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Guide to CBS Reports' "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring"

Open [<wma> format]: Part 1 [19MB] || Part 2 [28MB]

Individuals appear in this episode at the following times:

Rachel Carson
1 -- 0:30-1:45, 10:55-11:30, 11:40-16:30
2 -- 17:15-17:35, 18:40-19:05, 19:25-20:00, 20:20-20:35, 20:45-21:05, 21:30-22:20, 25:05-25:30, 26:25-28:20

Robert White-Stevens, Asst. to Dir. of Research, American Cyanamid
1 -- 1:45-2:55, 5:50-6:20, 8:50-9:05, 16:50-17:30
2 -- 2:10-2:30, 7:50-8:15, 21:05-21:30, 25:45-26:25

Orville Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture
1 -- 8:20-8:40, 18:20-19:00
2 -- 22:20-23:30

Luther Terry, Surgeon General
1 -- 7:15-8:15
2 -- 11:35-12:10

George Larrick, Commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration
1 -- 9:20-10:00, 18:05-18:20
2 -- 0:45-1:50, 5:00-5:40, 15:55-16:45, 19:05-19:25

John Buckley, Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Research Center
2 -- 2:30-3:20, 6:15-7:35, 9:40-11:25

Page Nicholson, Public Health Service
2 -- 3:30-5:00, 8:50-9:35 [on pesticides in the water supply]

Wayland Hayes, toxicologist, Public Health Service
1 -- 10:10-10:50
2 -- 5:50-6:05

Arnold Laymond, Chief Toxicologist, Food & Drug Administration
2 -- 17:35-18:25 [on pesticide residue on food], 20:05-20:20 [on testing toxicity]

President John F. Kennedy (news conference)
1 -- 19:00-19:30