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CREDITS

Executive Producer
ELIZABETH DEANE

Senior Producer
DAVID ESPAR

Narrator
STACY KEACH

Part I

Hour One

Written by
PHILLIP WHITEHEAD
GEOFFREY C. WARD

Produced and Directed by
PHILLIP WHITEHEAD
MARILYN H. MELLOWES

Edited by
RICHARD SMIGIELSKI

Additional Editing
DAVID ESPAR

Hour Two: Act One

Written by
PHILLIP WHITEHEAD
GEOFFREY C. WARD

Produced and Directed by
PHILLIP WHITEHEAD
MARILYN H. MELLOWES
JAMES A. DeVINNEY

Edited by
CHARLES SCOTT
RICHARD SMIGIELSKI

Additional Editing
DANIEL McCABE

Hour Two: Act Two

Written by
GEOFFREY C. WARD
DAVID ESPAR

Produced and Directed by
DAVID ESPAR

Co-Producer
CARTER HARRISON

Edited by
DAVID ESPAR

Part II

Hour One: Act I

Written by
GEOFFREY C. WARD
DAVID ESPAR

Produced and Directed by
DAVID ESPAR

Co-Producer
CARTER HARRISON

Edited by
DAVID ESPAR

Hour One: Act II

Written by
GEOFFREY C. WARD
JAMES A. DeVINNEY

Produced and Directed by
JAMES A. DeVINNEY

Associate Producer
CAROL LYNN ALPERT

Edited by
CHARLES SCOTT

Additional Editing
DANIEL McCABE

Hour Two

Written by
GEOFFREY C. WARD
JAMES A. DeVINNEY

Produced and Directed by
JAMES A. DeVINNEY

Associate Producer
CAROL LYNN ALPERT

Edited by
CHARLES SCOTT

For the Kennedy Project:

Original Music composed by
MICHAEL BACON

Historical Adviser
ALAN BRINKLEY

Production Assistant
DAVID CONDON

Research
MARY C. BROCKMYRE
VALERIE LINSON

Post-Production Supervisors
HARLAN REINIGER
FRANK CAPRIA

Unit Manager
ANITA M. SCARRY

Director of Film Research
KAREN CARIANI

Additional Footage Coordination
RAINE GIFFORD

Director of Photography
JOHN HAZARD

Camera
CHRISTOPHER LI
RICHARD BIRCHETT
SEAN BOBBITT
MICHAEL CHIN
HARRY DAWSON
JON ELSE
BOYD ESTUS
TOM EVANS
MARK GUNNING
JOHN HAZARD

Sound
FRANCIS X. COAKLEY
TIEGH THOMPSON
SKIP BEACH
MICHAEL BECKER
JOHN CAMERON
ANDREW COTTOM
JOHN R. FITZPATRICK
JOHN HAPTAS
STEVE LONGSTRETH
SEAN O'NEIL
JOHN OSBORNE
MATHEW PRICE
BOB RODRIGUEZ
LARRY SCHARF
ERNEST T. SHINAGAWA

Location Assistants
IVAN ALLEN
KENNETH CHIN
PHILIP FEGAN
J. CHRIS HOGE
KATE MONTGOMERY
MARK PETSCHE
ZORA SPIVAKOVSKY

Film Research
LEWANNE JONES
GAIL MACFARQUHAR
ALEXANDRA POLLYEA
DEE ANN DART
SUSAN HAVEN SCHEER
ANTHONY SLIDE
ELENA TALTON HINECK
ADRIAN WOOD

