Description: Video starts with radio broadcast over color bars. WBCN disc jockey Charles Laquidara in the booth. Editor's note: Sound edited out for rights reasons.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/13/1983
Description: Charles Park Reservation along the Charles River watershed near the Dedham/Needham line. Woodsy area with snow cover. Footage from a moving car. Camera operator directs driver to get a better shot. Closeups on signs, including Dedham/Needham town line.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/23/1977
Description: "Leader: "P1 Charles River Body Found #8123 05/06/1974"; Silent footage of a police boat in the river pulling a body out; crowd on the shore watches; police carry a body on a stretcher to an ambulance; the body in the water with people watching from shore."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/06/1974, 05/07/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Charles River Locks #9273 B 7/6/74"; Silent footqge of the Charles Street River locks, a boat in the harbor, and kids looking at metal items on the side of the river."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/06/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Charles River Locks Repaired #9280 7/8/74; Silent footage of the Charles River Lock opening and a boat entering the channel. A family watches from the side. Reel 2 of 2. See Acc. 2394.02143
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/09/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Charles River Locks - Folo #9274 7/8/74; Silent footage of men repairing the Charles River Lock as people watch from the side of the canal. A man in a diving suit works on the lock. Reel 1 of 2. See Acc. 2394.02142
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/08/1974
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: Portrait of Boston's Charles Street neighborhood through Jeff Dunn's B+W photographs intercut with comments from subjects of the photos.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/20/1987
Description: Charles Street Jail exteriors. A reporter asks members of administration about issues with the Charles Street Jail and Deer Island regarding the possibility of a new combined facility. Stated problems with building a new jail include security and the size of the proposed site. Charles Street physical plant issues include plumbing, recreation facilities, eating facilities, kitchen facilities, and noise level.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/25/1977
Description: Charles Street jail interiors. Four tiers of cell blocks seen through chain link fence. Zoom into guards on ground level. Guard patrols upper walkway. Cell behind bars with toilet and cot. Interview with Suffolk County Sheriff Robert Rufo about delay in transferring inmates to state prisons after sentencing. Charles Street is supposed to serve only as pretrial detention center but prison system is so overcrowded that inmates stay there much longer than intended in inappropriate incarceration, without rehabilitation support and furlough programs. They shoot cutaways. Howard Husock does several takes of reporter standup in front of the jail.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/03/1980