You will be missed!!
Many here will be too young to remember him…he died today. A favorite children’s show in the 50’s/60’s. I grew up with him!!
A child’s heart forever!! 
Nancy
Oh gee…me too. That’s where I learned Waltzing Matilda.
I really hate to hear that.
He will indeed be missed.
–James
I’m a lonely little petunia in an onion patch,
An onion patch, an onion patch;
I’m a lonely little petunia in an onion patch,
Oh, won’t you come and play with me?
RIP.
I was shocked when I heard the news this morning because I had no idea that he was still alive. I remember watching Capt. Kangaroo when I was a kid. It was a great kiddy show.
Is Mr. Greenjeans still alive?
Aldon
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I believe Mr. Greenjeans passed on years ago.
–James
Here’s the Yahoo news story:
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/fc?d=tmpl&cf=fc&in=entertainment&cat=bob_keeshan
Hugh Brannum who played Mr. Greenjeans died in 1987
imaged linked from:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12565&pt=Hugh%20'Lumpy'%20Brannum
Wow! Mr. Rogers and Capt. Kangaroo both gone. I found this on the Web and wanted to share it:
Dialog from the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson: His guest was Lee Marvin. Johnny said: “Lee, I’ll bet a lot of people are unaware that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima . . . and that during the course of that action you earned the Navy Cross and were severely wounded.”
“Yeah, yeah . . . I got shot square in the ass and they gave me the Cross for securing a hot spot about Halfway up Suribachi . . . bad thing about getting shot up on a mountain is guys getting’ shot hauling you down. But, Johnny, at Iwo I served under the bravest man I ever knew . . . We both got the Cross the same day, but what he did for his Cross made mine look cheap in comparison. The dumb bastard actually stood up on Red Beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. Bullets flying by and mortar rounds landing everywhere and he stood there as the main target of gun fire so that he could get his men to safety. He did this on more than one occasion because his men’s safety was more important than his own life.
That Sergeant and I have been lifelong friends. When they brought me off Suribachi we passed the Sergeant and he lit a smoke and passed it to me, lying on my belly on the litter and said, “Where’d they get you, Lee?”
“Well Bob . . . if you make it home before me, tell Mom to sell the outhouse!”
Johnny, I’m not lying . . . Sergeant Keeshan was the bravest man I ever knew.”
The Sergeant’s name is Bob Keeshan . . . the world knows him as “Captain Kangaroo.”
Fine people both he and Mr.Rogers.
I wonder what happened to Dancing Bear?
Do you really? That blows my mind. 
This news makes me sad and feel really old…
OT but related-any other boomers watch “American Dreams?” It’s incredibly cheesy, but the nostalgia factor is so high that I’m hooked. All those memories of “American Bandstand,” and growing up in the late 60s. The music editing on the show is quite well done, and worth watching for that if nothing else.
In an odd coincidence, I was just talking about him, before I heard this. I was, I suppose, of the last generation to have enjoyed the show in first-run episodes. Really and truly he laid the groundwork for Sesame Street, (whose original crew, acknowledgedly, were mostly Captain Kangaroo veterans) and revolutionized children’s programming.
I loved Capt. Kangaroo. That and Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and Howdy Doody are the first TV shows I remember watching. The Capt. was my favorite.
My husband and I always watch American Dreams. It’s one of the few shows that I do watch. Some friends told us about it and we’ve been watching ever since. Now that they’ve gotten into Viet Nam it’s getting more intresting. I do love the music. So many good tunes I’d forgotten about… I wish my kids would watch. Maybe they’ed understand their old folks a bit better. That was such a wierd, stressful, strange time to be coming of age.
Capt. Kangaroo was before my time, but I was raised on Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street. It’s always sad to hear of children’s TV personalities passing away, especially when I look at the junk that small children watch these days.
Awww…sad news. I confess I didn’t know he was still around. I grew up with him too..
Captain Kangaroo sounds vaguely Australian. Strange that I’ve never heard of him. Might it have something to do with the fact that I didn’t own a television until the 1980s?
I have always been proud to share the Captain’s birthday (6/27). With him and Helen Keller, I always thought I was in terrific company.
No, he was quite American - as mentioned earlier, the name probably came from the large pockets on his jacket.
I don’t know if he ever showed up in Australia, but back when I was a little 'un, in the early 1960s, I watched him every day. Before Sesame Street or Fred Rogers ever showed up, there was the Captain - amiable, patient, easily fooled (or willing to be fooled) but reasuring - think of a cross between Ringo Starr on Shining Time Station and Fred Rogers and you’d be close.
Ave, Captain.
I’m thinking hard, honestly I am. But I’m not coming up with a kangaroo.
Thanks for clarifying anyway. Even though I got through a substantial slab of my life without TV, I still tended to notice the existence of the characters other people talked about.
I was a devoted Capt. Kangaroo fan as a kid. I think he had that gift for talking to kids without talking to them like they are idiots. (As opposed to, say, Barney.) Rest in peace, Cap.
Dale