Whats wrong here. He had no drug addiction, no divorce, no perve issues, no scandals, well thought of by everyone. I am so glad he was part of my childhood. I pray all kids can also find such an icon. Thank you Captain. You will always be Captain Kangaroo to me.
@@slackerman9758 True that. Seems to be a way just to sh*t on a universally beloved icon who like Mr. Rodgers was way ahead of his time. This is from 62 year old black man who grew watching Captain Kangaroo. Continue to RIP Mr. Keeshan .They don't make men like you anymore.
I agree with you people are always making something out of nothing. I will always love Bob and his show. And he’ll always be The Captain to me, may he R.I.P.
This is evil speaking about bob it's wrong to talk about others it brings no glory in the Jewish faith it's called itsarah this is back bitting gossip false SPEACH ....hmmmm food for thought
I’m a 60 year old African American man who grew up on Captain Kangaroo. He helped me to develop self esteem. He was a remarkable role model. There are none like him today.
CousinRedbird - I'm a 66-year-old African American woman who also grew up with Captain Kangaroo, Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Green Jeans, Mr. Moose, and Dancing Bear. I was a very shy little girl. They helped me to open up a bit more. I loved them all 🥰
i was a middle class white kid, and because Mr. Baxter visited us via television in the mornings, I've never seen color in people. These people are modern heroes. The world of kids TV is woefully short of Captain Kangaroos and Mr. Rogers these days. They taught kindness and community.
Amen my friend. I’m a 71 year old retired long haul trucker and Vietnam era Navy veteran who grew up on Captain Kangaroo. He was a great and positive role model and shared many good virtues. I remember Mr Baxter the black American teacher and neighbor of the Captain. Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock, Mr Moose, and not to forget Mr Green Jeans and the Magic Drawing Board. Thank you sir for sharing your memories which awakened many that I have of a FAVORITE childhood TV show.
He played the roll of a sea captain. In the 1950's summer months they transformed the "Treasure House" set into the "SS Treasure House " and it was like they were on an old sailing ship. Good people can make mistakes. Stolen Valour is one of those things. He more than made up for that through all the good that he did for children. He was one of our heros like Roy Roger's, the Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassedy, and Sky King. Gosh our kids could use some of those folks these days.
Some ppl will do anything to get viewers to watch. I would’ve watched without the “fraud gimmick” I would’ve subscribed but can’t now. What a shame this person making the video is the true fraud.
I too grew up with the Captain. I would never miss one second of him. I felt loss if I missed that show. Kids do say the darndest things. Sad, that some are trying to make something bad of a great thing. We need MORE truly great role models for the future generation to come, like Sesame Street.
As a retired combat Marine (Vietnam 65-66/70-71) I could not care less that he was not at Iwo Jima. And since Lee Marvin bought me and some fellow Marines a drink in Hawaii when we were heading to Vietnam for my first tour of duty, I'll give him a pass too. I watched Capt. Kangaroo during the late 50's and early 60's. I liked him. Tom Boyte Gy.Sgt. USMC, retired
I loved watching Captain Kangaroo as a child. He provided good, wholesome children's entertainment without scandal or perv issues. Not many entertainers today can even come close to filling his shoes
@@tombstone1111 Leftists enjoy destroying good people's reputations. They are driven by jealous hatred of those more successful or more influential than themselves.
I turned 69 a couple of months ago and well recall watching Captain Kangaroo every morning with my breakfast on a TV tray...Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose would crack me up but I always thought Grandfather Clock was a bit creepy! I loved the life lessons in the Captain's stories, like 'Stone Soup' and songs like 'Inchworm' and 'The Little White Duck'! Then, in the afternoon it was time to come in from playing with my friends and watch 'Superman', 'Mickey Mouse Club' and 'American Bandstand' live from Philadelphia! Such fun memories of being a '50s kid!
years ago I watched a war movie with a young Bob Keeshan in it, after it was over, there was a clip in the name listing. It said he saved a lot of men in the war. That's where I earned about it and I felt so proud of him....and really surprised, 1 that he was in a movie and 2 that he was such a big hero.
@@johngraham1001 - An urban legend claims that actor Lee Marvin said on The Tonight Show that he had fought alongside Keeshan at the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. However, Marvin never said this, not having served on Iwo Jima (Marvin was wounded during the Battle of Saipan),[6] and Keeshan never saw combat, having enlisted too late to serve overseas.[7]
He was a good man, a very good man; nothing at all like the trashy garbage of today that gets away with passing itself off as acceptable entertainment, thanks to the apathy of others and a filthy and sleazy media, who decides how corrupt we're supposed to be!
I remember being scared to death by the Captain. I was probably about 4 and was watching the Captain and Mr. Greenjeans trying to talk over one of those cup and string phones. They couldn't hear each other so they started yelling louder and louder. My soft feelings couldn't handle it.
