Bess Carrick – Producer/Director
Bess Carrick produced and co-directed the award winning documentary, Backlash: Race and the American Dream, which chronicled the rise of the controversial candidacy of white supremacist, David Duke, when he ran for the United States Senate in 1991. She has worked on television projects for the Discovery Network, National Geographic Channel, & PBS. She is a partner in the LLC New Orleans Video, Music and Post, and owns the retreat center, The Forest Retreat, on the edge of the Homochitto National Forest, near Natchez, Mississippi. Carrick lives in New Orleans.

Rebecca Roberts – Narrator
Rebecca is the grand daughter of Ambassador Lindy Boggs, and daughter of well known journalists, Steven Roberts and Cokie Roberts. Rebecca hosts a daily local talk show “The Intersection” on WETA radio in the Washington, DC market. She was for four years the technology correspondent for “The World,” a co-production of the BBC, PRI and WGBH. Roberts hosted the Emmy-nominated public television program “Springboard” produced by KQED-TV in San Francisco. Roberts has a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton University and lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her husband and three children.

Dawn Logsdon – Editor
Dawn has been editing documentaries for 15 years. Her work includes the Oscar-nominated The Weather Underground and the Sundance Festival-winning documentary Paragraph 175.

Mike Esneault– Composer
Esneault has scored a number of projects for Louisiana Public Broadcasting including the DuPont Columbia Award-winning six-part Louisiana: A History series. He has also collaborated with Terence Blanchard on scores for a number of director Spike Lee’s movies.

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Produced by
Bess Carrick

Directed by
Bess Carrick & Dawn Logsdon

Written by
Bess Carrick

Narrated by
Rebecca Roberts

Associate Producers
Jan Arst, Pat Denechaud, Katherine Cecil, Reneé Blanche, and Frances Henry

Co-producer
Lisa Robinson

Field Producers
Lisa Robinson and Katherine Cecil

Edited by
Dawn Logsdon and Gary Allen

Cinematography by
Rex Q. Fortenberry, Gary Allen, Keith Crews, Jerry Jacob

Graphics
Mark Carroll

Musical score
Mike Esneault

Location Scout
New Roads segment
Ann Cazayoux

Production Assistants
Sunday Angleton, Kelcy Wilburn, Deanna Simmons, David Beier

Additional footage and images provided by:

Tulane University, Special Collections

Tulane University, Publications Office

Historic New Orleans Collection, Williams Research Center

Newcomb College Archives and Nadine Vorhoss Library, Newcomb College

New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division and City Archives,

Getty Images

Corbis Images

Prelinger Films

Historic Films

ABC News VideoSource

NBC News

WPA film library

Sister Jane Aucoin, csj

Archivist, Southern Region, Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille

Alaskan Moving Images Preservation Association, AMIPA

Hill Memorial Library Archives

Russell B. Long Papers, Mss. 3700,

Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections,

LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA

Brooks Read Collection

Louisiana State Archives

Office of the Secretary of State of Louisiana

Louisiana Public Broadcasting

WWL-TV

WDSU-TV

The Times-Picayune

Johnson Space Center, NASA

Cokie Roberts, Rebecca Roberts, and Thomas Hale Boggs

UCLA film and television archive

David Wolper

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

Architect of the Capitol

U.S. House of Representatives, Office of Photography

Jan Schoonmaker

Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives, University of Oklahoma.

D.C. Public Library, Washingtonians Division

New Orleans Marketing Corporation

The Times Picayune

ProQuest

Philip Gould

Joe Sanford, Pelican Pictures

The producers wish to thank these following individuals for their kindness and generosity.

Lindy Boggs

Cokie and Steve Roberts

Thomas Hale Boggs

Crystal Kile & Beth Willinger
Newcomb College Center for the Research on Women

Cathy Penland, Edward P. Wisner Fund

Julie Schwam Harris

Gigi Hinton

LSU Chancellor Sean O’Keefe

Dr. and Mrs. Jack Holden

Jan Schoonmaker

Brenda Currin

Sandy Arst

Susan Feeney

Jane Braniff

Rose Ann Bauer

Melissa Smith, Tulane Special Collection

Bill Meneray, Tulane Special Collection

Lynn Abbot, Hogan Jazz Archives, Tulane University

Cynthia Lowenthal

Trudy Corona, Tulane University

Al Godoy

Craig Bloodworth

Diana Pinckley and John Pope

Wayne and Mary Schuth

John Magill, Historic New Orleans Collection

Mary Lou Eichhorn, Historic New Orleans Collection

Barbara Wolanin, Office of the Architect of the Capitol

Roger Tilley and Sailor Jackson, Louisiana State Archives

Martha Jewell

Ingersoll Jordan

Katherine Chamblee

General Tom Sands

Britton and Nan Galloway

Mr and Mrs. Walter Baus

Giorgio Bertuccelli

Dr. Patrick Maney

Dr. Pam Tyler

Dr. Nancy Maveety

Moon and Verna Landrieu

Sen. Mary Landrieu

Rep. John Lewis

Rep. Marcy Kaptur

Rep. Nancy Pelosi

Bob Livingston

Sen. John Breaux

Nina Totenberg

Rep, Louis Stokes

Anthony and Catherine Gelderman

Carol Gelderman

Herman and Nancy Kohlmeyer

Charles Denechaud

Mary Ann Valentino & Bubby Valentino

Herbert Boydstun, Hibernia Bank

Mr and Mrs. John D'Arcy Becker

James Fitzmorris

Judge Ian Claiborne

Mr and Mrs Hank Lauricella

Nancy Marsiglia

Annie Whitworth Downing

Hon. Aaron Broussard

Bill Oliver

Bill Goldring

Joanne Gaudet

P.K. Sherlee and Bruce Boylard

Musicians:

Chris Belleau: Trombone/Harmonica

Bobby Campo: Trumpet/Flute

Clarence Johnson III: Tenor Sax/Clarinet

Roland Guerin: Acoustic and electric bass

John Jones: Drums

Don Vappie: Guitar/Banjo

Janiece Luedeke: French Horn

Elizabeth Lott: Cello

Executive Producer Bess Carrick

LPB Senior Producer Tika Laudun

LPB Executive Producer Clay Fourrier

LPB President & CEO Beth Courtney

Copyright 2006 LETA , Blackbird Films

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