Assistant Editor
ELISABETH M. SPENCER

Videotape Editors
DAN WATSON
MARY E. FENTON
MARK STEELE
BRAD HAWES

Videotape Playback
JIM DEERING
BRAD HAWES
DAN LESIW
DOUG MARTIN

Sound Editing and Mix (WGBH)
RICHARD BOCK
JOHN JENKINS

Sound Editing and Mix
GREG McCLEARY
HEART PUNCH STUDIO

Additional Sound Editing
GEOF THURBER
HEART PUNCH STUDIO

Narration Recording
SAM ARONSON
WOODHOLLY PRODUCTIONS

Animation Photography by
AERIAL IMAGE

Graphic Design
ALISON KENNEDY

Interns
KIMBERLY L. HERTZ
TIA CHAPMAN
RANA DERSHOWITZ
ANNE HELMSTADTER
BETH NORMAN
DANA WRUBEL

Film Research Consultant
GABE BAYZ

Archival Sources: Footage
The John F. Kennedy Library
Sherman Grinberg Film Libraries, Inc
NBC News Video Archive
CBS News Film Archive
UCLA Film and Television Archive
D.A. Pennebaker
20th Century-Fox Movietonews, Inc.
Petrified Films, Inc.
Library of Congress
Producers library Service
Shields Archival
KINO International Corporation
Archive Films, Inc.
National Archives and Records Administration
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Visnews
British Movietonews Film Library
INA Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
U.S. Department of Defense/Norton Air Force Base
British Pathe News
WPA Film Library, Inc.
TIME/LIFE Inc.
Donald J. Molner
WTN Corporation
Patricia Seaton Lawford
Arizona State University
Alfred Wertheimer
Educational & Television Films Ltd.
Mississippi State Archive
WTVM/Birmingham Public Library
U.S. Information Agency/Kennedy Center
BBC Enterprises Limited
National Geographic Society
Jack Copeland
Thames Television, London
WISH-TV (Indiana Broadcasting Corporation)
The Boston Public Library
WCVB-TV, Boston

Archival Sources: Stills
Associated Press/World Wide
Bachrach
George Ballis
Black Starr
The Bettmann Archive
The Boston Globe
The Boston Herald
Boston Public Library
Camera 5
Camera Press
Judith Campbell Exner
Fortune Magazine
FPG, Inc.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
The Gamma Liaison Network
George Mason University
Marcus Adams Gilbert
Globe Photos, New York
Harris & Ewing
Harvard University
Steve Heaslip
Hulton-Deutsch
John J. Burns Library, Boston College
John F. Kennedy Archives
Kennedy Family Collection/JFK Library
Robert Kennedy Collection/JFK Library
Ladies Home Journal
Library of Congress
LIFE Magazine, Time Warner, Inc.
LOOK Magazine
Jacques Lowe
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
MAGNUM
National Geographic Society
New Bedford Standard Times
The New York Times
Don Pack
The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
The Mark Shaw Collection/Photo Researchers
The Press Collection
Philip A. Rollins
Cecil Stoughton
George Tames
UPI/Bettmann
Wayne State University
John White
Dorothy Wilding

Special Thanks to:
Alan Goodrich
Sheryl Ellerin
Amy Blitz

Footage from "Mother of the Kennedys" produced by Radharc Films, Dublin

Footage from "Primary: Adventures on a New Frontier," "Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment" and "Faces of November" produced by Drew Associates, Inc.

For THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Post Production Editor
FRANK CAPRIA

On-Air Promotion Producer
VINCENT J. STRAGGAS

Post Production Corrdinator
MAUREEN BARDEN

Field Production
LARRY LeCAIN
BOB McCAUSLAND
CHAS NORTON

Series Designers
ALISON KENNEDY
CHRIS PULLMAN

Title Animation
LIZARD LOUNGE GRAPHICS, INC.

Online Editors
BRAD HAWES
STEVE BARACSI

Series Theme
CHARLES KUSKIN

Series Theme Adaptation
MICHAEL BACON

Unit Manager
CHRISTINE LARSON

Project Administration
NANCY FARRELL
HELEN R. RUSSELL

Interactive Media
MICHAEL AZEVEDO
DANIELLE DELL'OLIO

Publicity
DAPHNE B. NOYES
JOHANNA BAKER

Coordinating Producer
SUSAN MOTTAU

Series Editor
JOSEPH TOVARES

Senior Producer
MARK SAMELS

Executive Consultant
JUDY CRICHTON

Executive Producer
MARGARET DRAIN

THE KENNEDYS is a coproduction of WGBH Boston and Thames Television, London.

Special thanks to Prentice Hall School division for developing a Teacher's Guide to accompany this program.

© 1992, 1998 WGBH Educational Foundation, All rights reserved.


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