Abstract
Happy Anniversary Mister Rogers – you’ve made history!
“It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor … would you be mine?”
When Fred McFeely Rogers sang that now-famous tune to open the frst national broadcast of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on Feb. 19, 1968, it marked the beginning of one of the most successful and influential runs in television history. And it changed the world.
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