OT--Farewell Captain Kangaroo.....
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OT--Farewell Captain Kangaroo.....
You will be missed!!
Many here will be too young to remember him...he died today. A favorite children's show in the 50's/60's. I grew up with him!!
A child's heart forever!!
Nancy
Many here will be too young to remember him...he died today. A favorite children's show in the 50's/60's. I grew up with him!!
A child's heart forever!!
Nancy
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I was shocked when I heard the news this morning because I had no idea that he was still alive. I remember watching Capt. Kangaroo when I was a kid. It was a great kiddy show.
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Here's the Yahoo news story:
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/fc?d=tmpl&cf=f ... ob_keeshan
Hugh Brannum who played Mr. Greenjeans died in 1987
imaged linked from:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg ... %20Brannum
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/fc?d=tmpl&cf=f ... ob_keeshan
Hugh Brannum who played Mr. Greenjeans died in 1987
imaged linked from:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg ... %20Brannum
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Wow! Mr. Rogers and Capt. Kangaroo both gone. I found this on the Web and wanted to share it:
Dialog from the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson: His guest was Lee Marvin. Johnny said: “Lee, I’ll bet a lot of people are unaware that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima . . . and that during the course of that action you earned the Navy Cross and were severely wounded.”
“Yeah, yeah . . . I got shot square in the ass and they gave me the Cross for securing a hot spot about Halfway up Suribachi . . . bad thing about getting shot up on a mountain is guys getting’ shot hauling you down. But, Johnny, at Iwo I served under the bravest man I ever knew . . . We both got the Cross the same day, but what he did for his Cross made mine look cheap in comparison. The dumb basmati actually stood up on Red Beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. Bullets flying by and mortar rounds landing everywhere and he stood there as the main target of gun fire so that he could get his men to safety. He did this on more than one occasion because his men’s safety was more important than his own life.
That Sergeant and I have been lifelong friends. When they brought me off Suribachi we passed the Sergeant and he lit a smoke and passed it to me, lying on my belly on the litter and said, “Where’d they get you, Lee?”
“Well Bob . . . if you make it home before me, tell Mom to sell the outhouse!”
Johnny, I’m not lying . . . Sergeant Keeshan was the bravest man I ever knew.”
The Sergeant’s name is Bob Keeshan . . . the world knows him as “Captain Kangaroo.”
Dialog from the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson: His guest was Lee Marvin. Johnny said: “Lee, I’ll bet a lot of people are unaware that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima . . . and that during the course of that action you earned the Navy Cross and were severely wounded.”
“Yeah, yeah . . . I got shot square in the ass and they gave me the Cross for securing a hot spot about Halfway up Suribachi . . . bad thing about getting shot up on a mountain is guys getting’ shot hauling you down. But, Johnny, at Iwo I served under the bravest man I ever knew . . . We both got the Cross the same day, but what he did for his Cross made mine look cheap in comparison. The dumb basmati actually stood up on Red Beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. Bullets flying by and mortar rounds landing everywhere and he stood there as the main target of gun fire so that he could get his men to safety. He did this on more than one occasion because his men’s safety was more important than his own life.
That Sergeant and I have been lifelong friends. When they brought me off Suribachi we passed the Sergeant and he lit a smoke and passed it to me, lying on my belly on the litter and said, “Where’d they get you, Lee?”
“Well Bob . . . if you make it home before me, tell Mom to sell the outhouse!”
Johnny, I’m not lying . . . Sergeant Keeshan was the bravest man I ever knew.”
The Sergeant’s name is Bob Keeshan . . . the world knows him as “Captain Kangaroo.”
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This news makes me sad and feel really old...
OT but related-any other boomers watch "American Dreams?" It's incredibly cheesy, but the nostalgia factor is so high that I'm hooked. All those memories of "American Bandstand," and growing up in the late 60s. The music editing on the show is quite well done, and worth watching for that if nothing else.
OT but related-any other boomers watch "American Dreams?" It's incredibly cheesy, but the nostalgia factor is so high that I'm hooked. All those memories of "American Bandstand," and growing up in the late 60s. The music editing on the show is quite well done, and worth watching for that if nothing else.
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In an odd coincidence, I was just talking about him, before I heard this. I was, I suppose, of the last generation to have enjoyed the show in first-run episodes. Really and truly he laid the groundwork for Sesame Street, (whose original crew, acknowledgedly, were mostly Captain Kangaroo veterans) and revolutionized children's programming.
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I loved Capt. Kangaroo. That and Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and Howdy Doody are the first TV shows I remember watching. The Capt. was my favorite.janice wrote:This news makes me sad and feel really old...
OT but related-any other boomers watch "American Dreams?" It's incredibly cheesy, but the nostalgia factor is so high that I'm hooked. All those memories of "American Bandstand," and growing up in the late 60s. The music editing on the show is quite well done, and worth watching for that if nothing else.
My husband and I always watch American Dreams. It's one of the few shows that I do watch. Some friends told us about it and we've been watching ever since. Now that they've gotten into Viet Nam it's getting more intresting. I do love the music. So many good tunes I'd forgotten about...... I wish my kids would watch. Maybe they'ed understand their old folks a bit better. That was such a wierd, stressful, strange time to be coming of age.
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