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TOCN show tape

Description: Before news broadcast: Ted O'Brien advertises WGBH membership; advertisement for "Vietnam: Present Tense" program with Seth Rolbein; James Earl Jones advertises "Long Ago and Far Away" program; 1)Carmen fields reports on revelations on Sen. William Bulger's questionable investment in American Cablesystems Midwest with Harold Brown and Thomas Finnerty. 2) David Boeri debriefing on set on Bulger. 3) Sludge processing at Deer Island treatment plant turns sewage into compost and pelletized fertilizer; Paul Levy of MWRA and Michael Deland of EPA; incinerator in Lynn. 4) History of Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor, now landfill repository. Anchors Lydon and Fields. 5) Report on President George Bush Sr.'s tax campaign and Congressional leaders meeting about budget. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recommends budget restrictions, rather than taxes. 6) New childcare package is political olive branch between political parties. 7) National Urban League report on poverty and income conditions among black people. 8) Execution of serial murderer Ted Bundy in Florida. 9) Pennsylvania native Barbara Harris chosen as first woman bishop in Anglican Communion, ordained by Boston Archdiocese.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/24/1989

Tugboat devotee

Description: Fran Tate is committed to preserving two wooden, diesel-powered tugboats, Venus and Luna, in Boston Harbor. Corroded pipes and gauges, flooded engine room.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/17/1990

USS John F. Kennedy

Description: USS Kennedy berths at South Boston. Sailors disembark. Ray Flynn wears ship's cap. Greenpeace protests on rafts because battleship carries nuclear weapons. Coast Guard boat in harbor. David Scondras.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/03/1990

VALHALLA

Description: SHIP VALHALLA AND CUSTOMS OFFICIALS AT BOSTON HARBOR
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/17/1984

View from Fed roof

Description: Unique long, wide, and panoramic view of Logan runways against blue Boston Harbor and sky, as seen from top of Federal Reserve building. Planes taxi and take off. Next, looking across traffic on expressway toward North End buildings in distance. View of expressway framed between two high rises in financial district. Wide of Mystic River (Tobin) Bridge. Charlestown Navy Yard in foreground. Another wide landscape, almost abstract, of Logan runways. Follow plane into sky.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/23/1978

Water and sewer bills

Description: New sewage treatment plants for Deer Island and Nut Island to aid harbor cleanup will cause water and sewer rates to soar. Washing hands in sink. Paul Levy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/16/1987

Water waste

Description: Paul Levy of MWRA explains wasteful water usage is draining Quabbin Reservoir; urges conservation to safeguard harbor cleanup effort. Leaking pipes, toilet bowl draining after flush, drinking from fountain.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/09/1988

Waterfront building boom

Description: Burgeoning construction along waterfront produces pricey condos and high rent office space; taps a ripe real estate market. Boston Harbor Hotel on Rowes Wharf developed by Beacon Companies. View looking up into grand domed arch. High wide shot of structure and beyond to harbor with small boats. Hotel seen from Atlantic Avenue and from water side. Sign for water shuttle. Architect's rendering of 75 State Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/06/1987