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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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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On the evening of February 2, 1972, millions of Americans watched in horror as TV reporter Geraldo Rivera exposed the conditions at Staten Island's Willowbrook State School, the largest institution in the country for children with developmental disabilities. Since the late 1800s, the pseudo-scientific eugenics movement urged that people with disabilities be kept "out of sight, out of mind," often in institutions like Willowbrook. The shocking exposé helped ignite a movement to lift disability ou
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On the evening of February 2, 1972, millions of Americans watched in horror as TV reporter Geraldo Rivera exposed the conditions at Staten Island's Willowbrook State School, the largest institution in the country for children with developmental disabilities. Since the late 1800s, the pseudo-scientific eugenics movement urged that people with disabilities be kept "out of sight, out of mind," often in institutions like Willowbrook. The shocking exposé helped ignite a movement to lift disability ou
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New York NOW comemorates the 50th anniversary of Geraldo Rivera's groundbreaking expose on Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, NY. Watch New York NOW's special REVISITING WILLOWBROOK tonight, 10/6 at 7:30PM, followed by the THE PATH FORWARD: REMEMBERING WILLOWBROOK at 8PM. Both will be available to stream online or on the free PBS App immiediately after broadcast. | New York NOW
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