The Tuskegee Syphilis Study Film

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I was not able to watch the Tuskegee Syphilis Study movie. However I was able to read the information on the website.(http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm) After reading the time line of events that happened over the 40 plus years during and after the study I feel I have a good understanding over what happened in the I read the Tuskegee Syphilis study. A group of me where selected to be in the study and in exchange they were given free medical care and meals. They were selected due to race, all the men were black. There were 600 black men chosen for the study. Of those 600 399 of those men had syphilis. The men who had syphilis were not told that that was what they had. They were in fact misled and told they were being treated for, “bad
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