I am one of the original PBS kids. I was born in 1970, and thanks to three older siblings, I discovered “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and Sesame Street” on WYES-TV in New Orleans before I could walk.

The cardigan sweater, the shoe held up in the air with a flourish, the gentle smile and all those good feelings. For 33 years, Mr. Rogers and his neighborhood came into the lives of children and their ...

When the late Fred Rogers took the microphone before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications, millions of dollars were at stake. President Lyndon B. Johnson had proposed giving the Corporation ...