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( woman vocalizing )

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♪ Oh ♪

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♪ Show me ♪

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♪ Lord ♪

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♪ Mmm ♪

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♪ If there's a way ♪

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♪ Show me ♪

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♪ Lord ♪

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♪ I can't see ♪

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♪ Tomorrow ♪

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♪ And I can't hide ♪

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♪ My sorrow ♪

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♪ If there's a way out ♪

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♪ Won't you show me ♪

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♪ Lord? ♪

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♪ Whoa ♪

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♪ If there's a heaven ♪

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♪ Would you take me ♪

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♪ Lord? ♪

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♪ Oh ♪

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♪ If there's a heaven ♪

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♪ Don't forsake me ♪

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♪ Lord ♪

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♪ Oh, there's no place ♪

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♪ To run ♪

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♪ You know everything ♪

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♪ That I've done ♪

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♪ If there's a heaven ♪

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♪ Would you still take me ♪

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♪ Lord? ♪

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Woman:
"I solemnly pledge myself
before God

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to pass my life
in purity...

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( camera shutter clicks )
...to practice my profession
faithfully,

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to endeavor
with loyalty,

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to assist the physician
in his work,

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to devote myself
to the welfare

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of those patients
committed to my care."

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That's the oath
I took, Senator.

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Just like the doctors do,
I took an oath,

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the nurse's oath.

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You have to understand,
nursing was my life.

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We do understand

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and respect that,
Miss Evers.

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And we do appreciate
very much

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your testifying
before us today.

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I hope you understand

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that the sole purpose
of this committee

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is to discover the truth

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about the public health
service program

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commonly called
"The Tuskegee Study."

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That's what
we all want, sir.

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Good.

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Now I understand

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you worked on the program
from the beginning.

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From the very first
in 1932

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up until I retired
a few years ago--

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nearly 40 years.

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( chuckles )
Oh goodness,

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that's longer
than I've been
in the Senate.

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( crowd laughing )

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Tell me, Miss Evers,

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how did you feel
about the study?

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Our patients got
the best doctoring

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they ever had
in their life.

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But according
to the testimony
so far, Miss Evers,

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there are ways
in which this study

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sounds like some sort
of Nazi experiment.

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It was established
at Nuremberg that
experimentation

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without informed consent--
You did the best
you could, whatever.

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There was an epidemic

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with all that syphilis
going around, Senator.

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Life was always hard
in Macon County,

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but the Depression
made it worse.

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You just have
no idea what it was like
down there back then.

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We've heard a lot
of testimony, Miss Evers.

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from some of the patients,
from other nurses

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and from your supervisor
Dr. Brodus.

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Dr. Brodus
is a fine doctor

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who cared, Senator.

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I don't care what y'all
say about him now.

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I was honored to serve
under that man.

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( insects chirping )

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( man wheezing )

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Are we just gonna
let him choke to death?

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Well, what do you
suggest, Nurse?

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We've tried digitalis.
We've tried mercurial
diuretics.

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Maybe I should
just cut him open
and drain him.

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I'm sorry.

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I don't mean
to take it out on you.

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It was a farming accident,
wasn't it?

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Yeah. He was plowing.

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The mule got away
from him, kicked him,

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crushed his chest.

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His heart
just won't work.

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Is that fluid
on the pericardium?

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We'll have to notify
his parents.

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What made you think,
boy,

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that you were old enough
to handle a mule?

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His bedclothes are wet.
I'm gonna get dry ones.

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No. No, wait a minute.

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Get away from him.
What?

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Nurse, I want you
to get me a syringe
with a large bore needle.

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Now!

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What did I say?
"Cut him open and
drain him"?

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Maybe I knew what
I was talking about.

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Now I'm not gonna--
I'm not gonna
hurt you, son.

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I just want to take a look
at your chest, that's all.
I just want to take a look.

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And you take
Nurse Evers' hand.

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Here it is.
And you squeeze it tight.

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You can't hurt me.
You don't get much
of a chance

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to hold on to a pretty
lady's hand like that,
now do you?

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I'm not gonna
hurt you, son.
Am I, Nurse?

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No, Doctor.

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Aha.
That's it.
That's it.

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You gotta trust the doctor.
I'm gonna get you
out of this, boy.

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You trust him
and you'll be up
and around in no time.

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That's true.
( continues wheezing )

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I don't want you
with that mule no more.

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What's that mule's name?
Hang on-- what's his name?

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( wheezing )

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( wheezing quieter )

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( breathing deeply )

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Hallelujah.

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( dogs barking )
( people chattering )

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( car honking )

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It was performed
by a fine doctor.

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And this Dr. Brodus--
is he colored or is he white?

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Papa, how many times
I gotta tell you

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we don't have
white doctors
at Tuskegee?

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The way you've
been carrying on,
I thought maybe--

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I wasn't carrying on.
I was just being
appreciative.

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He saved
that boy's life.

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What's he supposed to do?
He's a doctor, ain't he?

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Wait on people
doing what they
supposed to do

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and see how long
you wait.

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Papa:
You always did like
saving people.

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I didn't save him.
Dr. Brodus saved him.

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I was only doing
my nursing job.

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Don't you be saying,
"only" neither.

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You're a nurse

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and that's more
than just a job,

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so don't you go
making light of it.

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I'm not, Papa.

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Unless you want
to end up cleaning
some white lady's toilet

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like your mama had to do
all of her life.

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No, I have had
my share of that.

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Ham will be out
in 10 minutes.

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We didn't slave to send you
to a nursing school

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for that kind
of life.

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No, Papa,
you did not.

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All right then.

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All right then.

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( knocks on door )
Come in.

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Yes, Doctor?

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Oh good, Nurse Evers.
Are you still checked out

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to drive
the district office car?
I've got a new job for you.

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Do you need me
to go somewhere?

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If we hurry, we can--
we can make it on time.

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There's somebody
very important

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that we have to pick up
off the bus.

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( blues playing )

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Dr. Douglas.
I'm sorry we're late.

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I hope you had
a pleasant trip.
Yes, I did.

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Welcome to Tuskegee.
How are you?

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Fine.
Sure a pleasure
seeing you, Doctor.

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You too. Bags?
Oh, yes.

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Here.
Let me give you a hand.

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Thank you.
Sure.

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Oh, I forgot my manners.
Dr. Douglas, Nurse Evers.

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How do?
It's a pleasure.

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Yes sir.

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Dr. Douglas, I think
you're gonna find

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that Nurse Evers will be
a tremendous help to you.

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Well, we will need
all the help we can get.

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And luckily, we've got
all the funding we need

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from a foundation
in Chicago.

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Everyone's aware
of what a plague
syphilis has become

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and we're determined
to stamp this thing out.

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But this problem is
just for the Negroes
in Macon County.

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Yes, and that's why
Tuskegee was chosen.

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It's one of the few
all-Negro hospitals
in the South,

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in a county that's
almost 80% colored.

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Now you may not
know this,

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but you people have
one of the highest

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concentrations of syphilis
in the country.

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It's nearly 35%.

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We know it, Doctor.
I mean, our wards are
filled with syphilis

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because the white hospitals
won't let them in.

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Negroes also have more
pellagra, pneumonia and TB,

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but there is no statistical
basis for the belief

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that syphilis is
a Negro disease

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any more than
it was a French disease
in the last century

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or Russian or Polish
before that.

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No, don't get me
wrong, Doctor,

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I'm not one of those
that believe that Negroes

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are inherently more susceptible
because of some...

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I mean, I voted
for Roosevelt.

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We'll have to test them
first, of course,

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give them
Wassermann's to make sure.
I'll take that, Doctor.

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That in itself will be
a huge undertaking.

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Great pains for great
rewards, right?

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You don't intend
on telling them they
have syphilis, do you?

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Well, if they have it,

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we'll have to tell them
something, won't we?

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Well, maybe we'd better
not use a word they've
never heard before.

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That'd just scare
them off, Doctor.

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So what are supposed
to tell them?

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Just tell them that there's
something the matter
with their blood.

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You don't have
to say exactly.

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They all know
about bad blood.

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She's right.

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That's what they
call anything that's
the matter with them.

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The main thing is,
we have to make them
understand

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we only want
to get them well.

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And indeed we do.

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I do, you do
and the government does.

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This way.

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We're gonna find a cure
for this disease.

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We're gonna stop
at nothing less.

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They doing this
for the Negro?

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Gotta be a hoodwink
in there someplace.

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Don't go always looking
for the underside, girl.

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But I'm always
finding it.

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These men
are being treated
for a very bad disease,

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and that's more
than anybody else
has ever done for them,

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so don't you go
making a mockery
of it, Betty Parsons.

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Now look,
you're taking my place
here on the ward,

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so you hop to it.

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You keep your eye out
on old Mr. Blakely,
'cause you're gonna think

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he's taking his medicine,
but he hiding his pills
under his tongue.

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And that new man
that's come in--

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you check him for a fever
every two hours

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and make sure he don't go
spiking on you.

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Listen to me
giving you advice.

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Come here, girl.

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You're gonna do
just fine.

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But now don't go
getting too many ideas
of your own self.

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You listen
to your doctors,
'cause they know, hear?

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I hear you.

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You sure look good
in your new uniform, Eunice.

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Thank you.
Like you was
born to it.

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It's gonna be
a great thing.

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Good luck!

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I'll see you.

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Miss Evers:
It was a great thing.

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The government had never
done nothing like that
for us before.

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It was the dawn
of a new day

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and I was the one
they had chose

249
00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,867
to spread the word.

250
00:13:31,867 --> 00:13:34,333
I have been sent--

251
00:13:34,333 --> 00:13:36,300
I have been
sent--

252
00:13:36,300 --> 00:13:38,834
I have been sent here
by the government,

253
00:13:38,834 --> 00:13:40,900
the United States
government,

254
00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:42,867
yes, I have,

255
00:13:42,867 --> 00:13:44,900
up there
in Washington.

256
00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:47,834
And the government is sending us
the best medicine

257
00:13:47,834 --> 00:13:50,000
to treat
anybody in this county
who needs it.

258
00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,300
When did that
ever happen, hmm?

259
00:13:53,300 --> 00:13:56,767
Oh, something good is
starting up for a change,

260
00:13:56,767 --> 00:13:58,700
something new.
And this time

261
00:13:58,700 --> 00:14:00,734
we all gonna be
part of it.

262
00:14:00,734 --> 00:14:03,200
You have not seen
the health you're gonna see

263
00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,200
in Macon County,
Alabama.

264
00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,166
Y'all gonna come see me?
When you get there,

265
00:14:07,166 --> 00:14:09,233
you will see me,
don't worry.

266
00:14:09,233 --> 00:14:10,667
You gonna come
see me, sister?

267
00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,567
You gonna bring that big
pretty baby with you?

268
00:14:14,567 --> 00:14:16,567
You gonna come see
Nurse Eunice?

269
00:14:16,567 --> 00:14:18,834
Yes, that baby's
gonna come.

270
00:14:22,433 --> 00:14:24,800
Miss Evers:
The way the government
was thinking, Mr. Kirk, sir,

271
00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,800
is that you might have
field hands don't even know
they got bad blood.

272
00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,467
They're just--
they're kind of sickly
a lot of the time.

273
00:14:30,467 --> 00:14:33,900
Mm-hmm.
That, sir, is not good
for your cotton business.

274
00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:36,400
Mm, see,
stand to reason

275
00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:38,400
that a sickly field hand
ain't gonna pick

276
00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,367
near about as much cotton
as a healthy one.

277
00:14:40,367 --> 00:14:42,700
Mmm.
So, uh, we get
them better

278
00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:44,767
and then as that's
helping them,

279
00:14:44,767 --> 00:14:47,633
it's helping you,
which is my concern too,

280
00:14:47,633 --> 00:14:49,800
'cause we're here
for the whole community.

281
00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,767
Yes, ma'am,
even if you're dirt poor

282
00:14:52,767 --> 00:14:54,700
and you ain't got
a dime to your name,

283
00:14:54,700 --> 00:14:57,100
if you ain't seen a doctor
in your whole life,

284
00:14:57,100 --> 00:15:00,333
if you got bad blood,
you get treated for free.

285
00:15:00,333 --> 00:15:03,000
Now ain't that something?
I'm asking you,

286
00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,333
ain't that something
for a government
to be doing?

287
00:15:05,333 --> 00:15:06,900
And for the colored?

288
00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:10,700
Oh, we got us
a whole new deal here.

289
00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:12,333
Now who coming to see me?

290
00:15:15,266 --> 00:15:17,266
Raise up your hand.

291
00:15:17,266 --> 00:15:19,233
Who coming to see me?

292
00:15:22,300 --> 00:15:25,000
( harmonica playing )
( men chattering )

293
00:15:35,533 --> 00:15:37,567
Ah, morning.

294
00:15:37,567 --> 00:15:38,967
Morning, Miss Lady.

295
00:15:38,967 --> 00:15:41,300
Y'all done bring
your friends?

296
00:15:41,300 --> 00:15:43,333
Well, I'm happy
to see you.

297
00:15:43,333 --> 00:15:45,333
Hello.
I'm Miss Evers.

298
00:15:45,333 --> 00:15:47,266
Ooh, what's that?

299
00:15:47,266 --> 00:15:49,500
Good morning.
Ma'am.

300
00:15:50,967 --> 00:15:55,066
( harmonica continues )
Snake hips, baby.

301
00:15:55,066 --> 00:15:56,734
What you do next?

302
00:15:56,734 --> 00:15:58,433
Bow away.
Bow away it is.

303
00:15:58,433 --> 00:16:00,700
Hey! Oh!
( laughing )

304
00:16:00,700 --> 00:16:03,467
Oh!

305
00:16:09,033 --> 00:16:11,967
Hey hey hey!

306
00:16:14,467 --> 00:16:15,633
Yeah! Ha!

307
00:16:15,633 --> 00:16:17,967
That felt good.
We'll get
that Victrola.

308
00:16:17,967 --> 00:16:20,066
That was truly fine.

309
00:16:20,066 --> 00:16:21,867
The way you was
turning and twisting,

310
00:16:21,867 --> 00:16:23,867
that's the mark
of a born dancer.

311
00:16:23,867 --> 00:16:25,166
Thank you.

312
00:16:25,166 --> 00:16:27,200
Excuse me.
I'm Nurse Evers.

313
00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,233
I'm the person
you're here to meet.

314
00:16:29,233 --> 00:16:31,100
Thank you for coming.

315
00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:34,066
We're here
on account of Mr. Kirk.
He told us we gotta.

316
00:16:34,066 --> 00:16:35,934
He send you too?

317
00:16:35,934 --> 00:16:37,867
No white man sent me,

318
00:16:37,867 --> 00:16:40,767
a colored man,
a fine, important
colored man,

319
00:16:40,767 --> 00:16:42,967
Dr. Samuel J. Brodus
from up at Tuskegee,

320
00:16:42,967 --> 00:16:45,533
to offer y'all
some free doctoring.

321
00:16:45,533 --> 00:16:47,767
Free, huh?

322
00:16:47,767 --> 00:16:49,367
You say free?

323
00:16:49,367 --> 00:16:52,300
Yeah, doctoring
as fine and free

324
00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:54,400
as any you can get
anywhere.

325
00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,867
Yeah, but see,
we ain't sick.

326
00:16:56,867 --> 00:16:58,533
That's right.
Yeah.

327
00:16:58,533 --> 00:17:00,500
You seen anybody
that's sick

328
00:17:00,500 --> 00:17:02,033
be able to dance
like this?

329
00:17:02,033 --> 00:17:05,567
( scats )

330
00:17:05,567 --> 00:17:08,100
Now that's a mighty
fine movement,

331
00:17:08,100 --> 00:17:10,200
but that still don't mean
you ain't got bad blood.

332
00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,066
How you know
we got bad blood?

333
00:17:12,066 --> 00:17:15,734
Well, that's what
we're gonna find out,
ain't it?

334
00:17:17,567 --> 00:17:19,667
Been a long time
since I sat here.

335
00:17:19,667 --> 00:17:21,934
This where you done
your schooling?

336
00:17:21,934 --> 00:17:23,333
Mm-hmm.

337
00:17:23,333 --> 00:17:26,600
I sat right smack dab
in front of Miss Teeters.

338
00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,500
Look. She didn't
like us doing that,

339
00:17:29,500 --> 00:17:32,033
but everybody did it.
( chuckles )

340
00:17:32,033 --> 00:17:34,967
Just had to be careful
not to get caught.

341
00:17:36,367 --> 00:17:38,834
There.
You sir, your name?

342
00:17:38,834 --> 00:17:40,300
Wait, hold up.

343
00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:42,300
Why the government
helping us all
of a sudden?

344
00:17:42,300 --> 00:17:45,533
What,
they got a war coming?
They gonna need us?

345
00:17:45,533 --> 00:17:48,133
Well, they have a whole
new view of things,

346
00:17:48,133 --> 00:17:50,033
a kind of people
point of view,

347
00:17:50,033 --> 00:17:52,867
and it's coming
straight down from
President Roosevelt.

348
00:17:52,867 --> 00:17:55,066
Well, I ain't scared
to give my name.

349
00:17:55,066 --> 00:17:58,266
My name is Willie Johnson.

350
00:17:58,266 --> 00:17:59,500
Willie.

351
00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:03,166
W-I-L-L-E Johnson.

352
00:18:04,066 --> 00:18:05,700
Mm-hmm.

353
00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:07,633
Yes?

354
00:18:07,633 --> 00:18:10,233
Give your name.
Hodman.

355
00:18:10,233 --> 00:18:11,600
Hodman.

356
00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,533
Hodman Bryan.

357
00:18:13,533 --> 00:18:15,033
Bryan.

358
00:18:15,033 --> 00:18:16,667
Yeah?

359
00:18:16,667 --> 00:18:18,734
Well, I'm Ben.

360
00:18:18,734 --> 00:18:20,033
Ben.

361
00:18:20,033 --> 00:18:22,400
I'm Big Ben Washington.

362
00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,333
Big Ben Washington.

363
00:18:25,333 --> 00:18:27,333
See, we're a group,
the four of us.

364
00:18:27,333 --> 00:18:29,300
You're looking
at the next winners

365
00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:32,367
of the Macon County
Victrola Gillee Competition
right here.

366
00:18:32,367 --> 00:18:34,066
Both: That's right.
Mm.

367
00:18:34,066 --> 00:18:36,266
Yeah, but see,
just 'cause
I give you my name

368
00:18:36,266 --> 00:18:39,367
that don't mean
I'm coming back
for no treatment.

369
00:18:41,333 --> 00:18:43,800
I just had me an idea.

370
00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:48,266
I know how I can get
the government to take y'all
to that competition.

371
00:18:48,266 --> 00:18:49,700
How are you gonna
do that?

372
00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:52,400
I'll drive you there
in my government car

373
00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,700
after we stop off
at the hospital
and get you free tests

374
00:18:55,700 --> 00:18:58,066
and your free
hot lunches.

375
00:18:58,066 --> 00:19:00,033
Hey, free lunch,
all right.

376
00:19:00,033 --> 00:19:02,033
Free lunch?
Yep.

377
00:19:02,033 --> 00:19:04,233
We got to fatten you up
for the kill.

378
00:19:07,467 --> 00:19:09,133
( guffaws )
I got you.

379
00:19:09,133 --> 00:19:12,734
She joshin' us.
( men chattering,
laughing )

380
00:19:12,734 --> 00:19:14,367
She almost
has us there.

381
00:19:14,367 --> 00:19:15,867
I got scared.

382
00:19:15,867 --> 00:19:18,233
( giggles )
Oh, your face.

383
00:19:18,233 --> 00:19:21,266
Okay, now y'all said
there's four of you
in this here group.

384
00:19:21,266 --> 00:19:22,400
Where's the fourth?

385
00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:24,567
He ain't coming, no.

386
00:19:24,567 --> 00:19:28,867
See, he don't believe
anything Mr. Kirk says
could be good for the colored.

387
00:19:28,867 --> 00:19:32,200
He work for Mr. Kirk?
Ben:
No, he don't work
for Mr. Kirk.

388
00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,200
It's Caleb-- he work
for hisself.

389
00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,300
Well, this ain't
got nothing to do
with Mr. Kirk.

390
00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:39,266
You're dealing
with the government
right here.

391
00:19:39,266 --> 00:19:40,567
Caleb?

392
00:19:40,567 --> 00:19:42,033
Humphries.

393
00:19:42,033 --> 00:19:44,133
Caleb Humphries.

394
00:19:45,767 --> 00:19:49,066
Caleb Humphries...

395
00:19:49,066 --> 00:19:51,667
sat right behind me.

396
00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:54,967
You're joshing now.

397
00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,834
I will never
forget that boy
as long as I live.

