WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?


Fred Rogers was an American Educator, Presbyterian minister, songwriter, author, and television host. Mr. Rogers was most famous for creating and hosting "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood," which featured his gentle, soft-spoken personality, and directness to his audience.

Initially educatied to be a minister, Mr. Rogers was displeased with the way television addressed children and made an effort to change this when he began to write for and perform on local Pittsburgh-area shows dedicated to youth. WQED developed his own show in 1968 and it was distributed nationwide by Eastern Educational Television Network. Over the course of three decades on television, Fred Rogers became an idelible American icon of children's entertainment and education as well as a symbol of compassion, patience, and morality. he was also known for his advocacy of various public causes. his testimony before a lower court in favor of fair use frcording of television shows to play at another time was cited in a U.S. Supreme Court decision ont eh Betamax case, and he gave now-famous testimony to a U.S. Senate committee, advocation government funding for children's television.

Mr. Rogers received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, some forty honorary degrees, and a Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame, was recognized by two congressional resolutions, was ranked number 35 among TV Guide's fifty greatest TV stars of all times. Several buildings and artworks in Pennsylvania are dedicated to his memory, and the Smithsonian Institution displays one of his trademark sweaters as a "Treasure of American History."

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