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Peter Buxtun
1937 - 2024
Peter Buxtun
1937 - 2024
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BORN
1937
DIED
2024
Peter Buxtun Obituary
Peter Buxtun was a United States Public Health Service employee who revealed that the U.S. government had been experimenting on Black men without their knowledge, a "study" which came to be known as the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
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Read the full obituary in Legacy's headline news section.
(Photo: Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
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James Stenhouse
July 25, 2025
I simply want to say "thank you"
Cynthia A.
February 23, 2025
Your dedication to the various projects and issues you believed in will remembered and continued on by those you inspired. Plus I will cherish all those early morning trips to the San Francisco Flea Market as well as your knowledge of world history. RIP Peter
Fiorella Gago
September 13, 2024
Thank you Peter. RIP.
Karen Hudmon
July 18, 2024
I unfortunately had never met Peter, but I knew his story well...I read the book "Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment" (author, James Jones) after I completing my doctoral studies in 1995 -- since then, as a professor I have had all of my graduate students in public health and pharmacy read this book. It tells such an important story, one that every member of the health care system (in particular) and the general public should know.
Thank you, Peter, for your bravery. And condolences to the family. At 86, he lived a long and meaningful life!
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Gina Ventola
July 18, 2024
I hadn't heard of this American hero before. What a tale of courage! Thanks, Legacy, for bringing his life to my attention.
Elizabeth Bell
July 16, 2024
RIP Peter
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