Albert E. Prouty). Sound footage of the interview about the damage to the Trinity church caused by construction of the John Hancock Tower. Followed by outtakes which include more silent footage of Prouty's office and more of the interview. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/11/1972
Description: A mix of sound and silent footage of several labor union leaders endorsing Richard Nixon for president. Reel begins with silent b-roll footage of a man indoors at a podium speaking to a seated crowd with some shots of people in the audience. Followed by sound footage of parts of different Labor leaders' speeches. One speaker introduces himself as the New England Labor Coordinator for the reelection of President Nixon. Another speaker focuses on the idea that labor and the average working man usually vote for the democrat, but the Democratic party is moving away from their core values and people should vote for the man not the party. Speakers take questions from the audience.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/20/1972
Description: Story #2010. Claiborne Pell campaigns for reelection. Governor John Chafee campaigns for senate seat in a department store with United States Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton, and candidate for Rhode Island Secretary of State Paul Maynard. Pell makes a campaign speech. Chaffee and Morton answer questions from the press. Chafee campaign van. Closeup on Pell campaign posters buttons, and pamphlets. B-roll of Pell campaign event. Reporter standup. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/31/1972
Description: Story #2221. Richard Nixon campaigning for reelection with Governor John Chafee and candidate for Governor Herb DiSimone in Warwick, RI. Crowds of Nixon supporters. Nixon makes speech from steps of plane on agreements to end the war in Vietnam. Reporter standup. Silent b-roll of the Nixon campaign event, including closeups on the crowd, secret service, pro-Nixon and anti-Nixon signs. Several takes of reporter standup. Nixon and wife, Pat Nixon, wave as they get off Air Force One. Nixon introduces DeSimone and Chafee, who thank the president and make short speeches. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/03/1972
Description: Story #2346. Interview with a man from the Governor's task force about the plan to implement the Racial Imbalance law. Discusses redistricting, attendance zones, and the plan in general. Interview followed by footage of reporter Jim Boyd asking questions and interview cutaways. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/16/1972
Description: Story #2363. Silent footage of African American adults and children, including Elma Lewis, at a ceremony for the unveiling of a statue in front of the Grove Hall Branch of the Boston Public Library. Closeups of statue from multiple angles. Kids in a classroom work on sculptures.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/19/1972
Description: Story #2394. Action for Boston Community Development news conference. Silent b-roll of people in an office, followed by silent footage of three men at a news conference and the reporters in the audience. Sound footage of speakers discussing ABCD programs including one that involves the release of former convicts back into the community. More silent b-roll of the conference and office, footage of men washing a car, and people in a cafeteria followed by extended footage of some of the speakers. Mix of sound and silence.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/22/1972
Description: Slugs mixed throughout the reel read, "New Woman Part I 4/30/73 #4441," New Woman part II 5/1/73," "New Woman part 3 5/2/73," & "New Woman part 4 5/4/73." Footage of a woman sitting in a chair in her living room, a girl getting off her bike, a boy and a girl playing chess, woman gathered around long tables at a meeting, children playing at a daycare/kindergarten. Montage of several young girls answering the question of what they want to be when they grow up. The reporter asks the last girl why she said a nurse instead of a doctor. Silent moving shot of men eating in an office cafeteria ending on a close up of a business woman who works there. A series of talking heads with women describing the "new woman." Silent closeups of illustrations from a Dick and Jane book, followed by series of women discussing motherhood, the balance between a career, marriage, and childcare. Footage of a statue, a painting, old photos of women working. B-roll of the business woman in her office and female factory workers on the job. Interview with an older woman about her views on the women's liberation movement. A couple men discussing "the new woman." Interview with a woman in a studio about job discrimination. Silent b-roll of woman in the grocery store and women in a room typing. Interview with the business woman. B-roll of women walking down the street with groceries,and women working in the Registry of Probate office, including the files on divorce. Interviews with several women about identity and the troubles that women face after divorce. B-roll of women sitting outside filling out a form. Footage of woman in a meeting, children playing, women at typewriters, policewomen, the business woman at work, more footage of the divorce section in the Registry of Probate office, an airplane taking off. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 3 reels related to this series of stories.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/30/1973, 05/01/1973, 05/02/1973, 0604/1973
Description: Slug: "Wagler Henning Feature." Overview of the murder of Evelyn Wagler and the aftermath. In October Wagler ran out of gas and was attacked and killed by teenagers when she was returning to her car from the filling station. The teens forced her to douse herself in the gasoline she was carrying and then they lit her on fire. Footage of neighborhood where Wagler was killed, a man discussing the crime at a press conference, police removing a body from the river while people look on, Mayor White discussing the the Wagler case and other unrelated violent incidents that occurred at the same time, a man discusses racial crime in Boston. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/24/1973, 12/26/1973, 12/31/1973