Description: Walk-in medical center in Billerica.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/19/1981
Description: Explanation of origin and effect of acid rain. Ominous smokestacks. Deteriorating building surfaces. Blue- lit Lincoln Memorial. Impact on food crops, non- cultivated vegetation, water bodies, and marine life. Spotted salamander, peeper frog. Deformed amphibian embryos. 1982 documentary from National Film Board of Canada.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Description: Selection of political ads from 1952-84 campaigns for president, Congress, Senate, governor, mayor. Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, George McGovern, George Bush, Gary Hart, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter, Adlai Stevenson, Eugene McCarthy, Howard Baker, Al Gore, Malcolm Wallop, Byron Dorgan, Fred Harris, Bruce Babbitt, Dutch Morial, John Connally, Jim Slattery, Nelson Rockefeller, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Ronald Reagan, Mitch McConnell, Lloyd Doggett, Carl Levin, Leon Panetta, John Tower, Jim Maddox, Chuck Percy, Harold Washington, John Glenn, Denny Smith, Ty Fahner, Phil Gramm, Everett Dirksen, Warren Magnuson, John Melcher, Gordon Humphrey, Arch Moore, James Shannon, Peter Shapiro. Narrated by Eugene McCarthy, produced by Campaigns & Elections.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Description: Decline of Massachusetts farming. Film transfer. ©1978 Peter Feinstein and Mark Kramer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Description: Interviews with shoppers to explore reasons for Bush's gain and apparent tie with Dukakis in poll of Massachusetts voters. Herald headline.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/01/1988
Description: Film transfer of “Fort Devens: the winter experience” (Public Affairs Division of Fort Devens, 1976). Soldiers in white suits on cross-country skis and snowshoes. Practice mountaineering skill on sheer vertical training tower. Submerge in icy water. Combat engineer battalion carves road, makes bridge of timbers, places explosives and detonates. Army Security Training Center students learn electronic warfare and cryptology. Female teacher in uniform. Special forces jump and deploy parachutes. Fort Devens salutes neighboring Littleton and hosts community ski cup race as part of good civic relations.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1976
Description: In Pursuit of Old Ironsides. USS Constitution.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/23/1983
Description: Debate on the success of school desegregation, moderated by Jim Lehrer. Filmed in the auditorium of Dunbar High School in Washington D.C. Lehrer explains outline and rules for debate. Busing advocates include Arthur Flemming (Chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights), Murray Saltzman, Frankie Freeman of US Commission on Civil Rights. Flemming begins debate with opening statement by the US Commission on Civil Rights. Lino Graglia of the Neighborhood Schools Association makes opening remark for anti-busing representative group. Sue Mills, Herbert Walberg of Neighborhood Schools Association. Coproduced by WGBH and WETA.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1976
Description: Excerpts of “La Bête” and interview with actor Tom McGowan who got the lead role as an understudy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/08/1991
Description: “Nuclear Power in New England.” Yankee Atomic Electric plant in Rowe, Massachusetts. Connecticut Yankee, Millstone I and II. Nuclear engineer Vicki Swisher explains how power is generated. Signs in at security desk, tours control room. Processing of mined rocks and soil to extract, purify, pelletize uranium 235 for conversion to fuel bundles. Refueling of rods in reactor core. Men in yellow protective suits. Pressurized steam lines to turbine turn generator. Cooling towers. Low level radioactive waste being trucked away (to where?) in steel container for disposal. Marine biologist explains aquatic environmental testing for damage to sea life. Health physicist explains air quality monitoring for emissions. Pilgrim Station in Plymouth, Maine Yankee, Vermont Yankee plants. ©1977 Electric Council of New England.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1977