Oregon Experience: White Plague

Program Credits

Producer/Writer

  • Eric Cain


Editor

  • Tom Shrider


Videographers

  • Greg Bond
  • Tom Shrider
  • Nicholas Fisher
  • Michael Bendixen
  • Todd Sonflieth


Field Audio

  • William Ward
  • Randy Layton
  • Glenn Micallef


Narrator

  • John Williams


Associate Producer  / Voice of Ruth Spencer

  • Kami Horton

Original Music

  • Tim Ware

"T.B. Blues"

  • Jimmie Rodgers

Original Theme Music

  • Cal Scott


Production Graphics

  • LaVerne Heiman-Layton
  • Stacy Carroll Coonfield


Web Design

  • John Kin
  • Lee Ritter

Open Animation

  • Danny Rubyono

Archival Materials and Images

  • Oregon Historical Society (Michele Kribs, Scott Daniels, Scott Rook)
  • Oregon Health and Science University
  • Oregon State University Libraries, University Archive
  • Oregon State Archives
  • OHSU Historical Collections & Archives
  • American Lung Association of Oregon
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
  • World Lung Foundation
  • Columbia Gorge Community College
  • Historic Photo Archive
  • Tacoma Public Library
  • Library of Congress
  • Archive.org
  • JSP Records


Special Thanks

  • David Lewinsohn, M.D.
  • Deborah Lewinsohn, M.D.
  • Joel Weekley
  • Kimberley Ware
  • Paul Spencer
  • Rita Henery
  • Pamela Wiget
  • Lynn Spencer
  • Sara Piasecki
  • Tom Robinson
  • Don Bevington
  • Marco Reyes
  • Joseph Bates, M.D
  • James Asaph, M.D.
  • John Tuhy, M.D.
  • Susie Osterud
  • Oregon Public Health Division
  • Washington Co. Dept. of Health & Human Services  
  • Multnomah County Department of Health
  • KWSO-FM

Production Archivist

  • Jack Berry
  • Nikki Horton

Promotion and Publicity

  • Carol Howard
  • Mark Buchanan


Post Production

  • Tom Babich
  • Steve Hoyt
  • Steven Vaughn Kray

Executive Producer

  • Nadine Jelsing


Vice President of Local Production

  • Jeff Douglas


In memoriam
Harold T. Osterud
May 1, 1923 - December 31, 2004


Oregon Experience is a co-production of Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Oregon Historical Society

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