Production Credits

Written and Directed by

Beverly Lewis

Produced by

Ricky Blackwood and Beverly Lewis

Associate Producers

Kim Orr

Adria J. Owens

C.E. Richard

Editor

Melissa Perret

Director of Photography

Philip Hurn

Music Arranged and Performed by

Jeff Ford & Mike Esneault

Narrator

Deidre Robertson

Voice Actors

Jennifer Johansson

Rodger Kamenetz

Don Moore

Joe Nesnow

Gianluca Riccadonna

Ralph Sims

Jeff Walker

Janet Wondra

Sound Recordist

Keith Normand

On Line Editors

Reggie Wade

Randy Ward

Sound Editors

Ben Williams

Chris Miranda

Lighting

Sabre Lighting

Roger Olkowski

Historical Consultants

Dr. Mark T. Carleton

Mike Davis

Dr. Robert Goldberg

Paul Greenstein

Dr. Robert Hine

Nigey Lennon

Dr. Knox Mellon

Martha Palmer

Lionel Rolfe

Dr. John Reed Tarver

Research

Michael J. Farrar

Juli Gottlieb

Beverly Lewis

Kathleen Schwartz

Gray Stewart

The producers would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their invaluable support:

Flo Kapotsy Breuer

Mary Cleveland

Kim Orr

Martha Palmer

Earl Swenson

Gary Allen

Marguerite Ashy

Jack Barnette

Eula Boudreaux

Bill Brough & family

Bill Busick

Arcie Chapa

Kerin Cotten

Rhea Cunningham

Ryan Delmont

Bob Elkins & family

Fran Grega

Helen Grove John Guy & family

Andy Horton

Richard Kilbourne, Jr.

Henry Koury

Bella Lewitzky

Charles Mann

Harold and Ruth Mathewson

Ruby Nesnow & family

Chester Peecher & family

Blair Pickett

Alexis Schwartz

Sarah Shuldiner

Tony Vacik

Daisy Lou Winfree

Robert Wooster

for Maude

Antelope Valley Film Liaison, Stephanie Abrahamson

Chicago Title Company

French House, LSU

Kansas City Southern Railroad

Llano Community Association

Los Angeles County Film Office

The Mission Inn

The Old Colony Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast

Palmdale Ramada Inn

Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research

Total Photographics

Vernon Parish Tourism Commission

Pat Williams Construction, Inc.

Archival Sources

California Historical Society

Verda Day

Duke University, Perkins Library

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

Dr. Paul Gaston

The Huntington Library

Elmer Jernberg

Eugene V. Debs Museum, Indiana State University

Morris Hillquit Papers, State Historical Society Of Wisconsin

Lancaster Museum

Los Angeles Times History Center

Louisiana State Library

Martha Palmer, Vernon Parish Historian

Morning Advocate

George T. Pickett Collection, LSU Hill Memorial Library

UCLA Oral History Program

UCLA Department of Special Collections

Walter Millsap Collection, U. C. Riverside, Special Collections, Rivera Library

West Louisiana Museum

The White House

Production Manager

Ed Landry

Executive Producers

Clay Fourrier

Rick Smith

Chief Operating Officer

James Baum

Chief Executive Officer

Beth Courtney

American Utopia is a co-production of Firefly Productions and Louisiana Public Broadcasting © 1994

Production funding for this program was provided by

Louisiana Endowment For The Humanities

California Council For The Humanities

Louisiana Division of the Arts