Roles [ Persons giving testimony to the Committee ] [see as images]

• [optional] Jerome Wiesner -- President's Science Advisor and Committee Chair

• P. Rothberg -- President of Montrose Chemical Corporation (manufacturers of DDT)
• LaMont Cole -- ecologist
• Edwin Diamond -- science writer
• Robert L. Rudd -- zoologist
• Robert White-Stevens -- chemist, Asst. Dir. of Research and Development, American Cyanamid
• George J. Wallace -- zoologist, Michigan State University.
• Roland C. Clement -- staff biologist, National Audubon Society
• Clarence Cottam -- Director of the Welder Wildlife Foundation
• Walter H. Larrimer -- USDA Insect Control Div.; member NRC committee
• Murray Bookchin -- libertarian, socialist
• Mitchell R. Zavon -- Industrial Medicine & consultant to industry; member, NRC sub-committee
• George Larrick -- Commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration (see CBS Reports)
• Ira L. Baldwin -- Chair, National Academy of Science-NRC Committee on Pest Control and Wildlife Relations (1960-1963)
• Orville Freeman -- Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

  Extension Roles

• Robert Bushman Murphy -- ornithologist, American Museum of Natural History (focus on Ch. 8, 10).
• William A. Brown, Jr. -- economic entomologist
• Samuel W. Simmons -- U.S. Public Health Service
• George Decker -- Illinois Natural History Survey and member, NRC committee
• Roy Barker -- Illinois Natural History Survey; author of 1958 article in Journal of Wildlife Management
• Ira Gabrielson -- member, NRC committee; chair of subcommittee on research needs.
• Tom Gill -- forestry, member NRC committee
• Luther Terry -- Surgeon General (see CBS Reports)
• Thomas Jukes -- chemist, American Cyanamid Co.
• William J. Darby -- Vanderbilt School of Medicine; reviewed Silent Spring in Chemical and Engineering News