The Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, New York, became a national symbol of institutional abuse and neglect. Opened in 1947 to care for children with intellectual disabilities, it soon became severely overcrowded; by 1965, more than 6,000 residents lived in a facility built for 4,000. That same year, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy toured Willowbrook and publicly condemned what he saw. He described people living in “filth and dirt” in rooms like “a snake pit,” drawing major public and po
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In 1972, Geraldo Rivera produced an exposé on the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, shocking the nation and forever changing the treatment of people with disabilities in the state and across the country. Join WMHT this Friday at 8PM EST for the 50th anniversary airing of The Path Forward: Remembering Willowbrook, right after New York NOW's premiere special Revisiting Willowbrook at 7:30PM featuring producer Shantel Destra. Watch both this Friday night on-air, online, or on the free PBS
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