"He was canny enough and smart enough to recognize something untoward was taking place that probably shouldn't be. In fact, he probably put himself in a little bit of a mid-20th-century history in that he was one of two inmates from Philadelphia who testified in Washington in front of Ted Kennedy's health committee subsequent to the revelations of the Tuskegee syphilis study." (In that experiment, doctors let hundreds of black men suffering from syphilis go untreated for 40 years.)