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          Abandoned in a mental institution at age 7, Bill Sackter would never see his family again.

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        4. William Sackter (April 13, – June 16, ) was an American man with an intellectual disability whose fame as the subject of two television movies.

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          Bill Sackter

          Advocate for the disabled

          William Sackter (April 13, 1913 – June 16, 1983) was an American man with an intellectual disability whose fame as the subject of two television movies and a feature-length documentary helped change national attitudes on persons with disabilities.

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          Early life

          Bill Sackter was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1913, the son of Sam and Mary Sackter, Russian Jewish immigrants who ran a grocery store. When Sackter was 7 years old, his father died from complications of the Spanish Flu.

          It was 1920, and Bill was having difficulty learning in school, and after taking a mandatory intelligence test, he was classified as "subnormal".

          When he was seven years old, his mother placed him in the Faribault School for the Feeble-minded and Epileptic, previously the Minnesota.

          The State of Minnesota determined that he would be a "burden on society" so he was placed in the Faribault State School for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic. Sackter remained there for 44 years, never again seeing his mother or two older sisters, Sarah and Alice.

          He was diagnosed as intellectually disa