Description: Elevated view of Cambridge from Boston side of Charles River. Sailboats. Traffic over Longfellow Bridge. Then reverse view of Boston: State House golden dome with cupola. Prudential building in far right frame. Old Hancock adjacent to new Hancock with reflective surface. Pan west over MIT buildings on Cambridge side at a distance. Red line T train crosses river approaching Charles Circle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/31/1977
Description: Interview with Rita of Charles River Watershed Association on development and history of Charles River. Talks about industrial discharge and cleanup, land use along banks, sewage, condition of fish life and vegetation.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1983
Description: Portrait of Boston's Charles Street neighborhood through Jeff Dunn's B+W photographs intercut with comments from subjects of the photos.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/20/1987
Description: Charles Street Jail exteriors. A reporter asks members of administration about issues with the Charles Street Jail and Deer Island regarding the possibility of a new combined facility. Stated problems with building a new jail include security and the size of the proposed site. Charles Street physical plant issues include plumbing, recreation facilities, eating facilities, kitchen facilities, and noise level.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/25/1977
Description: Charles Street jail interiors. Four tiers of cell blocks seen through chain link fence. Zoom into guards on ground level. Guard patrols upper walkway. Cell behind bars with toilet and cot. Interview with Suffolk County Sheriff Robert Rufo about delay in transferring inmates to state prisons after sentencing. Charles Street is supposed to serve only as pretrial detention center but prison system is so overcrowded that inmates stay there much longer than intended in inappropriate incarceration, without rehabilitation support and furlough programs. They shoot cutaways. Howard Husock does several takes of reporter standup in front of the jail.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/03/1980
Description: Robert Rufo, Dennis Kearney, Gov. Michael Dukakis at groundbreaking for modular unit expansion at Charles Street Jail.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/18/1986
Description: Now that SJC has forbidden the mattresses on the floor arrangement, Suffolk County sheriff Robert Rufo must solve overcrowding at Charles Street Jail by transferring some prisoners to other facilities.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/09/1988
Description: Charles Stuart's body is pulled from Mystic River, lending a new perspective to the murder of his wife. Press conferences with Newman Flanagan and Ray Flynn. Unusual views of Tobin Bridge. Footage of wrongly accused suspect, Willie Bennett. Interviews with black Mission Hill residents.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1990
Description: MIT president Charles Vest talks about the importance of teaching science and technology.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/07/1990
Description: Charlestown shots and people.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1982