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Crime on Orange Line

Description: Passengers at Egleston Square T station say security is an important issue in light of recent spate of assaults and muggings by teenage gangs. MBTA will put police decoys on the trains to deter crime. Four-car Orange Line train pulls up to platform. Camera rides on train, looks down row of passengers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/06/1980

Energy audit

Description: Putty-like rope caulk, tube of caulking, fiberglass batting insulation. BostonGas bills. Interview with homeowners in Dorchester about why they are having an energy audit. Inspector shows form to note data about heating system, structure, and energy saving improvements. Honeywell thermostat. Printout of recommendations. House exterior. Weatherization.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1979

G. William Miller

Description: G. William Miller, former chair of Federal Reserve Board and recently appointed Secretary of the Treasury, answers questions in Boston on interest rates, money policy, oil prices, recession.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/18/1979

Grove Hall environs

Description: Grove Hall Dorchester environs. Blue Hill Avenue storefronts. Regal Foods, liquor store, photography studio, Grove Hall Savings Bank. Interview with Emanuel Horne, director of business development office of the Boston Plan, focusing on commercial revitalization of Dudley Station and Grove Hall. Talks about long-term aftermath of 1967 riots: area continues to suffer from lack of investment and entrepreneurial expertise. Cites need for bakeries and supermarket. He is hopeful for housing renewal to accommodate immigrants. Looks for ethnic diversification in consumer habits.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/27/1980

Hyde Park High clash

Description: Horse mounted police in front of Hyde Park High. Boston police cruisers and motorcycles. Black students exit school. Interview with Boston Police Superintendent Connolly about clash inside school, calling it minor incident. Interview with ninth grade boy who attributes fight to racial tension and reaction to previous day's shooting at Cambridge school. Wide exterior of school.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/08/1980

Hyde Park housing

Description: Interview on changing demographics, housing values, racial conflict in Hyde Park. Little City Hall in municipal building, Cooperative Bank, billboards, Kevin White poster, district 5 police station. MDC Doyle Playground with racist graffiti "niggers go home KKK." Single family houses. Black lawn jockey on lantern post damaged by stoning.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1979

Jean Sullivan McKeigue press conference

Description: William Sullivan holds press conference in his Jamaica Plain home to announce the Boston School Committee candidacy of his daughter Jean Sullivan McKeigue. He talks about educational attainment of wife Mary Malone Sullivan and their six children. Introduces daughter Kathleen Sullivan Alioto who introduces her sister Jean. Joseph Alioto sits behind smiling. Much press attention is focused on the Aliotos' respective political plans; they decline to be specific. William Sullivan turns away questions about the Patriots.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/19/1979

John Williams

Description: Conductor John Williams in rehearsal with the Boston Pops Orchestra at Symphony Hall.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/21/1980

North End and South End

Description: Whittier Place sign and high-rise buildings of Charles River Park. Brick buildings in North End. Laundry hangs from clothesline out window. Drago's Italian Bakery storefront and pizza sign. Prince building near waterfront. Environs near Commercial Street. Lobsters sign. All-day parking $2.25. Victorian houses on Ashmont Hill. Complex roof with eyebrow window, turret, balustrade on widow's walk. Mansards. Decrepit facades in Codman Square. Liquor store on Washington Street. “We Can” Neighborhood Improvement Association. Blackstone Park in South End. Housing project. Elevated orange line structure (no trains) runs down middle of street. Attached brick townhouses on Union Park. Rehabilitation in progress; building permit displayed in window. Ornate dormer, white iron balcony. St. Germain street sign. Gentrification, condominium development.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/14/1979

Oil spill

Description: Cleanup of no. 2 diesel oil spilled in Quincy Harbor. Suds on surface of water. Pump on dock. Jet-Line Services oil pollution control tank truck. Seagull on pier. Vacuum barge. Wide of bay. Estimated 28,000 gallons spilled. Interview with Mike Downey of Coast Guard Marine Safety Division says oil spills not unusual in state and talks about method of cleanup. Man in hip boots and rubber gloves wades in water with pitchfork. Brown residue visible near surface. Interview with fisherman Tom Galgana about secret clam flat and lobster grounds being damaged by spill for at least ten years.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/07/1979