Description: "Leader: ""F1 License Arraignment 8/27/74""; Silent footage of men walking into an elevator and a room in the courthouse hiding their faces. Related to a story about indictments in a probe of corruption in the Massachusetts Department of Motor Vehicles."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/27/1974
Description: "Leader: ""P2 Little League, Peabody-Wellesley #8281 5/19/74""; Janine Cinseruli, a 10-year old Peabody girl, playing baseball. Susan Wegryn of Wellsley Massachusetts playing catch in the yard with her dad and brother. Janine and Susan won their lawsuit enabling them to play little league baseball. Interview with Susan. Mary McKay reporter standup about how the girls have been received by their separate communities after the ruling. Susan has been accepted by the community while Janine has faced resistance with some coaches and parents threatening to walk off the field if she plays. Silent b-roll of Janine playing baseball with boys and girls; children playing catch in a backyard; interviews with Janine's mother, Susan, Susan's parents, and Susan's brother Mark; reporter standup outtakes. Follow-up to Acc. 2394.01671"
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/19/1974
Description: Democratic candidate for the Governors' Council, Vincent LoPresti, speaks about the need for checks and balances in the government. Republican candidate for the 12th Congressional District, Alan MacKay, talks about inflation and high taxes. Silent b-roll of both press conferences. Unrelated b-roll of Natalie Jacobsons' interview with artist Paul Szep (See Acc. 2394.00878). More footage of both LoPresti and MacKay speaking at their press conferences.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/07/1974
Description: "Leader: ""P2 Lobstermen #9327""; Closeup of a map of the Maine/New Hampshire line in the ocean; A man drives a boat; A lobsterman interviewed about Maine lobstermen fishing over the state line; man on the water collecting traps; shots of the shoreline and lighthouse. Roger Goodrich standup about a dispute between the New Hampshire and Maine lobstermen. Outtakes include interview with a lobsterman about the new boundary line by the Isle of Shoals; reporter outtakes; lobsterman checking traps; lobsterman's house, dock, and boat."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/12/1974
Description: "Leader: ""P1 Local Greek #9412 7-21-74""; Silent footage of a service at a Greek Orthadox church and people in pews."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/21/1974
Description: Story #943. Story about the international 24 hour pilot strike over hijacking concerns, and how this strike has affected travel at Logan Airport. Footage includes interviews with pilots, reporter voice over, b-roll of flight attendants updating cancellation boards, empty seating areas, closed check-in counters, parked planes, people boarding planes and checking into flights with carriers that are still operating. Interviews with pilots from Eastern airline (who joined the strike) about the issue behind the strike, personal hijacking stories, public perception, and why pilots from all of the airlines did not join the strike. Edited story followed by cuts. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/19/1972
Description: Overview of the crash of Delta flight 723 July 31, 1973 as the plane was landing at Logan airport. All 89 passengers were killed in the crash. Footage includes b-roll from Logan airport, shots of a Delta plane, interview with a man who heard the crash, bodies lined up in a building, men walking around the plane wreckage, funeral service during which a woman is given a flag, airplanes taking off, very quick cuts of wreckage and the aftermath of the plane crash, body being wheeled away on a stretcher, firemen dousing the wreckage , ambulances arriving at the hospital, a military funeral. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/31/1973
Description: "Leader: ""P2 Logan Hijacker #9839 1 of 2 9/4/74""; Story related to a young man, Marshall Collins III, who took an Eastern Airlines pilot (Lewis Whitaker Jr.) hostage for three hours at Logan Airport before surrendering to the FBI. Interview with a passenger from the plane about what happened during the hijacking. Statement from an official about the hijacker's motives. B-roll footage of a plane. An official (Lewis) explains to the press what happened during the hijacking and answers questions. Interview with a police officer about delivering money to the hijacker on the plane and an FBI agent negotiating the end of the standoff. FBI press conference about the arrest of Collins and an overview of the incident. Silent b-roll of the press conferences, police and FBI on the tarmac, and the airport. Reel 1 of 2. See Acc. 2394.00620"
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/04/1974
Description: Plane takes off from Logan Airport. Man speaking about the planning process for Logan Airport. Footage from a meeting on the Logan Airport plan. Shots of the Logan runways. Mix of sound and wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1976
Description: Story #9771. Story about plans to build a new runways at Logan Airport, the "Logan Masterplan," and objections from the community with noise and environmental concerns. Footage includes b-roll of press conference, close up shots of runway plans, planes taking off and landing, construction equipment and workers, press conference with concerned citizens and a press conference with governor King about a court order that halted construction, environmental impact studies, and how to continue with the project. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/27/1974