Live television programs

Dr. Jonas E. Salk graphically illustrates the effect of the poliomyelitis virus at the of the poliomyelitis vaccine telecast. Gift of Mrs. Emerick

Start of the poliomyelitis vaccine telecast featuring Dr. Jonas E. Salk and Dr. Thomas M. Rivers. Dr. David Bodian waits onscreen. Dr. Rivers is seated. Gift of Mrs. Emerick

Mr. Basil O'Connor (head of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis - later the March of Dimes) reads Mrs. Hobby's licensing message (first name not available). The young lady in the center foreground holds the card from which Mr. O'Connor reads. The names of the manufacturers are printed on this card in four-inch size lettering. Gift of Mrs. Emerick

First injection of the Salk Vaccine, following NIH approval and licensing, at the telecast of the poliomyelitis vaccine. Salk is administering the injection to a young boy. Dr. Hart Edgar Van Riper, Medical Director of the National Foundation on Infantile Paralysis, observes. Gift of Mrs. Emerick

Dr. Hart Edgar Van Riper, Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Thomas Rivers onscreen at telecast on the report of the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine. Gift of Mrs. Emerick

Director Kenney and Narrator Emerick introducing the telecast of the poliomyelitis vaccine program and the participants Gift of Mrs. Emerick

Dr. Thomas Francis, Dr. Jonas Salk, Mr. Basil O'Connor (head of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis - later the March of Dimes) and Dr. Thomas M. Rivers briefed by Wes Kenney (DuMont director) on their parts in the telecast report of the poliomyelitis vaccine. Gift of Mrs. Emerick

Dr. Jonas E. Salk answers Dr. Thomas M. Rivers' questions concerning the Rh factor, at the telecast for the poliomyelitis vaccine. Gift of Mrs. Emerick

Dr. Jonas E. Salk, with his back to the camera, receiving instructions from Wes Kenney for telecast on the report of the poliomyelitis vaccine. Gift of Mrs. Emerick.

Wes Kenney giving instructions to the principals five mintues before going on air. Seated in the center - Dr. Hart Edgar Van Riper, Medical Director of the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis.