Description: Leader: P2 Cop Shot #6775 12/13/73; Interview with a man who witnessed a robbery. Reporter standup about a police officer that was shot during a robbery. Silent footage of a crowd watching as police put a man in a police car. More interviews with the witnesses to the robbery. Reporter outtakes. Camera static on the street. Policemen walk down the street with a woman, police cars drive by. Unrelated footage of a building on fire. More silent footage of police on the sidewalk with suspect in car.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/13/1973
Description: Leader: P2 Shotguns #6776 12/13/73 (Portions removed for Eisenstadt story of 1/16/1974); Interview with a police officer about the problem of people owning shotguns in Boston and how the police might need to carry them at well. Silent footage of a press conference with the Committee to Improve Community-Police Relations in Roxbury. Buckets of shotguns. A man demonstrates opening his trench coat and pulling out a shotgun, which he aims at the camera. Elma Lewis and others at the press conference discuss their opposition to arming the police force with shotguns. Reporter Natalie Jacobson asks a questions about gun control. Silent footage of a man with a shotgun.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/13/1973