Between 1988 and 1993, First Tuesday firmly established itself as … Bad Trip To Edgewood Between 1955 and 1975, the U.S. Army used 7,000 enlisted soldiers as human guinea pigs for experiments involving a wide array of biological and chemical warfare agents. Description. My thoughts kept returning to the film and it took a while to get it out of my system. In 2003 A & E televised an investigative report titled, "Bad Trip to Edgewood", and at one time sold copies on their website. Most notably the photographs were not deposited, and there are a number of other discrepancies.Presented to the Centre by Michael Bilton, Yorkshire Television on 18 Aug and 24 Sep 1993.The files focus on secret projects carried out by the US Army Chemical Corps at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Edgewood, Maryland USA, between 1955-1975, in which US Army volunteers were used to test the effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), benzilates such as BZ (3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, also known a QNB) and glycolates. Bonner explains how he has had violent episodes with his children and his wife and that because of the secrecy about Edgewood he couldn’t tell his wife about why he was experiencing these violent seizures until sometime in the 1980s.The film ends with a former volunteer talking about how the Edgewood soldiers want to be what they were and not what they have become, alongside a shocking clip of a young man sitting in a booth, high on drugs, unable to work out a simple mathematical sum.I have to admit that after watching A Bad Trip to Edgewood I had a sickening feeling in my stomach.

Documentary programme BADTRIP: 1/1 . The collected evidence files have been arranged in roughly alphabetical order, in which they were received, and retain their original titles.Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. The man is obviously disoriented and when interviewed after the exercise is notably forgetful and erratic, claiming he could “run 100 miles.”The film shows evidence of many of the armies fittest and most intelligent soldiers being given the BZ secret compound.

Other notable cases frequently mentioned in the files include that of Frank Olson and Harold Blauer. share. The film shows the man erratically laughing. Another man, also on LSD, is asked to do some simple sums of which he couldn’t do and actually said out loud that he felt “incapacitated.”The film interviews the same soldier years later at the time the documentary was made and he explained how he had the worst headache he had ever had when given those drugs, which lasted for days.During the documentary, the film explains how the volunteers were told to keep the experiments a secret but as the film shows, for some of the soldiers, the experiments were to have devastating consequences.Perhaps even more outrageously, the documentary goes on to show how during the 1950s the military would carry out secret experiments in public.

This stuff really happened. Dell explains of how he had in the ensuing years developed diabetes, had a nervous breakdown, a how he was a “complete vegetable” for years during the 1980s.Private Steve Bonner, another medical “volunteer”, speaks of how his personality changed after his time at Edgewood, how he has gone from a passive person to an individual with an extremely bad temper.

Clips of cats on LSD and rabbits, monkeys and dogs having their faces forced into machinery and goats being blown up in chemical blasts is shocking and disturbing enough.However, as the film then describes, such experiments were not confined to animals.The documentary shows clips of the testing of humans which lasted from 1955 to 1975, in which 7,000 soldiers were used as guinea pigs, half of which were tested with so-called “psycho chemicals” and mind altering drugs. Does anyone have a copy (either DVD or VHS), or know where one can be obtained. All Rights Reserved. These tests were conducted jointly by the U.S. Army Intelligence Board and the Chemical Warfare Laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal’s research facility in Maryland.

Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Yorkshire Television is an independent television company based in Leeds, Yorkshire.

The aim of the experiments was to analyze the impact of chemical warfare agents on military personnel to test the likes of vaccines, pharmaceuticals and protective clothing (1).The documentary can be viewed below and starts by showing clips of animals being cruelly tested in the Edgewood laboratory with the voice over stating that animals were always tested before humans. For obvious reasons I am unwilling to download from the web. save hide report.

Between 1988 and 1993, First Tuesday firmly established itself as a major showcase for documentary on British Television, achieving consistent praise from critics, warm appreciation from viewers and a number of awards. Bad Trip to Edgewood was originally broadcast in 1993 by the UK’s ITV Yorkshire. Bad Trip to Edgewood was originally broadcast in 1993 by the UK’s ITV Yorkshire. Now I cannot find a copy or even an acknowledgement that it ever existed. This stuff really happened. In 1975 the Material has been divided into three sections, documentary videos, interview transcripts and collected evidence.