The Doctor Who Injected Prisoners With Cancer Cells Later Led America’s Cancer Society

In June 1956 Dr. Chester Southam of the Sloan-Kettering Institute traveled to Ohio State Penitentiary with a vial of live HeLa cancer cells. Sixty-five prisoners lined up on wooden benches in the prison recreation hall. One by one Southam injected each man in the forearm with millions of live cancer cells. The prisoners were told they faced no grave danger. They were not told the injections contained cancer. Half of the test subjects were Black. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society. Southam had been conducting similar experiments since 1952. In 1963 he moved to the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn where twenty-two elderly patients were injected with live cancer cells without their knowledge or consent. Three Jewish resident doctors refused to participate, citing the Nuremberg Code and what they knew about Nazi medical experiments on prisoners. They resigned and went directly to the press. ✅Subscribe @TheBuriedEra This video uses AI-assisted narration and visuals as production tools to present documented historical content. All historical claims are verified and sourced below. 🔗 SOURCE LINKS: 1. Chester M. Southam — Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_M._Southam 2. Chester Southam Papers MSS 0018 — Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Archives archivescatalog.mskcc.org/repositories/2/resources/54 3. 1952-1964 Chester M. Southam MD injected live cancer cells — Alliance for Human Research Protection ahrp.org/1952-1964-chester-m-southam-md-injected-live-cancer-cells-into-14-patients-and-healthy-convicts 4. 1962 Dr Chester Southam injected live cancer cells into 22 elderly patients — Alliance for Human Research Protection ahrp.org/1962-dr-chester-southam-injected-live-cancer-cells-into-22-elderly-patients-at-jewish-chronic-disease-hospital-in-brooklyn 5. NYC’s Forgotten Cancer Scandal — Allen Hornblum, New York Post December 28 2013 nypost.com/2013/12/28/nycs-forgotten-cancer-scandal 6. Disease of the Cell: The Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital Scandal — The Jewish Link jewishlink.news/disease-of-the-cell-the-jewish-chronic-disease-hospital-scandal 7. Hyman v. Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital — 21 A.D.2d 495, 251 N.Y.S.2d 818 1964 case-law.vlex.com/vid/hyman-v-jewish-chronic-886524091 8. 5 Unethical Medical Experiments — Discover Magazine discovermagazine.com/5-unethical-medical-experiments-brought-out-of-the-shadows-of-history 9. A Human Experimenter Was Vice President of the American Cancer Society — Gizmodo gizmodo.com/a-human-experimenter-was-vice-president-of-the-american-1581915040 10. Skloot, Rebecca — The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Crown Publishers 2010 DISCLAIMER: This video is based on documented historical sources including Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks published by Crown Publishers, the Chester Southam Papers MSS 0018 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Special Collections and Archives, the New York State Board of Regents public record, Hyman v. Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital 21 A.D.2d 495 in the legal record, Allen Hornblum’s account published in the New York Post December 28th 2013, the Alliance for Human Research Protection documentation at ahrp.org, and the Wikipedia entry on Chester M. Southam with full academic citations. All claims are sourced below. #ForgottenHistory #DarkHistory #AmericanHistory #HiddenHistory #MedicalHistory #UntoldHistory #DocumentedHistory #HistoryTheyDontTeach #TrueHistory #InstitutionalAbuse #MedicalExperiments #ErasedHistory #GovernmentScandal #CancerHistory #UnethicalMedicine