print email comment close Lasting Legacy: An Apology 65 Years Late URL: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/may97/tuskegee_5-16a.html Description: Commentary and reactions to President Bill Clinton's public apology for the federal government-sponsored Tuskegee Study, intended "to examine the impact of syphilis invlolving black men," a forty year experiment (1932-1972) in which subjects had no knowledge of their condition, and were not cured by the doctors who examined them. Transcript of a 1997 "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" program. From the PBS "Online Newshour." Publisher: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions Library of Congress Subject Headings: African Americans -- History Black History Month Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Addresses, essays, lectures Human experimentation in medicine Syphilis -- Research -- Alabama Tuskegee Syphilis Study LII Database Information: Record 980 created by Tom McGibney on 05/31/2002 Last modification on 02/01/2005 Published: 05/31/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/980