Description: "Leader: "Plunkett Game -- Pat's Locker Room #10708 12/8/74"; Interviews with Patriot football players Jim Plunkett, Franco Harris, and Joe Greene and head coach Chuck Fairbanks, followed by some game highlights."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/08/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Plymouth Reactor #7173 1 of 2, (film removed for #7334) 2/1/74"; B-roll footage of workers inside the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth. Interview with a worker (Richard Roberts) inside the power plant. More b-roll of workers putting on equipment, safety signs, and equipment, and work stations. Interview with a man from Boston Edison about the Pilgrim Power Plant allegations and when they will reopen. Interview with Daniel Ford, a spokesperson from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) about safety concerns at the Pilgrim Plant. Reporter standup about an accident at the plant and the cleanup. Reel 1 of 2. See Acc. 2394.00703
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/01/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Polaroid Layoffs #9676 8/17/74"; Silent b-roll of a Polaroid store. Boxes of film, customers shopping, an employer takes a picture of the camera man. External footage of the Polaroid building in Needham. Jim Boyd standup about planned layoffs at Polaroid."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/17/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Police #9673"; Interview with a man representing the police department about his reaction to Governor Francis Sargent's veto of the Police Pay Incentive program. Bill Harrington reporter standup about Sargent's veto of the legislation that would have restored a program where a police officer's salary increased with a college degree. Followed by reporter outtakes and more of the interview."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/17/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Police Awards #10496 11/13/74; Silent footage of a policeman John J. Murphy receiving an award.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/13/1974
Description: Footage of people marching with signs and chanting "stop police attacks against the black community." Wild Sound. Description from Assignment sheet: "...March sponsored by Black Caucus from the Common to BPD HQ [Boston Police Department Headquarters]-- about 200 folk... protesting treatment of blacks in Eastie."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/16/1976
Description: Leader: P1 Police Busing Prep #9321 7/11/74; Silent footage of a street with traffic; the front of school including South Boston and Dorchester High Schools; street signs; more footage of streets around Boston; Mary McKay reporter standup. Interview with a police officer. More b-roll footage of the schools and streets. Reporter outtakes.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/11/1974
Description: Leader: P2 Police Circus #8036 4/26/74; Mike Taibbi reporter standup about controversy surrounding the financing of the Rudy Brothers Circus, sponsored by the Metropolitan Police Patrolman's Union. Footage of the circus setting up and practicing in the Boston arena. Interview with a man from the Patrolman's Association about their sponsorship of the event, the indictment against some people who are operating the circus, and how they will keep track of the proceeds from the event. More footage of circus performers with animals; elephants eating hay behind a truck; workers setting up the circus.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/26/1974
Description: Footage of the funeral. Officers and police dogs marching into the cemetery. People gathered around the grave. A coffin is lowered into the ground. The officers and police dogs march out of the graveyard. A young girl places a flower on the grave and reel ends with a close-up of the gravestone. This is edited footage with wild sound. This is reel 2 of 2. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "...Silas, the german shepard attached to the Plymouth County Sheriff's office...is buried in Foxboro with full military honors" after dying in the line of duty.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/17/1978
Description: "Leader: "P1 Police Incentive #7986 4/22/74"; A hearing at the Massachusetts State House about a possible repeal of the Police Pay Incentive Law and police pay. Silent b-roll of the hearing mixed with excerpts from testimony at the hearing. Bill Harrington reporter standup about police fighting to maintain incentive pay."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/22/1974