Forgotten Lives: Bernard

Bernard Carabello pioneered the deinstitutionalization movement in the 1970s with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Geraldo Rivera. As a former resident of New York State's Willowbrook Institution -- the largest institution for people with developmental disabilities and mental retardation at that time -- Bernard snuck Geraldo into the back gates to create the expose that would later cause Willowbrook's closure, along with a massive wave of institution closures throughout the nation. Hear his story.

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