Description: Green Berets at Fort Devens airborne division. Headquarters of 10th Special Forces Group / 1st Special Forces. Soldier with two helpers suits up and becomes extremely laden with packs and gear. Equipment strapped and tied to him, front and back. Gun, snowshoes, skis on table. Soldier unloads parachute from front pack. Another gathers up the unfurled parachute and folds into pack. Stone marker bearing JFK quote “Ask not what your country can do for you…” reel 1 of 3.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/22/1978
Description: Helicopters land at Fort Devens. Interview with Col. Greene about threefold mission of the Green Berets special forces: guerrilla warfare, direct action, internal defense / training troops in other countries. They also support Reserves and ROTC programs. Talks about his service in Vietnam. reel 2 of 3.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/22/1978
Description: Continuation of interview with Col. Greene at Fort Devens. “Green Berets are in low profile phase now; high profile caused animosity.” Three soldiers rappel on wooden training tower in long bounds. reel 3 of 3.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/22/1978
Description: Small planes land at Hanscom Field. Cessnas, Beechcraft, prop jets, twin engines. Plane wheels make skid sound when touching ground. Planes arrive in quick succession, making roaring noises. Fuel exhaust haze near ground. Many planes parked in rows, tethered to tarmac. Sign: “L.G. Hanscom Field Air Terminal, a Massport facility.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/10/1978
Description: Harvard Coop record department. Close-up on classical records and posters of conductors. Shelves of LP album spines. Shoppers browse bins. Customers pay, cashier opens register drawer, makes change, bags records. 8-track tapes stacked on shelves. Audio cassettes displayed.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/02/1978
Description: Traffic on Massachusetts Avenue through Harvard Square. Subway kiosk with sign “Rapid Transit To All Points.” Cars stopped at corner of Dunster Street. Cars stopped on Boylston (JFK) Street. Sign for The Garage and Strawberries Records. “Closed” sign at red line station entrance. Out of Town News. Stacks of newspapers. Boston Herald American front page headline “Walkout may halt T today.” Yellow electric cable buses parked in Bennett Street MBTA yard.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1978
Description: Harvard Yard, static and tracking shots. Bare trees and shallow snow. Students wearing parkas traverse the paths carrying books and knapsacks. Steps and Corinthian columns of Widener Library. Steeple of Memorial Church. Statue of seated John Harvard with snow. Food vendor outside gate. Entrance and ziggurat-like tiers of Science Center. Woman in wheelchair goes through doors. Adjacent Littauer building with classically columned grand facade.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/12/1978
Description: Harvard University medical area energy plant under construction; will produce electric power via diesel engines. Located on corner of Brookline Avenue and Francis Street near Mission Hill. Men on scaffolding laying bricks. Big buckets of mortar hoisted with crane. Wheelbarrow is lifted to platform. Signs “men working” and “no trespassing.” Giant claw deposits cement in dump truck. Contractors J.E. White, Dorel, Anastasi Brothers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1978
Description: Staffers doing paperwork in a Congressional office. Interview with Hedrick Smith on Jimmy Carter and the power of the Presidency.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/03/1978
Description: Wide shot of stark, modern concrete exterior of Holyoke Community College.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/03/1978