Bill Baldini in Person

In 1968, while working as a reporter for WCAU-TV (now NBC-10), Bill Baldini was assigned a story that would forever change the care for the intellectually disabled starting in Spring City, continuing across the nation, and eventually reaching many corners of the world.  As a result of the five-part Baldini exposé, “Suffer the Children,” Pennhurst State School and Hospital, was deemed to violate patients’ constitutional rights.  Pennhurst, which began as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic in 1908, closed its doors in 1987.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 at 7:00 PM, ROYERSFORD FIRE COMPANY BANQUET HALL, 269 GREEN STREET, ROYERSFORD, PA - You are invited to hear Bill Baldini’s first-hand account of being assigned the Pennhurst story as a reporter, and learn about his subsequent visits to the institution’s campus and the responses the story elicited, the stories he filed as the court case and subsequent closure became a reality, and his follow-up with former Pennhurst residents.

Tickets at the door will be $12 (members) & $18 (non-members).

All ticket proceeds and donations will benefit the

Farmhouse Porch Repair and Restoration Project.