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Mr. Rogers goes to Washington in 1969

Posted by rob on January 11th, 2009

Some quick backstory:

In 1969, Fred Rogers appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. His goal was to support funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts by President Nixon.

I was reading an article here regarding some relatively unknown facts about the late Fred Rogers, and was thinking to myself that “Man, this dude was a bad ass.”  I went looking for some video footage of Mr. Rogers speaking in front of Congress, and found the following footage.

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2 Responses to “Mr. Rogers goes to Washington in 1969”

  1. January 12th, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    fil says:

    I have always been a huge, huge, fan of Mr. Rogers. I used to watch him all growing up, and everyone would talk about how boring he was. I think I knew a lot about him because he was from Pittsburgh and all my teachers were such huge advocates for him. He gave a lot back to the city of Pittsburgh and really did some revolutionary stuff for children. I think he’s one of the really brilliant people of his time.

  2. January 13th, 2009 at 12:31 am

    chad says:

    amazing. thanks, rob.

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