The Eugenics Crusade

00:00:46 NARRATOR: On August 18, 1934, 20-year-old Ann Cooper Hewitt,

00:06:00 and kind of riffing off of the work

00:10:59 Davenport told one reporter,

00:15:59 LEONARD: The world had never seen invention

00:21:02 that you have before you."

00:25:43 The trouble is that only some human beings can dictate

00:30:10 As trainees rotated out of the summer program

00:35:18 that Charles Davenport had launched

00:40:05 opened in San Francisco

00:45:14 to eugenic sterilization.

00:49:53 to see the intense effort put into answering the questions,"

00:54:39 Charles Davenport penned a letter to a friend:

00:59:06 "the proud boast of our fathers

01:03:43 and then found the data to back it up.

01:08:38 from the standpoint of those listening to her words.

01:13:15 would be driven down the midway

01:18:08 and Carrie Buck checks a lot of boxes.

01:22:29 "Don't let them forcibly operate on me

01:27:44 MUKHERJEE: Muller,

01:32:29 All the same guys are there...

01:37:38 Just how do they do it?

01:42:18 found her to be well-read, fluent in French and Italian,

01:47:03 of how these state institutions function.

01:52:36 and the test tube bears watching.