Description: "Leader: "P2 Earl Warren Death Comment #9309 7/10/74"; Interview with a law professor (Mr. Monahan) about Chief Judge Earl Warren."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/10/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Earth Day #7987 4/22/74"; Booths related to conservation and an emission test for cars. A crowd on the Boston Commons listening to music. Arch Macdonald reporter standup and voiceover about Earth Day Celebration at the Boston Common. Interview with a man about arguments and compromise between the environmentalists and the industrialists and the future of environmental conservation. More footage from the Earth Day Celebration and reporter outtakes."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/22/1974
Description: Interview with East Boston resident and community activist on the caucus the next day to vote for people to go to the convention. She talks about her support of Michael Dukakis and the cooperation between Dukakis supporters and Thomas O'Neill supporters. She favors primary elections over the caucus practice. Closeup on teacup and saucer. They shoot cutaways (no audio). East Boston environs, houses, cars, Eastern Airlines sign. Editor's note: Content given off the record was edited out of this footage.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/05/1982
Description: Leader: P2 East Boston Cop #7521 3/7/74; Rally at the East Boston High School to protest the transfer of detective Robert Bobby Fawcett who was demoted to patrolman and transferred from East Boston to Charlestown. Silent and sound footage of the audience holding up signs and cheering. Policemen sit on the stage and speak to the crowd. Carmen Scarpa, assistant headmaster. Deputy Superintendant Peter J. Donavan speaks to the crowd and offers to answer questions. Members of the audience speak out against the transfer of Fawcett.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/07/1974
Description: Students enter East Boston High School. Police stand outside the school. Mix of silent and wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1976
Description: East Boston High School exterior. Students congregate in street. Security officer tries to corral them onto sidewalk. Police on motorcycles. White students interviewed about their boycott ,which is because of previous day's racially motivated stabbing. They make racist comments about the black students in their school. They demand metal detectors. Student leaders stand on platform asking students if they want scanners, organizing their position to present to the school administration. Several takes of reporter standup. Security officer talks informally to students about safety. Interview with senior Gary Gosselin on mood inside school.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/18/1979
Description: Federal Aviation Administration. East Boston residents sing a song protesting incursion of airport into their neighborhood (Neptune Rd. East Boston). David Davis, Tom O'Neill, Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Fred Salvucci all seen. Interview with a woman about plane noise and eminent domain. She feels that the people in the neighborhood are being uprooted. Interview with a man on noise abatement and eminent domain for Logan expansion. Residents would like to prevent the destruction of their neighborhood. Interview with other longtime residents complaining about Massport.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/22/1977
Description: Leader: P1 E. Cambridge Fire #6750 12/11/73; Silent footage of firemen fighting a fire. People leaving the building; firetrucks in the street and spray water into the building.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/11/1973
Description: Exteriors of Haverhill City Hall. Environs of East Woburn neighborhood thought to be affected by hazardous waste contamination from nearby dumps. Sign on building for Housing for the Elderly. Washington Block building. Red ranch house of Anderson family. Children in summer clothes and dogs on residential street. Anderson boy on bicycle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1981
Description: "Leader: "Easter Parade cuts 4/14/74 #7896"; Silent footage of an Easter parade; people in bunny costumes hand out candy; footage of people walking through Boston Commons and children in Easter dresses."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/14/1974