Operation Whitecoat - Wikipedia
WEBOperation Whitecoat was a biodefense medical research program carried out by the United States Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland, between 1954 and 1973. The program pursued medical research using volunteer enlisted personnel who were eventually nicknamed "Whitecoats".
Operation Whitecoat: How Conscientious Objectors Served The …
WEBNov 6, 2019 · Operation Whitecoat allowed non-combatants to help with war efforts and other medically related activities associated with the military. “That opened up a great avenue for conscientious...
Operation Whitecoat | October 24, 2003 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly …
WEBOct 24, 2003 · Operation Whitecoat. October 24, 2003. BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, the story of a group of American soldiers — conscientious objectors — who volunteered to expose themselves to deadly viruses...
WEBProject Operation Whitecoat (POW), as it was called, was a code name for an alliance between the US Army and the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church to provide an alternative means by which Seventh-Day Adventists could serve their county militarily.
New Film Tells the Story of the Whitecoats―Adventist Soldiers in ...
WEBJun 13, 2017 · New Film Tells the Story of the Whitecoats―Adventist Soldiers in Biodefense. Randall Larsen talks about his documentary Operation Whitecoat, remembering a U.S. Army program during the Cold War that used Adventist soldiers as medical test subjects.
The Military's Medical Heroes - The Washington Post
WEBOct 9, 2003 · Four decades since Seard and Viehmann, young Army privates, ventured together into the bizarre, Cold War world of Fort Detrick, in Frederick County, for a program now known as Operation Whitecoat.
Operation Whitecoat benefits Army research 60 years later
WEBOct 23, 2015 · Sixty years after the first experiments of Operation Whitecoat, a test program at Fort Detrick that exposed Army volunteers to diseases, the memories of those human subjects’ have faded.
Filmmaker talks about documentary on Adventist Volunteers in …
WEBJun 21, 2017 · "Operation Whitecoat" is a documentary that tells the story of more than 2,300 Adventist, noncombatant conscientious objectors who volunteered for biodefense research studies from 1954-1973.
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Operation Whitecoat - PBS
WEBOperation Whitecoat. The story of a group of American soldiers, all conscientious objectors and Seventh Day Adventists, who volunteered to expose themselves to deadly viruses and bacteria,...
Project Operation Whitecoat: Military Experimentation, Seventh …
WEBFrom 1954-1973, the U.S. Army established an unlikely alliance with the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church and their unequivocal support for a series of biomedical experiments called Project Operation Whitecoat (POW).