398
00:19:58,834 --> 00:20:01,600
He made me
so miserable--

399
00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,600
pulling on my hair
and sticking my pigtails
in the inkwell.

400
00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:05,767
( laughing )

401
00:20:05,767 --> 00:20:07,433
If I do nothing
with him...

402
00:20:07,433 --> 00:20:09,500
That sounds just
like Caleb, don't it?

403
00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:11,600
It sound like Caleb.

404
00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,333
He won't come in
for treatment?

405
00:20:14,333 --> 00:20:16,400
Not Caleb, hmm-mm.

406
00:20:17,433 --> 00:20:20,066
Well, I've been
waiting 20 years

407
00:20:20,066 --> 00:20:22,467
to put some size
on that boy.

408
00:20:32,333 --> 00:20:34,066
Can I--?

409
00:20:34,066 --> 00:20:36,033
There. That don't
exactly make us even,

410
00:20:36,033 --> 00:20:37,567
but it's something.

411
00:20:37,567 --> 00:20:39,533
Eunice Evers.

412
00:20:39,533 --> 00:20:41,734
And don't say
you don't remember me.

413
00:20:41,734 --> 00:20:43,767
Eunice Evers.

414
00:20:43,767 --> 00:20:45,767
I remember you.

415
00:20:45,767 --> 00:20:47,900
You were the smart one.

416
00:20:47,900 --> 00:20:49,767
Remember what you
used to do to me?

417
00:20:50,667 --> 00:20:52,834
You was a girl.

418
00:20:52,834 --> 00:20:56,066
That ain't no good reason.
You still ought
to be ashamed.

419
00:20:56,066 --> 00:20:58,800
Excuse me.

420
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,133
Hey hey.

421
00:21:02,133 --> 00:21:04,433
Come here.

422
00:21:12,233 --> 00:21:14,834
Carry this feed
out to your mama
out yonder.

423
00:21:14,834 --> 00:21:17,066
Corinna!

424
00:21:18,467 --> 00:21:19,834
Corinna!

425
00:21:19,834 --> 00:21:21,633
Almost done.

426
00:21:21,633 --> 00:21:23,233
We got company.

427
00:21:27,133 --> 00:21:29,600
Well, you have
a fine-looking family.

428
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,600
Oh, my brother's
wife's kids.

429
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,867
I'm just living here,
helping out.

430
00:21:35,667 --> 00:21:38,633
What's this about
you not coming
for treatment?

431
00:21:38,633 --> 00:21:41,400
I don't trust
no government.

432
00:21:44,133 --> 00:21:47,433
As far as this
doctoring is concerned,
I'm the government.

433
00:21:47,433 --> 00:21:49,500
What you got to say
about that?

434
00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:51,500
Do you trust me

435
00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:53,700
or do you still want
to pull my hair?

436
00:21:55,633 --> 00:21:57,900
Both.

437
00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:02,734
♪ Satisfied... ♪
( men singing )

438
00:22:02,734 --> 00:22:05,266
♪ Satisfied... ♪
( men laughing )

439
00:22:05,266 --> 00:22:07,934
♪ Satisfied ♪
♪ I'm going up north ♪

440
00:22:07,934 --> 00:22:10,767
♪ Satisfied ♪
♪ I won't leave you ♪

441
00:22:10,767 --> 00:22:13,367
♪ Satisfied ♪
♪ Gonna take my mule ♪

442
00:22:13,367 --> 00:22:16,100
♪ Satisfied ♪
♪ He can get it too ♪

443
00:22:16,100 --> 00:22:19,000
♪ Satisfied ♪
♪ Gonna find me a dale ♪

444
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,400
♪ Satisfied ♪
♪ With a mountain view ♪

445
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,333
♪ Satisfied ♪
♪ Gonna jump that broom ♪

446
00:22:24,333 --> 00:22:26,800
♪ Satisfied ♪
♪ Make a bed there too... ♪

447
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:31,066
♪ Oh, I'm going up north ♪
♪ Satisfied... ♪

448
00:22:31,066 --> 00:22:34,066
Hey, I got one, I got one.
( men continue singing,
chattering )

449
00:22:37,633 --> 00:22:40,367
Eunice:
They came in with me,

450
00:22:40,367 --> 00:22:42,433
and so did the other ones
I talked to,

451
00:22:42,433 --> 00:22:44,367
and the ones
they talked to.

452
00:22:44,367 --> 00:22:47,500
Did they come!
On foot,

453
00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:49,700
in the owners' trucks.

454
00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:52,734
Any way they could,
they came in for treatment,

455
00:22:52,734 --> 00:22:55,133
sorely needed treatment.

456
00:22:57,900 --> 00:23:00,633
Good morning.
Good morning.

457
00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:05,900
Oh my God.

458
00:23:05,900 --> 00:23:07,900
There's so many.
I had no idea.

459
00:23:07,900 --> 00:23:10,033
Welcome to Macon County,
Doctor.

460
00:23:11,867 --> 00:23:14,700
Well, we'd better start
another line.

461
00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:16,700
There are a lot of men here
in need of care.

462
00:23:16,700 --> 00:23:17,867
Yeah.

463
00:23:17,867 --> 00:23:19,867
Brodus:
If I could have

464
00:23:19,867 --> 00:23:21,633
all the young men
down on this end

465
00:23:21,633 --> 00:23:24,967
please file into this room
and form two new lines.

466
00:23:24,967 --> 00:23:27,100
Thank you.

467
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:29,867
Good morning.

468
00:23:29,867 --> 00:23:31,667
Good morning.

469
00:23:31,667 --> 00:23:33,700
How is that son
of yours?

470
00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:36,367
Oh, that stuff
you give him, it sure
did the-- ow!

471
00:23:36,367 --> 00:23:38,233
Sure did the trick,
Miss Evers.

472
00:23:38,233 --> 00:23:42,200
Well, we're gonna get
everybody in Macon County
well, you'll see.

473
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,333
Eunice:
Next group.

474
00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:52,700
Caleb.

475
00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:55,700
Ma'am, I see you're
getting even with me

476
00:23:55,700 --> 00:23:57,900
for pulling
your hair, huh?
( men laugh )

477
00:23:57,900 --> 00:24:00,700
You ain't
getting off that easy,
but give me your finger.

478
00:24:02,567 --> 00:24:03,767
Argh.

479
00:24:03,767 --> 00:24:05,700
It's all right.

480
00:24:05,700 --> 00:24:07,433
All right?

481
00:24:07,433 --> 00:24:10,200
Hold it up.

482
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,066
Hodman.

483
00:24:12,066 --> 00:24:15,000
No no, Miss Evers.
I don't want to get
my blood took.

484
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,567
Go on, Hodman.
I got a wife.
I got a wife.

485
00:24:17,567 --> 00:24:19,567
I got--

486
00:24:19,567 --> 00:24:21,567
I'm still young
and I got obligations.

487
00:24:21,567 --> 00:24:24,400
Obligations?

488
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,066
You know, to my wife.

489
00:24:27,066 --> 00:24:29,967
Family obligations.

490
00:24:29,967 --> 00:24:33,033
So I just can't
have my blood took.

491
00:24:33,033 --> 00:24:35,200
You know Fred Milson
down at Alma?

492
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:36,967
Works in the sawmill.

493
00:24:36,967 --> 00:24:38,967
He's got seven,
going on eight children.

494
00:24:38,967 --> 00:24:40,967
He's been giving
his blood for six years,

495
00:24:40,967 --> 00:24:43,400
and his obligations
is doing just fine.

496
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:44,734
( laughing )

497
00:24:44,734 --> 00:24:47,166
Well, I sure hope
you're right, Miss Evers,

498
00:24:47,166 --> 00:24:48,667
'cause that--
Oh, I am.

499
00:24:48,667 --> 00:24:51,000
O-ow.
I wouldn't say it
if it wasn't so.

500
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,800
Could you step
out here for a second?

501
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,500
Eunice: Okay?

502
00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:57,166
Doctor.
Yes?

503
00:24:57,166 --> 00:24:59,100
Would you excuse me?
I'd like to speak
with the men.

504
00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:00,867
Sure, go right ahead.

505
00:25:00,867 --> 00:25:03,633
Gentlemen, there seems
to be some confusion.

506
00:25:05,166 --> 00:25:08,934
Let me explain
what we're checking for.

507
00:25:08,934 --> 00:25:11,233
There is a germ

508
00:25:11,233 --> 00:25:13,266
that infects
the genital area,

509
00:25:13,266 --> 00:25:15,767
resulting in a temporary
and painless

510
00:25:15,767 --> 00:25:18,300
but highly contagious

511
00:25:18,300 --> 00:25:20,266
penal ulceration.

512
00:25:20,266 --> 00:25:22,433
Now this ulceration
will disappear

513
00:25:22,433 --> 00:25:24,800
as the disease becomes
non-contagious,

514
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,734
or latent.

515
00:25:26,734 --> 00:25:29,467
And this--
this latency can last

516
00:25:29,467 --> 00:25:32,133
for up to 30 years
until finally

517
00:25:32,133 --> 00:25:34,233
the cardiovascular
and nervous systems

518
00:25:34,233 --> 00:25:37,300
will disintegrate
and collapse.

519
00:25:37,300 --> 00:25:39,000
Are there
any questions?

520
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,200
Doctor, could I just
say something?

521
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,133
Sure.

522
00:25:49,133 --> 00:25:52,667
By frolicking too much,
or maybe passed on from
your mama and your daddy,

523
00:25:52,667 --> 00:25:55,667
you might get
a really bad sore down below
on your private parts.

524
00:25:55,667 --> 00:25:58,767
Then through that sore
a bug can crawl up
inside of you

525
00:25:58,767 --> 00:26:00,767
and go to sleep
for 20-30 years or more,

526
00:26:00,767 --> 00:26:02,767
so as not to hurt
nobody but you.

527
00:26:02,767 --> 00:26:04,934
But when it wake up,
you can't walk,

528
00:26:04,934 --> 00:26:08,033
you can't
breathe, you can't think.
That is bad blood.

529
00:26:08,033 --> 00:26:11,033
That's what we're
checking to see if y'all got,
so we can get rid of it.

530
00:26:11,033 --> 00:26:13,033
( men chattering )
Oh, all right.
That make sense.

531
00:26:13,033 --> 00:26:15,200
( chuckles )

532
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,600
You're done.
Come on, Willie.

533
00:26:18,834 --> 00:26:21,533
Nurse, could I speak
with you for a second?

534
00:26:21,533 --> 00:26:23,734
Sure.
Thank you.

535
00:26:26,767 --> 00:26:28,800
Yes, Doctor?

536
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,300
( sighs )

537
00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:33,867
Thank you.

538
00:26:33,867 --> 00:26:35,500
I know I'm a good
medical doctor,

539
00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:38,066
but I'm not so sure
that I'm a good
people doctor yet.

540
00:26:38,066 --> 00:26:40,734
Dr. Douglas,
you're helping people.

541
00:26:40,734 --> 00:26:43,000
You're a good
people doctor.

542
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,200
Caleb:
Evening, Eunice.

543
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,300
I see you've worked
a long day.

544
00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:55,367
The world's
full of sickness.

545
00:26:55,367 --> 00:26:57,433
Mm.
Thanks.

546
00:26:57,433 --> 00:26:59,367
Look, I ain't accustomed
to asking for favors--

547
00:26:59,367 --> 00:27:03,300
Well, you ain't used
to seeing me again neither,
but here we are.

548
00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:05,400
I was wondering,
could you get ahold
to a book--

549
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,000
a medicine book
to tell you about
that bug.

550
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,734
Oh, the docs will answer
any questions that you have.

551
00:27:09,734 --> 00:27:13,400
I know, but I'd rather
read up on it for myself.

552
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,934
Those books are
so technical.

553
00:27:15,934 --> 00:27:19,333
Mm, you think
I won't understand it.

554
00:27:21,266 --> 00:27:23,467
I'll see what's
in the library.

555
00:27:27,166 --> 00:27:28,367
Caleb.
Hmm?

556
00:27:28,367 --> 00:27:30,500
What did you
quit school for?

557
00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:32,600
You was the smartest one
in the class.

558
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,367
I was just the pushiest.

559
00:27:34,367 --> 00:27:37,734
You used to drive
Miss Teeters crazy asking
questions all the time,

560
00:27:37,734 --> 00:27:39,767
then all of a sudden
you wasn't there.

561
00:27:39,767 --> 00:27:42,867
I'd appreciate it
if you could get ahold
of that book for me.

562
00:27:51,967 --> 00:27:54,800
( percussive music playing )
( crowd cheering )

563
00:28:08,834 --> 00:28:10,700
Old boys
is pretty good.

564
00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:13,500
Yeah, but they ain't
good as you, Willie,
and you know they ain't.

565
00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:15,133
I don't know
about that.

566
00:28:15,133 --> 00:28:17,300
See the way that boy
was doing that
sand-slide?

567
00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:21,166
Shoot, I done
seen you do that step
in your sleep, Willie.

568
00:28:21,166 --> 00:28:24,500
Yeah well,
the only thing is
now I'm wide awake.

569
00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:26,900
You go ahead,
old Willie Johnson.

570
00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:29,300
Come on, Willie,
you gotta think
positive now.

571
00:28:29,300 --> 00:28:30,734
We gonna win
this thing here.

572
00:28:30,734 --> 00:28:32,266
That's right,
'cause we the best.

573
00:28:32,266 --> 00:28:33,700
Ain't no doubt
about that.

574
00:28:33,700 --> 00:28:35,467
You tell that boy
to say our new name?

575
00:28:35,467 --> 00:28:38,467
You know I told him
to say our name.
He better not forget.

576
00:28:38,467 --> 00:28:40,100
'Cause that
name's gonna be our
good luck charm.

577
00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:43,367
Oh, names don't
give you no luck.
Neither do charms.

578
00:28:43,367 --> 00:28:44,734
What do you know
about charms?

579
00:28:44,734 --> 00:28:46,400
I know enough
not to mess
with them.

580
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,233
Hey hey, shh shh.
Listen, everybody listen.
Listen up.

581
00:28:49,233 --> 00:28:51,433
From Macon County,
a group

582
00:28:51,433 --> 00:28:54,934
we've been hearing a lot
of good things about,

583
00:28:54,934 --> 00:28:57,333
Miss Evers' Boys!

584
00:28:57,333 --> 00:28:59,834
( cheering and applause )

585
00:29:08,934 --> 00:29:11,400
( playing upbeat music )

586
00:29:27,266 --> 00:29:29,934
Go on, Willie,
work your head.

587
00:29:33,567 --> 00:29:35,333
Dance it out, Willie.

588
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:39,667
Work that, boy.

589
00:29:40,967 --> 00:29:42,600
Get on down there.

590
00:29:44,967 --> 00:29:47,467
Yeah!

591
00:29:56,767 --> 00:29:59,200
Here we go, y'all.

592
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:00,700
Ahh!

593
00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:02,400
Yeah!

594
00:30:16,066 --> 00:30:19,667
See, you-- I looked
over there at Caleb,
I said, "What?"

595
00:30:19,667 --> 00:30:21,767
When you went up high,
what was that you did then?
That's right.

596
00:30:21,767 --> 00:30:23,633
You mean, when I went
up in the air?
Yeah.

597
00:30:23,633 --> 00:30:26,734
Oh, that was the--
that was the jackspring.

598
00:30:26,734 --> 00:30:28,734
You sure did get
everybody's attention
out there today.

599
00:30:28,734 --> 00:30:31,500
You sure did.
You got mine.

600
00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:33,433
I tell you the truth,

601
00:30:33,433 --> 00:30:35,934
I-I can't believe
we won the Victrola.

602
00:30:35,934 --> 00:30:39,400
You know, I ain't--
I ain't never won nothing
my whole life.

603
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,033
Me neither.
This sure been
some night.

604
00:30:42,033 --> 00:30:44,066
Yes sir.
First of many, Willie.

605
00:30:44,066 --> 00:30:46,433
You're right, Miss Evers,
right from here

606
00:30:46,433 --> 00:30:49,467
right on to the Cotton Club
in Harlem, New York, USA.

607
00:30:49,467 --> 00:30:51,133
That's what I'm
talking about.

608
00:30:51,133 --> 00:30:53,600
Oh, Willie got
aspirations, y'all.

609
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,300
Ben: Yes.

610
00:30:55,300 --> 00:30:57,533
What's wrong with that?
Don't you?

611
00:30:57,533 --> 00:31:00,300
Oh, Miss Evers, now you know
Caleb wouldn't tell you
if he had.

612
00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:03,100
Caleb wouldn't
tell his own mama
he'd been born.

613
00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:06,233
I guess he figures
she's to find out
sooner or later.

614
00:31:06,233 --> 00:31:08,900
Oh. Ooh.

615
00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:11,533
Signifying...
Y'all need to quit now.

616
00:31:11,533 --> 00:31:14,367
There's our house.
It's right over there,
Miss Evers.

617
00:31:14,367 --> 00:31:17,667
Willie:
Ooh, wait till everybody
sees this coming in.

618
00:31:17,667 --> 00:31:20,900
( all laugh )

619
00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:22,967
Come on out here, Hods.

620
00:31:22,967 --> 00:31:24,900
( thunder crashing )

621
00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:27,333
There you go.
Take this. Don't drop it.

622
00:31:27,333 --> 00:31:29,600
Boys, I'll tell you
something:

623
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,266
this time the Victrola,
next time the record.

624
00:31:32,266 --> 00:31:33,934
That's right.

625
00:31:33,934 --> 00:31:35,166
I like that.

626
00:31:35,166 --> 00:31:37,533
Hey, Maisie,
you and the children
come out here,

627
00:31:37,533 --> 00:31:39,033
look at this.

628
00:31:39,033 --> 00:31:41,433
Eunice:
Hodman, Ben, Willie,

629
00:31:41,433 --> 00:31:43,967
Miss Evers' boys.

630
00:31:43,967 --> 00:31:45,400
That's us.

631
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,400
I just want you
to know

632
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,767
that naming your group
after me--

633
00:31:49,767 --> 00:31:51,800
Oh, we knew it would
bring us luck,
Miss Evers.

634
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,800
Well, I have never had
such an honor

635
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,433
and I just want
to thank you.

636
00:31:55,433 --> 00:31:58,633
Hey, it's the first
of many.

637
00:31:59,934 --> 00:32:01,300
Oh, yeah.

638
00:32:01,300 --> 00:32:03,066
( laughs )

639
00:32:03,066 --> 00:32:05,033
Willie:
Good night, Miss Evers.
Caleb, talk to you later.

640
00:32:05,033 --> 00:32:06,900
Thanks, Miss Evers.
Caleb, see you.
See you, Miss Evers.

641
00:32:06,900 --> 00:32:09,633
( starts engine )
( thunder crashing )

642
00:32:14,066 --> 00:32:16,967
The audience loved y'all.
( chuckles )

643
00:32:18,133 --> 00:32:21,433
That Willie--
he's very good.

644
00:32:21,433 --> 00:32:24,166
He really could get
to the Cotton Club
if he wanted to.

645
00:32:24,166 --> 00:32:27,033
Mm-hmm.
Hey, that book
you give me...

646
00:32:27,033 --> 00:32:28,500
Yeah?

647
00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:31,734
Well, I had them
symptoms once, so...

648
00:32:32,967 --> 00:32:35,033
y'all give me that test
to make sure about it.

649
00:32:35,033 --> 00:32:37,633
The Wassermann test?
Mm-hmm.

650
00:32:37,633 --> 00:32:40,333
And that test can tell
whether you got it
or you don't?

651
00:32:40,333 --> 00:32:41,533
That's right.

652
00:32:41,533 --> 00:32:43,867
Well, do I or don't I?

653
00:32:43,867 --> 00:32:46,700
Caleb, the doctors--

654
00:32:46,700 --> 00:32:49,367
I'm asking you now.

655
00:32:51,934 --> 00:32:53,767
Yeah, you have it.

656
00:32:55,333 --> 00:32:56,800
So do the rest of the men,

657
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,533
Hodman, Ben, Willie,

658
00:32:59,533 --> 00:33:02,500
actually most of the men
that came in.

659
00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:04,700
But syphilis
is treatable.

660
00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:07,633
There's Salvarsan treatment.
There's the mercury rubs.

661
00:33:07,633 --> 00:33:08,934
That'll cure it?

662
00:33:08,934 --> 00:33:12,000
Well,

663
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,166
it's not 100%.

664
00:33:15,633 --> 00:33:17,834
And there's
some side effects,
but there's a chance.

665
00:33:17,834 --> 00:33:19,533
What kind
of chance?

666
00:33:33,734 --> 00:33:37,467
Caleb, you're fine, Caleb,
you really are.

667
00:33:37,467 --> 00:33:40,166
And we're gonna make
all y'all even finer.

668
00:33:40,166 --> 00:33:42,667
There's a whole lot more
competitions to win.

