Bob Keeshan

Person · Open Library

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1927-06-27

Active to

2004-01-23

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

103

Total plays

412

Robert James Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004) was an American television producer and actor. He is most famous as the title character of the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which became an icon for millions of baby boomers during its 30-year run from 1955-1984. Keeshan also played the original "Clarabell the Clown" on the Howdy Doody television program. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bob+Keeshan">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 59,258x

2. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,205x

3. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

   · 2017 · cited 6,175x

4. The Complete Genome Sequence of <i>Escherichia coli</i> K-12

   · 1997 · cited 5,922x

5. <i>Stan</i> : A Probabilistic Programming Language

   · 2017 · cited 5,838x

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Quotes

• “The children should never be excluded from what I am doing and should never have the feeling of being part of an audience.”
• “Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo... Kangaroo — Captain Kangaroo … I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House.”
• “We have respect for our audience. … We operate on the conviction that it is composed of young children of potentially good taste, and that this taste should be developed.”
• “Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences.... It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real. … A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age … Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.”
• “One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.”
• “Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.”

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