Coverage dated July 24, 2022

AP exposes the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The 50th Anniversary

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The men were told they were being treated for “bad blood.” In truth, the federal government enrolled around 600 black men from rural Alabama in a 40-year study of untreated

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  1. KAAL Rochester

    AP exposes the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The 50th Anniversary (opens KAAL Rochester)

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    Berkshire Eagle's feed description

    The men were told they were being treated for “bad blood.” In truth, the federal government enrolled around 600 black men from rural Alabama in a 40-year study of untreated

  2. Berkshire Eagle

    How an AP reporter broke the Tuskegee syphilis story (opens Berkshire Eagle)

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    For four decades, the United States government enrolled hundreds of Black men in Alabama in a study on syphilis, just so they could document the disease’s ravages on the human

  3. The Pantagraph

    Exposing the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The 50th anniversary (opens The Pantagraph)

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    For 40 years starting in 1932, medical workers in the segregated South withheld treatment for Black men who were unaware they had syphilis, so doctors could track the ravages of

  4. NBC Los Angeles

    50 Years Ago, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Was Exposed. How a Reporter Broke the Story (opens NBC Los Angeles)

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    For four decades, the United States government enrolled hundreds of Black men in Alabama in a study on syphilis, just so they could document the disease’s ravages on the human body. On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a then 29-year-old investigative reporter at The Associated Press shocked the world wit…

  5. Los Angeles Times

    How an Associated Press reporter broke the Tuskegee syphilis story (opens Los Angeles Times)

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    For four decades, the United States government enrolled hundreds of Black men in Alabama in a study on syphilis, just so they could document the disease’s ravages on the human body.

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