669
00:33:42,667 --> 00:33:45,500
But, uh, you won't
tell them, will you?

670
00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:47,700
I mean,
what they got.

671
00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:51,166
All they know is
they got bad blood and we
don't want to scare them.

672
00:33:51,166 --> 00:33:52,934
You telling me
I got a right to know.

673
00:33:52,934 --> 00:33:54,600
Why don't they got
a right to know?

674
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,300
Well, I made
an exception for you.

675
00:33:57,300 --> 00:34:00,433
It was unprofessional,
but what's done is done.

676
00:34:00,433 --> 00:34:02,433
But we don't want
to scare the other men.

677
00:34:02,433 --> 00:34:04,500
They ain't children.
They're colored.

678
00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:06,767
Please, Caleb,
the doctors know
what they're doing

679
00:34:06,767 --> 00:34:08,433
and they think
it's for the best.

680
00:34:08,433 --> 00:34:09,800
You think that too?

681
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,500
Of course I do, yes.

682
00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:15,500
Why are you always
trying to fluster me?

683
00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:18,033
You ain't changed
a bit, have you?

684
00:34:18,033 --> 00:34:19,600
All right.

685
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,734
I'll keep
my mouth shut.

686
00:34:23,433 --> 00:34:25,433
You ain't changed
a bit neither.

687
00:34:44,533 --> 00:34:47,500
( jazz playing )

688
00:34:49,633 --> 00:34:51,767
Eunice:
Rub hard now,

689
00:34:51,767 --> 00:34:54,433
hard as you can.

690
00:34:54,433 --> 00:34:56,367
Rub hard now.

691
00:34:56,367 --> 00:34:58,533
Squeeze that mercury
into those muscles

692
00:34:58,533 --> 00:35:01,033
till they holler.
Men: Please.

693
00:35:01,033 --> 00:35:03,133
Ooh, I can't even
hear you.

694
00:35:03,133 --> 00:35:04,567
Please!

695
00:35:04,567 --> 00:35:07,266
That is the puniest "please"
I ever heard.

696
00:35:07,266 --> 00:35:10,333
Please!

697
00:35:10,333 --> 00:35:12,667
That's better.
The harder you rub,

698
00:35:12,667 --> 00:35:15,734
the quicker the bad blood
becomes hot blood.

699
00:35:24,767 --> 00:35:26,367
( laughing )

700
00:35:26,367 --> 00:35:27,934
Willie Johnson.

701
00:35:27,934 --> 00:35:31,967
I bet you ain't never
seen no dance step
like that before.

702
00:35:31,967 --> 00:35:34,166
Actually I have seen
something similar.

703
00:35:35,066 --> 00:35:36,767
Where?

704
00:35:36,767 --> 00:35:38,967
Harlem,
the Cotton Club.

705
00:35:38,967 --> 00:35:40,934
Oh, man, you're lying.

706
00:35:40,934 --> 00:35:42,867
You ain't been
in no Cotton Club.

707
00:35:42,867 --> 00:35:44,233
No, I'm not.

708
00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:47,667
Okay, who you seen
dance there?

709
00:35:47,667 --> 00:35:50,567
Well, I've seen
Buckin' Bubbles

710
00:35:50,567 --> 00:35:53,433
and Snakelips...

711
00:35:53,433 --> 00:35:55,633
Snakehips Tucker?

712
00:35:55,633 --> 00:35:58,333
Yeah, that's it.
Snakehips Tucker.

713
00:35:58,333 --> 00:36:00,300
Hey, man,

714
00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:02,333
did you see
Ruby Blue?

715
00:36:02,333 --> 00:36:04,433
Ruby Blue?

716
00:36:05,433 --> 00:36:06,934
I don't think so.

717
00:36:06,934 --> 00:36:08,934
He don't think so.

718
00:36:08,934 --> 00:36:10,867
Hey, man, if you'd
seen Ruby Blue,

719
00:36:10,867 --> 00:36:12,934
you wouldn't think so.
You'd know so.

720
00:36:12,934 --> 00:36:14,734
Mm-hmm. Oh yeah.

721
00:36:14,734 --> 00:36:17,667
Oh man,
he be scatting

722
00:36:17,667 --> 00:36:19,767
and leaping.

723
00:36:21,533 --> 00:36:24,066
Ooh.

724
00:36:24,066 --> 00:36:26,200
Hey, he's the best.

725
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,400
I guess I'm just gonna
have to get back there
someday and see him.

726
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,033
I guess you will.
Hey, Miss Evers.

727
00:36:32,033 --> 00:36:33,533
Hmm?

728
00:36:33,533 --> 00:36:35,533
You know
what this man say?

729
00:36:35,533 --> 00:36:37,633
He say he's been
to the Cotton Club.

730
00:36:37,633 --> 00:36:40,100
Well, he can't
stay ignorant all his life.

731
00:36:40,100 --> 00:36:42,233
( laughing )

732
00:36:42,233 --> 00:36:45,000
Listen to you.

733
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,667
And I wasn't lying.

734
00:36:46,667 --> 00:36:48,400
I was actually there.

735
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,967
Caleb, I don't know
any more books
on the matter.

736
00:37:01,967 --> 00:37:03,767
Oh, I don't need
no more.

737
00:37:05,767 --> 00:37:09,600
You wouldn't go out

738
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:13,100
with anybody who got
what I got, would you?

739
00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:14,967
You mean go out--?

740
00:37:14,967 --> 00:37:17,800
Like to a picture show
or get something to eat,

741
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,900
something like that.
You wouldn't do that with--?

742
00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:24,900
No, I wouldn't go
with anybody that--

743
00:37:24,900 --> 00:37:26,934
Yeah, that's what
I figured.

744
00:37:26,934 --> 00:37:29,433
Yeah, all right then.

745
00:37:29,433 --> 00:37:31,100
I'd go with you.

746
00:37:37,734 --> 00:37:40,233
I don't want
you stepping out
with no field hand.

747
00:37:40,233 --> 00:37:42,734
You're a professional
woman, a nurse.

748
00:37:42,734 --> 00:37:45,000
You don't
see any doctors
asking me out,

749
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,233
or lawyers
for that matter,
or undertakers.

750
00:37:48,233 --> 00:37:50,266
And he's not just
a field hand.

751
00:37:50,266 --> 00:37:52,934
He's-- why am I
making excuses?

752
00:37:52,934 --> 00:37:55,300
I've been trying
to tell you all your life

753
00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:57,333
you got to set
your sights high,

754
00:37:57,333 --> 00:37:59,367
uphold the dignity
of this family.

755
00:37:59,367 --> 00:38:00,867
( knocks on door )

756
00:38:00,867 --> 00:38:03,500
Got a good sense
of timing too.

757
00:38:04,934 --> 00:38:06,834
Caleb.
Evening, Eunice.

758
00:38:06,834 --> 00:38:09,700
Come on in.
I got my truck waiting.

759
00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:12,066
Come on, it ain't
gonna run off.

760
00:38:12,066 --> 00:38:14,066
Come on, I want you
to meet my papa.

761
00:38:14,066 --> 00:38:16,000
Papa...

762
00:38:17,500 --> 00:38:19,500
This is Caleb Humphries.

763
00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:21,266
Caleb, Mr. Evers.

764
00:38:24,567 --> 00:38:26,867
Good evening, sir.

765
00:38:26,867 --> 00:38:29,000
Howdy.

766
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,333
He sat right behind me
in Miss Teeters' class

767
00:38:32,333 --> 00:38:34,400
and pulled my hair.

768
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,433
Well...

769
00:38:37,667 --> 00:38:40,233
You've seen the worst.
Don't go brooding on it.

770
00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:54,667
( engine backfiring )
Eunice: Caleb, are you sure
this thing'll make it?

771
00:38:54,667 --> 00:38:58,066
Caleb:
Hush now. She don't
take kindly to disrespect.

772
00:38:58,066 --> 00:39:00,734
I heard this was
a juke-joint out here.

773
00:39:00,734 --> 00:39:02,567
Well, they have
the liquor

774
00:39:02,567 --> 00:39:05,367
and all that carrying on
on Saturdays.

775
00:39:05,367 --> 00:39:07,633
Mm, good barbecue.

776
00:39:07,633 --> 00:39:09,367
Mm-hmm.

777
00:39:09,367 --> 00:39:11,433
I bet you my mama
made better.

778
00:39:11,433 --> 00:39:13,233
Everybody's mama
made better.

779
00:39:13,233 --> 00:39:15,066
( chuckles )

780
00:39:15,066 --> 00:39:17,166
I remember me
and my brother--

781
00:39:17,166 --> 00:39:19,066
we had the job

782
00:39:19,066 --> 00:39:21,633
of ladling out
the sauce, you know?

783
00:39:23,033 --> 00:39:26,233
It sure was good,
my mama's barbecue.

784
00:39:29,166 --> 00:39:31,233
I always wished
I had a brother...

785
00:39:31,233 --> 00:39:33,033
Mm-hmm.
...or even a sister.

786
00:39:33,033 --> 00:39:35,834
My mama couldn't have
any more children
after me.

787
00:39:40,767 --> 00:39:43,266
Was that the only
brother you had?

788
00:39:45,333 --> 00:39:48,934
Yeah, he's--
he's dead.

789
00:39:48,934 --> 00:39:51,533
Oh, I'm sorry, I--
I just thought maybe,

790
00:39:51,533 --> 00:39:54,233
you know, with what
you got and all,
it was--

791
00:39:54,233 --> 00:39:57,500
Oh, you want
to know what he died of.
He didn't have what I have.

792
00:39:57,500 --> 00:40:01,467
Well, he didn't
have no disease.

793
00:40:02,433 --> 00:40:04,266
Was it accident?

794
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,233
He got himself
lynched.

795
00:40:07,233 --> 00:40:08,667
Oh God.

796
00:40:08,667 --> 00:40:11,133
He had a big mouth,
like me.

797
00:40:11,133 --> 00:40:14,033
I'm sorry, I--
I didn't connect
the name.

798
00:40:14,033 --> 00:40:16,000
Well, ain't no reason
for you to do that now.

799
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,967
I mean, there's plenty
of Humphries around here.

800
00:40:17,967 --> 00:40:19,934
Look, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to spoil
your evening.

801
00:40:19,934 --> 00:40:21,900
I got you dripping
all over your good dress.

802
00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:24,567
Look, forget the dress.

803
00:40:28,066 --> 00:40:30,667
You know,
what's funny is

804
00:40:30,667 --> 00:40:34,100
I was fixing to leave here
when it happened.

805
00:40:34,100 --> 00:40:36,767
For where?

806
00:40:36,767 --> 00:40:39,800
Anywhere, USA.
( chuckles )

807
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,166
Ride the rails...

808
00:40:42,166 --> 00:40:44,166
Chicago,

809
00:40:44,166 --> 00:40:46,967
you know, see what's up north
or out west-- California.

810
00:40:48,700 --> 00:40:51,633
You think it'd be
any different?

811
00:40:53,233 --> 00:40:55,867
Sure can't be the same.

812
00:40:58,300 --> 00:41:01,000
I dream on that
sometimes.

813
00:41:02,734 --> 00:41:07,166
Going up to New York City
and see the sights,

814
00:41:07,166 --> 00:41:08,800
don't have to get off
the sidewalk

815
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,333
when a white person
come along.
Well, why don't you?

816
00:41:15,367 --> 00:41:17,200
I love what
I'm doing here--

817
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,633
the treatment, the program,
knowing I'm doing good.

818
00:41:20,633 --> 00:41:22,266
With us sinners.

819
00:41:22,266 --> 00:41:24,467
Ooh!

820
00:41:24,467 --> 00:41:27,934
The disease is the sin,
Caleb, not the people--
the disease.

821
00:41:27,934 --> 00:41:29,767
And you smotin' it
'fore and after.

822
00:41:29,767 --> 00:41:32,567
Good Lord help me.
Oh God.

823
00:41:32,567 --> 00:41:35,367
I'm thinking
Lord don't want me
to wear this dress.

824
00:41:35,367 --> 00:41:37,367
I reckon not.

825
00:41:50,233 --> 00:41:51,967
Is it okay?

826
00:41:51,967 --> 00:41:54,100
Oh yeah,
should be all right.

827
00:41:55,467 --> 00:41:57,467
Well,

828
00:41:57,467 --> 00:41:59,600
after my brother--

829
00:42:01,767 --> 00:42:04,934
well, that's why
I had to leave school,

830
00:42:04,934 --> 00:42:07,667
take his place
down the way.

831
00:42:07,667 --> 00:42:10,100
You were
just a child.

832
00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:12,100
You could have
kept up at home,

833
00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:13,767
as smart
as you were.

834
00:42:13,767 --> 00:42:16,767
You ever tried
picking cotton all day
and studying at night?

835
00:42:16,767 --> 00:42:19,967
I tried.
Kept falling asleep.

836
00:42:19,967 --> 00:42:23,166
Everybody can't be
John Henry.

837
00:42:35,834 --> 00:42:38,967
You got no reason
to hold back.

838
00:42:38,967 --> 00:42:41,166
You're fine.

839
00:42:41,166 --> 00:42:42,834
Come on.

840
00:43:04,367 --> 00:43:06,967
Dr. Douglas:
Sam, I've got some bad news.

841
00:43:06,967 --> 00:43:09,667
The program is
being canceled.

842
00:43:12,467 --> 00:43:14,467
( chuckles )

843
00:43:14,467 --> 00:43:16,433
Canceled?

844
00:43:16,433 --> 00:43:18,166
We've run out
of money.

845
00:43:18,166 --> 00:43:22,000
Well, the foundation
in Chicago, I mean,
they're gonna--

846
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,033
Lost most of its assets
in the crash.

847
00:43:24,033 --> 00:43:25,633
They've given us
all they can.

848
00:43:25,633 --> 00:43:27,133
What about the Public
Health Service?

849
00:43:27,133 --> 00:43:29,233
The program was their idea
in the first place.

850
00:43:29,233 --> 00:43:31,266
"Stamp out syphilis,"
you said.

851
00:43:31,266 --> 00:43:33,400
We're treating
1400 patients.

852
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,233
That's 40 injections
a year for each man.

853
00:43:36,233 --> 00:43:38,834
There's just too much disease
for the budget.

854
00:43:38,834 --> 00:43:42,066
Now the idea was
to use the funding to get
the program started

855
00:43:42,066 --> 00:43:44,133
and then turn it over
to the states.

856
00:43:44,133 --> 00:43:46,066
States don't have
any money.

857
00:43:46,066 --> 00:43:49,467
Who was it that said
that the poor aren't
affected by Wall Street?

858
00:43:51,834 --> 00:43:53,800
Sam, I'm in touch
with Washington.

859
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,133
We all want to see
if we can salvage this.

860
00:43:56,133 --> 00:43:57,767
I mean, the data
we've collected

861
00:43:57,767 --> 00:43:59,834
this last year alone
is worth its weight
in gold.

862
00:43:59,834 --> 00:44:02,633
I'm not interested in data.
I'm interested in treatment.

863
00:44:02,633 --> 00:44:05,000
Think of what it can mean
for your race,

864
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,667
for the advancement
in science.

865
00:44:06,667 --> 00:44:09,133
The loss here
is in lives, Doctor.

866
00:44:09,133 --> 00:44:11,266
I understand that.

867
00:44:16,667 --> 00:44:19,033
Just give me
some time, okay?

868
00:44:19,033 --> 00:44:21,200
Let's cut staff
to the bare bone,

869
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,100
divert funds
from other departments,
whatever you have to do.

870
00:44:24,100 --> 00:44:26,400
At least buy us
a few more months.

871
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,033
And then what will I do?

872
00:44:31,133 --> 00:44:33,300
These men are sick.
They need treatment.

873
00:44:33,300 --> 00:44:36,033
I know.
We just can't
stop it like that.

874
00:44:36,033 --> 00:44:37,734
We've got no choice.

875
00:44:37,734 --> 00:44:39,300
Doctor, they trust us.

876
00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:41,633
Nurse Evers,

877
00:44:41,633 --> 00:44:44,433
now you've done
a wonderful job,

878
00:44:44,433 --> 00:44:46,867
but I have to take you
off the program.

879
00:44:49,633 --> 00:44:52,100
We have to use
what little money we have

880
00:44:52,100 --> 00:44:55,633
for treatment, cut back
in all departments.

881
00:44:55,633 --> 00:44:58,467
It's either staff

882
00:44:58,467 --> 00:45:00,467
or medicine.

883
00:45:00,467 --> 00:45:03,467
I understand.

884
00:45:03,467 --> 00:45:04,633
Yes, of course.

885
00:45:04,633 --> 00:45:06,300
Now you can go back
to the ward.

886
00:45:06,300 --> 00:45:08,500
Betty Parsons is there.
You have seniority.

887
00:45:08,500 --> 00:45:10,867
No, I wouldn't take
somebody else's job.
You have a perfect right--

888
00:45:10,867 --> 00:45:12,834
No, I wouldn't do that.

889
00:45:12,834 --> 00:45:15,700
I hope-- I pray
that this is just
temporary

890
00:45:15,700 --> 00:45:19,066
and that I'll be
calling you back soon.

891
00:45:19,066 --> 00:45:23,100
I know you'll do
the best you can.

892
00:45:23,100 --> 00:45:25,834
( sighs )
Oh, Mr. Williams,

893
00:45:25,834 --> 00:45:27,900
not that you know
I'm even here,

894
00:45:27,900 --> 00:45:31,633
we're just gonna be
late for catfish night.

895
00:45:31,633 --> 00:45:33,900
Eunice:
Six months passed

896
00:45:33,900 --> 00:45:37,000
with no word.

897
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,500
There were fewer
and fewer treatments,

898
00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:42,934
and pretty soon
none at all.

899
00:45:42,934 --> 00:45:46,734
I tried to see 'em
when I could,

900
00:45:46,734 --> 00:45:50,066
but I had to take a job,

901
00:45:50,066 --> 00:45:53,467
the only one I could find,
working as a domestic,

902
00:45:53,467 --> 00:45:55,934
just like my mother.

903
00:45:55,934 --> 00:45:58,100
( women chattering )

904
00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:04,000
( women laughing )

905
00:46:10,967 --> 00:46:12,967
Caleb:
You had your supper?

906
00:46:12,967 --> 00:46:14,934
I had their supper.

907
00:46:14,934 --> 00:46:17,367
Them folk waste more food
than law allow.

908
00:46:17,367 --> 00:46:19,567
We could feed
the whole county.

909
00:46:21,500 --> 00:46:23,200
How are my boys?

910
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,200
Your boys miss you.

911
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:26,934
I sure miss them.

912
00:46:26,934 --> 00:46:29,166
Mm-hmm, Dr. Douglas
is worried

913
00:46:29,166 --> 00:46:31,633
about Willie doing
his four-foot
knee drops.

914
00:46:31,633 --> 00:46:33,500
Said he might hurt
his cartridges.

915
00:46:33,500 --> 00:46:36,200
You mean--
I know-- cartilage.
I looked it up.

916
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,133
But Willie took it
for "cartridges."

917
00:46:38,133 --> 00:46:41,000
And now he think
he got bullets
in his knees.

918
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,800
( both laugh )

919
00:46:44,100 --> 00:46:46,533
I hear they're headed
up to DC.

920
00:46:46,533 --> 00:46:48,834
Willie?

921
00:46:48,834 --> 00:46:50,800
Hmm-mm.

922
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,867
Dr. Douglas
and Dr. Brodus.

923
00:46:52,867 --> 00:46:54,834
For what?

924
00:46:54,834 --> 00:46:56,767
Can't tell by me.

925
00:46:56,767 --> 00:46:59,033
Douglas went up there,
what, last week?

926
00:46:59,033 --> 00:47:01,066
Brodus rushed off today.

927
00:47:01,066 --> 00:47:03,567
Wha-- to Washington?

928
00:47:23,100 --> 00:47:25,100
Sam.

929
00:47:25,100 --> 00:47:26,567
How was your trip?

930
00:47:26,567 --> 00:47:29,333
Well, first the bus,
then the train--

931
00:47:29,333 --> 00:47:31,400
I don't know which was
more excruciating.

932
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,266
The ground
is still moving.

933
00:47:33,266 --> 00:47:36,900
That's just the way I felt.
So what do you think
of Washington?

934
00:47:36,900 --> 00:47:39,000
It's grand.

935
00:47:42,066 --> 00:47:44,667
We have been most
impressed with the work
you've been doing

936
00:47:44,667 --> 00:47:46,567
in Tuskegee, Dr. Brodus.
Oh yes.

937
00:47:46,567 --> 00:47:49,200
Davis, take
the doctor's bag.
Good work.

938
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,200
Your syphilis
treatment program
was a marvel.

939
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,066
Thank you.
It's a pity
the money dried up.

