Description:
GOV. MICHAEL DUKAKIS SPEAKS IN WOBURN ON HAZARDOUS WASTE. JAMES HOYTE.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
03/24/1983
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Description:
Exteriors of Haverhill City Hall. Environs of East Woburn neighborhood thought to be affected by hazardous waste contamination from nearby dumps. Sign on building for Housing for the Elderly. Washington Block building. Red ranch house of Anderson family. Children in summer clothes and dogs on residential street. Anderson boy on bicycle.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
06/17/1981
Description:
There is original footage from one story and then a portion of a separate edited story. Hazardous waste site in Woburn. ‘Poison’ sign on building. Incinerator smoke stacks. Fields surrounding waste site. Video cuts out and then comes back. Excerpt of a edited story on Chinese American women. It starts with a history of Chinese immigration to America. Interview with a woman on the practice of bringing women to American under the pretense of marrying them off, but really forcing them into prostitution. This led to the China doll stereotype, later strengthen by Suzie Wong's prevalence in mass media. She talks about the efforts of Chinese women to fight against stereotypes.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
06/17/1981
Description:
MASSPIRG SAYS WOBURN TOXIC WASTE PART OF BIG WATER POLLUTION PROBLEM.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
03/31/1986
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:
SETTLEMENT OF W.R. GRACE CONTAMINATION / LEUKEMIA CASE. B-ROLL OF PLAINTIFFS. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH EXTERIOR IN WOBURN. Jan Schlichtmann, Michael Keating.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
09/22/1986
Description:
BEATRICE FOODS CLEARED, W.R. GRACE GUILTY OF DUMPING CHEMICALS IN WOBURN. Hazardous waste, leukemia. Jan Schlichtmann, Jerome Facher.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
07/28/1986
Description:
Cover of Woburn Health Study, report from Harvard School of Public Health on contamination of the water supply from W.R. Grace toxic waste. Push pins on map showing locations of childhood leukemia victims. Wood Street sign and traffic on winter day.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
02/18/1986
Description:
Woburn hazardous waste cleanup awaits Superfund reauthorization. EPA regional administrator Michael Deland says “public health is not being threatened at the Woburn site.” Rep. Edward Markey.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
11/26/1985
Description:
Footage of a hazardous waste dump site in Woburn. Building surrounded by trees, close-up of building door with lock; pans over grassy area around building. Footage of worn down old chemical plant and train tracks running by it; "POISON" sign hanging from corrugated metal building; field and buildings behind chain link fence; freight train with lumber passes by. Piles of barrels behind chain link fence. Barbed wire fence stretches length of railway.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
06/17/1981
