Bob Keeshan

Robert James Bob Keeshan was an American television producer and actor. He created and played the title role in the childrens television program Captain Kangaroo, which ran from 1955 to 1984, the longestrunning nationally broadcast childrens television program of its day.

Keeshan was born in Lynbrook, New York. After an early graduation from Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York in 1945, during World War II, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, but was still in the United States when Japan surrendered. He attended Fordham University on the GI Bill and few years at Hillsdale College.

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