940
00:47:53,066 --> 00:47:55,166
Not a pity.
It's a shame.

941
00:47:55,166 --> 00:47:57,000
I'd call it a crime.

942
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,700
But we may have
a solution--
a new study,

943
00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:01,900
which is why
we asked you up here,

944
00:48:01,900 --> 00:48:04,700
besides wanting
of course to meet you
in person.

945
00:48:04,700 --> 00:48:06,700
Would you like
a cool drink,
Dr. Brodus?

946
00:48:06,700 --> 00:48:09,934
You had a long trip.
We've got some soda
in the office here.

947
00:48:09,934 --> 00:48:11,467
Sure, thank you.

948
00:48:11,467 --> 00:48:14,133
Are you aware of the Oslo
experiment, Dr. Brodus?

949
00:48:14,133 --> 00:48:16,100
Oslo? No.

950
00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:18,700
The venereal disease clinic
in Oslo, Norway,

951
00:48:18,700 --> 00:48:21,033
published a very
interesting report.

952
00:48:21,033 --> 00:48:24,433
Now they examined
several hundred men
with syphilis

953
00:48:24,433 --> 00:48:26,800
and they came up
with fascinating data.

954
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,033
For example,

955
00:48:28,033 --> 00:48:31,433
how many men died
with neurological
impairment

956
00:48:31,433 --> 00:48:33,500
as compared
to cardiovascular--

957
00:48:33,500 --> 00:48:35,000
fascinating.

958
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:36,500
Doctor, please, here.

959
00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:38,266
Thank you.

960
00:48:38,266 --> 00:48:40,433
Here's the report.

961
00:48:40,433 --> 00:48:42,433
Take a look at it
yourself.

962
00:48:42,433 --> 00:48:44,967
There's an English
précis in the back.

963
00:48:44,967 --> 00:48:47,633
Coca-Cola,

964
00:48:47,633 --> 00:48:50,900
root beer, orange Crush,
sarsaparilla?

965
00:48:50,900 --> 00:48:52,967
Whatever.

966
00:48:52,967 --> 00:48:54,900
I believe,
Dr. Brodus,

967
00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:56,900
that we have
in Macon County

968
00:48:56,900 --> 00:48:59,367
an extraordinary
opportunity.

969
00:48:59,367 --> 00:49:01,166
They studied
only white people.

970
00:49:01,166 --> 00:49:03,166
We believe
the Negro people

971
00:49:03,166 --> 00:49:05,133
deserve the same chance
to be studied.

972
00:49:05,133 --> 00:49:06,700
Studied?

973
00:49:06,700 --> 00:49:08,700
No, we need money
for treatment.

974
00:49:08,700 --> 00:49:10,467
We can get money
for this.

975
00:49:10,467 --> 00:49:13,233
The federal government
will pick up the whole tab--

976
00:49:13,233 --> 00:49:16,300
not of course
the 1400 patients that
we've already been treating.

977
00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:19,667
But we can study
400 men with syphilis,

978
00:49:19,667 --> 00:49:22,900
200 non-contagious
as a control group.

979
00:49:22,900 --> 00:49:25,033
No more depending
on outsiders.

980
00:49:25,033 --> 00:49:26,567
Root beer
all right?

981
00:49:26,567 --> 00:49:28,200
Fine, thank you.

982
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,100
We need your help.

983
00:49:31,266 --> 00:49:33,400
We need Tuskegee.

984
00:49:36,166 --> 00:49:39,233
Now you seem skeptical.

985
00:49:39,233 --> 00:49:40,967
No.

986
00:49:40,967 --> 00:49:43,166
Well...
( chuckles )

987
00:49:43,166 --> 00:49:44,800
maybe a little.

988
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,500
Sam, this is for real.

989
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:50,867
It's important to know
whether the Negro

990
00:49:50,867 --> 00:49:53,767
reacts to syphilis
the same way as
the white man.

991
00:49:55,467 --> 00:49:59,867
Well, suppose that race
doesn't make a difference

992
00:49:59,867 --> 00:50:03,767
and that the Negro
reacts the same to syphilis
as the white man?

993
00:50:03,767 --> 00:50:06,667
Well, we'll want
to know that too,
wouldn't we?

994
00:50:06,667 --> 00:50:09,900
This is
science, after all.
We want the truth.

995
00:50:09,900 --> 00:50:11,900
Regardless of race,
creed or color.

996
00:50:11,900 --> 00:50:14,700
The stamping out
of disease--

997
00:50:14,700 --> 00:50:17,000
that's what this office
is dedicated to,

998
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,700
for all the people,
Dr. Brodus, all of them.

999
00:50:20,700 --> 00:50:23,700
And you want to repeat
the Norwegian study,

1000
00:50:23,700 --> 00:50:27,367
except with
the Negro male?

1001
00:50:27,367 --> 00:50:29,600
That's right.
Now we have additional--

1002
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:33,567
But it says here
Oslo was done between
1891 and 1910.

1003
00:50:33,567 --> 00:50:36,433
That means there was
no treatment then.

1004
00:50:36,433 --> 00:50:38,567
These men were untreated.

1005
00:50:38,567 --> 00:50:41,400
They studied untreated men
with syphilis.

1006
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,533
Yes, that's right.

1007
00:50:51,633 --> 00:50:54,066
No treatment?

1008
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,934
How could we do that?

1009
00:51:00,934 --> 00:51:03,533
The only way to get
a pure result.

1010
00:51:03,533 --> 00:51:06,533
Uncontaminated by drugs
or other medicine.

1011
00:51:06,533 --> 00:51:09,934
That's the beauty of it.

1012
00:51:13,266 --> 00:51:15,600
The beauty of it?
The beauty of it?

1013
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,633
I'm a doctor,
for God's sakes,
and so are you.

1014
00:51:17,633 --> 00:51:19,767
Our patients come
before anything else.

1015
00:51:19,767 --> 00:51:21,600
Do you think
I don't know that, Sam?

1016
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,266
I've been agonizing
over this.

1017
00:51:23,266 --> 00:51:25,233
First, do no harm.

1018
00:51:25,233 --> 00:51:27,033
We're not talking
forever here.

1019
00:51:27,033 --> 00:51:28,967
Six months, maybe a year
to get the facts,

1020
00:51:28,967 --> 00:51:31,400
then we let the facts
speak for themselves.

1021
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,166
This study will make
medical history.

1022
00:51:34,166 --> 00:51:36,200
It will wipe out
centuries of ignorance

1023
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,033
about the mechanism
of disease being
related to race.

1024
00:51:39,033 --> 00:51:41,533
If we do this right,
I tell you,

1025
00:51:41,533 --> 00:51:43,767
we will get the money
for treatment,

1026
00:51:43,767 --> 00:51:46,333
federal money.
Do you really
believe that?

1027
00:51:46,333 --> 00:51:48,233
Sam,

1028
00:51:48,233 --> 00:51:51,300
this is more than
just an opportunity

1029
00:51:51,300 --> 00:51:53,834
to keep our project
alive.

1030
00:51:53,834 --> 00:51:55,767
Think of it.

1031
00:51:55,767 --> 00:51:57,767
We will be
federally financed.

1032
00:51:57,767 --> 00:51:59,567
We'll have momentum.
You know what it's like

1033
00:51:59,567 --> 00:52:02,066
with federal programs
once they get started--
you can't stop them.

1034
00:52:02,066 --> 00:52:05,433
And you can build
Tuskegee into a major
research center

1035
00:52:05,433 --> 00:52:09,233
and finally prove what
Negro nurses and doctors
are capable of.

1036
00:52:09,233 --> 00:52:12,734
Now think of what good
you could do

1037
00:52:12,734 --> 00:52:14,867
with a program
like that.

1038
00:52:20,100 --> 00:52:22,166
We've already run out
of medicine.

1039
00:52:22,166 --> 00:52:24,667
Our patients aren't
being treated anyway.

1040
00:52:24,667 --> 00:52:28,567
This study is the only
chance we have.

1041
00:52:28,567 --> 00:52:31,033
And the men
would be studied

1042
00:52:31,033 --> 00:52:32,934
the same as at Oslo?

1043
00:52:32,934 --> 00:52:35,600
Exactly the same--
periodic examinations,

1044
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,467
X-rays, bloodwork.

1045
00:52:37,467 --> 00:52:40,567
We do a spinal tap
to check for neurologic
syphilis.

1046
00:52:40,567 --> 00:52:42,734
We give them the works,
the very best we have.

1047
00:52:42,734 --> 00:52:46,100
But this is the only way
the results can be pure.

1048
00:52:47,734 --> 00:52:50,633
And what would
the study be called?

1049
00:52:50,633 --> 00:52:53,200
Exactly what it is--

1050
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,100
"The Study
of Untreated Syphilis
in the Negro Male."

1051
00:52:57,834 --> 00:52:59,734
"The Tuskegee Study

1052
00:52:59,734 --> 00:53:02,767
of Untreated Syphilis
in the Negro Male."

1053
00:53:04,100 --> 00:53:05,400
Fine.

1054
00:53:08,066 --> 00:53:09,633
( sighs )

1055
00:53:12,633 --> 00:53:16,066
This will bring us back
to treatment, Sam,
you'll see.

1056
00:53:16,066 --> 00:53:18,200
Sir.

1057
00:53:22,767 --> 00:53:24,834
Hey, Janice.

1058
00:53:24,834 --> 00:53:27,967
You got the money.
Shh.

1059
00:53:27,967 --> 00:53:30,100
Honey, you know better
than to run in this ward.

1060
00:53:30,100 --> 00:53:32,100
That's all right,
Nurse Parsons.

1061
00:53:32,100 --> 00:53:34,967
Ask them for the results
as quickly as possible.

1062
00:53:34,967 --> 00:53:36,333
Okay.
Thank you.

1063
00:53:36,333 --> 00:53:38,767
You got the money.
You can start back
at work next week.

1064
00:53:38,767 --> 00:53:40,633
Oh my. Oh my my.

1065
00:53:40,633 --> 00:53:42,767
You actually got
those white people
to listen.

1066
00:53:42,767 --> 00:53:44,834
Dr. Douglas will be back
from Washington next week,

1067
00:53:44,834 --> 00:53:47,500
so I want you
to be ready to help him
with whatever he needs.

1068
00:53:47,500 --> 00:53:49,500
Doctor, I was born ready.

1069
00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:51,600
Now...

1070
00:53:52,500 --> 00:53:54,300
about the program--

1071
00:53:54,300 --> 00:53:56,800
I can't wait
to get started.
We'll be just studying them.

1072
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,066
I've been studying.
I know all about studying.

1073
00:53:59,066 --> 00:54:01,567
We've been treating them.

1074
00:54:01,567 --> 00:54:04,900
We'll just be
studying them.

1075
00:54:04,900 --> 00:54:06,600
No treatment?

1076
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:08,934
Not for syphilis.
Oh.

1077
00:54:08,934 --> 00:54:11,233
Why?

1078
00:54:11,233 --> 00:54:13,567
This study will bring
the money for treatment

1079
00:54:13,567 --> 00:54:17,400
in about six months
to a year.

1080
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,166
Well, what do
we tell the men?
What do we do?

1081
00:54:20,166 --> 00:54:21,900
Nothing.

1082
00:54:21,900 --> 00:54:23,867
I don't understand.

1083
00:54:23,867 --> 00:54:25,867
We've been giving them
the mercury rubs

1084
00:54:25,867 --> 00:54:27,633
and we just
don't do that?

1085
00:54:27,633 --> 00:54:30,133
Well, we'll continue
with the rubs,

1086
00:54:30,133 --> 00:54:33,600
but we'll be using liniment
instead of mercury.

1087
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:35,033
They won't know
the difference.

1088
00:54:35,033 --> 00:54:38,266
And with
the additional money,

1089
00:54:38,266 --> 00:54:40,467
we'll give them
aspirin

1090
00:54:40,467 --> 00:54:42,834
and tonic
and vitamins--

1091
00:54:42,834 --> 00:54:45,333
things they've never
had before.

1092
00:54:45,333 --> 00:54:48,433
I guarantee you,
they'll feel much
much better.

1093
00:54:48,433 --> 00:54:50,867
Until they don't.

1094
00:54:50,867 --> 00:54:52,934
I don't think
you heard me.

1095
00:54:52,934 --> 00:54:55,867
It won't be forever.

1096
00:54:57,834 --> 00:55:00,533
Just six months?

1097
00:55:00,533 --> 00:55:02,033
Or a year.

1098
00:55:02,033 --> 00:55:05,100
And they'd
be first in line
for the treatment?

1099
00:55:05,100 --> 00:55:07,767
I promise you.

1100
00:55:07,767 --> 00:55:09,700
All right,
young fellow,

1101
00:55:09,700 --> 00:55:12,367
this is gonna kill
the germs that are
making you sick.

1102
00:55:12,367 --> 00:55:14,300
Do you believe me?

1103
00:55:14,300 --> 00:55:16,400
Well, you'd better
believe me.

1104
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,367
I'm the doctor.

1105
00:55:18,367 --> 00:55:20,367
Right, Nurse Evers?

1106
00:55:20,367 --> 00:55:22,767
Yes, Doctor.

1107
00:55:22,767 --> 00:55:25,700
And the doctor knows,
doesn't he?

1108
00:55:25,700 --> 00:55:28,133
Yes, he does.

1109
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:30,934
And he cares.

1110
00:55:30,934 --> 00:55:33,233
Oh, yes.

1111
00:55:37,467 --> 00:55:39,633
So you'd better
believe me

1112
00:55:39,633 --> 00:55:41,533
when I tell you

1113
00:55:41,533 --> 00:55:44,000
that everything's
gonna be all right.

1114
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:45,867
Right, Nurse?

1115
00:55:45,867 --> 00:55:48,400
Right, Doctor.

1116
00:55:51,700 --> 00:55:54,066
What are you doing up
this time of night?

1117
00:55:54,066 --> 00:55:57,367
Remember that job I got
offered in Birmingham--

1118
00:55:57,367 --> 00:55:59,300
nursing supervisor?

1119
00:55:59,300 --> 00:56:01,467
That was
a whole year ago.

1120
00:56:01,467 --> 00:56:04,166
Well, I'm writing to see
if it's still open.

1121
00:56:04,166 --> 00:56:07,233
Why are you doing that?

1122
00:56:07,233 --> 00:56:11,500
You're going back to work
right back here.

1123
00:56:11,500 --> 00:56:13,800
I don't know
if I want to.

1124
00:56:14,834 --> 00:56:18,066
You don't know
if you want to?

1125
00:56:18,066 --> 00:56:20,900
Eunice, what's the matter?

1126
00:56:20,900 --> 00:56:22,533
What's wrong?

1127
00:56:22,533 --> 00:56:25,133
It's as new program, Papa.
They're not gonna
treat the men.

1128
00:56:26,500 --> 00:56:28,934
Not for a while anyway,
at least six months,

1129
00:56:28,934 --> 00:56:31,667
and then they'll start back
when they get more money.

1130
00:56:31,667 --> 00:56:33,433
So?

1131
00:56:33,433 --> 00:56:35,333
They're not gonna treat
the men, Papa.

1132
00:56:35,333 --> 00:56:37,266
Well, six months
ain't all that long.

1133
00:56:37,266 --> 00:56:39,867
You jump down, turn around,
six months have been gone.

1134
00:56:39,867 --> 00:56:42,767
Besides, they're the doctors,
ain't they?

1135
00:56:42,767 --> 00:56:46,300
You think you know
better than the doctors?
I think this is different.

1136
00:56:46,300 --> 00:56:48,266
Yes, this is different.

1137
00:56:48,266 --> 00:56:50,633
You're not gonna be cleaning
them toilets anymore.

1138
00:56:50,633 --> 00:56:53,433
I seen how it done
took all the pride
right out of you.

1139
00:56:53,433 --> 00:56:56,300
There are worse things
than cleaning toilets, Papa!

1140
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:02,166
Eunice.

1141
00:57:03,767 --> 00:57:08,133
Each of us has got
to bear his burden
in the heat of the day.

1142
00:57:08,133 --> 00:57:10,166
You got your burden.

1143
00:57:10,166 --> 00:57:12,133
I got mine.

1144
00:57:12,133 --> 00:57:15,834
We do what the Lord
gives us to do.

1145
00:57:38,700 --> 00:57:41,166
( band playing )

1146
00:57:47,867 --> 00:57:50,000
( crowd exclaims )

1147
00:57:57,300 --> 00:57:59,800
Crowd:
Oh yeah! Oh yeah!

1148
00:58:10,734 --> 00:58:13,333
( song ends )
( cheering and applause )

1149
00:58:28,433 --> 00:58:31,200
Caleb:
How are y'all doing?

1150
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,333
Let's go on inside.

1151
00:58:40,033 --> 00:58:42,100
Men:
All right now, we're here.
All right.

1152
00:58:42,100 --> 00:58:44,500
Here we are.
( chattering )

1153
00:58:44,500 --> 00:58:46,533
Ben:
We did it.

1154
00:58:46,533 --> 00:58:49,233
Hey, Caleb,
why don't you and Miss Evers
have a seat right here?

1155
00:58:49,233 --> 00:58:51,834
I'll go over here
and get some shine,
be on back, all right?

1156
00:58:51,834 --> 00:58:53,734
Okay, sit down,
Miss Evers.

1157
00:58:53,734 --> 00:58:55,367
I see the joint,
but where's the juke?

1158
00:58:55,367 --> 00:58:57,467
Oh, the band is likely
taking a break.

1159
00:58:57,467 --> 00:58:59,600
It'll hot up
in a minute.

1160
00:59:02,100 --> 00:59:04,567
I see you got trouble
on your mind.

1161
00:59:04,567 --> 00:59:06,233
Man:
Give me five counts.

1162
00:59:06,233 --> 00:59:08,633
You a mind-reader,
Caleb?

1163
00:59:08,633 --> 00:59:10,734
Don't take a whole lot
of reading with you.

1164
00:59:10,734 --> 00:59:12,467
It's written
all over your face.

1165
00:59:12,467 --> 00:59:14,834
( quiet music playing )

1166
00:59:14,834 --> 00:59:17,533
I'm thinking
about leaving here.

1167
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:25,433
Don't you want to know why,
or where, or when even?

1168
00:59:26,834 --> 00:59:29,600
I figured
you want to tell me--
you'll tell me.

1169
00:59:31,700 --> 00:59:33,333
There's a supervisor job
up in Birmingham.

1170
00:59:33,333 --> 00:59:35,500
Mm-hmm.
I'm thinking
about taking it.

1171
00:59:35,500 --> 00:59:39,000
It's a step
up the ladder for me.

1172
00:59:44,433 --> 00:59:46,266
Cat got your tongue,
Caleb?

1173
00:59:46,266 --> 00:59:48,700
That ain't your
characteristic.

1174
00:59:48,700 --> 00:59:51,633
It's just that
we done got used to
having you back with us.

1175
00:59:51,633 --> 00:59:54,367
I was away for months,
and y'all did just fine.

1176
00:59:54,367 --> 00:59:55,900
But you was around.

1177
00:59:55,900 --> 00:59:58,867
We could count
on you if need be,

1178
00:59:58,867 --> 01:00:00,667
know where to find you.

1179
01:00:02,500 --> 01:00:04,066
You just don't
understand, huh?

1180
01:00:04,066 --> 01:00:06,567
I do. I do, Caleb.
I just--

1181
01:00:06,567 --> 01:00:10,033
some things you just
can't keep on doing,
on account of

1182
01:00:10,033 --> 01:00:12,500
you might get
twisted up in your mind.

1183
01:00:12,500 --> 01:00:14,533
What things?

1184
01:00:20,367 --> 01:00:22,967
The men gonna drown
without you.

1185
01:00:28,333 --> 01:00:30,266
Hey.

1186
01:00:30,266 --> 01:00:32,266
Look here
what we got--

1187
01:00:32,266 --> 01:00:34,800
now this here is the best
shine in the county.

1188
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:37,533
If this don't clean out
bad blood, nothing will.

1189
01:00:37,533 --> 01:00:39,233
( men laugh )

1190
01:00:39,233 --> 01:00:41,667
Here's to all of us.
We did good tonight, boys.

1191
01:00:41,667 --> 01:00:44,633
Yes sir.
Miss Evers' Boys.
All right, all right.

1192
01:00:45,533 --> 01:00:47,567
Gillee!
( music stops )

1193
01:00:47,567 --> 01:00:49,433
Damn it, gillee!

1194
01:00:50,934 --> 01:00:53,533
Gillee gillee gillee.

1195
01:00:53,533 --> 01:00:56,867
All: Gillee gillee.
Woman: Ooh! Come on!

1196
01:00:56,867 --> 01:00:59,100
Gillee gillee gillee

1197
01:00:59,100 --> 01:01:00,600
gillee gillee...

