Description: Wainwright Park in Dorchester. Boys play basketball. Ashmont red line T station. Interview with brothers James and Pat Hart and friend Terry Deady about racial conflict in the neighborhood. They accuse black youth from Codman Square of throwing bottles and trying to take over their basketball court. They talk about "rocking" (stoning) houses in retaliation.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1979
Description: Truck activity around tandem trailer terminal near Coca-Cola bottling plant at intersection of Storrow Drive and Cambridge Street, adjacent to Mass. Turnpike and Allston Crossing rail yard. Tractor trailers with freight cars, fuel tanker, and covered dump truck pull in and out of terminal. Constant roar of motors. Sign for Sears Distribution Area Service Center. Containers parked without cabs. “Dangerous Cargoes Prohibited” sign. Data General building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/28/1979
Description: People leaving meeting at Boston University. Interview with Howard Zinn on vote to remove John Silber as BU president. Zinn says acts of conscience and criticism of administration result in retribution. He calls for a change in the situation at BU. Interview with John Silber, who says BU is a place of debate and academic freedom without repression. Faculty assembly votes (456 to 215) to ask Board of Trustees to dismiss Silber. Press conference held by psychology professor Joe Speisman, who speaks on behalf of faculty. Other professors, student leader Maureen Sultzer, and District 65 labor union representative Carol Yorman speak about their support of the vote to remove Silber from office and other related matters.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/18/1979
Description: W.R. Grace silo tower, tanks, and industrial buildings in Alewife area of North Cambridge. Barrel tipped over on snowy ground. Smoke or steam issuing from exhaust stacks and vents. Corroded sign on post in ground “Danger Acid.” Pool of sludge adjacent to building. Big blue tank surrounded by rusted pipes. Indeterminate tan substance spread over ground next to bleachers. Interview with Mr. Stuart (of MBTA?) about chemical analysis of conditions on the future construction site of the red line extension tunnel. “We're getting strange high acid readings in the ground water” but not sure exactly what kind of contamination.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/14/1979
Description: Profile of Ward 16 and how Kevin White will fare vs Joe Timilty in mayoral race. Dorchester homes, churches, Keystone Factory. B+W stills of Boston mayors Nichols, Tobin, Curley, Hynes, Collins.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1979
Description: Big wooden spools of heavy cable resting on ground. Tilt up to Warner Cable satellite dish. Technician puts on hard hat, slides van door closed, climbs ladder and utility pole in Medford. Tags and bundles wires and trims snap ties. Another technician on ladder installs cable wires on outside of house.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1979
Description: Trench being dug with claw shovel around buried water pipes on Columbia Street, Dorchester. New cast iron pipes on sidewalk await installation. Two men measure length of pipe. Big pipe being cut with radial arm saw. Front end loader dumps dirt into trench. Gasket fitted around pipe. Man shovels dirt back into trench.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/27/1979
Description: Silent footage of different drugs and drug paraphernalia.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/30/1979
Description: This is footage of Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem speaking in a panel format to a crowded theater. Some snippets of the dialog can be heard, but this is an edited peice and the women are cut off mid-sentence throughout. Mix of sound and silent. High contrast. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Women for economic justice - Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem on women in the business world."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/29/1979
Description: Interview with Paul Tsongas about the Iranian Revolution and how this affects the United States Foriegn Policy, including his hope that America will be able to get over its dependency on Middle Eastern oil. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/14/1979