Description: Air traffic controllers at Logan tower. Line of controllers seated in dark room in front of radar scopes. Interview with Bill about how he became a controller, starting in military; what attributes are necessary to do the job well. reel 2 of 4
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/03/1978
Description: Air traffic control tower at Logan. Controller Bill works in departure control readying flights for takeoff, giving runway instructions via headset. Pilot acknowledgement audible. He surveys expanse of runways from window of tower in daylight. TWA plane takes off. Controllers work standing. Cam tilts between radar scope and window onto runways. Bill and female controller seen head on through outside of window (shot from catwalk). reel 3 of 4
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/03/1978
Description: Air traffic controller Bill in Logan tower, seen through window (shot from catwalk). High shot of wide area surrounding airport. Cars driving to airport, past Eastern hangar and terminal. View across harbor to financial district skyline with Custom House and beyond to Citgo sign in extreme distance. Flight approach instructions given over headset; pilot acknowledgement audible. British Airways plane taxis on runway, gathers speed, nose points up, lifts off, landing gear retracts. reel 4 of 4
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/03/1978
Description: Passengers in ticket lines in international terminal at Logan. Distinctive Braniff planes painted bright colors. Luggage. Taxiing TWA and American Airlines jets. Reporter explains Braniff's trademark - brightly colored planes, leather seats, flying routes other airlines do not. Braniff plans to use Boston as its gateway to European air travel.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/30/1979
Description: Lone nuclear power plant protester holds her ground two days before Seabrook is to receive full- power operating license.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/27/1990
Description: Medical residents oppose long shifts on duty. They appeal at hearing for shorter hours so as not to jeopardize patient care. Doctor looks at x-rays.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1989
Description: Public policy analyst Joe Slavet says state budget will be in trouble for a long time with or without tax rollback. Students rally against Question 3. CLT ad. Very elderly people in wheelchairs in nursing home.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1990
Description: Longshoremen's hiring hall. Men crowd around window for work assignments. Interview with union worker, who says job shortage due to progress and automation. He has not been paid under contract guaranty because of loopholes. He predicts October 1 strike against Boston Shipping Association. Containerization calls for fewer workers, from about 1,200 men to about 400 men, though tonnage of port has remained stable. Man hours have decreased, some men have left the industry, others try to collect their guaranty. A man being interviewed says that the men are very angry.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/24/1976
Description: Lonnie Lee Gilchrist, a fired stock broker who fatally shot his former Merrill Lynch boss, pleads not guilty to murder.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/08/1988
Description: Cargo plane crashes at night on residential Lonsdale Street, Dorchester. Firefighters battle inferno.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/26/1987