Description: Guilty verdict and life sentence of murderer Daniel LaPlante resurrect interest in death penalty. Barbed wire chain link fence outside prison. Capital punishment. Superior Court Judge Robert Barton.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/27/1988
Description: MIT professor Lawrence Lidsky works on new design for safer, cheaper nuclear power plants cooled by gas instead of water.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/07/1989
Description: Persian Gulf war imbued the country with pride and enthusiasm, and let people forget past shame of Vietnam and overlook current domestic problems. Writers John Mack and Jim Carroll comment.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/28/1991
Description: Tax proposal covering cigarettes, alcohol, gasoline and higher sales tax is unpopular in House. Reps. John McDonough, Frank Hynes, Chester Suhoski.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1990
Description: Demonstrators on State House steps demand more funding for human services (necessitating new taxes).Dukakis,legislative hearing.Paul Kollios, Frank Keefe, John Houston, Marie Parente, Philip Johnston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1988
Description: Upon discovery of concealed evidence, Woburn families of cancer victims go to court to ask for new trial against Beatrice Foods, which could lead to conviction for creating environmental hazard.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/14/1988
Description: Babies in incubators. Nurses feeding newborns.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/09/1984
Description: NEWBURY STREET APARTMENTS NEEDING REPAIR, REALTY OFFICES. Courtroom art of Laval Wilson, school department and desegregation plaintiff's attorneys, Judge Arthur Garrity.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/21/1985
Description: Driving past Newbury Street storefronts and buildings. Emmanuel Church, Society of Arts and Crafts, Diutshfurs, Kakas Furs, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Cuoio, Priscilla Bridal, Josephs. Along Boylston Street - Sheraton Towers next to Pru, Lord & Taylor, Hotel Lenox, Boston Public Library, glass Hancock tower next to Trinity Church, Elkins, Louis, The Fatted Calf, Ken's, Malbens Gourmet, Casual Corner, Women's Educational and Industrial Union. Charles Street traffic, brick sidewalks, The Lyric Stage. Driving past brick rowhouses on Beacon Hill. Wrought iron balconies. Lower Commonwealth Avenue with grassy mall.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/19/1978
Description: Suffolk County district attorney-elect Newman Flanagan appoints two assistants, Paul Buckley and Paul Leary. Takes questions about ongoing cases. Endorses mandatory sentencing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/29/1978