Salk Poliomyelitis Vaccine Telecast - Group Portrait

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Photograph taken behind the scenes of the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

From left to right: Herb Fleet, Vice President of Medical Communications, Inc. and Account Executive for Eli Lilly’s & Co.; Wes Kenney, the Director of the telecast (DuMont); Al Molinaro, Promotion and Production Director for Medical Communications; his son; Bob Emerick, Narrator; Morris Mayers, Director of Closed Circuit Division of DuMont; Ed Rasp, TV Program Director for Medical Communications; Eric Herud, Chief Facilities Engineer for DuMont; Steve Olshewski, Vice President of Paul Klemtner and Co. and Executive Vice President of Medical Communications, and Paul Klemtner.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Salk Poliomyelitis Vaccine Telecast - Post-Show Discussion

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A group of doctors and others discuss the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine after the show. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Samuel A. Brown

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Portrait of Samuel Albertus Brown, MD (1874-1952). Dr. Brown received his MD from University Medical College in 1894. He taught at University Medical College as an Instructor in Physical Diagnosis from 1897 to 1903, and then at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1903 to 1932, serving as the Dean of the Medical School from 1915-1932 and Professor of Therapeutics from 1918-1932. He held the position of Professor Emeritus from 1932 to 1952.

Frederick F. Becker

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Portrait of Frederick Fenimore Becker, MD. Dr. Becker received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1956. He taught in the Pathology Department at the New York University School of Medicine from 1957 to 1976. Dr. Becker later became Vice President for Research at the University of Texas System’s Cancer Center.

Salk Poliomyelitis Vaccine Telecast - V. F. Bazilauskas

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Photograph of Dr. V. F. Bazilauskas (of Medical Communications, Inc.) working with Michigan personnel to prepare charts and other visual aid materials for the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Salk Poliomyelitis Vaccine Telecast - Paul Klemtner

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A lot of favorable chit chat between Paul Klemtner and others. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Salk Poliomyelitis Vaccine Telecast - Jonas Salk

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Dr. Jonas Salk giving the essentials of the evaluation report during the telecast of the poliomyelitis vaccine. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Claude Edwin Heaton

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Portrait of Claude Edwin Heaton, MD. Dr. Heaton received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1921. He taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Instructor in Gynecology (1926-1932) and Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (1932-1941). Dr. Heaton then taught at New York University College of Medicine as Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (1941-1957), Lecturer in the History of Medicine (1957-1958), and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (1957-1967).

Salk Poliomyelitis Vaccine Telecast - David Bodian

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Dr. David Bodian, a polio researcher at Johns Hopkins, presents on factors that led to the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Jonas Salk

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Portrait of Jonas Edward Salk, MD (1914-1995), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine. Dr. Salk received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.