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Jean Heller was toiling away on the floor of the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami when an AP colleague from the opposite end of the country handed her a thin manila.
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 syphilis.
On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller shocked the world with a story of what is now known as the “Tuskegee Study.” Fifty years later, it still casts a long shadow