Description: Boston fire station environs. Inside garage. Close-up on trucks and equipment. Response to fire call with siren on and lights flashing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1978
Description: Fish being moved in buckets, barrels, and wooden crates on pier in Boston. Lumpers at work. Interview with two fishermen who say quotas prevent them from catching enough to pay their crew and make a living. Line of fishing boats tied up along pier. Close-up layers of fish with glistening skin and eyes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/10/1978
Description: Governors Conference in Boston. Sen. Edward Kennedy and Rep. John Anderson meet with the National Governors Association, including Govs. Jerry Brown, Ella Grasso, Reubin Askew, Dixie Lee Ray, Ed Herschler, James Longley, Harvey Wollman, Richard Lamm, Meldrim Thomson, Mike O'Callaghan, and Richard Snelling. End of the discussion on health care and insurance policy. Governor Dukakis speaks and Senator Kennedy responds. Many closeups on Kennedy, Dukakis, and audience pans. Governor Snelling introduces John Anderson and the panel on government regulations. Cuts of Anderson's speech about the problem of over-regulation by Congress and the legislative veto, with shots of governors around the table. The Director of the US Office of Management and Budget, James T. McIntyre, speaks to the same issues. Rep. Anderson takes questions.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/28/1978
Description: Pregnant Kathleen Sullivan Alioto introduced by her husband Joseph Alioto at Pier 4 restaurant press conference about her US Senate campaign. She alludes to the imminent arrival of Frank Sinatra, apparently to endorse her candidacy and perform at a private fundraiser.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/10/1978
Description: At a Parker House press conference, Dennis Kearney announces his candidacy for Suffolk County sheriff. Cutaways of Kearney's wife, Andy Hiller, Jack Harper. Takes credit for rectifying the operation of the Charles Street jail. Close-up on lens of Channel 5 camera.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/12/1978
Description: Members of Local 509 of state workers union march in front of State House to protest lack of paycheck. High wide shot of State House.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/30/1978
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: Commuter train terminal of North Station. Commuters wait on outdoor platform. PA voice announces track numbers, train stops, departure times. Two conductors talk to passenger. Railroad bed strewn with litter. Blue engine car. B&M (Boston and Maine) logo. Man reads newspaper while waiting. Man carries bouquet of flowers. Men carry briefcases. People move en masse to board train. Man smokes. Train slowly pulls out of station, sounds whistle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1978
Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis at press conference to inaugurate the Park Plaza revitalization project - construction of the transportation building surrounded by commercial and cultural development. Outside Dukakis dons hard hat, wields sledgehammer to ceremonially initiate demolition. Architect Marvin Goody follows. Crowd at intersection of Stuart and Tremont Streets observes crane beginning to knock down the Attic Lounge.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/22/1978
Description: Park Square environs. Carl Fischer Music store on Boylston Street. Entrance to Colonial Theater. Gilbert and Sullivan posters flank doors. Continental Trailways Bus sign and terminal. Park Square traffic. Emancipation statue of Abraham Lincoln and kneeling slave. Inscription on base: “A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors.” Avis Rent a Car, Club Max, Teddy Bear Lounge, Park Square Lounge (“ladies invited”), Mouse Trap Cabaret marquee.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/24/1978