The federal government enrolled 600 Black men in a 40-year study of untreated syphilis to study the impact of the disease on the human body.

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The federal government enrolled 600 Black men in a 40-year study of untreated syphilis to study the impact of the disease on the human body.

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study ended a few months after @AP reporter Jean Heller broke the story on July 25, 1972. https://t.co/xt61YLuPMj pic.twitter.com/WIU6fT9j46

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 26, 2022

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I recognized Jean Heller's voice from the 2001 documentary on the Iraq War called The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm.  Here is a segment of that documentary.  I miss the narrator here, British actor, John Hurt.