1198
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:03,000
Man:
Come on, gillee gillee.

1199
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:05,700
I see you.
Come on.

1200
01:01:05,700 --> 01:01:08,133
Do it.
Damn it. Ooh!

1201
01:01:08,133 --> 01:01:11,934
Gillee, come on,
come on, gillee.

1202
01:01:11,934 --> 01:01:14,300
( laughing )

1203
01:01:21,266 --> 01:01:24,266
Pick it up,
come on, hey hey hey!

1204
01:01:24,266 --> 01:01:26,367
Ya-hey!

1205
01:01:29,533 --> 01:01:31,567
Dance it out,
Willie.

1206
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:39,300
Come on.
Come on, Miss Evers.

1207
01:01:39,300 --> 01:01:40,800
Go. Go, Eunice.

1208
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:42,734
( all encouraging )

1209
01:01:42,734 --> 01:01:45,233
Caleb:
Get on up, yeah.

1210
01:01:45,233 --> 01:01:48,233
Willie: Gillee gillee.
Caleb: There you go.

1211
01:01:48,233 --> 01:01:52,166
Oh, look out now.
There she goes.

1212
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:55,233
Yeah yeah.

1213
01:01:55,233 --> 01:01:57,867
Come on, work it.

1214
01:01:57,867 --> 01:02:00,000
Yeah.

1215
01:02:02,300 --> 01:02:05,433
Work it, work it.

1216
01:02:12,867 --> 01:02:14,667
Oh, yeah.

1217
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:21,033
Caleb: Ooh.

1218
01:02:35,133 --> 01:02:37,533
( insects chirping )

1219
01:02:55,266 --> 01:02:58,200
Eunice:
I knew I wasn't
going anywhere.

1220
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:00,900
I knew that night

1221
01:03:00,900 --> 01:03:02,934
that I would never leave.

1222
01:03:02,934 --> 01:03:07,867
So we picked out 412 men
and started over.

1223
01:03:07,867 --> 01:03:11,834
This time around
the government gave us
all the money we needed.

1224
01:03:11,834 --> 01:03:14,300
First we'll do some
baseline bloodwork

1225
01:03:14,300 --> 01:03:16,667
to screen out contagion.

1226
01:03:16,667 --> 01:03:18,667
Only the men with nothing
but syphilis

1227
01:03:18,667 --> 01:03:20,433
will be considered
for this study.

1228
01:03:20,433 --> 01:03:22,233
Then we'll follow up
with spinal taps.

1229
01:03:22,233 --> 01:03:25,100
There may be a problem there.
A lot of men don't know
what a spinal tap is,

1230
01:03:25,100 --> 01:03:27,700
and if they think
it's not treatment,
they won't come in.

1231
01:03:27,700 --> 01:03:29,700
Well, they have
to come in.

1232
01:03:29,700 --> 01:03:32,333
We have to make them believe
that nothing has changed.

1233
01:03:32,333 --> 01:03:34,567
Are there any ideas?

1234
01:03:36,233 --> 01:03:38,967
What about you, Nurse Evers?
You always seem to have
the answer.

1235
01:03:38,967 --> 01:03:41,233
Oh, I don't
even know, Doctor.

1236
01:03:41,233 --> 01:03:44,367
Well, Nurse Evers,
I'm relying on you.

1237
01:03:44,367 --> 01:03:46,467
If this program
is to be a success,

1238
01:03:46,467 --> 01:03:48,433
we must all put
our best foot forward.

1239
01:03:48,433 --> 01:03:49,600
Back shots.

1240
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:51,133
What's that?

1241
01:03:51,133 --> 01:03:53,233
Tell them it's back shots.
They know about shots.

1242
01:03:53,233 --> 01:03:55,600
We've given them injections.
If we call them back shots,

1243
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:58,800
they'll think it's part
of the treatment.

1244
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:02,200
Okay, so we'll give them
back shots.

1245
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:04,867
( playing tune
on harmonica )

1246
01:04:07,500 --> 01:04:09,800
I don't want you
to worry, Willie.

1247
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:12,100
Nurse Evers is here
to take care of you.

1248
01:04:12,100 --> 01:04:14,133
Eunice: Mm-hmm.
It's very important

1249
01:04:14,133 --> 01:04:15,633
that you don't move,

1250
01:04:15,633 --> 01:04:18,233
especially once the needle
has entered the spinal canal.

1251
01:04:18,233 --> 01:04:19,367
My what?

1252
01:04:19,367 --> 01:04:21,900
It's a part of your back.
Don't fret.

1253
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:25,967
Okay, now you mustn't
move then,

1254
01:04:25,967 --> 01:04:29,433
because the needle
could damage the nerves
that go into your legs.

1255
01:04:29,433 --> 01:04:31,467
Oh no, I can't do it.
See, I need my legs, Miss Evers.

1256
01:04:31,467 --> 01:04:33,934
No no, Willie.
No, Miss Evers, I need
my legs to dance on.

1257
01:04:33,934 --> 01:04:36,934
I can't do this.
That's why it's important
for you to lay still now.

1258
01:04:36,934 --> 01:04:39,934
You'll be up
and hopping around in no time.
Willie, lay down, come on.

1259
01:04:39,934 --> 01:04:42,100
It's gonna be okay,
Willie.
Just don't move.

1260
01:04:42,100 --> 01:04:45,500
I'll be right here with you.
Come on, relax.

1261
01:04:45,500 --> 01:04:48,500
Here's to clean you up
a little bit.

1262
01:04:48,500 --> 01:04:51,400
Listen to that music.
That is so sweet.

1263
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:53,367
It must be Hodman playing.
( chuckles )

1264
01:04:53,367 --> 01:04:56,300
You know, Dr. Douglas,
we got the best
harmonica player

1265
01:04:56,300 --> 01:04:58,233
in the South
right here in Alabama.

1266
01:04:58,233 --> 01:05:00,567
Now you don't say.
Mm-hmm.
Ain't that true?

1267
01:05:00,567 --> 01:05:03,734
Hey, how come
that needle's so big?

1268
01:05:03,734 --> 01:05:06,800
I ain't never seen no needle
that color, Miss Evers.

1269
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,400
That's a gold needle.
Lay down.
It's real gold?

1270
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,133
Yeah.

1271
01:05:11,133 --> 01:05:12,467
It's real gold,
Willie.

1272
01:05:12,467 --> 01:05:14,500
Ain't nothing too good
for the colored.

1273
01:05:14,500 --> 01:05:16,166
Don't move, Willie.

1274
01:05:17,734 --> 01:05:19,767
Okay, now take
a deep breath.

1275
01:05:19,767 --> 01:05:22,233
( screams )
( music stops )

1276
01:05:23,300 --> 01:05:25,667
Go, gillee gillee
gillee gillee.

1277
01:05:25,667 --> 01:05:28,533
Go, gillee.
Step, turn, jump.
Yes, Willie, yes.

1278
01:05:28,533 --> 01:05:30,600
Leap.

1279
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:32,900
( screams )

1280
01:05:35,300 --> 01:05:38,100
Very important
to stay still, Willie.

1281
01:05:38,100 --> 01:05:42,000
Willie.
( screams )

1282
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:43,767
( grunts )

1283
01:05:46,367 --> 01:05:48,900
( Willie screams )

1284
01:05:50,900 --> 01:05:52,166
All right,
we got it.

1285
01:05:52,166 --> 01:05:54,533
It's okay.
That's okay.

1286
01:05:54,533 --> 01:05:58,033
Look, there.
You did good.

1287
01:05:58,033 --> 01:06:01,400
Yes, come on, breathe.
Come on, it's over.

1288
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:03,367
It's over.

1289
01:06:03,367 --> 01:06:05,700
You're a brave man,
Willie Johnson.

1290
01:06:05,700 --> 01:06:07,734
You're a champ,
you know that?

1291
01:06:07,734 --> 01:06:09,667
You're a real champ.

1292
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:13,900
Next.

1293
01:06:16,767 --> 01:06:18,734
I guess I scared
them all away.

1294
01:06:18,734 --> 01:06:22,700
I guess you're gonna
have to round them
all up again, huh?

1295
01:06:22,700 --> 01:06:24,834
I guess I do.

1296
01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:28,166
♪ ♪

1297
01:06:28,166 --> 01:06:31,900
♪ Steal away ♪

1298
01:06:31,900 --> 01:06:34,867
♪ Steal away ♪

1299
01:06:34,867 --> 01:06:39,767
♪ To Jesus ♪

1300
01:06:39,767 --> 01:06:43,066
♪ Steal away... ♪

1301
01:06:50,266 --> 01:06:52,367
My granddaddy
was a slave

1302
01:06:52,367 --> 01:06:54,800
and they buried him
just like that.

1303
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:56,934
Now slaves are free,
and we are still

1304
01:06:56,934 --> 01:06:59,033
burying them in bags.

1305
01:07:01,967 --> 01:07:04,433
How are we gonna
bring them back, Nurse?

1306
01:07:04,433 --> 01:07:06,600
I know they're scared
and-- and--

1307
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:08,700
they already have
enough pain in their lives,

1308
01:07:08,700 --> 01:07:12,400
but we have to get them
to see that it's for
their own good.

1309
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:14,767
Maybe if we trusted enough
to tell the truth.

1310
01:07:14,767 --> 01:07:16,867
We made a decision,
a wise decision.

1311
01:07:16,867 --> 01:07:18,867
Now they will get
treatment.

1312
01:07:18,867 --> 01:07:21,467
( laughs )
But first we have
to get them back.

1313
01:07:21,467 --> 01:07:24,000
And how are we
gonna do that?

1314
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:26,667
Oh, come on now,
you always have
good ideas.

1315
01:07:26,667 --> 01:07:28,266
Sometimes I don't.

1316
01:07:28,266 --> 01:07:32,200
Woman:
♪ Steal away home ♪

1317
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:35,367
♪ I ain't got long... ♪

1318
01:07:35,367 --> 01:07:37,066
( women sobbing )

1319
01:07:37,066 --> 01:07:40,900
♪ To stay ♪

1320
01:07:40,900 --> 01:07:43,033
♪ Here. ♪

1321
01:07:43,033 --> 01:07:44,633
Money.

1322
01:07:44,633 --> 01:07:46,633
What about money?

1323
01:07:46,633 --> 01:07:48,533
Give them each
some money--

1324
01:07:48,533 --> 01:07:50,600
$50.

1325
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:52,100
Bribe them back?

1326
01:07:52,100 --> 01:07:54,633
It's life insurance,

1327
01:07:54,633 --> 01:07:57,000
so they can be buried
in a coffin

1328
01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:58,934
instead of a feed bag.

1329
01:08:03,967 --> 01:08:06,367
I can always count
on you, can't I?

1330
01:08:10,166 --> 01:08:13,834
Eunice:
The burial money
got them back all right,

1331
01:08:13,834 --> 01:08:15,867
all but Caleb.

1332
01:08:15,867 --> 01:08:19,567
I thought sure he was gonna
move north, like he said.

1333
01:08:19,567 --> 01:08:22,100
All this belonged
to your brother?

1334
01:08:22,100 --> 01:08:24,100
Mm-hmm.

1335
01:08:24,100 --> 01:08:26,633
Owned it
free and clear too.

1336
01:08:28,867 --> 01:08:31,367
So are you still thinking
about leaving here?

1337
01:08:31,367 --> 01:08:33,066
( chuckles )

1338
01:08:33,066 --> 01:08:35,567
No, I ain't thinking
about leaving here no more.

1339
01:08:35,567 --> 01:08:38,166
Well, you can't leave

1340
01:08:38,166 --> 01:08:40,166
until you finish
your treatment.

1341
01:08:40,166 --> 01:08:42,467
I ain't thinking about
no treatment either.

1342
01:08:42,467 --> 01:08:45,834
Your family is here,
I guess.

1343
01:08:47,266 --> 01:08:49,834
I ain't thinking about
my family neither.

1344
01:08:53,066 --> 01:08:56,133
I'm thinking about
you and me,

1345
01:08:56,133 --> 01:08:58,633
Caleb and Eunice.

1346
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,066
Mm, I like that name--
Eunice.

1347
01:09:02,066 --> 01:09:03,900
I don't.

1348
01:09:03,900 --> 01:09:05,333
Never did.

1349
01:09:05,333 --> 01:09:08,433
It's got
a "nice" in it.

1350
01:09:09,300 --> 01:09:11,300
Eunice--

1351
01:09:11,300 --> 01:09:13,100
you-nice.

1352
01:09:14,667 --> 01:09:17,567
You nice, Eunice.

1353
01:09:17,567 --> 01:09:19,600
Real nice.

1354
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:20,867
Wait.

1355
01:09:22,033 --> 01:09:23,934
Wait, now you told me
I was all right,

1356
01:09:23,934 --> 01:09:25,533
wasn't nothing
I couldn't do.

1357
01:09:25,533 --> 01:09:27,834
You are.

1358
01:09:27,834 --> 01:09:30,700
You didn't just tell me that
'cause of something you don't
want me to know, did you?

1359
01:09:30,700 --> 01:09:32,834
No, it's not you.

1360
01:09:37,433 --> 01:09:39,433
Look here, Eunice,
we can't keep teasing

1361
01:09:39,433 --> 01:09:40,934
like we're still
in school now.

1362
01:09:40,934 --> 01:09:43,300
If you don't want me,
I can handle it.

1363
01:09:43,300 --> 01:09:45,300
I want you, Caleb.

1364
01:09:45,300 --> 01:09:47,266
You know that.

1365
01:09:47,266 --> 01:09:50,166
I'm on a different road
is all.

1366
01:09:50,166 --> 01:09:53,734
Ain't no road we can't
take together, woman.

1367
01:09:53,734 --> 01:09:56,867
See, I can't be
with you

1368
01:09:56,867 --> 01:09:59,233
and have a lie
in my heart.

1369
01:10:04,700 --> 01:10:06,500
What lie?

1370
01:10:09,433 --> 01:10:11,133
Eunice.

1371
01:10:14,300 --> 01:10:16,867
Come on now.

1372
01:10:16,867 --> 01:10:19,300
Tell me what lie.

1373
01:10:19,300 --> 01:10:21,834
I-- I can't.

1374
01:10:22,700 --> 01:10:24,834
You can't?

1375
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:30,533
That's it? That's all
you got to say-- you can't?

1376
01:10:32,233 --> 01:10:35,834
You fixing to throw us away
for something you can't
even tell me?

1377
01:10:37,734 --> 01:10:40,633
Caleb, I care about you.

1378
01:10:43,066 --> 01:10:45,900
No, when you care
about somebody,

1379
01:10:45,900 --> 01:10:49,000
you're out in the open
with them.

1380
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:50,967
Now you call it
something else.

1381
01:10:50,967 --> 01:10:53,333
I don't know what else
to call it.

1382
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:56,800
It sound like you're
calling it goodbye.

1383
01:10:58,266 --> 01:11:00,233
I'm sorry.

1384
01:11:01,500 --> 01:11:03,600
You're sorry.

1385
01:11:05,867 --> 01:11:09,133
First you can't,
now you're sorry.

1386
01:11:12,100 --> 01:11:14,100
You're sorry

1387
01:11:14,100 --> 01:11:16,867
because you can't.

1388
01:11:16,867 --> 01:11:19,266
Two words.

1389
01:11:19,266 --> 01:11:22,133
That's all we are
to you-- two words?

1390
01:11:22,133 --> 01:11:24,700
I can't tell you
any more.

1391
01:11:31,266 --> 01:11:34,600
Yeah well,

1392
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:37,200
I hope what
you're getting

1393
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:40,000
is better than
what you're giving up.

1394
01:11:51,100 --> 01:11:53,200
Eunice:
And the years went on.

1395
01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:55,667
They had said
that there would be

1396
01:11:55,667 --> 01:11:57,567
treatment in six months.

1397
01:11:57,567 --> 01:12:00,533
But the six months
became a year,

1398
01:12:00,533 --> 01:12:02,834
and a year became two,

1399
01:12:02,834 --> 01:12:04,767
and then six,

1400
01:12:04,767 --> 01:12:07,066
and we were
just waiting.

1401
01:12:07,066 --> 01:12:10,200
And all that time,
Miss Evers,

1402
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:12,600
you kept the secret?

1403
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:15,967
You never told any of the men
what was being done to them?

1404
01:12:15,967 --> 01:12:19,200
Oh, I wanted
to tell them.
I surely did.

1405
01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:21,233
I just wanted
to tell them straight out,

1406
01:12:21,233 --> 01:12:24,834
"You're not being treated,
but you have to stick with it,

1407
01:12:24,834 --> 01:12:27,667
so when the money
comes through, you'll be
the first in line."

1408
01:12:27,667 --> 01:12:31,233
But they said that the men
wouldn't understand

1409
01:12:31,233 --> 01:12:33,033
and then they'd be lost
to the program forever,

1410
01:12:33,033 --> 01:12:35,166
and none of us
wanted that, Senator.

1411
01:12:35,166 --> 01:12:38,900
So we-- we rubbed them

1412
01:12:38,900 --> 01:12:41,533
with liniment
instead of the mercury.

1413
01:12:41,533 --> 01:12:44,667
We gave them aspirins

1414
01:12:44,667 --> 01:12:46,734
and vitamins
and everything.

1415
01:12:46,734 --> 01:12:50,300
And, you know,

1416
01:12:50,300 --> 01:12:53,066
before you know it,
how time passes.

1417
01:12:53,066 --> 01:12:55,967
It was--
10 years had passed

1418
01:12:55,967 --> 01:12:58,633
and the men just
hadn't had treatment.

1419
01:12:58,633 --> 01:13:02,333
But we kept on
studying them.

1420
01:13:02,333 --> 01:13:04,367
But, Miss Evers,
isn't it true

1421
01:13:04,367 --> 01:13:06,400
that as early as 1942,

1422
01:13:06,400 --> 01:13:08,800
penicillin had become
widely available

1423
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:10,800
as an effective treatment
for syphilis.

1424
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:13,233
Now wasn't this made known
to you in the study?

1425
01:13:13,233 --> 01:13:15,967
Yes, we knew it.

1426
01:13:15,967 --> 01:13:18,367
But there were other
medical concerns, Senator.

1427
01:13:18,367 --> 01:13:20,300
Brodus:
You mix it with saline solution

1428
01:13:20,300 --> 01:13:22,400
and then you give it
by injection.

1429
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:24,400
Now tell the men

1430
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:26,333
that it stings.

1431
01:13:26,333 --> 01:13:28,333
Actually it hurts
like hell...

1432
01:13:28,333 --> 01:13:31,233
so maybe we should
just go ahead and tell
them the truth.

1433
01:13:31,233 --> 01:13:33,333
We do that
once in a while.

1434
01:13:33,333 --> 01:13:34,734
Looks like gold.

1435
01:13:34,734 --> 01:13:37,500
Well, it's more
precious than gold.
It saves lives.

1436
01:13:37,500 --> 01:13:41,200
Now I want to use this
for the blood poisoning
case first,

1437
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:42,700
then the pneumonia case,
and then--

1438
01:13:42,700 --> 01:13:45,767
When will our men
get it?

1439
01:13:45,767 --> 01:13:47,667
Doctor?

1440
01:13:49,300 --> 01:13:52,133
Well, we're
still studying that,
but with syphilis

1441
01:13:52,133 --> 01:13:54,300
there are potentially
some very dangerous
side effects.

1442
01:13:54,300 --> 01:13:55,467
But they'll get it?

1443
01:13:55,467 --> 01:13:58,000
We could mix this
with distilled water,

1444
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:00,233
but I prefer
saline solution.

1445
01:14:00,233 --> 01:14:02,633
Now there are
a million units
in each bottle,

1446
01:14:02,633 --> 01:14:05,934
which means we'll have
to work out the dosage
for each case.

1447
01:14:05,934 --> 01:14:07,433
Okay.

1448
01:14:07,433 --> 01:14:09,100
Thank you, Nurse.
Thank you.

1449
01:14:09,100 --> 01:14:11,100
Excuse me.

1450
01:14:11,100 --> 01:14:13,233
Doctor, could you
look at these, please?

1451
01:14:13,233 --> 01:14:15,066
♪ ♪

1452
01:14:15,066 --> 01:14:17,533
( cheering and applause )

1453
01:14:39,900 --> 01:14:43,133
Where's Caleb?
He ain't been to
the clinic all week.

1454
01:14:43,133 --> 01:14:47,133
Oh, you know Caleb now.
Sometimes-- he just
takes off sometimes.

1455
01:14:47,133 --> 01:14:50,233
He's gonna be here.
He'd better be.
We're going on soon.

1456
01:14:51,433 --> 01:14:53,333
Ow!

1457
01:14:53,333 --> 01:14:54,934
Oh oh man.

