Daily Archives: July 25, 2022

Black men went untreated in notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment, AP reports 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 25 1972)

1970s


Video: 'The Tuskegee Study'

(Tuesday, July 25, 1972; during the Tuskegee Syphilis Study) — The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light today as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing them to die, as a way of studying the disease. Continue reading Black men went untreated in notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment, AP reports 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 25 1972) →

Democratic vice presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton reveals he had received electrical shock therapy twice 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 25 1972)

1970s, U.S. Presidents


Audio: 'ABC Evening News 1972 VP Drama' (July 28, 1972)

(Tuesday, July 25, 1972, morning CDT; during the 1972 United States presidential election campaign) — Democratic vice presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton said today that he was hospitalized three times between 1960 and 1966 for “nervous exhaustion and fatigue” and that he had undergone psychiatric treatment, including electric shock therapy, for “depression” on two of the three occasions. Continue reading Democratic vice presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton reveals he had received electrical shock therapy twice 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 25 1972) →

Puerto Rico becomes self-governing commonwealth of United States 70 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 25 1952)

1950s, U.S. Presidents


Video: '25 de julio de 1952'

(Friday, July 25, 1952) — Puerto Rico graduated today from the status of a colonial possession to that of a self-governing “free commonwealth” closely associated with the United States. Continue reading Puerto Rico becomes self-governing commonwealth of United States 70 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 25 1952) →