Together with former Staten Island Advance reporter Jane Kurtin, Aerts in 1971 walked through the doors of Willowbrook State School and photographed shocking images of children and adults with ...

Residents of the Willowbrook State School were often left wandering the ... It wasn't until ABC News' Geraldo Rivera's expose, titled Willowbrook: The Last Disgrace, that the national spotlight ...

The children’s ward at Willowbrook State School on Staten Island is nearly ... Council of Developmental Disabilities, Inc. ABC News suspends Terry Moran after ‘world-class hater’ tweet ...

These are just a few of the atrocities behind the furtive walls of the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island from the early 1950s until the late 1970s. Hepatitis was injected into patients and ...

Willowbrook State School was opened in 1942 to house and ... Kennedy's condemnation and subsequent newspaper reports about deteriorating conditions at Willowbrook would momentarily raise awareness ...

at Willowbrook State School in Staten Island. In the 1960s, Bobby Kennedy called it a snake pit. In the ’70s, Geraldo Rivera exposed it as a real-life horror story. Tamsen Fadal speaks with ...

Everett joins Willowbrook alumnus Tom Hicks as the only athletes to earn all state in football and basketball. • High School Top Tech Challenge: Erick Krenzel and Gabriel Yu finished in 6th ...

I SECRETLY WATCHED THE NEWS. I SECRETLY PEEKED AT THE NEWSPAPER ... LIKE DEBORAH, JOSE RIVERA ALSO HAD A BROTHER AT THE WILLOWBROOK STATE SCHOOL. JOSE HAS CONTINUED TO SHED LIGHT ON THE PAIN ...

Fred's a survivor of the notorious Willowbrook State School, an institution on Staten Island for people with disabilities. In 1972, local news reports brought national attention to the schools ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)– More than fifty years ago, the Willowbrook State School in Staten ... who let Rivera and his news crew into the school to expose the treatment taking place, was awarded ...