Description: Boston College ceremony. Students walking around on campus. Campus environs.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 02/16/1972
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: Story #189. Interview with Dr. Pierre Victor Brunelle who was sent to Norfolk prison for 16 months for performing an illegal abortion. Brunelle discusses why he performed the abortion, whether he will try to get his physician license back, how his time in prison has affected him, and his views of abortion laws. Interview with his wife about the experience. Silent b-roll includes shot of the Norfolk Correctional Institute sign, Dr. Brunelle and his wife leaving the prison and walking to the car, and cutaways from the interview. Interview with a man who was convicted of performing an abortion. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/03/1972
Description: Story #734. Silent footage of college-aged Asian people marching down the street with signs. Signs difficult to read, but include one that says "Drop Nixon on Haiphong." Part of an acted scene where people in black with tall hats beat a person dressed in Vietnamese clothing.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/26/1972
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: Story #931. Silent footage of Red Sox game at Fenway Park. Red Sox vs. the Chicago White Sox. Final score 4-5, White Sox Win.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/17/1972
Description: Story about the Supreme Court ruling on Eisenstadt v. Baird, that single people had the same right to obtain contraceptives as married people. Massachusetts was one of the states affected by this ruling, as it had given married couple access to birth control, but restricted single people. Interview with a man about the US Supreme Court decision's affect on Massachusetts. Silent b-roll of . Interview with owner or manager of Phillips Drugs about how the ruling will affect their policy on the sale of birth control. Reporter standup wrap-up of story. Followed by cuts, which include silent b-roll of interviews, contraception on the pharmacy shelf, more of the interview with manager of Phillip's Drugs, and reporter standup outtakes. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/23/1972
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: Student from the Harvard Crimson reads a statement about student strike. Silent b-roll of people at the press conference and the students running it. More b-roll of the press conference and a shot of the exterior of the Harvard Crimson building. Blank film followed by cuts. Outtakes include more footage of the students reading their statement and answering questions. The footage of the students speaking at the press conference is very unstable. This instability is printed into the film and most likely caused by a loose film gate during the initial processing of the film. Mix of sound and silent. B-roll and outtakes.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/18/1972
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 #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: 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: Story #308. Footage of the galler, shots of paintings, and a couple protesters in the gallery. Edited footage followed by cuts. Silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/12/1972
Description: Stories #195 - #198. Silent and sound footage of John Kerry press conference, campaigning for the Massachusetts Fifth District seat in the House of Representative. He says that the US government needs to get troops out of Southeast Asia. Kerry's first wife, Julia Thorne, stands beside him. Footage of children playing with toys and watching TV. Exteriors of a house. Additional footage of the press conference. Kerry takes questions from the press. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/03/1972
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: 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: 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 #943. Story about the international 24 hour pilot strike over hijacking concerns, and how this strike has affected travel at Logan Airport. Footage includes interviews with pilots, reporter voice over, b-roll of flight attendants updating cancellation boards, empty seating areas, closed check-in counters, parked planes, people boarding planes and checking into flights with carriers that are still operating. Interviews with pilots from Eastern airline (who joined the strike) about the issue behind the strike, personal hijacking stories, public perception, and why pilots from all of the airlines did not join the strike. Edited story followed by cuts. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/19/1972
Description: Presidential hopeful Senator George McGovern campaigning in a shoe factory in Lowell. Footage includes McGovern entering the factory, talking with workers, reporter standup, and the camera crew goofing around in the parking lot. Mix of sound and wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/14/1972
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: Silent footage of Mike Taibbi interviewing an African American man, Mr. Davis, who is the head of the job placement program at Selective Executives Incorporated. Two women at a registration desk hand out material. Two African American men sitting in chairs, a white man interviewing an African American woman, another shot of Taibbi and Mr. Davis. Sound footage of Davis discussing this special job placement program at the minority group placement center, which is connecting 260 minority group candidates to 30 participating companies. Image is unstable in some sections. Reporter standup wrapping up of the story. Begin outtakes which include more silent b-roll footage of the interview with Davis, women at the registration tables, people being interviewed for job placement, and more sound footage of the interview with Davis and outtakes of the reporter standup. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/15/1972
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 #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: Exhibit of artwork created by prisoners from Norfolk prison and interviews with the artists/prisoners. Interviews with a man who painted one of the pictures in exhibit and a man who constructed a model church out of wood. Footage includes b-roll of the exhibit, exterior shots of Norfolk prison, interview cut aways, and interviews with the artists about their inspiration, their time in prison, how this experience has effected them. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/16/1972
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 #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 #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 #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: Silent footage from a women's roller derby bout, with some sections of wild sound. Footage includes women skating, fighting with each other and referees, and medical staff attending to hurt players. Mix of wild sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 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: This is a reel of cuts or outtakes from the St. Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston. Silent footage of the crowd watching the parade includes a young girl with a camera, children with balloons, babies in strollers, a group of people on a roof, children waving, and a woman with an Irish flag. Footage of the parade taken from a roof along the route, from the front of the crowd, and moving from within the parade. Sound footage of people heading towards the parade. People on the side of the road with signs selling "Irish freedom badges." More shots of people in the parade, including Governor Francis Sargent, a groups with an "England out of Ireland" banner, and a woman in a green coat. Reporter standup outtakes. Mx of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/18/1972
Description: Interview with Football League executive Upton Bell. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/13/1972
Description: Different men speaking at a Richard Nixon rally, including Governor Sargent and John Volpe. B-roll of people in a gymnasium before and during the rally, different politicians mingling with the crowd, Volpe and other politicians talking to people on the street. Edited footage followed by cuts. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/15/1972
Description: Silent footage of plane and Carl Yastrzemski walking off the plane. Followed by Yastrzemski in the airport answering questions about a recent injury and whether he was considering retirement. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/10/1972
Description: Story #929. Story about the 24 hour pilot strike threatened by the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations (IFALPA) for June 19th 1972 and how this will affect air traffic at Logan Airport. Pilots concerned about hijacking and want governments around the world to do more about the issue. Footage includes b-roll of Logan airport, people waiting for planes, planes on the runway, and interview cutaways. Interview with a man from Massport about how the airport will handle the upcoming pilot strike, his feelings about the strike and the safety concerns behind it, and suggestions for passengers who have flights scheduled that day. Edited story followed by cuts. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/17/1972
Description: Ralph Nader discusses the auto industry, including their record profits and Richard Nixon's price control program,their safety record, car recalls, and the need for politicians to focus on consumer interests. Also discusses the meat industry and consumer prices, the failures of the Nixon Administration to serve the needs of the consumer, and the need for more consumer protections. Silent b-roll of Nader and others sitting on a couch being interviewed, Nader giving a speech at a luncheon, and the audience. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/13/1972, 09/14/1972
Description: Silent footage of a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians. Cleveland wins 3-1.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/19/1972