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Mr. Fred Rogers
By JF | October 19, 2007
Recently, I took the plunge and read up on how to slap a video onto a blog. Not as easy as a cut/paste but not too difficult either.
The best part of YouTube for me is when I can use it the same way I use Google searches — find little nuggets of what I see as historical video. Saw some great Bob Dylan interviews from the 60s the other day, really cool. Occasionally, someone will throw something up with Jim Henson and Frank Oz – always on board to check those out.
This video (the one that I hope will pop up in the blog below) is from 1969. It features a young Fred Rogers appearing in front of the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications, but mainly the chairman – John O. Pastore. The video seems too perfect to be real, while you can see that Mr. Rogers is a bit nervous, he has a will to push through and get his message across. Chairman Pastore comes off as a cranky stodgy old villain, and you almost expect him to exclaim “Bah Humbug” at some point. Mr. Rogers must not have been established on a National level yet, because Pastore didn’t know anything about him. Mr. Rogers was there to plead to the committee to not cut funding for educational programming on PBS. I’ll leave it at that, hope you find it as inspiring as I did.
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October 21st, 2007 at 9:15 am e
You have to love Mr. Rogers. He proves the point that when you are speaking the truth you don’t need to yell or pound your chest to have it be recognized. Thanks for this post.
April 21st, 2008 at 11:57 pm e
It’s sad that we don’t have someone else like him around anymore. Jim Henson was soft spoken too.