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Tell Me How To Get To Sesame Street, Joan Ganz Cooney (1969)

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Humming the tune to the longtime favorite educational TV series brings back so many happy and nostalgic memories from our childhood. When you’re having a rough day, it would be wonderful if you could go to a place where you can come and play, everything’s A-OK, friendly neighbors there… well, you know how it goes. Joan Ganz Cooney, one of the founders of the Sesame Workshop and the co-creator of the children’s television program which premiered in 1969, can tell us how to get to Sesame Street. Though some skeptics questioned Joan Ganz Cooney’s credentials, ability, and experience to lead a massive project on using television in preschool education, Sesame Street went to become a massive success. In its first season, the program won three Emmy Awards and was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Joan Ganz Cooney’s appointment as Children’s Television Workshop’s first executive director became one of the most significant television developments of the decade.