1932

by | Oct 17, 2012 | Cosmic COINTELPRO Timeline

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from...

1929

by | Oct 10, 2012 | Cosmic COINTELPRO Timeline

Herbert Hoover becomes the 31st president and the first president born west of the Mississippi River. Stock Market Crash – The Great Depression begins. The stock market crash throws the nation’s economic system into disorder. Roosevelt’s vigorous...

1928

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Calvin Coolidge declines to run for president again. Herbert Hoover was “designated” to run for president of the United States. There was only one problem; although Herbert Hoover had been born in the United States, and was thus eligible for the office of...

1921

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Rockefeller Foundation endows a second and third school of public health in the U.S.- Harvard University and the University of Michigan -and launches an ambitious plan to circle the globe with schools. Spending more than $25 million, RF helps establish schools in...

1919

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RCA founded. Within a year of its foundation, engineers began publishing papers and organizing the study of long-range radio communications. The Rockefeller Foundation’s work in the natural sciences begins, with support to the National Research Council to...