Description: Shot for a story on money for construction of the Central Artery. Ariel footage of traffic on the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway (Rt. 93), also called the Central Artery. Silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/23/1978
Description: Story #8304. Silent footage of people looking at paintings and other art in the Channel 2 building, close-ups of the art, a man being interviewed, and exterior shots of the Channel 2 building. Edited footage followed by cuts.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/21/1974
Description: Feature on Ted Kennedy Chappaquiddick incident 20 years later and a recent book and magazine article on the subject. Interview with Leslie Leland, the foreman of the Grand Jury that was sitting when the incident occurred, about why the case was not brought before the jury.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/26/1989
Description: Story #9377. Feature about Ted Kennedy's incident in Chappaquiddick. Footage of the town, ferry, and the bridge and interviews with tourists who had come to see the bridge where the accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne occurred. Aerial shots of the island. Edited Footage followed by cuts. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/18/1974
Description: Outtakes from footage of press conference about the Charles St. Jail plan. Two different men speak. One man discusses the need for the City Council to stay out of the matter of site selection. Shots of the speakers intermixed with shots of press and audience around the room. Sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Jail reactions - Hall and Commissioner Molaughlin react to the city council plan to renovate the Charles St. jail."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/02/1978
Description: Students outside of Charlestown High School. Police patrol. Large group of police enter the building and put a person in the back of a police van. Interview with police officer on the student sit-in, and negotiations between the students and the school administrators. Mix of wild sound and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1976
Description: Story on Harvard's 350th anniversary. Footage of the college campus and interviews with professor Henry Wyzanski and Doris Kearns Goodwin. Reporter voice-over through reel. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/02/1986
Description: Overview of the Contras in Nicaragua and the question over whether the United State should get involved. Contras training in Nicaragua, different politicians (including TIp O'Neil and Ronald Reagan) comment on support for the Contras, Pro-Contra TV commercials, reporter standup, interview with historian Hugh Ryan about previous United States military involvement in Nicaragua, and footage of people in Nicaragua. Reporter voice-over through reel. Sound
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/19/1986
Description: Story on the seeming rise of racism and racial incidents the last few years. Historical footage of a Ku Klux Klan march and a protest during the civil rights moment. Overview of different racial incidents that have occurred recently all over the country and in Boston. Modern day footage of African Americans protesting and Ku Klux Klan demonstrations. Interview with regional director of the Justice Department's Community Relations Service Martin Walsh. Some video problems. Reporter voice over through reel. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/07/1987
Description: Story on high school athletes sports injuries. Interview with Chris Nissan, who was paralyzed in a wrestling accident, footage of wrestling and football, interviews with doctors and a lawyer, basketball injury, and another person who was paralyzed in a sports accident, Chris Thompson, in a wheel chair. Some video problems. Reporter voice-over throughout reel. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/1984
Description: Slug: "10/15/73: Chelsea 1908 Fire." Footage includes external shots of Lynch Bros. auto repair on Essex street, b-roll of an old man inside typing, interview cutaways, shot of a keystone with "1908" on it pull out to a building destroyed by fire. Interview with the man who witnessed the Chelsea fire in 1908 who compares the that fire to the most recent one and describes what he remembers of the 1908 fire and the rebuilding of the neighborhood. Mix of silent, sound, and wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/15/1973
Description: Story #6827. Silent footage of men speaking and holding up maps in front of a room followed by outdoor shots of a construction site and construction equipment.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/19/1973
Description: Interview with a tenant about the landlord and the condition of the housing. Silent footage of the building owner, Moris Tulman, in his office and being escorted through protesters. People get off a bus and go door to door with flyers about the poor housing conditions. Interview with another tenant and silent footage of the housing from the outside and the inside of different apartments. Followed by outtakes, which include more silent footage of the crowd getting off the bus and putting flyers up, the crowd at the landlord's office and meeting with Tulman, more interviews with the two women included in the final piece and with a child, and more shots around and inside the apartments. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/06/1974
Description: Silent footage of damaged buildings and cars, burnt trees, and a bulldozer moving junk around. Reporter standup. House Bill 6611 recently approved, which states that housing will begin going up in this area within the year. Reporter summarizes different government initiatives to begin rebuilding this section of Chelsea. Cut to Governor Sargent talking about the continued rebuilding of Chelsea and aid provided by the government. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/01/1973
Description: Followup on how Chelsea is recovering on the first anniversary of the Great Chelsea fire of 1973. Footage of fire hydrant, empty lots, buildings, and the streets around Chelsea. Reporter voice over about the damage caused by the fire. Interview with a man who owned business that was ruined by the fire. Reporter voice over. Interview with another man who was affected by the fire. Reporter standup, followed by cuts. Cuts include more b-roll footage of empty lots, the streets around Chelsea, fire hydrants, reporter standup outtakes, and more from the resident interviews. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/14/1974
Description: Interview with Mr. Jedry, whom the house is being rebuilt for. Footage of the family watching as workers move the house into place. Reporter voiceover about the Jedry family, followed by silent footage of a house on fire with firemen. Footage of the empty lot, reporter voiceover about the new house. Interview with the Jedry daughters, Debbie, Theresa and Elizabeth. The girls talk about what it was like to lose the old house and how excited they are about the new house. More footage of the house being moved into place. Mix of sound, wild sound, and silent. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Chelsea Home Rebuilt -Last November, a fire destroyed a home on Eastern Ave. in Chelsea. The house was rebuilt in a matter of hours today (it's on of those modular types)."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/02/1978
Description: Silent footage of a helicopter moving a large air conditioner from the roof of a building. Shots include workers attaching the line from the helicopter to the air conditioner, the helicopter hovering over the building, and a new air conditioner placed on the roof.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/08/1973
Description: Story #4809. Arial footage of buildings (the Christian Science Center in Boston), followed by exterior footage from the ground of the same buildings and gardens around them. Reporter standup. Interior footage of the buildings, and an interview with a man from the Christian Science Center. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/30/1973
Description: Frank Church press conference during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. He talks about the successes and limits of his campaign so far. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/28/1976
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