Description: Reporter standup in front of Faneuil Hall. On the street interviews with people about how they feel about the current state of the United States of America or what they would like to change about the country. Reporter closing standup about how apathetic people seem about the state of the country. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/03/1976
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: B-roll of Bill Rodgers in the classroom with the kids that he teaches. Followed by footage of Rodgers running on the street in his neighborhood and an interview. Interview topics include teaching and running. This is a reel of outtakes so some of Rodgers' answers in the interview are cut off. Slightly faded pink. [Film Label in Coll Folder]
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/18/1976
Description: Interview with Bob McAdoo and footage of him playing basketball. He talks about playing on the Knicks and against the Celtics. Poor image quality. Sound
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/06/1976
Description: Damaged remains of bombed prop jet outside Eastern Airlines hangar at Logan Airport. Yellow Massport fire truck. Fire fighters spraying wreckage. Group of men examine ruined fuselage and wing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/02/1976
Description: Boston City Hospital patient admitting desk with English and Spanish signs in corridor. Ambulance bay and emergency entrance sign. One ambulance departs with flashing lights and siren. Several takes of reporter standup on an investigation involving the hospital.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/03/1976
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: Exteriors of the Boxford Police Department. Closeup on Boxford Police car. Man exits police building and talks to man in a convertible. Wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/28/1976
Description: Silent footage of an overturned trailer at a construction site, a bulldozer with broken windows and flattened tires, and debris around the site.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/24/1976
Description: Shots of the Brandeis graduation. Some footage of students/faculty singing, graduates sitting in the crowd, some shots of speaker Barbara Jordan and some snippets of her speech. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/30/1976
Description: B-roll footage of a house on fire, and firemen climbing a ladder into the top story window of the burning house. Wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/06/1976
Description: Footage of a round table meeting with people standing on the side watching. A man talking about the budget process. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/24/1976
Description: Footage of the Bunker Hill Monument against a blue sky. Children play on the surrounding grass slope. Pans to adjacent columned building with US and Massachusetts State flags. Footage of the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") in Charlestown Navy Yard. “Welcome aboard” sign; masts without sails; shipmates with striped shirts. Early US flag with 15 stars hangs from bowsprit. Visitors ascend gangplank. National Park Service booth with attendant. Boston Naval Shipyard plaque. Aft view of ship.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1976
Description: Massachusetts 11th Congressional District candidates James Burke and Patrick McCarthy. Congressman Burke speaking in front a crowd about his political record. Interview with Pat McCarthy in front of one of his campaign offices. More footage of Burke speaking and b-roll of the audience and long shots of the stage followed by silent b-roll of the McCarthy campaign office. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/12/1976
Description: B-roll of shoppers and stores at the Burlington Mall. Fire fighters walk through the mall while sprinklers go off from the ceiling. Interview with a store owner on recovering from the fire. Mix of wild sound, silent, and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1976
Description: Campaign brochures for candidates opposing Rep. Tip O'Neill in eighth congressional district. Barnstead, Florenzo DiDonato, Leo Kahian. Interview with Tip O'Neill about his campaign and the U.S. economy. O'Neill shakes hands and talks with constituents.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/22/1976
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: Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter enters North End Post 144, Veterans of Foreign Wars hall, shakes hands. A man introduces Carter; he also points out local politicians in attendance. Carter addresses a small crowd. He calls himself a 'Washington outsider' and appeals to them as same. Carter takes questions from the audience. He lays out his plans for national defense. He talks about the nuclear positions of the United States and the Soviet Union. Exteriors of the VFW.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/17/1976
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: Charlestown environs. Charlestown High School and Monument Square, Bartletts Street, Bunker Hill Street and St. Francis de Sales Church. Children ride bicycles in Monument Square. People are gathered in the park beside St. Francis de Sales Church. Shot from the park of the port. Racist, white supremacist and antibusing graffiti is visible on buildings on Medford and Main Streets. Shots of Medford and Main Streets. Pedestrians walking along streets. Children play at a playground. Audio goes in and out.
0:00:23: Visual: Shot across Monument Square of Charlestown High School. Shot of the top of the building, including school name carved into the stone. A broken window at the school has been patched up. The streets around Monument Square are quiet. A child rides his bike along the street. Shots of Bartlett Street, beside the school; of the Bunker Hill Monument. 0:05:35: V: Children ride their bikes in Monument Square. Shots of Bartlett Street; of racist graffiti on a building on Concord Street; of Concord Street. 0:09:24: V: Shot of Bartlett Street. Traveling shot up Bartlett Street. Traveling shot continues on to Elm Street and on to Bunker Hill Street. Traveling shot continues up Bunker Hill Street. Shot of St. Francis de Sales church. Cars are parked along both sides of Bunker Hill Street. An older man walks slowly along the sidewalk and stops in front of one of the houses. Two young men walk down the sidewalk of Bunker Hill Street. 0:14:26: V: Teenagers are gathered in the park beside St. Francis de Sales church. A group of people sit on steps in the park, looking at the view of the port. Gas tanks and industrial ships are visible in the port. Long shot of park and the port. Children play in the playground at the park. Shot of two children on swings with wrought iron fence in foreground. Shot of older man on a park bench with wrought iron fence in foreground. A girl takes a drink from a water fountain. 0:17:43: V: Traveling shot of Medford Street. Shot of a garage on Medford Street with white supremacist and antibusing graffiti. Traveling shot of Main Street. Mishawum Park apartments are visible. An older man sits with another person on the stoop of a dilapidated building. Shot of white supremacist and antibusing graffiti on a building at the corner of Essex and Main Streets. Video is distorted at end of tape.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/18/1976