On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers was in Washington, D.C., testifying before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications. A year earlier, Rogers had begun hosting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, a children's television show launched in Pittsburgh on a local affiliate of NET. He was there hoping to convince Congress not to cut in half a promised $20 million fe…
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