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Suffolk Downs

Description: Suffolk Downs race track. Starting gates. Wide shot of grounds. Zoom into entrance sign. Blue line trolley passes in background.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/25/1979

Supermarket beef and seafood

Description: Mounds of ground beef placed on styrofoam trays on conveyor belt to be wrapped in plastic. Hamburger meat in supermarket. Cut fish parts packaged on trays. Seafood department at Star Market. Prime beef sign. Pan butcher case.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/16/1979

Supt. Connolly shot

Description: Boston police superintendent Ed Connolly shot in house in Jamaica Plain. Exits with bullet wound, blood soaks shirt, helped into cruiser.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1979

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) Human services secretary Charles Mahoney speaks to advocates about increasing accountability and facing cutbacks; Hubie Jones rebuts. 2) Utah Gov. Scott Matheson speaks to Congressional committee on presumed radiation danger from nuclear fallout, comparing power plant reactor accidents and leaks to atom bomb tests. 3) Citizens group questions safety of Pilgrim I plant in Plymouth and requests shutdown and independent monitoring. 4) Michael Wheeler on public opinion about government regulation. 5) Massachusetts legal drinking age is raised to 20 while adjacent states are at 18; New Hampshire state liquor store; Sen. Sharon Pollard; neighboring alcohol sellers see boon to business. 6) R.D. Rosen visits New Age Exposition; counterculture accoutrements and tofu tasting. Anchor Lydon.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/19/1979

The Liquidator, Inc.

Description: Interview about illegal chemical waste disposal at The Liquidator, Inc. in Dorchester. Lot of Liquidator enclosed by chain link fence around trailer, shipping containers, scrap metal and tire heaps, corroded barrels. Closure posting from Boston Board of Health. “Hazardous building” sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/28/1979

Three Mile Island photos

Description: B+W wire service stills on Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania after accident. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter visit site wearing protective shoe coverings. Anti-nuclear protestors at Seabrook. Gov. Edward King.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/03/1979

Timility political ads

Description: Timility political ads
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/07/1979

Trouble in Wainwright Park

Description: Wainwright Park in Dorchester. Boys play basketball. Ashmont red line T station. Interview with brothers James and Pat Hart and friend Terry Deady about racial conflict in the neighborhood. They accuse black youth from Codman Square of throwing bottles and trying to take over their basketball court. They talk about "rocking" (stoning) houses in retaliation.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1979

Truck terminal

Description: Truck activity around tandem trailer terminal near Coca-Cola bottling plant at intersection of Storrow Drive and Cambridge Street, adjacent to Mass. Turnpike and Allston Crossing rail yard. Tractor trailers with freight cars, fuel tanker, and covered dump truck pull in and out of terminal. Constant roar of motors. Sign for Sears Distribution Area Service Center. Containers parked without cabs. “Dangerous Cargoes Prohibited” sign. Data General building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/28/1979

W.R. Grace site in North Cambridge

Description: W.R. Grace silo tower, tanks, and industrial buildings in Alewife area of North Cambridge. Barrel tipped over on snowy ground. Smoke or steam issuing from exhaust stacks and vents. Corroded sign on post in ground “Danger Acid.” Pool of sludge adjacent to building. Big blue tank surrounded by rusted pipes. Indeterminate tan substance spread over ground next to bleachers. Interview with Mr. Stuart (of MBTA?) about chemical analysis of conditions on the future construction site of the red line extension tunnel. “We're getting strange high acid readings in the ground water” but not sure exactly what kind of contamination.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/14/1979