Why did he want the A-Team cancelled? For all the explosions and M-16 rounds fired, I don't recall anyone ever dying, getting killed, or even getting seriously injured by the bullets or bombs. The A-Team was also about military misfits who, despite their insufficiency and incompatibility with being ideal soldiers, they still showed the ability to utilize widely varied combat, non-combat, and irregular warfare, skills (training?), as well as each member having their own set of unique aptitudes, and knowledge, with each overcoming challenges ranging from minor personality quirks, to various character flaws, random phobias and hang-ups, occasional anti-social behavior, to borderlibe OCD, and outright mental illness that periodically resembled schizophrenia (though Murdock was often so fully functional, self-aware, quick witted, and slanting his bizarre sense of humor purposefully to irritate and unnerve the quick-tempered B.A. that it was unclear if he truly was dealing with mild or debilitating psychological dysfunction, or if he was just a strange guy pulling his version of Max Klinger from M.A.S.H. and acting like he has mental illness to relieve him if the responsibilities, and the difficulties, of his military life as a helicopter pilot who was sometimes very open about the extreme difficulty he had coping with what he saw, experienced, and was ordered to do, as a copter pilot), and despite all the dysfunction, and shortcomings, every week the A-Team HELPED often desperate people with problems they likely would never have been able to solve without that HELP. The A-Team was hardly a dangerous show.
"He wasn't a perfect person" No shit... He seems to me a perfectly decent person and I know I enjoyed his show when I was a little kid. Facts Verse is a fraud.
I grew up watching this show on CBS every morning in the 1960s. Wow, what wonderful memories. The only fraud in this video is the jerk trying to convince us the captain was a fraud.
My dad was in the Air Force and we moved around a lot. Captain Kangaroo was a constant beloved figure. We watched him before going to school everyday. Much loved and irreplaceable.
I don't know that Lee Marvin said he fought with him. As I remember the interview, Lee just called him a bad ass Marine. The reason Bob wore long sleeve clothing is he did not want children to see his tattoos. He was concerned it would influence them into getting them. To say one story, (not even told by him), makes him a fraud, is unjust. A life full of helping children makes him more of a Hero than a war ever could.
DannyB19...• I AGREE WITH YOU. ALSO LEE MARVIN DIDN'T FIGHT AT IWO JIMA AS FAR AS I KNOW I READ ABOUT LEE MARVIN AND HIM FIGHTING AT SIAPAN AND IT WASN'T AN EASY BATTLE I BELIEVE LEE WAS WOUNDED ON SIAPAN, THE BATTLE OF IWO JIMA WAS AFTER AFTER THE BATTLE OF SIAPAN.
@@johnnyintrieri Why are you spreading this garbage?!! Mr. Rogers did NOT have tattoos. He did NOT serve in the military! The life of Fred Rogers is well documented from birth until death. During the time men of his age would have been in the military, he was in seminary school and became an ordained minister. As for tattoos, that is the most absurd thing that can be spread - there is video of him swimming clearly showing no tattoos unless they are hidden under his swim trunks. The sweaters he wore were knit by his mother. She knitted one for each of her children and gave them a new one to them every Christmas. As for the long sleeves, most men did not appear on television in short sleeves unless it was for a specific acting part, and no children's hosts did. Instead of repeating this nonsense started by people who are obviously jealous of someone who was a genuinely good person, bother to read his biography. His children said he never even raised his voice; they knew they were in trouble when he used his King Friday XIII voice.
We need more captain kangaroos today Welost Mr Roger's & the Captain but we still have Hunter Biden,what a joke from a family of clowns.He never claimed hero status like Senator Blumenthal. And we still have Elizabeth Warren(Princess SpreadingBull).
Don't know how you can call him a fraud, he had no control over the story Lee Marvin concocted. His show taught family values, and he lived those family values.
@@thingfish000 Amen to that! I know a few who think they are, but it's gonna come back & bite em' in the ass one day. I just hope I'm around to see it. I did get to in one case already. :-)
A big part of my childhood. I remember Mr. Green Jeans, Dancing Bear, Mr. Moose, and Bunny. Wow, I'm a baby boomer and that is do ingrained into my memory. Thank you Captain Kangaroo!❤❤
I had the good fortune to meet Bob Keeshan at a teachers' workshop in Knoxville, TN, many years ago. He completely mesmerized me! And his values were everything that I have valued all my life. He is one of my heroes.
The closest Bob Keeshan came to being a fraud, was the claim that he served in the battle of Iwo Jima. But that claim was made by Lee Marvin, NOT Bob Keeshan..
