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“Dr. Irving Sigal, Molecular Biologist, 35,” New York Times, Dec. 25, 1988.
“NCI Team Remodels Key AIDS Virus Enzyme,” Science, Aug. 11, 1989.
“AIDS Ashes strewn at White House,” San Francisco Examiner, Oct. 12, 1992.
“Robert Rafsky, 47, Media Coordinator for AIDS Protesters,” New York Times, Feb. 23, 1993.
“Early AZT Takes a Pounding in French-British ‘Concorde’ Trial,” Science, Apr. 9, 1993.
“Protesters Hold Capitol Funeral With Corpse of AIDS Victim,” Washington Post, Jul. 2, 1993.
“Program Synopsis: Tim Bailey Political Funeral,” AIDS Community Television/ACT UP NY, Jul. 6, 1993.
“From the Ninth International AIDS Conference. Berlin, Germany, June 6-11, 1993,” Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, Aug. 1993.
“Michael Callen, Singer and Expert On Coping With AIDS,” Dies at 38,” New York Times, Dec. 29, 1993.
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Fiasco Season 5 theme song by Spatial Relations.
Credits song: Philosophers by Peter Sandberg.
Original music for this series written by Edith Mudge. Additional music by Nick Slyvester of Godmode, Joel St. Julien and and Dan English, Noah Hecht, and Joe Valle.