Description: "Leader: "P2 Drinan #7541 3/10/74"; Robert Drinan speaks to reporters about Watergate. Silent b-roll of Drinan speaking to an audience, reporter Mary McKay, shots of the audience. Excerpts from Drinan's speech on privacy. More of the interview with Drinan."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/10/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Egg Farmer 8/4/74 #9556"; Silent footage of a teenage boy carrying a bucket of chicken feed to a hen house in the woods. Feeds the chickens and counts them. Another boy with a cardboard box full of chicks. Car with "Hillside Poultry Farm Marblehead" written on it in the driveway. Interview with farmer Emerson Brown about how the rising cost of feed means a rising cost in eggs and meat. Silent footage of Brown feeding chickens in cages and pouring feed in a bucket. Mary McKay reporter standup about the drought in the midwest and rising cost of feed is raising the cost of eggs. Outtakes more b-roll footage of the farm, turkeys, chickens, and interview with Brown."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/04/1974
Description: "Ceremony for new correction officers, including three women. One woman speaks about working with male guard not replacing them. Silent footage of interview with man. Exteriors of the Plymouth County Court House in Brockton. Man speaks about Massachusetts Department of Corrections' position on which jobs women can be assigned. Women correction officers assert their capability to do the jobs and work within the system. Attorney Siskin, who filed a suit against female correction officers, speaks about the differences in physical capability between men and women. Additional silent footage of people speaking to the press and of the ceremony. Additional footage from interview with Attorney Siskin and press conference with after the ceremony with female correction officers and Department of Corrections Commissioner (sound gets a little out of sync in master, but was fixed for web video). Mix of silent and sound."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/22/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Fishermen Meet #7672 3/22/74"; The New England fishing industry is lobbying Congress to protect the domestic fishing industry from foreign fishermen using fishing grounds off the New England Coast. Footage includes silent broll of meeting and fishermen working on the docks. Reporter standup (Natalie Jacobson) about New England Fishing Industry plan to sail up the Potomac to get attention from Congress. Man gives a speech about foreign fisherman. Reporter outtakes. Footage of various men from different New England states speaking to the meeting about how foreign vessels off the New England Coast are threatening the fishing industry in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/22/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Food Supplies II #7224 2-5-74"; Silent footage of men unloading boxes from a refrigerated truck. Close up on receipts and footage of boxes in warehouse; Man moves meat on hooks; workers slice and package meat; broll of reporter Mary McKay; Reporter standup in front of racks of raw beef about the possibility of meat processing plant going out of business. Interview with a worker about how the trucker strike is hurting them and an interview with the company's owner (Mr. Finns) about rising costs hurting both the factory and the consumers. Outtakes include more interview footage of interviews and silent broll."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/05/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Fuel Rent Strike #7140 1/28/74"; A man speaks about tenants pushing back against rent increases due to the oil crisis raising heating costs. Silent b-roll of houses and apartment buildings. A man representing the Rent Control Agency (Mr. Grace) speaks about the burden of the energy crisis and how it will be shared between tenants and landlords. More of the press conference about how tenants will fight the landlords, the possibility of a rent strike, and how tenants will advocate for the elderly. More of the interview with Mr. Grace about tenant rights. B-roll of apartment buildings and housing."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/28/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Gas Tax #10859 12/26/74"; Interviews with customers, gas station owners. and Congressman Michael Harrington on a possible gas tax. Silent b-roll of gas station, gas prices, people filling their cars. about the possibility of Jim Boyd reporter standup about a possible increase in the gas ta by President Ford. Outtakes include more interviews with drivers at a gas station and reporter outtakes."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/26/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Gilbert #7948 4/18/74" "Bruins Hodge" " P2 Gilbert #7948 4/17/74" "4/18/74 Bobby Orr" "P1 4/19/74 #7948 Tony Esposito ISO"; Interviews with Bruins hockey players Giles Gilbert, Ken Hodge, and Bobby Orr followed by silent slow motion game footage for the Boston Bruins vs. the Chicago Black Hawks."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/18/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Hospital Bed Shortage #6971 1/8/74; News story follow up to an article in the Boston Globe about a shortage of hospital beds at Boston City Hospital. Silent footage of Boston City Hospital (BCH). Shots of the exterior of the hospital, nurses, empty beds in a hospital room. Interview with a man from BCH hospital administration. Hospital reception and waiting room. Interview with a man from a different hospital about receiving patients from the BCH when they are full. Interview with Dr. Michael Rabkin from Beth Israel Hospital. Shot of a front page story in the Boston Globe. Mary McKay reporter standup about Boston City Hospital transfer patients. More of the interview with the man from BCH. Silent b-roll footage of empty beds in Beth Israel Hospital, interviews, Peter Brent Bingham Hospital, nurses, people going in and out of BCH. Interview and reporter outtakes.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/08/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Hyde Park Parents #10219 10/15/74; Meeting about school integration and busing in Hyde Park High School with parents, students, and local politicians. Parents and students come to a microphone in the crowd to make comments and ask questions; crowd screams and yells at each other. Some speakers include Joseph Timilty, John Kerrigan, and Louise Day Hicks.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/15/1974