I am the curator of education and it is my absolute pleasure and honor to welcome you all here this evening for a fantastic conversation that we get to enjoy with cspan and with chrome radio. For those of you who are new to our museum, this museum is not, in fact, new. Two weeks after the armistice was signed, kansas city and can together and wanted to create a memorial for those who lived through and those who died in the world war. Raised 2. 5y million to build the structure that we are in this evening. Would like to raise 2. 5 million in 10 days for us, we would be happy to discuss this. Or, at the 37 million that it translates to in todays dollar. In a 1926, this beautiful art nouveau place opened. It was dedicated to those who have a courage, honor, patriotism and sacrifice to defend the nation and also in the hopes of a just and lasting peace. Which is, in part, and in whole our conversation this evening. This evening we are going to be discussing that u. S. Entry into world war
united states of course, it still rolls along. steaming toward its 40th anniversary season. onpbs. one of the things i wanted to talk about, to kick things off tonight, is, the washington angle to sesame street. the cofounders of children s television workshop, the production nonprofit center that gave birth to sesame street were joan ganda cooney and lloyd morissette. they were friends in 1965, when they got together, joan and tim kind s apartment for dinner. and casual friends. joan was working at channel 13 in new york, wnet, the landmark public station, and, she was creating documentaries, and public service television for channel 13. one of those documentaries was called a chance at the beginning. and it chronicled an extraordinary program in harlem, where ed carries an psychologists were giving intensive training and teaching to in digit gentleman preschool indigent preschool children and the results were remarkable, the kids were learning so much so quickly the