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