BY: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted on October 3, 2026 Tuskegee Syphilis Study participants line up for placebo shots. Penicillin was withheld from them for treatment of their syphilitic condition. . Under the terms of a 1974 settlement in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study case, 70 living syphilitic participants received $37,500 each. The 46 living men in the control group got $16,000 each. The 339 deceased syphilitic participants received $15,000 each. The deceased members of the co