Jean Heller Explained

Jean Heller is an American writer and former investigative journalist. She is best known for publishing the news of the Tuskegee syphilis study in 1972,[1] [2] and reporting the inaccurate claims by the United States of an Iraqi buildup on the Saudi Arabian border during the Gulf War in 1990.[3] [4] She has reported for the St. Petersburg Times, Newsday and the Associated Press.

Education

Jean Heller graduated from The Ohio State University School of Journalism in 1964.

Career

In 1972, Associated Press colleague Edith Lederer provided Heller with evidence she had received from whistleblower Peter Buxtun detailing that, for four decades, people enrolled in the Tuskegee study had been deliberately denied treatment for syphilis.[5] Years later, Heller called the story "one of the grossest violations of human rights I can imagine".[6] Her article exposing the unethical study was published in the Washington Star on July 25, 1972, and it became front-page news in the New York Times the following day. The exposé earned Heller the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award, and the George Polk Award.[7] [8]

Heller also writes the Deuce Mora series of novels, which feature a fictional Chicago newspaper columnist.[9]

Personal life

Heller lives in North Carolina.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: America's Dirty Little Secret. 2007-11-30.
  2. News: Jean . Heller . Syphilis . While Jean Heller published the story, it was social worker Peter Buxtun, a former employee of the United States Public Health Service who was the whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Victims in the U.S. Study Went Untreated for 40 Years . . July 26, 1972 . 1, 8.
  3. Web site: Guardian News . No casus belli? Invent one! . 2007-11-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070608070721/http://foi.missouri.edu/polinfoprop/nocasusbelli.html . 2007-06-08 .
  4. News: Heller . Jean . Photos don't show buildup . https://archive.today/20130201014833/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50586247.html?dids=50586247:50586247&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+6,+1991&author=JEAN+HELLER&pub=St.+Petersburg+Times&edition=&startpage=1.A&desc=Photos+don't+show+buildup . dead . February 1, 2013 . St. Petersburg Times . 1991-01-06.
  5. Web site: Breed . Allen G . 2022-07-25 . How an AP reporter broke the Tuskegee syphilis story . 2022-07-25 . AP NEWS . en.
  6. News: 'You've got bad blood': The horror of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Brown. DeNeen L.. 16 May 2017. Washington Post. 10 November 2019.
  7. News: AP Reporter Wins Journalism Award . . April 26, 1973 . May 2, 2020 . . 10-D . 102 . 32673 . Newspapers.com.
  8. News: How an AP reporter broke the Tuskegee syphilis story. July 24, 2022. ALLEN G. . BREED. Associated Press. Seattle Times.
  9. News: Jean Heller and Cheryl Hollon bring back engaging mystery series. Bancroft. Colette. 7 November 2018. Tampa Bay Times. 10 November 2019.

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