Upstate History Documentaries

The Salt Babies

Special | 1h 24s  | Video has closed captioning.

The Salt Babies, a documentary from WSKG and filmmaker Brian Frey, tells the tragic story that would unfold in General Hospitals Maternity Ward the week of March 6, 1962. Babies would die, lives would be shattered and when the tragedy was revealed to the public it would send shockwaves across the country and the world.