Description: Red line MBTA station at Harvard Square. Newer silver car with red stripe. Older blue car pulls into station. People descend staircase to subway platform. People pass through exit turnstiles out to street. Bus comes to stop near Harvard/Brattle station entrance on Eliot Street. Many passengers step off another bus. Exact fare coin box.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/16/1979
Description: Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Edward Hennessey in leather chair at large desk in wood paneled chambers. Suffolk County District Attorney Newman Flanagan talks about presumptive versus mandatory sentencing for different types of crimes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/24/1979
Description: Heroin samples at state police drug lab. White powder in glassine envelopes and individual packets of injectable doses. Contents of envelopes poured onto balance scale, weight recorded. Four samples put through lab procedures: diluted with unspecified liquids, shaken in test tubes, turn colors.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/07/1979
Description: Interview with survivor of Hiroshima. She gives vivid description of bomb blast, destruction and injuries.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/06/1979
Description: Interview with Massachusetts Representative Johnston on the reforms he is trying to push through the legislature, which deal with the appointing and workings of committees within the House. Speaker of the House, Thomas W. MgGee is fighting against these changes. Massachusetts State House interiors. Door into the House Chambers. Shot of the House Chambers from multiple angles. Several takes of the reporter standup. Door into the Senate Chambers. Still images of Representative Johnston and Speaker McGee.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/02/1979
Description: Howard Baker speaking at Quincy Market. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1979
Description: Interview on changing demographics, housing values, racial conflict in Hyde Park. Little City Hall in municipal building, Cooperative Bank, billboards, Kevin White poster, district 5 police station. MDC Doyle Playground with racist graffiti "niggers go home KKK." Single family houses. Black lawn jockey on lantern post damaged by stoning.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1979
Description: Constant traffic near Federal Reserve Bank and South Station. Noisy cars, vans, large and small trucks. One car screeches through intersection. Next location: Central Artery - camera looks down onto white line on road surface as stream of vehicles zip through head on from top to bottom of frame. Tilt up Travelers Insurance Co. building. Storefront of Morante Insurance Agency. Two men get into taxi in middle of street. Life of America Insurance Corp. home office. New England Life headquarters, pan to Prudential tower. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. inscribed over entrance to older building near newer Hancock glass tower. Liberty Mutual entrance. Zoom into upper Prudential building, bare tree to the side.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/17/1979
Description: William Sullivan holds press conference in his Jamaica Plain home to announce the Boston School Committee candidacy of his daughter Jean Sullivan McKeigue. He talks about educational attainment of wife Mary Malone Sullivan and their six children. Introduces daughter Kathleen Sullivan Alioto who introduces her sister Jean. Joseph Alioto sits behind smiling. Much press attention is focused on the Aliotos' respective political plans; they decline to be specific. William Sullivan turns away questions about the Patriots.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/19/1979
Description: John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra in rehearsal at Symphony Hall.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/04/1979