In the wake of the news, a video of Fred Rogers, the late host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, testifying before Congress in 1969 is going viral. Among those who shared the video are the X ...

Following the news, a speech from the host of Mister Rogers’ Neighbourhood, testifying before Congress in 1969, was shared on social media and quickly went viral. Rogers spoke to Congress as ...

In 1969, Rogers testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications — chaired by Sen. John Pastore — to oppose huge cuts in funding to public broadcasting proposed by the Nixon ...

On April 1,1954, Fred Rogers left his promising career working as a floor manager at NBC in New York to work at the public TV station WQED while studying to become a Presbyterian minister because ...

We’ve Been Here Before As the saying goes, history has a way of repeating itself. In 1969, President Richard Nixon and the Republican party proposed a plan in Congress to slash funding for public ...