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Peter Buxtun
Public Health Service employee in San Francisco who protested the Tuskegee study from 1966 and gave documents to the press in 1972.
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- worked at U.S. Public Health Service 1965–1968
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worked at
- U.S. Public Health Service 1965–1968 Scholarship & press 1
involved in
- The Tuskegee study made public gave the documents to the reporter Scholarship & press 12
Timeline 1 date
- 1965–1968 Peter Buxtun worked at U.S. Public Health Service
Proof 2 sources
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Tuskegee Truth Teller, The American Scholar, 4 Dec 2017.
Scholarship & press
Buxtun left the Public Health Service in 1968, moving on to law school and then to a career in investments
Only when Associated Press reporter Jean Heller wrote about the abuse, using documents provided by Buxtun, did the Tuskegee study eventually end.
It is unclear whether Brown ever read that report, but he certainly read a letter Buxtun sent him in November 1966.
Have any of the men been told the nature of this study?
In other words, are untreated syphilitics still being followed for autopsy?
The March 1967 summons to Atlanta coincided with an annual conference for healthcare workers specializing in venereal disease.
Send me everything.
Soon he had become a venereal disease tracker.
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Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Encyclopedia of Alabama.
Scholarship & press
Buxtun gave his information to Jean Heller, an Associated Press reporter, who published the story on July 25, 1972
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- Add 55 stories, each checked against its sources96e92fe6
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