See Also:
Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Jim Henson Story.
Life Lesson #45 – Get the Chip Off Your Shoulder.
Bobby Keeshan was a very happy child growing up in Forest Hills, New York with his two older brothers and his baby sister. That is until he was 15 years old when his mother died. He loved his mother very much, and for a long time he just didn’t know what to do. Well, he did finally finish high school, and then got a job as a messenger boy at the NBC television studios in New York. It wasn’t a very good job, and he was there only a short time when World War II began. That’s when Bob knew what he must do. He decided to serve his country by signing up in the United States Marine Corps.
After the war was over, though, Bob went back to work for NBC. He had always cared very much about families and about children. Soon, he found himself being a helper on a children’s television show called Howdy Doody. He was Clarabelle the Clown. Later, he starred in his own television show. That’s when Bob Keeshan became very famous as millions of children in the 1950s began to know him as Captain Kangaroo. Then, as those children were growing up, other children in the 1960s watched him. After that, children in the 1970s and children in the 1980s still watched and loved Captain Kangaroo. As he got older, he began working with congressmen and senators to help make laws that would protect children and help children become better educated. For more than 50 years, Bob Keeshan did his best to help children all over America and in other countries, too. Yes, that little Bobby from Forest Hills, New York grew up to be Bob Keeshan, the HERO.
– Jim Lord