The patient, an African American man, was a supply sergeant in the military during the late 1950s. He was caught by the military police stealing a deodorant stick from the post exchange. The army, which had reason to suspect the sergeant of other thefts and was undeterred by constitutional restraints on search and seizure, went to his home and reclaimed every piece of army property the sergeant could not account for. The pile of supplies—uniforms, blankets, picks and shovels, cartons of canned goods, mess kits, and so on—could have filled a trailer truck. It was all photographed on the sergeant's front lawn, and that photo became part of his army medical file.