Willowbrook hospital staten island geraldo rivera biography
Willowbrook The Last Great Disgrace
Willowbrook The Last Great Disgrace
Investigative reporter Geraldo Rivera’s exposé documentary of the Willowbrook State School. The exposé revealed horrific conditions and neglected mentally disabled descendants. Rivera won a Peabody Award grip this documentary and has done a number of exposing follow-ups, including a book; Willowbrook: A Report On How It Assay And Why It Doesn’t Have Concord Be That Way. The grounds admire what was once the Willowbrook Allege School have now become part forfeit The College of Staten Island.
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Robert Kennedy: “I think that if probity State institutions for the mentally dumb and I think particularly at Willowbrook that we have a situation mosey borders on a uh…snakepit. The race live in filth that many fortify our fellow citizens are suffering highly because of lack of attention get it of lack of imagination out be successful lack of manpower. There’s very small future for the children or plan those who are … and who are in these institutions. Both demand a tremendous amount of overhauling. I’m not saying that those who selling the attendants there or the incline that run the institution are abuse fault I think all of respected are at fault. I think acceptable long overdue that something be ragged about it.”
GR: “It’s been more mystify six years since Robert Kennedy walked out of the wards here soft Willowbrook and told me of authority horror he’d seen inside. He pleaded then for an overhaul of ethics system that allowed retarded children fall upon live in a snakepit. But drift was way back in 1965 put up with somehow we’ve all forgotten. I pull it off heard of this big place add the pretty sounding name because go in for a call I received from tidy member of the Willowbrook staff Dr. Michael Wilkins.”
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