Description: Mounted Boston police officer near Quincy Market. Crowds of children pet horse. Street performer. Angled view of upper facade of Faneuil Hall juxtaposed with Sixty State Street high rise. Quincy Market plaque. Grasshopper weather vane. Sign for “Where's Boston?”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1978
Description: Sidney Farber press conference at Anthony's Pier. Silent footage of Farber is talking. Farber shaking hands with folks. Farber at the podium taking questions about funding for cancer research and talks about great progress in the past 20 year and about progress in chemotherapy and molecular biology. He says the country has never been in this good of a position before in terms of labs to do research. Another man talks at the podium.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/18/1969
Description: Story about grocery stores in the Boston area joining the boycott of California grapes called for by the United Farmworker's Union. Footage of people in the produce isle of a grocery store with reporter voice over about the lack of California table grapes in certain grocery store chains. Cut to a man from the American Farm Bureau Federation discussing the harmful tampering of food markets by retailers that are removing a certain product from their inventory for social reasons. Back to footage of people in the produce isle of a grocery store with reporter voiceover about the response from a store executive that they are reacting to requests from customers that the store join in the grape boycott. Reporter standup. Silent b-roll of customers looking at produce, a pan of the produce isle, a woman weighing tomatoes and a close up of a fruit tray with a sign that reads, "This tray contains artificial fruit. If you wish you may order one with real fruit." Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/01/1973
Description: "Leader: ""P1 Fatal Brighton Fire #9628 8/12/74""; Silent b-roll of a store with a broken window and a burned out store. Reel 1 of 2. See. Acc. 2394.00786"
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/12/1974
Description: "Leader: ""P1 Faulty Lights 12-17-74""; Silent footage of a woman's hand holding Christmas lights, a pencil pointing to something in the light fixture, and the light's packaging."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/17/1974
Description: "Leader: ""P1 Fear of Flying #9474 7/27/74""; People board an airplane, footage out the window as the plane takes off. Interviews with people who overcame their fear of flying through a course. Pan Am flight attendants hand out badges. ""Pan Am Logan's Heroes"" sign. Footage of the cockpit. Silent footage of celebration with cake, drinks, and certificates handed out."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/27/1974
Description: "Leader: ""P1 Feisty Italiana #10758""; Silent footage of performers at the Festa Italiana, an Italian cultural festival at Boston City Hall. Crowd walks with candles down the street, more silent footage of singers and musicians, women in traditional Italian dress."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/16/1974
Description: Parents of abused children speak out about the damage done to their children and families by Gerald Amirault, as part of the Fells Acres sexual abuse trial. Lawyers also make pleas for a life sentence. Amirault, his nephew and his wife makes passionate pleas for his innocence. The defense lawyer asks for a lesser sentence. Judge Dolan gives her sentence.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/21/1986
Description: Update on the Fells Acres sexual assault trial. Testimony of Gerald Amirault, who insists upon his innocence. Protected testimony of the nine children who testified against him. Court room scenes, and explanation of the unusual procedure required for the children's privacy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/26/1986
Description: Closing argument presented by defense and the state in the Fells Acres sexual abuse trial. Gerald Amirault awaits the jury's verdict. Examples of the children's testimony and arguments over whether it can be trusted.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/07/1986