Similar to an extended deposition he gave in 2015 to Kentucky state lawyers, Dr. Sackler offered testimony largely pocked with faint or absent recollections, terse statements and deflections to his legal team.

Then lot 1 will be shumacked first time; that is, passed through a decoction of shumac, then through copperas, and then washed off, and if the decoction of shumac is kept up strong, after being all of them once shumacked they may be dried. … If the black liquor and the shumacking were powerful, some of them will shew themselves finished when dry.

‘Soon after I came out I asked one of the pleaders to have a smoke with me – only a cigarette, mind.’

This is, in brief, a part of the story of the ghettoing of a large segment of Denver's Negro population.