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
Description: Kirby Perkins' report for channel 5 news on the relationship of Woburn toxic waste dumps to the elevated incidence of childhood leukemia in nearby neighborhoods. Jimmy Anderson and mother.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1982