Description: Seagulls fly over Lowell dump. Municipal trash truck drives through landfill. Scrap tire heap. Gulls perch on garbage. Bulldozer masses mound of debris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1978
Description: Lowell referendum would make English the official language of the city. Bilingual biology class for Cambodian students.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1989
Description: Lowell brick mill buildings. Exteriors with new windows. Snow in courtyard. Renovated interior with “Scannell Boiler Works” insignia on lounge wall. Wannalancit Textile Co. on Suffolk Street, sign over entrance. Bird weather vane. Antique Ford truck parked outside. Mechanized loom weaving white cloth. Big spools and spindles of thread. Rhythmic sounds of machines. Close-up on old moving parts with lint and grease. Long view down factory floor.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1978
Description: Lowell teachers vote to strike (illegally) because of unsatisfactory contract raise. Teachers picket. Lowell street scenes. Boys on skateboards.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1988
Description: 8 Lowell families must relocate because their homes are on hazardous waste site. Rep. Chester Atkins says developers should have known not to build on contaminated soil.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/26/1988
Description: Wall Street sign, New York Stock Exchange trading floor, closing bell. Financial district, lower Manhattan skyline. Statue of Liberty encased in scaffolding. World Trade Center. city, pedestrians.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/01/1984
Description: Rep. Lucile Hicks receives letters from constituents lamenting tax increases and state spending. Marjorie Clapprood expresses her admiration for Hicks.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/17/1989
Description: Harvard University Hasty Pudding Club names Lucille Ball the 1988 Woman of the Year. Harvard University marching band plays "I Love Lucy" theme song as they accompany Lucy along the street. Footage of the actress accepting the award on stage. Reporter Marcus Jones gives a brief retrospective on the 76-year-old actress's rise to fame before "I Love Lucy," and off-screen involvement in radio and Broadway performances. Clips from feature films that Ball had roles in alongside Catherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, and Fred Astaire. Still image of Ball with Marx Brothers. Clip of Lucy and husband Ricky (Desi Arnaz) announcing pregnancy. Ball tells Hasty Pudding Club a story about inspiration for a chocolate comedy routine. Closing sequence of slapstick clips from "I Love Lucy."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/19/1988
Description: Det. Carlos Luna takes witness stand and pleads his Fifth Amendment rights instead of naming informant who implicated Albert Lewin in death of Sherman Griffiths. Lewin enters courtroom. Willie Davis.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/08/1990
Description: Christopher Lydon commentaries from Washington DC, on national politics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1977