1458
01:14:54,934 --> 01:14:57,133
What's that?
Willie!

1459
01:14:57,133 --> 01:14:58,834
Willie, you all right?

1460
01:14:58,834 --> 01:15:01,033
Ben: What's wrong
with you, Willie?
What's wrong?

1461
01:15:01,033 --> 01:15:03,100
My legs, man, my legs.
What's wrong with them?

1462
01:15:03,100 --> 01:15:05,433
Oh oh man.

1463
01:15:05,433 --> 01:15:08,266
I'm sorry, Miss Evers.
I didn't mean to holler
out like that.

1464
01:15:08,266 --> 01:15:10,200
You're in pain,
it's okay to holler.

1465
01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:12,533
Oh man.
Just all of a sudden

1466
01:15:12,533 --> 01:15:15,133
my legs just
give way on me.

1467
01:15:15,133 --> 01:15:17,166
Willie, we've got
to have you.

1468
01:15:17,166 --> 01:15:19,233
I'm scared.
I'm scared, Miss Evers.

1469
01:15:19,233 --> 01:15:21,600
I'm losing it.
I'm losing it.
No no.

1470
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:23,600
I know I'm losing it.
Don't say that, Willie.

1471
01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:25,433
You the star
attraction, Willie.

1472
01:15:25,433 --> 01:15:28,100
Right, Willie.
See, if you lose it,
we all gonna lose.

1473
01:15:28,100 --> 01:15:30,567
You're okay, Willie.
It's going.
It's going!

1474
01:15:30,567 --> 01:15:32,700
No no, it's not.
Come on, Willie.
Shh shh.

1475
01:15:32,700 --> 01:15:35,567
You can't be
thinking like that.
Let me work on these legs.

1476
01:15:35,567 --> 01:15:38,433
Now what you do is,
you drink your quart
of that tea

1477
01:15:38,433 --> 01:15:40,934
at the beginning
of the month--
you'll be just fine.

1478
01:15:40,934 --> 01:15:43,633
You'll be double-fly
stepping in no time at all.
Yes, you will.

1479
01:15:43,633 --> 01:15:45,533
He needs
some new doctor.

1480
01:15:51,567 --> 01:15:53,567
What are you doing
in that costume?

1481
01:15:53,567 --> 01:15:56,100
Ain't no costume.
It's a uniform.

1482
01:15:56,100 --> 01:15:58,867
You joined
the army?

1483
01:16:00,567 --> 01:16:03,333
I figured it's my war
just like it is theirs.

1484
01:16:03,333 --> 01:16:05,400
I know what you're
thinking, Nurse.

1485
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:07,500
You want to know
how I got in

1486
01:16:07,500 --> 01:16:09,400
with bad blood, huh?

1487
01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:11,700
Got me one of them
penicillin shots.

1488
01:16:11,700 --> 01:16:14,600
You get one of them in you,
that Wassermann test don't
show nothing bad.

1489
01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:17,600
The army couldn't wait
to take a fine specimen
like me.

1490
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:20,300
You're just gonna
get yourself killed.

1491
01:16:20,300 --> 01:16:22,500
Well, at least I get
killed for something.

1492
01:16:22,500 --> 01:16:25,600
Agh!
That's what he needs--
one of them penicillin shots.

1493
01:16:25,600 --> 01:16:27,633
He's getting
the best of care.

1494
01:16:27,633 --> 01:16:30,367
( song ends )
( cheering and applause )

1495
01:16:30,367 --> 01:16:34,200
Yeah! Yeah!
That's right.

1496
01:16:34,200 --> 01:16:38,333
And now, from Macon County,
Miss Evers' Boys!

1497
01:16:38,333 --> 01:16:40,367
Willie:
That's us.
You hear me, Nurse?

1498
01:16:40,367 --> 01:16:42,467
The way you're talking
to her like that, Caleb,

1499
01:16:42,467 --> 01:16:44,734
what is wrong with you?
'Cause you got on
a uniform?

1500
01:16:44,734 --> 01:16:46,867
Miss Evers, you done
rubbed all the pain
out of me.

1501
01:16:46,867 --> 01:16:49,767
Ain't nothing standing
between me and my ticket
to the Cotton Club.

1502
01:16:49,767 --> 01:16:52,000
Hey, Caleb, are you
coming with us?

1503
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:54,367
It's what I'm here for.
All right.

1504
01:16:55,734 --> 01:16:58,000
( cheering and applause )

1505
01:17:01,133 --> 01:17:03,233
Watch yourself.

1506
01:17:37,066 --> 01:17:39,567
( screams )
( band stops playing )

1507
01:17:39,567 --> 01:17:41,967
Men:
That's all right.
That's all right.

1508
01:17:41,967 --> 01:17:44,033
Come on, Willie.
Come on.

1509
01:17:44,033 --> 01:17:46,633
( band resumes playing )

1510
01:17:49,166 --> 01:17:52,033
( stops playing )

1511
01:17:52,033 --> 01:17:54,133
( resumes )

1512
01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:01,233
They have to have
penicillin.

1513
01:18:01,233 --> 01:18:03,233
I'm afraid we can't
allow that.

1514
01:18:03,233 --> 01:18:04,734
Why not?

1515
01:18:04,734 --> 01:18:06,700
How long do these men
have to wait around?

1516
01:18:06,700 --> 01:18:08,767
First in line,
that's what you said.

1517
01:18:08,767 --> 01:18:11,100
That's what you told me.
That was the promise.

1518
01:18:11,100 --> 01:18:13,133
Now there's a drug
that can help and--

1519
01:18:13,133 --> 01:18:16,133
Penicillin cannot
undo the damage that's
already been done.

1520
01:18:16,133 --> 01:18:18,200
It could keep them
from getting worse.

1521
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:20,200
It may also kill them.

1522
01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:22,633
Penicillin?

1523
01:18:22,633 --> 01:18:24,900
Some chronic syphilitics

1524
01:18:24,900 --> 01:18:27,734
suffer a fatal allergic
reaction to penicillin.

1525
01:18:27,734 --> 01:18:31,133
It's called
the Herxheimer reaction.
Now that's been proven.

1526
01:18:31,133 --> 01:18:34,200
Washington's doing a study
right now to determine
the degree of risk.

1527
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:36,834
They're giving it
all over the county.

1528
01:18:36,834 --> 01:18:38,867
Caleb Humphries got it.
He's fine.

1529
01:18:38,867 --> 01:18:41,233
He's in the goddamn army!

1530
01:18:41,233 --> 01:18:43,533
Excuse my language.

1531
01:18:43,533 --> 01:18:45,200
Dr. Douglas:
Caleb was lucky.

1532
01:18:45,200 --> 01:18:47,433
Yes, penicillin
is very effective

1533
01:18:47,433 --> 01:18:48,900
in primary
and secondary cases,

1534
01:18:48,900 --> 01:18:51,133
but for those
who have entered
the tertiary stage,

1535
01:18:51,133 --> 01:18:53,533
like the men in our study,
it cannot cure

1536
01:18:53,533 --> 01:18:56,500
and it may also kill.
For those men,

1537
01:18:56,500 --> 01:18:58,433
the study needs to go
to the endpoint.

1538
01:18:58,433 --> 01:19:00,900
We already have
10 years of data.

1539
01:19:00,900 --> 01:19:02,500
10 years is not
the endpoint.

1540
01:19:02,500 --> 01:19:04,600
What is then?

1541
01:19:06,300 --> 01:19:08,233
We have to validate
our facts

1542
01:19:08,233 --> 01:19:10,300
through autopsy,
Nurse Evers.

1543
01:19:10,300 --> 01:19:12,667
That is the endpoint.

1544
01:19:12,667 --> 01:19:16,100
That will make it science,
not guesswork.

1545
01:19:16,100 --> 01:19:19,633
We-- we're gonna wait
for them to die?

1546
01:19:23,367 --> 01:19:26,433
Science is sometimes
a hard taskmaster,
Nurse Evers.

1547
01:19:26,433 --> 01:19:29,100
You think I like
not treating them? No.

1548
01:19:29,100 --> 01:19:32,266
But we have to finish
the study.

1549
01:19:32,266 --> 01:19:34,300
We have a chance
to make history here.

1550
01:19:34,300 --> 01:19:35,934
History?

1551
01:20:04,834 --> 01:20:06,967
Let me talk to her.

1552
01:20:32,500 --> 01:20:35,767
Once when I was doing
my residency

1553
01:20:35,767 --> 01:20:40,667
back home, up north,

1554
01:20:40,667 --> 01:20:43,667
I had to do
two autopsies
at the same time--

1555
01:20:45,433 --> 01:20:48,100
two young men lying
next to one another,

1556
01:20:48,100 --> 01:20:50,700
one white,
one colored.

1557
01:20:50,700 --> 01:20:54,100
And I got the hearts
mixed up.

1558
01:20:54,100 --> 01:20:57,800
I didn't know
which went in where.

1559
01:20:57,800 --> 01:21:01,133
And I remember

1560
01:21:01,133 --> 01:21:04,633
holding onto those hearts
for a long time

1561
01:21:04,633 --> 01:21:09,633
and examining
every detail.

1562
01:21:09,633 --> 01:21:12,800
And then finally
I just closed my eyes,

1563
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:15,533
put a heart
in each body

1564
01:21:15,533 --> 01:21:18,300
and then just
sewed them up--

1565
01:21:18,300 --> 01:21:20,266
that simple.

1566
01:21:22,367 --> 01:21:25,300
Forget about

1567
01:21:25,300 --> 01:21:28,100
making history.

1568
01:21:28,100 --> 01:21:30,467
Think about
making change,

1569
01:21:30,467 --> 01:21:33,133
change in the way
people think,

1570
01:21:33,133 --> 01:21:37,467
pushing past the hate,
pushing past the idea

1571
01:21:37,467 --> 01:21:39,900
of difference.

1572
01:21:39,900 --> 01:21:41,900
We're showing

1573
01:21:41,900 --> 01:21:44,000
once and for all,

1574
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:48,367
through the nobility
of scientific proof,

1575
01:21:48,367 --> 01:21:50,433
that when it comes
to disease,

1576
01:21:50,433 --> 01:21:52,467
ironically,

1577
01:21:52,467 --> 01:21:54,300
we're all the same.

1578
01:21:57,900 --> 01:22:01,500
Dr. Brodus, why do I feel
like I'm being taken up
over the hill?

1579
01:22:03,934 --> 01:22:05,433
How's that?

1580
01:22:05,433 --> 01:22:08,000
It's when somebody says,
"Do you see that hill there?

1581
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:10,233
You just gotta climb
that hill."

1582
01:22:10,233 --> 01:22:12,734
And when you get
up that hill,

1583
01:22:12,734 --> 01:22:16,066
you see there's another hill
beyond, even higher.

1584
01:22:16,066 --> 01:22:20,300
And they they say,
"See, that's the top
right up there."

1585
01:22:20,300 --> 01:22:22,533
And so you climb again.

1586
01:22:22,533 --> 01:22:26,266
And sure enough,
you get there and there's
another hill.

1587
01:22:26,266 --> 01:22:28,567
And by then you have
just come so far,

1588
01:22:28,567 --> 01:22:30,800
you figure
you might as well go on
the rest of the way.

1589
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:32,800
That's being taken up
over the hill, Dr. Brodus.

1590
01:22:32,800 --> 01:22:35,567
Well,

1591
01:22:35,567 --> 01:22:37,567
you come of your own
free will.

1592
01:22:37,567 --> 01:22:39,000
I thought
I was doing good.

1593
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:41,066
You are.
You are doing good.

1594
01:22:41,066 --> 01:22:44,066
Don't ever let go
of that.

1595
01:22:44,066 --> 01:22:45,734
You're doing good
for those men

1596
01:22:45,734 --> 01:22:48,500
and you are doing good
for the Negro people.

1597
01:22:50,633 --> 01:22:53,667
Why can't I
look them in the face
without crying?

1598
01:22:57,700 --> 01:23:00,033
We all want to cry,
but we have to be strong.

1599
01:23:00,033 --> 01:23:02,467
And you are
a strong woman.

1600
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:05,867
And I know that
you'll do what you are

1601
01:23:05,867 --> 01:23:09,433
called to do, Nurse Evers.

1602
01:23:19,333 --> 01:23:21,400
Come on, Willie.

1603
01:23:23,033 --> 01:23:25,834
Excuse me, Nurse,
we're here to get this man
a penicillin shot.

1604
01:23:25,834 --> 01:23:27,667
Name?

1605
01:23:27,667 --> 01:23:30,300
Willie--
Willie Johnson.

1606
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:34,533
Can't help you.

1607
01:23:34,533 --> 01:23:36,100
Why not?

1608
01:23:36,100 --> 01:23:37,533
Name's
on the list.

1609
01:23:37,533 --> 01:23:39,934
What list
is that, ma'am?

1610
01:23:39,934 --> 01:23:43,767
The Tuskegee study--
no penicillin allowed.

1611
01:23:45,133 --> 01:23:48,467
How come I can't get a shot
like Caleb got a shot?

1612
01:23:48,467 --> 01:23:49,934
I want--
I mean, I come--

1613
01:23:49,934 --> 01:23:52,533
Never mind, Willie.
Come on, we'll just go
somewhere else.

1614
01:23:52,533 --> 01:23:54,033
Nurse:
Won't help.

1615
01:23:54,033 --> 01:23:56,000
They sent the list
to everybody.

1616
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,166
Why they ain't
give me no shot?

1617
01:23:58,166 --> 01:24:01,367
Don't worry about it now.
We're gonna go down here...

1618
01:24:03,100 --> 01:24:05,667
I mean, I ain't never
done nothing to nobody.
But you got a place?

1619
01:24:05,667 --> 01:24:07,600
Yeah, I'm gonna
carry you over there now.

1620
01:24:08,734 --> 01:24:11,200
Willie!
What did you do?

1621
01:24:11,200 --> 01:24:13,433
They don't want to give me
the penicillin in here.

1622
01:24:13,433 --> 01:24:15,600
Caleb's gonna
take me to a place
where I can get it.

1623
01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:17,867
Go on up in there.
They say I'm on
some kind of list.

1624
01:24:17,867 --> 01:24:20,633
Don't worry about it.
Oh, Willie, that shot
could have kill you.

1625
01:24:20,633 --> 01:24:22,500
I'm still standing.
You're just lucky.

1626
01:24:22,500 --> 01:24:24,300
Penicillin could be
dangerous for him.

1627
01:24:24,300 --> 01:24:25,734
Well, why me and not him?

1628
01:24:25,734 --> 01:24:27,433
You're different.

1629
01:24:27,433 --> 01:24:30,066
Why?
I don't know.
Nobody knows.

1630
01:24:30,066 --> 01:24:32,467
But we can't
take that chance.
Listen to me, Willie.

1631
01:24:32,467 --> 01:24:36,066
Yes?
It could have exploded
your heart.

1632
01:24:36,066 --> 01:24:38,433
Caleb, you ain't
said nothing about
my heart exploding.

1633
01:24:38,433 --> 01:24:41,333
He don't know.
I know.

1634
01:24:49,233 --> 01:24:50,967
You go ahead on
with her, Willie.

1635
01:24:50,967 --> 01:24:53,633
But, Caleb, you said
you were gonna take me
to get the penici--

1636
01:24:53,633 --> 01:24:56,166
Never mind about what I said.
Now go ahead on with her.

1637
01:24:56,166 --> 01:24:58,166
Willie, it's for
your own good.

1638
01:24:59,500 --> 01:25:02,400
She's gonna see to it
you don't get it nowhere.

1639
01:25:02,400 --> 01:25:04,400
Caleb.

1640
01:25:04,400 --> 01:25:06,934
Yeah, I know,
the doctors know best.

1641
01:25:06,934 --> 01:25:09,300
Boy, they got a good one
when they found you, Nurse.

1642
01:25:09,300 --> 01:25:11,700
I got a train
to catch anyhow.

1643
01:25:11,700 --> 01:25:12,967
( starts engine )

1644
01:25:12,967 --> 01:25:14,834
Don't get
yourself shot.

1645
01:25:16,033 --> 01:25:18,667
I'll be lucky if they
let me near a gun.

1646
01:25:18,667 --> 01:25:20,200
Hey, Willie.

1647
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:21,300
Yeah?

1648
01:25:25,033 --> 01:25:26,934
You dance them down,
you hear?

1649
01:25:32,300 --> 01:25:34,367
Bye, Caleb.

1650
01:25:35,900 --> 01:25:38,266
He's a good man,
Miss Evers.

1651
01:25:38,266 --> 01:25:41,033
Yeah, he is.

1652
01:25:41,033 --> 01:25:43,000
Miss Evers.

1653
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:44,233
Yeah?

1654
01:25:44,233 --> 01:25:46,734
Ben is feeling poorly.
I know.

1655
01:25:46,734 --> 01:25:49,133
He's got trouble
with his eyes

1656
01:25:49,133 --> 01:25:51,767
and his legs too.

1657
01:25:51,767 --> 01:25:54,533
Now that only leaves me
and Hodman for the gillee.

1658
01:25:57,033 --> 01:25:58,533
Hey, Miss Evers.

1659
01:25:58,533 --> 01:26:00,166
Hmm?

1660
01:26:00,166 --> 01:26:03,033
You think I'm still gonna
make it to the Cotton Club?

1661
01:26:04,667 --> 01:26:07,800
I'm gonna get me a new hat
and sit right up on
the front row.

1662
01:26:10,166 --> 01:26:11,800
You telling me
straight?

1663
01:26:13,333 --> 01:26:15,533
I'm gonna see you
through this, Willie,
you hear me?

1664
01:26:15,533 --> 01:26:18,100
I ain't left you yet,
and I'm not leaving
you now.

1665
01:26:18,100 --> 01:26:20,233
We're gonna see this
through together.

1666
01:26:26,400 --> 01:26:28,867
Hey, you know,
I've been thinking.

1667
01:26:28,867 --> 01:26:30,266
Hmm?

1668
01:26:30,266 --> 01:26:32,266
You know about
the Cotton Club.

1669
01:26:32,266 --> 01:26:34,300
Know what?

1670
01:26:34,300 --> 01:26:36,266
They don't allow
no coloreds

1671
01:26:36,266 --> 01:26:39,066
in the audience,
only on the stage.

1672
01:26:39,066 --> 01:26:41,800
I guess I'll just
get me a chair

1673
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:44,166
and sit up there
on the stage.

1674
01:26:45,667 --> 01:26:49,367
Eunice:
I had heard that Caleb
had been sent overseas,

1675
01:26:49,367 --> 01:26:52,033
but a long time went by
with no word from him,

1676
01:26:52,033 --> 01:26:54,867
so I had started
to think

1677
01:26:54,867 --> 01:26:57,400
that he'd gotten
himself killed.

1678
01:26:57,400 --> 01:27:00,433
Meanwhile,
I did my best,

1679
01:27:00,433 --> 01:27:02,700
but the men
got steadily worse.

1680
01:27:02,700 --> 01:27:04,567
Hodman:
Hey now, hey now...

1681
01:27:04,567 --> 01:27:07,033
Eunice:
The disease took
their bodies

1682
01:27:07,033 --> 01:27:09,300
and their minds.
Hodman: Hey now...

1683
01:27:09,300 --> 01:27:11,867
Eunice:
Hodman started thinking
he could cure himself.

1684
01:27:11,867 --> 01:27:15,033
Hodman:
We're gonna do this now.

1685
01:27:15,033 --> 01:27:18,533
Hey now, hey now.

1686
01:27:18,533 --> 01:27:21,166
We're gonna
do this now.

1687
01:27:21,166 --> 01:27:22,767
Hodman?

1688
01:27:22,767 --> 01:27:24,834
Hey now, hey now.

1689
01:27:24,834 --> 01:27:26,033
Hodman.

1690
01:27:27,867 --> 01:27:30,567
Hey there.

1691
01:27:30,567 --> 01:27:32,433
What you doing
out here, Miss Evers?

1692
01:27:32,433 --> 01:27:34,500
Looking for you.

1693
01:27:34,500 --> 01:27:37,300
Where is your family?

1694
01:27:37,300 --> 01:27:39,967
They're gone
to my mama's.

1695
01:27:41,300 --> 01:27:43,800
They say I ain't no good
for them like this.

1696
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,734
You need to come in
for your treatment,

1697
01:27:46,734 --> 01:27:48,533
you and them
friends of yours.

1698
01:27:48,533 --> 01:27:50,533
No.

1699
01:27:50,533 --> 01:27:54,667
I gots my own treatment
right here, Miss Evers.

1700
01:27:54,667 --> 01:27:56,266
See?

1701
01:27:56,266 --> 01:27:59,100
Just burn these
spiderwebs

1702
01:27:59,100 --> 01:28:02,066
and look hard
into the smoke.

