Reporter Jean Heller recalls how she broke the story of the Tuskegee syphilis study 50 years ago

Heller, who now lives in Southport near Wilmington, was the only woman on a small Associated Press special assignment team. In 1972, she broke the news of how the U.S. government denied medical treatment to hundreds of Alabama Black men that they knew to have syphilis.

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