who has co-authored a book on the institution. The lecture Thursday will review specific cases of children who spent their adolescence in Willowbrook, and explain what happened to them after they ...

Though Goodman’s daughter Margaret is still alive, and Rivera’s brother Louis died years after leaving Willowbrook; some lost family members while the institution was still operating.

Willowbrook State School was the largest institution in the world for people with disabilities. When Geraldo Rivera’s ‘TV Expose’ revealed the inner workings of the institution to a national ...

Cohen and co-producers Jeremy Cohen (no relation to Ross), May Iosotaluno and Andi Riveron used books, media reports, photographs and medical journals to understand the story of Willowbrook ...

Rivera's gripping TV coverage of conditions at Willowbrook not only helped shutter the institution, but also changed the way people were treated at such places nationwide. Willowbrook has been ...

Willowbrook. I knew that word. I-I-I remember Willowbrook. It was a notorious institution from the 1970s. <i>As I was reading the depositions,</i> <i>I kept seeing Willowbrook...</i> <i>and ...

In 1967, Robert F. Kennedy visited Willowbrook and stated, “I think that at the state institution for the mentally retarded, and I think that particularly at Willowbrook, we have a situation ...

disgusted by what they were seeing at Willowbrook, let him in -- to tell the world what was really going on behind closed doors. It uncovered an institution -- a wretched and filthy place ...

He is the author of the forthcoming book “The Occasional ... Yet when he and Dr. Wilkins tried to enlist Willowbrook doctors and nurses to reform the institution, they were met with indifference ...