1703
01:28:02,066 --> 01:28:05,834
It's good
for the eyesight too.

1704
01:28:05,834 --> 01:28:08,567
That sounds fine to me.

1705
01:28:08,567 --> 01:28:12,500
But seems like it'd be
twice as powerful

1706
01:28:12,500 --> 01:28:14,867
if you do that
and the treatment.

1707
01:28:14,867 --> 01:28:16,900
They work together,

1708
01:28:16,900 --> 01:28:19,000
kind of feeding
one another.

1709
01:28:20,333 --> 01:28:22,333
You think so, huh?

1710
01:28:22,333 --> 01:28:23,967
I know so.

1711
01:28:26,233 --> 01:28:27,567
Twice as powerful?

1712
01:28:27,567 --> 01:28:29,600
Mm-hmm.

1713
01:28:31,200 --> 01:28:32,600
Come on.

1714
01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:34,667
Come on back
with me now.

1715
01:28:34,667 --> 01:28:37,000
You done blown
enough smoke for today.

1716
01:28:39,900 --> 01:28:42,767
Eunice:
As bad as Hodman was,

1717
01:28:42,767 --> 01:28:45,266
Ben was the first
to fall.

1718
01:28:50,166 --> 01:28:51,633
( coughing )

1719
01:28:51,633 --> 01:28:54,567
( wheezing )

1720
01:28:59,333 --> 01:29:01,400
Hello, Ben.

1721
01:29:03,133 --> 01:29:05,100
Miss Evers?

1722
01:29:05,100 --> 01:29:07,533
Now don't tell me
you don't recognize

1723
01:29:07,533 --> 01:29:10,367
your old girlfriend.
How are you doing?

1724
01:29:10,367 --> 01:29:11,767
Hi.

1725
01:29:11,767 --> 01:29:14,000
( hoarsely )
I guess I'm dying,
Miss Evers,

1726
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:15,967
the way these people

1727
01:29:15,967 --> 01:29:19,200
are all tiptoeing
all around me all the time.

1728
01:29:19,200 --> 01:29:22,033
You ain't dead yet, Ben.
You're a tough customer.

1729
01:29:22,033 --> 01:29:24,500
I just feel

1730
01:29:24,500 --> 01:29:27,066
all wore down
all the time, Miss Evers.

1731
01:29:27,066 --> 01:29:30,200
Well, I got something
to raise you right up.

1732
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:32,667
It's from the United States
government.

1733
01:29:32,667 --> 01:29:33,800
It's for me?

1734
01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:36,233
Mm-hmm, you and all
the other men.

1735
01:29:36,233 --> 01:29:38,700
It is a certificate

1736
01:29:38,700 --> 01:29:40,567
of appreciation

1737
01:29:40,567 --> 01:29:44,633
and 10 whole dollars.

1738
01:29:46,533 --> 01:29:48,633
A dollar
for every year

1739
01:29:48,633 --> 01:29:50,700
you've been
in the program.

1740
01:29:50,700 --> 01:29:54,166
They paying us for having
the bad blood?

1741
01:29:54,166 --> 01:29:57,967
They're showing
their appreciation
for what you boys done.

1742
01:29:57,967 --> 01:30:00,900
I ain't done nothing,
Miss Evers,

1743
01:30:00,900 --> 01:30:02,867
except get sick.

1744
01:30:02,867 --> 01:30:07,200
You know, I ain't had
this much cash money

1745
01:30:07,200 --> 01:30:10,300
since we got that
$50 for the burial.

1746
01:30:10,300 --> 01:30:12,400
( wheezing )

1747
01:30:13,333 --> 01:30:16,467
I'm going blind too.

1748
01:30:16,467 --> 01:30:18,400
Ain't that a treat?

1749
01:30:21,066 --> 01:30:23,934
Nothing more you can do
for me, is there?

1750
01:30:26,433 --> 01:30:28,233
We tried everything
we can.

1751
01:30:28,233 --> 01:30:29,867
I know you have.

1752
01:30:29,867 --> 01:30:31,767
There ain't a day
that go by--

1753
01:30:31,767 --> 01:30:34,333
We all know, Miss Evers.

1754
01:30:34,333 --> 01:30:38,100
Hey, you see,

1755
01:30:38,100 --> 01:30:40,834
you didn't
make us sick.

1756
01:30:40,834 --> 01:30:43,767
And you done
all that you can

1757
01:30:43,767 --> 01:30:46,166
to make us well.

1758
01:30:46,166 --> 01:30:49,200
You can't do no more
than that, Miss Evers.

1759
01:30:49,200 --> 01:30:51,567
You're gonna be
okay, Ben.

1760
01:30:51,567 --> 01:30:53,934
No.

1761
01:30:53,934 --> 01:30:57,066
No, I ain't, Miss Evers.

1762
01:30:57,066 --> 01:30:59,433
But I appreciate
you saying it.

1763
01:30:59,433 --> 01:31:02,367
Miss Evers.

1764
01:31:02,367 --> 01:31:03,900
Hmm?

1765
01:31:03,900 --> 01:31:06,567
You wait till you see
that coffin

1766
01:31:06,567 --> 01:31:09,500
old Ben done picked out
for hisself.

1767
01:31:09,500 --> 01:31:12,667
Oh, it's red,

1768
01:31:12,667 --> 01:31:14,967
it's blue,

1769
01:31:14,967 --> 01:31:17,266
it's green,
it's yellow.

1770
01:31:17,266 --> 01:31:20,233
It's a doozy,
Miss Evers.
( sobs )

1771
01:31:20,233 --> 01:31:23,200
You're gonna be
real proud.

1772
01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:25,734
You're gonna be so proud.

1773
01:31:34,266 --> 01:31:36,567
What are you
doing now?

1774
01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:40,033
What does it look
like I'm doing?

1775
01:31:40,033 --> 01:31:41,967
Do you know
what time it is?

1776
01:31:41,967 --> 01:31:44,934
You're keeping me awake
with all that chopping.

1777
01:31:44,934 --> 01:31:47,667
You always say
you can't sleep anyway.

1778
01:31:47,667 --> 01:31:49,900
Well, tonight I was sleeping,
sleeping good.

1779
01:31:51,333 --> 01:31:53,000
Eunice.

1780
01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:54,767
If you're mad
about something,

1781
01:31:54,767 --> 01:31:57,266
don't take it out
on the wood.

1782
01:31:57,266 --> 01:31:59,934
Go after what
you're mad about.

1783
01:31:59,934 --> 01:32:02,767
Ben's dead, Papa.

1784
01:32:02,767 --> 01:32:05,200
Hodman's going insane.

1785
01:32:05,200 --> 01:32:07,533
I'm mad at the world.

1786
01:32:07,533 --> 01:32:09,900
Well, you ain't gonna
fix it chopping wood.

1787
01:32:09,900 --> 01:32:13,867
All you're gonna do is
keep me up all night.

1788
01:32:13,867 --> 01:32:16,033
Suppose there's
nothing else you can do.

1789
01:32:16,033 --> 01:32:18,467
If you believed that,

1790
01:32:18,467 --> 01:32:21,200
you'd never become a nurse
in the first place.

1791
01:32:24,533 --> 01:32:26,700
I'm gonna get me
some milk.

1792
01:32:26,700 --> 01:32:28,266
You want some?

1793
01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:31,734
Be sure to warm it.

1794
01:33:32,467 --> 01:33:34,800
( man moaning )

1795
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:04,266
( knocks )

1796
01:34:16,567 --> 01:34:19,233
Hello, Hodman.

1797
01:34:19,233 --> 01:34:21,800
What you got there?

1798
01:34:21,800 --> 01:34:24,367
Turpentine?

1799
01:34:24,367 --> 01:34:27,633
You gonna peel the paint
off of something?

1800
01:34:27,633 --> 01:34:30,033
I'm making me
some new medicine.

1801
01:34:30,033 --> 01:34:33,266
Yeah? I hear turps is
good for moles,

1802
01:34:33,266 --> 01:34:35,967
but I got
something new.

1803
01:34:38,467 --> 01:34:40,967
Penicillin.

1804
01:34:42,233 --> 01:34:43,500
For me?

1805
01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:50,533
I thought
you didn't want us
taking that stuff.

1806
01:34:50,533 --> 01:34:53,166
Well, I think you
need it now, Hodman.

1807
01:34:53,166 --> 01:34:54,800
I do think
you need it.

1808
01:34:56,600 --> 01:34:57,834
Why?

1809
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:01,900
Them haints
you've been seeing--

1810
01:35:01,900 --> 01:35:03,934
I don't want them
bothering you.

1811
01:35:03,934 --> 01:35:06,667
You think
they ain't there.

1812
01:35:09,233 --> 01:35:12,900
I think you need
penicillin.

1813
01:35:12,900 --> 01:35:15,633
But now I gotta
warn you, you could
have a bad reaction.

1814
01:35:15,633 --> 01:35:17,633
Chances are
you won't,

1815
01:35:17,633 --> 01:35:19,867
but you gotta
know that going in.

1816
01:35:19,867 --> 01:35:24,333
You think
I should do it?

1817
01:35:25,834 --> 01:35:28,133
As long as you know
what you're doing.

1818
01:35:28,133 --> 01:35:29,900
You know what
you're doing, Hodman?

1819
01:35:29,900 --> 01:35:31,767
Do you understand
what I'm saying?

1820
01:35:31,767 --> 01:35:33,834
Yeah yeah.

1821
01:35:35,934 --> 01:35:38,867
How bad that
bad reaction?

1822
01:35:38,867 --> 01:35:40,333
It's bad enough.

1823
01:35:40,333 --> 01:35:42,266
But I'm gonna stay
right here with you.

1824
01:35:42,266 --> 01:35:44,300
If you're okay
after 12 hours,

1825
01:35:44,300 --> 01:35:45,967
you're free
and clear.

1826
01:35:49,533 --> 01:35:50,734
All right.

1827
01:35:50,734 --> 01:35:55,266
Just tell me
what I gotta do.

1828
01:36:04,500 --> 01:36:06,900
( rooster crows )

1829
01:36:09,200 --> 01:36:10,867
Hodman.

1830
01:36:12,133 --> 01:36:14,600
Hodman!

1831
01:36:15,533 --> 01:36:17,533
Hodman!

1832
01:36:17,533 --> 01:36:20,100
( Hodman chanting )

1833
01:36:34,867 --> 01:36:36,834
( trilling )

1834
01:36:36,834 --> 01:36:40,133
( barking )

1835
01:36:44,834 --> 01:36:47,667
No, Hodman, don't drink it!
It's poison!

1836
01:36:47,667 --> 01:36:50,300
( screams )

1837
01:36:50,300 --> 01:36:51,533
No!

1838
01:36:51,533 --> 01:36:53,900
Hodman, come on.
Come on.

1839
01:36:53,900 --> 01:36:55,800
Oh God.
Come on.

1840
01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:57,734
It's good medicine,
Miss Evers,

1841
01:36:57,734 --> 01:37:00,100
Come on.
It's all gone now.

1842
01:37:00,100 --> 01:37:03,834
Yeah, baby
skipped on home.

1843
01:37:03,834 --> 01:37:05,834
I told you.
( laughing )

1844
01:37:05,834 --> 01:37:07,467
Come on, Hodman.

1845
01:37:07,467 --> 01:37:09,367
Yes, Miss Evers.

1846
01:37:09,367 --> 01:37:12,467
( gasping breaths )
Come on, Hodman!

1847
01:37:12,467 --> 01:37:14,667
Stand up.
Come on.

1848
01:37:14,667 --> 01:37:16,667
Stand up, come on.

1849
01:37:16,667 --> 01:37:18,300
( screaming )

1850
01:37:18,300 --> 01:37:20,767
Come on, come on,
Hodman.

1851
01:37:20,767 --> 01:37:24,033
Oh my God.

1852
01:37:27,266 --> 01:37:29,166
I'm gonna get you
some help.

1853
01:37:29,166 --> 01:37:31,367
Come on, just hang on.
I'm gonna get you some help.

1854
01:37:31,367 --> 01:37:32,834
Hang on.

1855
01:37:47,633 --> 01:37:49,700
I killed him.

1856
01:38:08,300 --> 01:38:10,266
What you might expect--

1857
01:38:10,266 --> 01:38:14,800
he died from swallowing
32 ounces of turpentine.

1858
01:38:14,800 --> 01:38:18,133
But there were

1859
01:38:18,133 --> 01:38:20,734
certain other elements

1860
01:38:20,734 --> 01:38:24,133
consistent with
the Herxheimer reaction.

1861
01:38:24,133 --> 01:38:26,900
What other elements?
Nothing you could
prove out for sure.

1862
01:38:26,900 --> 01:38:28,834
But the penicillin
could have killed him.

1863
01:38:28,834 --> 01:38:31,367
Well, there's no
real proof,

1864
01:38:31,367 --> 01:38:33,633
just an indication.

1865
01:38:33,633 --> 01:38:38,066
Officially I'm calling it
death by self-inflicted
poisoning.

1866
01:38:39,567 --> 01:38:42,166
But you know
what you did.

1867
01:38:42,166 --> 01:38:44,066
Stealing medicine--

1868
01:38:44,066 --> 01:38:46,467
you go to jail
for that.

1869
01:38:46,467 --> 01:38:49,467
Giving that man
that injection

1870
01:38:49,467 --> 01:38:51,867
violated the protocol
of the study.

1871
01:38:51,867 --> 01:38:54,033
It could have
disgraced the institute.
I wasn't thinking
about the study.

1872
01:38:54,033 --> 01:38:56,333
Well, I have to,
Nurse Evers!

1873
01:38:56,333 --> 01:38:59,300
I know that there are people
just waiting out there
for us to fail,

1874
01:38:59,300 --> 01:39:01,834
hoping that we will fail,
so they can keep saying

1875
01:39:01,834 --> 01:39:04,500
that Negroes are stupid,
incompetent,

1876
01:39:04,500 --> 01:39:07,133
good for nothing,
inferior.

1877
01:39:09,100 --> 01:39:11,100
But I'm willing
to forget what you did.

1878
01:39:11,100 --> 01:39:13,300
The man was in a state
of dementia.

1879
01:39:13,300 --> 01:39:15,300
It was just
a matter of time.

1880
01:39:15,300 --> 01:39:17,233
You are their nurse,
Miss Evers.

1881
01:39:17,233 --> 01:39:20,633
Doctor, we're sacrificing them
for something I can't even
stand up for.

1882
01:39:20,633 --> 01:39:22,734
Yes! Yes, we are.
I can't keep looking
in their faces.

1883
01:39:22,734 --> 01:39:24,700
For reasons they will
never understand,

1884
01:39:24,700 --> 01:39:27,333
for reasons
that are greater
than any one of them,

1885
01:39:27,333 --> 01:39:30,000
the greater good
for the race!

1886
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:33,867
I am not going up
over that next hill.

1887
01:39:33,867 --> 01:39:35,567
Oh yeah?
Where are you gonna go?

1888
01:39:35,567 --> 01:39:39,433
They don't just let us go
where it's nice and flat.

1889
01:39:39,433 --> 01:39:42,867
It's all hills for us.
We either climb or we
stay at the bottom.

1890
01:39:42,867 --> 01:39:44,600
That's the only choice
they give us!

1891
01:39:44,600 --> 01:39:47,200
Now you knew that
when you became part
of the program.

1892
01:39:47,200 --> 01:39:49,533
Now if you want to leave,
that's your privilege.

1893
01:39:49,533 --> 01:39:51,800
But the men
will miss you.

1894
01:39:57,367 --> 01:39:58,900
( door slams )

1895
01:39:58,900 --> 01:40:02,567
Eunice:
I stayed.
I didn't back out.

1896
01:40:02,567 --> 01:40:05,000
I went up over
that next hill.

1897
01:40:05,000 --> 01:40:09,166
And sure enough,
there was another hill
after that,

1898
01:40:09,166 --> 01:40:11,233
and another.

1899
01:40:11,233 --> 01:40:13,100
You see, Senator,

1900
01:40:13,100 --> 01:40:14,967
they still needed
my help.

1901
01:40:14,967 --> 01:40:16,900
I couldn't save them,

1902
01:40:16,900 --> 01:40:19,533
but there were things
that I could do for them,

1903
01:40:19,533 --> 01:40:22,533
things that I owed them--

1904
01:40:22,533 --> 01:40:24,433
simple comforts,

1905
01:40:24,433 --> 01:40:27,500
like knowing that
somebody cared.

1906
01:40:27,500 --> 01:40:29,433
The war ended

1907
01:40:29,433 --> 01:40:31,400
and we went right on
taking care of them.

1908
01:40:31,400 --> 01:40:35,333
Lying, yes,
but taking care.

1909
01:40:35,333 --> 01:40:37,333
Willie: Hey, Miss Evers.
Hmm?

1910
01:40:37,333 --> 01:40:40,633
Come on, Doc, tell her
where you've been.

1911
01:40:40,633 --> 01:40:43,367
You know
where he's been?

1912
01:40:43,367 --> 01:40:45,100
I know.
He's been up north.

1913
01:40:45,100 --> 01:40:47,333
He went back
to the Cotton Club.

1914
01:40:47,333 --> 01:40:48,734
Men:
The Cotton Club?

1915
01:40:48,734 --> 01:40:50,500
Yeah.

1916
01:40:50,500 --> 01:40:52,467
I had to go to a meeting
in New York,

1917
01:40:52,467 --> 01:40:55,100
so I thought I'd stop in
and get old Willie
a report.

1918
01:40:55,100 --> 01:40:57,767
Say he saw
Ruby Blue.

1919
01:40:57,767 --> 01:40:59,400
Ruby Blue?
He saw him?

1920
01:40:59,400 --> 01:41:02,967
Say he was scatting
and leaping

1921
01:41:02,967 --> 01:41:05,066
and doing
the stair dance.

1922
01:41:05,066 --> 01:41:07,500
( scatting )

1923
01:41:12,934 --> 01:41:14,934
( men murmuring )

1924
01:41:14,934 --> 01:41:17,300
Isn't that right, Doc?
Like that?

1925
01:41:19,567 --> 01:41:21,834
Well, sort of.

1926
01:41:21,834 --> 01:41:23,600
What do you mean,
sort of?

1927
01:41:23,600 --> 01:41:26,633
What was he doing
that was different?

1928
01:41:27,900 --> 01:41:31,367
Well, he was moving
both feet

1929
01:41:31,367 --> 01:41:33,333
in different rhythms

1930
01:41:33,333 --> 01:41:35,266
at the same time,
kind of like this.

1931
01:41:40,734 --> 01:41:44,100
( men laugh )

1932
01:41:46,367 --> 01:41:48,233
That's all right.

1933
01:41:48,233 --> 01:41:51,700
So he was like
two different people

1934
01:41:51,700 --> 01:41:54,033
dancing on
the same legs?

1935
01:41:54,033 --> 01:41:55,300
Yeah.

1936
01:41:55,300 --> 01:41:57,700
Man, that's nice.

1937
01:41:57,700 --> 01:41:59,700
That's new.

1938
01:41:59,700 --> 01:42:01,600
Hey, I could use that.

1939
01:42:01,600 --> 01:42:04,233
Where do they got stairs
around here?

1940
01:42:04,233 --> 01:42:05,834
Oh, I know.

1941
01:42:05,834 --> 01:42:09,066
Yeah. Excuse me, Doc.

1942
01:42:09,066 --> 01:42:11,533
That was nice of you.

1943
01:42:11,533 --> 01:42:14,233
But he shouldn't
be doing stairs.
He might hurt hisself.

1944
01:42:21,867 --> 01:42:24,133
( Willie scatting )

1945
01:42:27,033 --> 01:42:28,500
Willie.
I'm okay, Doc.

1946
01:42:28,500 --> 01:42:30,533
I'm all right.
I'm all right.

1947
01:42:30,533 --> 01:42:32,533
Just... here.

1948
01:42:44,800 --> 01:42:46,934
Are you okay?

1949
01:42:46,934 --> 01:42:49,367
I just need time, Doc.

1950
01:42:49,367 --> 01:42:51,233
I understand.

1951
01:42:51,233 --> 01:42:53,834
I just need
a little more time.
I'll get it, you know.

1952
01:42:53,834 --> 01:42:56,166
I understand.
Why don't you take
a little rest now?

1953
01:42:56,166 --> 01:42:59,133
Come on.

1954
01:42:59,133 --> 01:43:00,734
Hey, Doc.

1955
01:43:00,734 --> 01:43:02,567
What did you say--

1956
01:43:02,567 --> 01:43:04,567
that he was dancing

1957
01:43:04,567 --> 01:43:07,000
on different rhythms

1958
01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:10,433
on different legs
at the same time?

1959
01:43:10,433 --> 01:43:12,500
That's right.
Well, you just about
had it there.

