Fred Rogers Emmy Acceptance Speech From 1997

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As we close out the Mr. Fred Rogers birthday celebration ~~that is taking place in my head~~, here's a clip of the man, the myth, the best friend to children and puppet kings everywhere, humbly accepting a Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy Award in 1997. *sniff* I promised myself that I wouldn't cry...

--via Best Week Ever

I never realized how similar Fred Rogers and Carl Sagan are in the way they speak. Such wonderful doses of carefully metered warmth.

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Is the candid camera thing around anywhere? I tried to find it without luck - I hadn't heard about it until this week, and it sure sounds like it would great.

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I like your posts, but please, enough with the strikeout humour. That was so 2009.

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