The Lavender Scare

The credits.

Jill Landes, Associate Director Jill Landes is a journalist with a wide range of experience in broadcast news and documentary programming. At CBS Radio, she created a series of award-winning documentaries. As a television journalist, she developed and produced stories at Eye to Eye with Connie Chung , America Tonight , and both the Sunday and weeknight editions of 60 Minutes . At CNBC, Jill co-produced the feature documentary House of Cards , about the 2008 financial crisis.

Josh Howard, Producer/Director

Josh Howard is a producer and broadcast executive with more than 25 years of experience in news and documentary production. He has been honored with 24 Emmy Awards, mostly for his work on the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes . As Vice President of Long Form Programming for CNBC, he created a unit that produced a series of award-winning documentaries focusing on American business.

Betsy West, Executive Producer

Bruce Shaw, Editor, Associate Producer, Motion Graphics

Betsy West co-directed the Oscar-nominated documentary RBG, about the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her credits also include films about Julia Child, Pauli Murray, and Gabby Giffords. Betsy began her career as a producer at ABC News before moving to CBS News as a senior vice president. In 2015 she was named the Fred W. Friendly Professor of Professional Practice in Media at the Columbia University School of Journalism.

Bruce Shaw’s long list of credits in film editing, motion graphics, and post production span more than thirty years. He has worked on a wide variety of award-winning feature documentaries including Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line and Diane Keaton’s Heaven . For television, his credits include Ken Burns’ groundbreaking documentary The Civil War , and more than two dozen programs for PBS, such as American Experience and American Masters.

Kevin Jennings, Executive Producer

Richard White, Director of Photography

Kevin Jennings is chief executive officer of Lambda Legal, the largest national legal organization defending the civil rights of LGBTQ+ people. Previously, Kevin was president of the Tenement Museum, and the executive director of the Arcus Foundation. In 2009, Kevin was named Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Education Department, where he was perhaps best known for leading a national campaign to put a stop to bullying in schools.

An Emmy Award-winning cinematographer with over 30 years of experience behind the camera, Richard White’s work can be seen on 60 Minutes , Dateline NBC , and many other network news broadcasts. His documentary credits include Hey Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird ; A Joyous Sound , a portrait of Ivan Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra; and Pedro Ruiz: Coming Home , the story of the noted Cuban American choreographer.

David Johnson, Author, The Lavender Scare

Andrew Tobias, Executive Producer

A nationally recognized authority on LGBTQ+ history, David K. Johnson is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Florida. His first book, The Lavender Scare, was honored with a Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, among other prestigious awards. His latest book, Buying Gay, explores the history of gay consumer culture. David earned a B.A. from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Andrew Tobias is the author of The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need and The Best Little Boy in the World , among others. He has written extensively for New York , Esquire and Time . His 14-page 1998 Harvard Magazine cover story, “Gay Like Me: In and Out of the Closet at Harvard, 1653- 1998,” is said to have generated more reader mail than any other in the magazine’s history.

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