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Joan Ganz Cooney | 07/19/2009 11:00 pm

Joan Ganz Cooney: Nixon, Kennedy and King on Her Mind

Joan Ganz Cooney
I did watch the landing on the moon in my apartment, and was happy the Eagle had landed successfully – but I was in the midst of getting "Sesame Street" on the air (it debuted in November of 1969), still mourning the deaths of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, trying to absorb the fact that Richard Nixon was about to be inaugurated president and filled with anger over the Vietnam War. I have never been thrilled about space exploration so I guess that makes me unimaginative and earthbound but there it is.

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Beth Cornell
Many of us now adults benefited from Sesame St. Thank you.
By Beth Cornell on 07/20/2009 11:19 am
Karen Brown
Joan - You must have been really busy.  You missed Nixon’s inauguration - 6 months before the moon landing!
By Karen Brown on 07/20/2009 12:30 pm
oriana molinelli
It’s also 40 years since the murder of Mary Jo 
By oriana molinelli on 07/22/2009 6:06 am