Description: Instead of attending presidential inauguration, Gov. Dukakis stays home and stomps for a huge budget increase. John DeVillars.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/20/1989
Description: Billy Joel video "We Didn't Start the Fire," filled with quick images of cultural history, will be shown in middle and high schools. Students are quizzed on name recognition of famous figures. Classroom.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/29/1990
Description: Striking school bus drivers get layoff notice, agree to binding arbitration. School committee members complain of being baited by union; want to make drivers public employees in future contracts.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/07/1987
Description: John Birch Society closes its headquarters in Belmont to move to Wisconsin. Packing up the office. Conservatives. Anti- Communist.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1989
Description: Bird Island flats near airport. Macomber construction trailer. Parked bulldozer. Planes taxiing. Rear of Eastern Airlines terminal. Large ground area covered with tarpaulin. Empty roadway along the water lined with Jersey barriers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1983
Description: Many species of birds in flight and on water, in flocks and singly. (from Mass. Division of Fisheries and Wildlife)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/01/1987
Description: Birds of prey rehabilitation center in Conway, Mass. ministers to injured owls, eagles, hawks and falcons. Birds in cages and being released. Eagle's wings being examined.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/05/1989
Description: Birmingham Six, wrongly suspected IRA terrorists, free after 15 years in prison. Convictions reversed because of coerced confessions &evidence tampering. Christine McAuley of Sinn Fein. Shirley Williams.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1991
Description: Story about the Supreme Court ruling on Eisenstadt v. Baird, that single people had the same right to obtain contraceptives as married people. Massachusetts was one of the states affected by this ruling, as it had given married couple access to birth control, but restricted single people. Interview with a man about the US Supreme Court decision's affect on Massachusetts. Silent b-roll of . Interview with owner or manager of Phillips Drugs about how the ruling will affect their policy on the sale of birth control. Reporter standup wrap-up of story. Followed by cuts, which include silent b-roll of interviews, contraception on the pharmacy shelf, more of the interview with manager of Phillip's Drugs, and reporter standup outtakes. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/23/1972
Description: Story #1858. Interview with Dr. Rankin about birth control effectiveness and possibilities of other forms in the future. Silent footage of people on stage seated and speaking. Shots of the crowd. Reporter standup in front of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology. Followed by cuts, which include more of the interview with Dr. Rankin (muffled at the end), interview with another man about family planning in Massachusetts, reporter standup outtakes, speakers at the conference, and silent b-roll of speakers and audience at the conference. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/27/1972