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A listener note, this series is about a shameful chapter in American history.

As part of telling a story accurately, we present the point of view of doctors and others from the period

who express racist and white supremacist views.

Listener discretion is advised.

July 1972, San Francisco, California.

It's a pleasant summer evening at a pleasant dinner party in a pleasant apartment filled with chitchat and shop talk.

An international affairs reporter with the associate press named Edith Leterer breaks away from her conversation to refill her wine glass.

Leterer scans the living room. Everyone appears to be having fun.

Everyone except the lone man by the window, staring out at the city lights.

After a minute she recognizes him and acquaintance Peter Bucston.

She walks over.

Hey, Peter, nice view, right?

Yeah, I guess.

There's a long, awkward pause.

Edith, do you know how I came to this country?

I thought you grew up in Oregon.

I did.

But I was born in Czechoslovakia in 37.

My father was Jewish, so we ran.

I bring this up because I think you should know that something very similar to Nazi sciences being practiced here in America.

Today, Ederer swallows hard.

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