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Denunciation of the Tuskegee Study in The New York Times
26 de July
In 1972, the American newspaper The New York Times published on its front page a report on the Tuskegee Study. The whistleblower, Peter Buxtun, provided Jean Heller (investigative journalist) with evidence that, for four decades, people enrolled in Tuskegee’s “study” had been deliberately denied treatment for syphilis. Years later, Heller called the story “one of the grossest human rights violations I can imagine”. Heller’s article exposing the unethical study was published in the Washington Star on July 25th, 1972, and made front-page news in The New York Times the following day. The exhibition earned Heller the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for Journalism, the Raymond Clapper Prize and the George Polk Prize.