Description: "Leader: ""P1 A.B.C.C. [Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission] Hearing #7787 - 3 April 74""; Silent footage of a public hearing on the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission followed by sound bites from men testifying. More b-roll of the hearing followed by excerpts of the men testifying in defense of the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/03/1974
Description: "Leader: ""F1 Anti Busing Group #7220 5 Feb 74""; Silent b-roll of an anti-busing group press conference. Louise Day Hicks and others in attendance. Members read statements about the creation of the anti-busing group and its purpose, and take questions from the press."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/05/1974
Description: "Leader: ""P1 Cambridge Housing Authority #9227 7/2/74""; Silent b-roll of broken window in an apartment building, trash and broken appliance, interior damage. Mike Taibbi reporter standups and voiceovers about the damage and mismanagement of Cambridge project housing, Roosevelt Towers. Interview with Lewis Crampton, commissioner of community affairs, about working with the Cambridge Housing Authority to fix the problem. Interview with Mary Castriotta, Cambridge Housing Authority chairman, about their financial problems. Reporter outtakes, silent b-roll of kids outside the apartments."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/02/1974
Description: Story #9883. Statements by Father Robert Drinan, Governor Sargent Francis, special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal Archibold Cox, and Senator Edward Kennedy on President Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon. Mary McKay interview with Father Drinan on the street. Drinan thinks that the pardon is in violation of the spirit of the United State Constitution. Governor Sargent, surrounded by news microphones, does not believe that Nixon should go to jail, but the implications of pardoning him for crimes that an ordinary citizen would go to jail for is concerning. Seated at a desk, Archibald Cox reads a statement in response to the pardon, and believes that it violates the principal of our government to pardon the President in advance of the Grand Jury Hearing. Interview with Kennedy on a pier. He comments on how pardon may signify a pardon for draft evaders, and is concerned that the pardon may have been done too soon.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/08/1974
Description: "Leader: "" Xray Accident #7645 3/20/74""; A woman was killed in an accident involving a radiation therapy machine at Tufts New England Medical Center. Silent broll of the hospital sign and an x-ray machine. Reporter Mary McKay interview with a representative from the hospital about the accident and what is being done to prevent any future incidents."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/20/1974
Description: "Leader: ""F1 Fireman Funeral #7114 1/25/74""; Silent footage of a fireman's funeral. Men in uniform walking down the street; a hearse drives by; mourners walk into a church, pall bearers carry the coffin; firemen milling around outside the funeral; "
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/25/1974
Description: "Leader: ""P1 Food Prices Hiked 2/24/74 #7605""; Silent b-roll of a grocery store; A girl and her mother in a grocery store aisle; meat on the shelves; shoppers pushing carts through aisles. Mary McKay standup about the dramatic rise in food prices. Interview with professor about problems with the meat producers, what he believes is an artificially inflated price of meat, regulation of the food industry, the impending removal of price controls and how that will impact food costs (cat comes into frame and interrupts interview). Interview with a man who is against the food industry regulations."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/24/1974
Description: "Leader: ""P2 Free Firewood 12/20/73 #6834""; Reporter voiceover about free firewood at State Parks. Interview with a woman who came to cut their own firewood because she is worried about the cost of heating oil. Mike Taibbi reporter standup about a new rule that opened up 29 State Parks in Massachusetts to allowed people who need help heating their homes to cut their own firewood. Interview with a park ranger (Tom) about safety concerns. More of the interview with the woman. Womback State Park sign. Reporter outtakes."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/20/1973
Description: "Leader: ""P2 Gas Search #7122 01/25/74""; Interviews with people in cars at a gas station about how much gas they have in the tank and how long they have been looking for an open station. Bob Windsor reporter standup about customers searching for open gas stations. Silent b-roll of gas stations, ""out of gas signs"", and gas trucks. More interviews with customers and an oil truck driver."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/25/1974
Description: "Leader: ""P1 Gas on Sunday #7689 3-24-74""; Silent footage of cars waiting in line at gas stations, gas station signs, people at the pump, and signs saying that stations are open or closed. Interview with a gas station employee about how they are allowed to be open on Sunday now. Jim Boyd stand up in front of a gas station in Norwood about how some stations are open on Sundays now. Followed by outtakes."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/24/1974