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Suffolk Courthouse security

Description: Suffolk County Courthouse hallway. Surveillance camera. A monitor displays output of cameras at three vantage points. Guard scans visitors with metal detector, frisks some; goes over belts, pockets, looks in briefcases, bags. Men remove hats to show nothing is hidden. Interview about newly installed security system since April bombing. Details are given on how the security system can be used to deter incidents as well as to apprehend suspects after the fact. Exterior of Suffolk County Courthouse.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/15/1976

Verrill Farm

Description: Verrill Farm in Concord. Kid goat romps. Nine white and black cows munch hay. Interview with dairy farmer about drought affecting feed crops. Parched fields, irrigation pipe. Area of corn stalks. Herd of cows resting under tree in pasture hear farmer's call, look up and respond - first ambling then trotting home. Flies swarm around cows.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/23/1976

Recycling in Somerville

Description: Recycling in Somerville. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/12/1976

TOCN show tape

Description: First day of school in Boston, Phase IIB of court ordered desegregation. 1) Superintendent Marion Fahey is proud of faculty and students. Associate superintendent Charles Leftwich reports van and three buses were stoned. Mayor Kevin White says unlawful conduct will not be tolerated. 2) Gary Griffith reports on opening commotion at Charlestown High. One-third of enrolled students show up. Federal marshals and police outside. One arrest for disorderly conduct. Neighborhood crowd gathers in street. 3) Pamela Bullard at South Boston High. Black students get off bus to less tension than last year. Police are present but not in riot gear. 4) Art Cohen at Mackey Middle School where teacher student ratio is 1:18. Principal Lloyd Leake. 5) Bullard on magnet program encompassing 21 schools. Exterior, interior of English High. Gregory Anrig, state commissioner of education. Headmaster William Peterkin. 6) Karin Giger on bilingual program at Grover Cleveland Middle School. 7) Bullard talks to boycotting (white) Cormiers of Charlestown. Mother keeps son out of Timilty School where he was assigned to be bused; he has part-time tutoring. 8) Steve Curwood talks to participating (black) Price family from Roxbury, whose children are bused to white neighborhoods. 9) 5 Hyde Park High students, 3 minority, 2 white, discuss racial separation inside school. They expect conflict to be less than last year. 10) Steve Nevas was almost thwarted from covering a Kevin White press conference because mayor felt Nevas could not be objective. (He had investigated fundraising in White campaign.) White attempts to disassemble Channel 2 microphone and asserts he can exclude any reporter from access. Ed Baumeister says this raises First Amendment issue.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1976

Artists' housing

Description: Interview with artist about living and working in his loft in leather district, Boston. Studio interior, open paint cans, brushes, finished painting on white wall. Kitchen and sleeping space adjacent to gallery. Large warehouse windows exuding natural light. Interview with Liz Dworkin about need for artists' housing and dispute with BRA and developers over zoning and rents. Exteriors on South Street: Keeler Leather Co., Barney's Uniform, Proctor Ellison Co., Seamon Steen Co., Berman Leather, Cornhill Magazine & Book Co., Siegel Leather, building facades.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/29/1976

QE2

Description: Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship seen from East Boston. Aboard the luxury liner (no passengers). Pool on deck, shuffleboard. British flag. Interview with Cunard Lines representative on history of ship and cruise business. Inside passenger cabin. Porthole windows. Ballroom, bandstand, bust of queen. Profile from bow.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/02/1976

Melville Avenue, Dorchester

Description: Interior architectural details and decor of Victorian house on Melville Avenue in Dorchester. Interview with homeowner Marlene Knight about why her family moved from suburbs to that neighborhood. Interview with Arthur Glass about why he bought house there. Both seek racially mixed area and affordability in the city.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/06/1976

Richard Rowland

Description: Interview with Richard Rowland, director of Massachusetts Association of Elder Americans, on state funding for homemaker services to assist senior citizens with housekeeping and errands and help them stay out of nursing homes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1977

Symphony Road arson

Description: B-roll of bulldozer clearing debris from Symphony Road fire. Exteriors of buildings with broken and boarded up windows and smoke stains. Interview with David Scondras of Symphony Tenants Organizing Project. He talks about why the rash of 29 fires in three years is suspected as arson: absentee landlords, high vacancy rate, poor condition of structures, lodging houses, lapsed mortgages. He adds that there is nothing the city can do about the problem and explains why. He hopes that State legislators will back his organization's bill which removes the financial motivation for landlords to burn down houses in poor condition. He discusses the number of people affected while they shoot cutaways. Reporter reasks question for editing purposes. Exteriors of a Red Cross Disaster Service Center. Several takes of reporter standup.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/23/1977

Towing lot

Description: Boston police car marked “towing enforcement.” Sign at tow lot on Albany Street listing charges of $12 plus hourly storage fees. Interview on creation of Parking Violations Bureau to consolidate enforcement and collection of fines. Cost of unpaid ticket will double after 21 days. Denver boot used to immobilize cars of scofflaws. Police commissioner Joseph Jordan announces clamp down on illegal parking in city. Cavalcade of police tow trucks enter lot carrying vehicles.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1977