1960
01:43:12,500 --> 01:43:15,400
Oh, come on now, Doc,
I ain't have it like that.

1961
01:43:15,400 --> 01:43:17,500
Hey, but you know,
you didn't dance too bad.

1962
01:43:17,500 --> 01:43:18,734
Oh, go on.

1963
01:43:18,734 --> 01:43:20,967
Hey, let me see you
cut a step.

1964
01:43:20,967 --> 01:43:23,367
Go on, cut one.

1965
01:43:23,367 --> 01:43:26,567
Go ahead.

1966
01:43:26,567 --> 01:43:28,600
( laughs )

1967
01:43:28,600 --> 01:43:30,633
How was that?

1968
01:43:30,633 --> 01:43:34,033
( laughing loudly )

1969
01:43:34,033 --> 01:43:36,967
You're a better doctor
than you are a dancer.

1970
01:43:38,100 --> 01:43:40,567
( dogs barking )
( chickens clucking )

1971
01:43:40,567 --> 01:43:43,100
( children chattering )
( gate opens )

1972
01:43:51,266 --> 01:43:53,767
You need some new tires
on your car.

1973
01:43:56,333 --> 01:43:58,266
There's a war on.

1974
01:43:58,266 --> 01:44:00,533
Yeah, I heard.

1975
01:44:04,767 --> 01:44:07,200
I see you got yourself
some medals.

1976
01:44:07,200 --> 01:44:10,066
They ain't really
medals.

1977
01:44:10,066 --> 01:44:12,533
They just tell
where I've been.

1978
01:44:13,967 --> 01:44:15,967
Africa,

1979
01:44:15,967 --> 01:44:19,567
Sicily, Italy.

1980
01:44:19,567 --> 01:44:23,667
You know, they got
colored folks in Africa.

1981
01:44:24,900 --> 01:44:26,633
You're joshing me.

1982
01:44:26,633 --> 01:44:28,367
No, colored all over.

1983
01:44:30,300 --> 01:44:32,567
You're looking good,
Eunice.

1984
01:44:32,567 --> 01:44:35,133
You look good too,
Caleb.

1985
01:44:39,000 --> 01:44:41,066
You back here
for good now?

1986
01:44:41,066 --> 01:44:43,066
No. Corinna's kids
grown enough

1987
01:44:43,066 --> 01:44:45,367
to look after the place
their own self now.

1988
01:44:45,367 --> 01:44:47,934
You just come back
to see them?

1989
01:44:50,200 --> 01:44:52,066
I come back for you.

1990
01:45:02,967 --> 01:45:04,967
You know,
most folks think

1991
01:45:04,967 --> 01:45:07,367
that the war is
fighting

1992
01:45:07,367 --> 01:45:10,066
and shooting,
carrying on.

1993
01:45:10,066 --> 01:45:11,767
It really ain't nothing
but a whole bunch

1994
01:45:11,767 --> 01:45:14,000
of sitting around,
waiting.

1995
01:45:14,000 --> 01:45:16,967
I did a whole lot
of thinking while
I was over there, see.

1996
01:45:16,967 --> 01:45:19,233
They say thinking's
good for the soul.

1997
01:45:19,233 --> 01:45:21,233
I thought a lot
about you and me

1998
01:45:21,233 --> 01:45:23,533
and how we messed it up,
how I let you get away.

1999
01:45:23,533 --> 01:45:25,266
No, you didn't let me.
I did it, Caleb.

2000
01:45:25,266 --> 01:45:27,900
It was a mistake
is what it was.
We all make mistakes.

2001
01:45:27,900 --> 01:45:31,633
Come on now, Eunice.
Don't go skating around
on me now. Listen.

2002
01:45:31,633 --> 01:45:35,400
I don't want us to make
the same mistake again.

2003
01:45:35,400 --> 01:45:38,800
Caleb, we haven't
seen each other
for five years.

2004
01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:41,300
I haven't heard from you
in five years.

2005
01:45:44,100 --> 01:45:46,700
I'm back now.
That's all that counts.

2006
01:45:46,700 --> 01:45:51,333
I got a job up north,
soon as I get discharged,

2007
01:45:51,333 --> 01:45:53,934
a steel-making plant
outside of Chicago.

2008
01:45:53,934 --> 01:45:57,533
A platoon buddy of mine
got me in the unit.

2009
01:45:57,533 --> 01:46:00,100
Now they got hospitals
all around Chicago.

2010
01:46:00,100 --> 01:46:02,100
You could get a job.
They always need nurses.

2011
01:46:02,100 --> 01:46:04,133
We could have a real
nice life, Eunice.

2012
01:46:04,133 --> 01:46:06,033
Give me a minute here.

2013
01:46:06,033 --> 01:46:08,700
I'll say one thing for you,
Caleb Humphries,

2014
01:46:08,700 --> 01:46:11,900
you know how to lay it
on a girl.

2015
01:46:11,900 --> 01:46:14,433
Here, feel this.

2016
01:46:16,033 --> 01:46:18,633
I got the palpitations.

2017
01:46:19,900 --> 01:46:21,867
You want to sit down?

2018
01:46:21,867 --> 01:46:23,200
Hmm?

2019
01:46:23,200 --> 01:46:24,433
No.

2020
01:46:30,066 --> 01:46:32,367
I can't.

2021
01:46:32,367 --> 01:46:34,767
What, you can't?
You still saying
that to me?

2022
01:46:34,767 --> 01:46:38,333
I can't leave here.

2023
01:46:38,333 --> 01:46:40,166
You could stay.

2024
01:46:43,867 --> 01:46:45,533
No, I can't.

2025
01:46:46,633 --> 01:46:47,934
Not even for you.

2026
01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:52,433
My life here
is over, Eunice.

2027
01:46:52,433 --> 01:46:54,367
I got to go somewhere
where I got a chance.

2028
01:46:54,367 --> 01:46:57,800
Now I want you
to come with me.

2029
01:47:05,767 --> 01:47:07,333
How long
has it been now?

2030
01:47:07,333 --> 01:47:09,266
10, 12 years?

2031
01:47:09,266 --> 01:47:12,467
You've done all you could.
Eunice, nobody could do

2032
01:47:12,467 --> 01:47:14,767
more than what you've done.
You've been there for them
day and night.

2033
01:47:14,767 --> 01:47:17,900
The program's not finished.
There's a lot of work--
What more can you do?

2034
01:47:17,900 --> 01:47:19,667
I can be here
for them.

2035
01:47:19,667 --> 01:47:21,667
And watch them die,
is that it?

2036
01:47:21,667 --> 01:47:24,233
Holding their hands
till they go blind,
purple or crazy?

2037
01:47:24,233 --> 01:47:26,166
Put your hat on
for funerals?

2038
01:47:26,166 --> 01:47:29,500
Remember what you said once?
You said that the men would
drown without me.

2039
01:47:29,500 --> 01:47:32,200
They're dying with you.

2040
01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:33,867
Ain't no more
Miss Evers' Boys.

2041
01:47:33,867 --> 01:47:36,000
Miss Evers' Boys
is through.

2042
01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:38,500
Ain't nothing holding you
here, woman.

2043
01:47:39,800 --> 01:47:42,367
You just don't know
what it's like.

2044
01:47:42,367 --> 01:47:43,800
What I got to know?

2045
01:47:45,767 --> 01:47:48,266
I know I want you
with me.

2046
01:47:48,266 --> 01:47:51,934
I know you want
to be with me.

2047
01:47:53,800 --> 01:47:56,333
Known it
all these years.

2048
01:47:56,333 --> 01:47:59,300
Eunice, we've been
foolish to stay apart.

2049
01:48:02,633 --> 01:48:05,066
Caleb.
Why? 'Cause your
daddy's looking?

2050
01:48:05,066 --> 01:48:08,233
No.
All he's gonna see is
that his little girl's

2051
01:48:08,233 --> 01:48:10,133
a grown woman.

2052
01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:12,934
Mm-- hmm-mm.

2053
01:48:30,734 --> 01:48:33,033
What did you prove,
Caleb?

2054
01:48:43,233 --> 01:48:45,133
That you want me.

2055
01:48:45,133 --> 01:48:46,667
I have always
wanted you.

2056
01:48:46,667 --> 01:48:49,033
Then come north with me
and let's make a life
together.

2057
01:48:49,033 --> 01:48:50,467
I can't.
I owe them, Caleb.

2058
01:48:50,467 --> 01:48:51,900
You paid already.
You don't owe--

2059
01:48:51,900 --> 01:48:53,867
No, I could never
pay them enough.

2060
01:49:04,033 --> 01:49:06,734
We missed something
real good, didn't we?

2061
01:49:14,233 --> 01:49:17,033
All right.

2062
01:49:17,033 --> 01:49:19,767
Best go see what time
my train is leaving.

2063
01:49:26,266 --> 01:49:27,467
Caleb.

2064
01:49:34,767 --> 01:49:37,867
I am so happy

2065
01:49:37,867 --> 01:49:40,166
you didn't
get yourself killed.

2066
01:49:42,433 --> 01:49:43,667
Me too.

2067
01:49:49,100 --> 01:49:51,967
How come we didn't
get it, Eunice--

2068
01:49:51,967 --> 01:49:54,700
the penicillin?

2069
01:49:55,867 --> 01:49:57,700
You were a part
of a government study.

2070
01:49:57,700 --> 01:49:59,166
That ain't no answer.

2071
01:49:59,166 --> 01:50:01,233
No, the study was
the proof that--

2072
01:50:01,233 --> 01:50:03,166
the doctors--
they needed the pr--

2073
01:50:03,166 --> 01:50:05,567
the doctors
are dedicated

2074
01:50:05,567 --> 01:50:08,367
and they know
what's best.

2075
01:50:08,367 --> 01:50:10,900
The best was penicillin.

2076
01:50:19,367 --> 01:50:22,066
( sobs )

2077
01:50:24,734 --> 01:50:27,767
Go after him, Eunice.

2078
01:50:27,767 --> 01:50:29,800
Go on.

2079
01:50:33,133 --> 01:50:35,300
What are you hanging
around here for?

2080
01:50:35,300 --> 01:50:38,600
Taking care
of an old man
is no life for you.

2081
01:50:38,600 --> 01:50:41,533
You're still
a young woman.

2082
01:50:41,533 --> 01:50:44,600
And don't tell me
you're staying back here
because you're a nurse.

2083
01:50:44,600 --> 01:50:47,266
They have nursing
up north too.

2084
01:50:47,266 --> 01:50:51,000
You've got a chance
here, Eunice.

2085
01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:53,533
He's a good man.

2086
01:50:53,533 --> 01:50:55,600
All those medals
on his chest.

2087
01:50:57,066 --> 01:50:59,200
And you're still
soft for him.

2088
01:50:59,200 --> 01:51:01,533
I can see it.
I can--
Leave me alone, Papa.

2089
01:51:01,533 --> 01:51:04,667
I ain't left you alone
since you was a baby.

2090
01:51:04,667 --> 01:51:06,667
How do you expect me
to start now?

2091
01:51:06,667 --> 01:51:09,600
You got a lot
of life left, Eunice.

2092
01:51:09,600 --> 01:51:12,633
Don't let it all
get away.
I can't. I can't, Papa.

2093
01:51:12,633 --> 01:51:15,867
You can if you will.
I can't. I can't.
I cannot.

2094
01:51:15,867 --> 01:51:19,467
You always tell me to do
what's right, don't you?

2095
01:51:19,467 --> 01:51:22,300
Well, what I'm doing
is right.

2096
01:51:22,300 --> 01:51:24,633
It's--

2097
01:51:24,633 --> 01:51:26,700
it's got to be
right, Papa.

2098
01:51:26,700 --> 01:51:29,200
It was right.

2099
01:51:29,200 --> 01:51:30,967
It had to be right.

2100
01:51:34,900 --> 01:51:36,834
The men kept dying.

2101
01:51:36,834 --> 01:51:39,734
But they would have died
anyway, wouldn't they?

2102
01:51:39,734 --> 01:51:42,867
I prepared a report
every spring

2103
01:51:42,867 --> 01:51:45,734
on the number of them
remaining.

2104
01:51:45,734 --> 01:51:48,967
412 in 1946,

2105
01:51:48,967 --> 01:51:52,200
360 ten years later.

2106
01:51:52,200 --> 01:51:54,700
And then last year

2107
01:51:54,700 --> 01:51:57,033
when the papers
got ahold to the story,

2108
01:51:57,033 --> 01:52:00,767
it was 127 left.

2109
01:52:00,767 --> 01:52:02,033
( crowd murmuring )

2110
01:52:02,033 --> 01:52:04,800
Of the 412
that we started with,

2111
01:52:04,800 --> 01:52:07,467
127 were left.

2112
01:52:07,467 --> 01:52:10,767
And of Miss Evers' Boys,

2113
01:52:10,767 --> 01:52:13,834
it was just two.

2114
01:52:13,834 --> 01:52:16,000
That's Willie and...

2115
01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:18,400
Caleb.

2116
01:52:18,400 --> 01:52:20,300
I had heard

2117
01:52:20,300 --> 01:52:22,800
that he got the job
up north.

2118
01:52:27,600 --> 01:52:31,033
He never married.

2119
01:52:31,033 --> 01:52:35,700
So that brings us
to Washington, DC.

2120
01:52:35,700 --> 01:52:39,000
I guess none of us
ended up where we thought
we would.

2121
01:52:39,000 --> 01:52:43,066
Senator:
I simply don't understand,
Miss Evers.

2122
01:52:43,066 --> 01:52:46,800
Much as we may appreciate
your personal sacrifice,

2123
01:52:46,800 --> 01:52:49,700
the fact remains
that patients

2124
01:52:49,700 --> 01:52:52,266
with a potentially
fatal disease

2125
01:52:52,266 --> 01:52:54,266
went untreated

2126
01:52:54,266 --> 01:52:56,200
when treatment
was available.

2127
01:52:56,200 --> 01:52:57,934
It was for
the greater good.

2128
01:52:57,934 --> 01:53:00,000
Whose good, Miss Evers?

2129
01:53:00,000 --> 01:53:01,934
Who has benefited?

2130
01:53:01,934 --> 01:53:05,033
We proved that
there's no difference

2131
01:53:05,033 --> 01:53:07,867
between how black and whites
respond to syphilis.

2132
01:53:07,867 --> 01:53:09,300
The benefit of the--

2133
01:53:09,300 --> 01:53:12,500
If they were white,
Miss Evers,

2134
01:53:12,500 --> 01:53:14,867
if they were white,

2135
01:53:14,867 --> 01:53:18,767
would these men
have been treated
as they were?

2136
01:53:18,767 --> 01:53:20,633
You should know
better than anyone.

2137
01:53:20,633 --> 01:53:23,367
Yes, I do, Senator.
If they had been white,

2138
01:53:23,367 --> 01:53:26,033
your Public Health Service
would never have agreed

2139
01:53:26,033 --> 01:53:28,867
to do this study
in the first place.
They wouldn't have dared.

2140
01:53:28,867 --> 01:53:31,533
If they had been white,
you congressmen

2141
01:53:31,533 --> 01:53:34,367
wouldn't have voted
every year for 40 years.

2142
01:53:34,367 --> 01:53:37,734
If they had been white,
somebody would have said
something before now,

2143
01:53:37,734 --> 01:53:40,834
because everybody
knew what was going on.
It wasn't no secret.

2144
01:53:40,834 --> 01:53:43,133
But because they were black,
nobody cared.

2145
01:53:43,133 --> 01:53:45,400
Because they
were black, you,

2146
01:53:45,400 --> 01:53:48,233
the U.S. government,
thought that they were
expendable.

2147
01:53:48,233 --> 01:53:50,367
Now you're trying to push
the blame off on me

2148
01:53:50,367 --> 01:53:52,667
and the fine doctors
who did the best we could

2149
01:53:52,667 --> 01:53:54,500
for the choice
you gave us to make--

2150
01:53:54,500 --> 01:53:56,734
whether to leave those men
in neglect

2151
01:53:56,734 --> 01:54:00,100
or to give them the best care
that was within our power
to give them.

2152
01:54:00,100 --> 01:54:02,133
Nursing them men
was my life, mister.

2153
01:54:02,133 --> 01:54:04,533
We're not trying
to blame you, Miss Evers.

2154
01:54:04,533 --> 01:54:07,467
We understand you were
acting under orders--

2155
01:54:07,467 --> 01:54:09,767
orders from Dr. Brodus

2156
01:54:09,767 --> 01:54:11,800
and the others.

2157
01:54:16,300 --> 01:54:18,767
I went up that hill
on my own.

2158
01:54:18,767 --> 01:54:22,834
I can carry
the weight of the burden
by myself.

2159
01:54:22,834 --> 01:54:26,200
But, Miss Evers,
what in the world

2160
01:54:26,200 --> 01:54:28,000
did you think
you were doing?

2161
01:54:30,166 --> 01:54:32,700
Honoring my oath
as a nurse, Senator.

2162
01:54:34,300 --> 01:54:37,200
I loved those men.

2163
01:54:37,200 --> 01:54:41,266
They were susceptible
to kindness.

2164
01:54:41,266 --> 01:54:44,467
And I gave them
all that I had.

2165
01:54:55,400 --> 01:54:57,867
Willie:
Gillee gillee
gillee gillee.

2166
01:54:57,867 --> 01:54:59,800
Gillee gillee.
Oh, gillee gillee.

2167
01:54:59,800 --> 01:55:01,934
Oh.
Gillee gillee
gillee.

2168
01:55:01,934 --> 01:55:03,967
You sure could dance.

2169
01:55:03,967 --> 01:55:06,467
( continues
muttering )

2170
01:55:07,600 --> 01:55:10,133
Your feet went faster
than the music.

2171
01:55:10,133 --> 01:55:12,100
( chuckles )

2172
01:55:12,100 --> 01:55:14,600
Gillee gillee gillee.

2173
01:55:14,600 --> 01:55:16,600
Oh, come on.

2174
01:55:17,800 --> 01:55:20,300
Dancing's over.

2175
01:55:20,300 --> 01:55:22,367
Come on.

2176
01:55:35,400 --> 01:55:38,367
Willie:
I was dancing on the stairs

2177
01:55:38,367 --> 01:55:40,834
just like Ruby Blue.
Mm-hmm.

2178
01:55:45,000 --> 01:55:47,633
( Willie scatting )

2179
01:56:12,934 --> 01:56:15,567
( woman vocalizing )

2180
01:56:22,867 --> 01:56:25,633
♪ Oh ♪

2181
01:56:25,633 --> 01:56:28,367
♪ Show me ♪

2182
01:56:28,367 --> 01:56:31,133
♪ Lord ♪

2183
01:56:31,133 --> 01:56:32,934
♪ Mm ♪

2184
01:56:32,934 --> 01:56:36,567
♪ If there's a way ♪

2185
01:56:36,567 --> 01:56:39,633
♪ Show me ♪

2186
01:56:39,633 --> 01:56:43,934
♪ Lord ♪

2187
01:56:43,934 --> 01:56:47,633
♪ I can't see ♪

2188
01:56:47,633 --> 01:56:50,133
♪ Tomorrow ♪

2189
01:56:50,133 --> 01:56:53,200
♪ And I can't hide ♪

2190
01:56:53,200 --> 01:56:55,867
♪ My sorrow ♪

2191
01:56:55,867 --> 01:56:58,500
♪ If there's a way out ♪

2192
01:56:58,500 --> 01:57:01,734
♪ Won't you show me ♪

2193
01:57:01,734 --> 01:57:04,266
♪ Lord? ♪

2194
01:57:04,266 --> 01:57:06,266
♪ Whoa ♪

2195
01:57:06,266 --> 01:57:09,500
♪ And if there's a heaven ♪

2196
01:57:09,500 --> 01:57:12,834
♪ Would you take me ♪

2197
01:57:12,834 --> 01:57:14,900
♪ Lord? ♪

2198
01:57:14,900 --> 01:57:17,367
♪ Oh ♪

2199
01:57:17,367 --> 01:57:20,533
♪ If there's a heaven ♪

2200
01:57:20,533 --> 01:57:24,066
♪ Don't forsake me ♪

2201
01:57:24,066 --> 01:57:27,767
♪ Lord ♪

2202
01:57:27,767 --> 01:57:31,400
♪ Oh, there's no place ♪

2203
01:57:31,400 --> 01:57:34,333
♪ To run ♪

2204
01:57:34,333 --> 01:57:37,233
♪ You know everything ♪

2205
01:57:37,233 --> 01:57:39,266
♪ That I've done ♪

2206
01:57:39,266 --> 01:57:42,533
♪ If there's a heaven ♪

2207
01:57:42,533 --> 01:57:47,834
♪ Would you still take me ♪

2208
01:57:47,834 --> 01:57:52,367
♪ Lord? ♪