Description: Leader: P-2 The Investigators Viet Nam Veterans May 23rd 1973; Silent footage of injured soldiers in Vietnam. B-roll footage of a soldier who is missing a leg working with a nurse; nurse working with another patient; veteran soaking his injured leg; a man in a wheelchair; man missing a leg practices on the stairs; interview b-roll; a nurse filling a shot and dispensing medications; older veterans in the VA hospital; and patients painting and creating art. Interviews with an advocate for veterans, and with a doctor about the differences between the needs of older and younger veterans. Interview with a man about adjusting both physically and mentally to life without an arm, and whether the war was worth the sacrifice. Reel 2 of 2. See Acc. 2393.11295
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/23/1973
Description: On can: Investigators 2/14/73 Cable - TV A+B Rolls Leader: P-1 The Investigators Freeze Frame Cable TV February 28th 1973 D/S Mann Freeze Frame - Boston City Hall P-1 Close Cable - TV Part II; B-roll footage of Boston City Hall and an interview. Reel 4 of 4. See Acc. 2394.11146-.11147 and .11618
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/14/1973
Description: Leader: P-2 'The Investigators' Cable TV Part II February 28th 1973; Interview with a man producing public access programs on cable. Sound muffled. B-roll footage of the Brookline Town Hall building; Cable tower. Interview with a man about the importance of Boston giving cable licenses in a thoughtful way. Reel 3 of 4. See Acc. 2394.11146-.11147 and .11619
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/14/1973
Description: Leader: F-1 The Investigators Child Abuse April 18th 1973 Viewer Caution: Fleeting views and sounds of children harmed, as well as descriptions of child abuse; A woman describes what constitutes child abuse; silent B-roll footage of interview; fleeting views of wounds on a child's face; sounds of a child crying; silent footage of file rooms and office workers at computers, and at desks doing interviews and compiling records; Reel 2 of 4. See Acc. 2394.11738, 2394.11739, and 2394.11740
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/18/1973
Description: Leader: P-1 'The Investigators' Tease - New Orleans Fire Investigators P1 Stevens D's P1 McKay Fire [Camp?]; Silent footage of a building on fire in New Orleans. Fire fighters respond; bodies are brought away from the building; and a helicopter. Exterior footage of a high rise buildings around Boston. Reporter stand-up from a balcony overlooking the city. Footage from a firehouse. Men go down poles and dress for a fire; get onto firetrucks; sirens blare; the trucks drive away; footage from the moving firetruck; raising the ladder and attaching the hose water outlet on a building; test keys in a window. Interview with the fire chief. Reel 2 of 4. See Acc. 2394.11141, .11143-.11144
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/17/1973
Description: Story on how homosexuality is viewed legally, morally, and socially. Interviews with a few different men and footage from a hearing. Interviews with a gay man who doesn't feel like he is a full citizen. Throughout the reels he discusses society's view of homosexuals as immoral, why people dislike homosexuals, and homosexuality and suicide. Another man discusses the different laws that are used against homosexuals, and how most people just don't realize how many homosexuals that they know. Different women speak at a hearing about how sexuality and acts between two consenting adults should not be regulated by law, and one woman speaks about lesbians. Mix of sound and silent. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/28/1973
Description: Interview with a gay man about stereotypes, a man about the laws against homosexuality, and a gay man on outward appearances and gay bars, followed by a few shots of transvestites. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/28/1973
Description: Leader: P1 Thuma SI D/S Fire Safety P1 1/17/73 Investigators P1 Stevens 4; Interview b-roll with Jim Boyd and more of the interview with a man [Stevens] about sprinkler systems. Reel 4 of 4. See Acc. 2394.11141-.11142 and .11144
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/17/1973
Description: Story #4279. Joseph Timilty speaks about the likelihood of racial imbalance plan passing. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/10/1973
Description: Slug: "12/28/73 - Tobin Bridge Feature by Bob Clinkscale." Overview of the Mystic River Bridge, also known as the Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge, collapse in 1973. Footage includes shots of the collapsed section of the bridge, traffic backed up, construction crews working on the bridge, a train and a bus, aerial views of the highway, a man making a statement about weight permits for trucks, silent b-roll of cars and trucks at the bridge toll booth and on the road, shots of the gravel truck which crashed into a support causing the bridge collapse, police and firemen removing the driver's body and carrying the body bag away, aerial view of the bridge, more shots of the collapsed area of the bridge, trucks on various roads. Mix of sound, silent, and wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/28/1973