Letter from the FDA about Wilhelm Reich, August 1947
photograph · 1947
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SUMMARY
A 1947 letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concerning Wilhelm Reich, predating the 1954 injunction by seven years and documenting the length of the agency's investigation (the Wilhelm Reich Museum's own biography, used elsewhere in this bundle only for corroborated chronology, independently describes a 'ten-year investigation' beginning after a 1947 magazine expose). Metadata read directly from the Commons imageinfo API: license 'Public domain,' categorized 'PD US FDA.' Credit line cites the documentary 'Wilhelm Reich: Man's Right to Know' (Wilhelm Reich Museum) as the source through which the letter became publicly available. Used as a financial-conflict/disconfirmation-stage artifact documenting how early FDA scrutiny began relative to the 1954 injunction.
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A 1947 letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concerning Wilhelm Reich, seven years before the 1954 injunction, documenting how early the agency’s scrutiny of the orgone accumulator began. Rights (public domain, U.S. government record) read directly from the Commons imageinfo API. Used as an artifact establishing the multi-year length of the regulatory investigation that preceded the 1954 complaint.