When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable, the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer. - Bertolt Brecht
Before lab mice, rats & monkeys had the unfortunate roles of disposable life forms in scientific experimentation in the US, humans were widely used in the early to mid-twentieth century. African Americans were constantly being used as human guinea pigs without their knowledge or consent (well documented from the Tuskegee experiments to Norplant). This documentary is a true story of Vertus Hardiman, who at the age of five became the victim of a medical experiment that left him with a painful deformity that forced him to cover his head for 80 years (Vertus was one of ten children, all experimented on with radiation that day). Vertus returns to the area (a small, exclusively Black Indiana town during the 1930s), where the experiments were conducted. This man's journey & his incredible spirit is a wonder to behold.
Facebook Link: Hole In The Head
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Before lab mice, rats & monkeys had the unfortunate roles of disposable life forms in scientific experimentation in the US, humans were widely used in the early to mid-twentieth century. African Americans were constantly being used as human guinea pigs without their knowledge or consent (well documented from the Tuskegee experiments to Norplant). This documentary is a true story of Vertus Hardiman, who at the age of five became the victim of a medical experiment that left him with a painful deformity that forced him to cover his head for 80 years (Vertus was one of ten children, all experimented on with radiation that day). Vertus returns to the area (a small, exclusively Black Indiana town during the 1930s), where the experiments were conducted. This man's journey & his incredible spirit is a wonder to behold.
Facebook Link: Hole In The Head
OneLove
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