Lee Marvin did not SERIOUSLY say that. Marvin appeared as a guest on numerous shows. He didnt say it in a serious interview with Carson. Carson also had comedy skits going on, so there can be blurring of the two segments.. If he said something that stupid , it was joke in a comedy piece .
@@isilder no. They weren't doing a skit. I've seen it. Maybe Lee was trying to make some kind of anti war statement or something. It was 1970 and Marvin had grown his hair long and was wearing hippie garb. So.....who knows?
Lee Marvin was injured at the Battle of Saipan in 1944 and spent the remainder of the war in a Naval Hospital until being medically discharged in 1945. I have seen two interviews where LM talked about it, 1970 Dick Cavett and 1984 Wogan (British)…..both times he mentioned his injury and spending the remainder of the war at hospital. He never once mentioned Iwo Jima nor Bob Keeshan. The Battle for Iwo Jima was in 1945! I doubt the veracity of all these recollections of him saying that as the Dick Cavett interview was around the same time as it was claimed he said it.
I sure learned more about Captain Kangaroo than ever & as millions we loved his show as kids during the decades he was on.Captain Kangaroo is a Legend!!!
I'll tell you why. Because leftists/Marxists/Communists....which are taking victory laps as of late....want to remake every aspect of traditional America....primarily ANYTHING that is/was good and positive in our country's past. This is directly out of the Communist Manifesto....don't take my word for it. This is why you've got so many old statues being pulled down by basically kids who don't even know the history behind the statue. Same thing here ....this time it's just poor old Capt'n Kangaroo....God Bless him....who isn't here to defend himself. But read these responses....a LOT of us are here to defend him. To hell with you deluded leftist fools. You are going to lose.
@@joelewing4498 Don't forget "to get clicks and make money". Most of these guys would call their own grandmother a criminal if it would get them extra RUclips money.
@@joelewing4498 First consider who is putting these things together and why. Most of these "examinations" of TV icons of the past are done by people trying to "discuss" things that happened well before they were born. This also explains many clips that are out of context, particularly the 1960 color video footage from HOWDY DOODY. Bob Keeshan was not Clarabell then. One might first ask what sources they are using for their information and just how accurately they are reporting their "facts." Many times there is more paraphrasing, or a reflection of their perceptions rather than a true understanding of those facts. There is also weak writing in that the subject or focus of the piece is confused, and the copy contradicts itself in places. This is just random rambling of the CAPTAIN KANGAROO story without clear direction. I wonder what the real motivations was here and if a personal bias was at work to destroy the image and reputation of CAPTAIN KANGAROO. It would seem not, but again, the creator here seems lost in the direction he was supposed to be going in. While I do not believe the poster meant to destroy the reputation of Bob Keeshan here, others who focus on negative aspect about the lives of celebrities and center on destructive, false comments sometimes get some false sense of power. So when people have done good things and brought joy to the world WHY must they be destroyed? We have enough cynicism in the world already.
Sorry to give you the bad news but he was the biggest fraud of them all. Just call him Captain weirdo And he was a big freaking weirdo what a scumbag weirdo and the story.
The king of fake news is RUclips. The bloggers that post on here will tell their subscribers anything they think they want to hear to get a thumbs up, it's very misleading. You have to be skeptical about what you believe and take as anything other than fictional entertainment.
I loved The Captain and watched him every day before I went to school. Before Sesame Street there was The Captain and Sheri Lewis and Kukla Fran and Ollie. Brings back great memories.
He was no fraud I grew up watching him and he heavily influenced me. Because of Captain Kangaroo I have a lifetime goal to learn something new each and every day. This has broadened my interest into many different subject and became very self educated as a result.
Sounded like a great guy...I'll always have a soft spot for figures that were part of my childhood...I remember watching him every morning waiting for the school bus..Fond memories 😊
The surprise that his grandson Britton put his Grandpa's photo on Mr.Everest..That was such a loving tribute I loved Captain Kangaroo. My children who are 58, 56 and 49 loved him..
When I was a child, I absolutely LOVED the show! Every time it came on, I remember bouncing up and down, grinning ear to ear and even giggling and saying yeah out loud. I don't feel he should be so harshly judged, lest we all be judged for allowing others to believe better of us without always correcting them.
Countin' flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all, playin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of 51, smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo, now don't tell me I've nothin' to do.........
Well, it's good to see you, I must go, I know I look a fright. Anyway my eyes are not accustomed to this light. And my shoes are not accustomed to this hard concrete. So I must go back to my room and make my day complete.......
POOR choice to use the word "fraud". He did so much more for children than almost anyone I can think of. Started watching him in 1959 and am a better person for it. So are many folks who saw and learned from him. In a world largely devoid of honorable, honest and decent people, Mr Keeshan leaves a legacy that we'll not see again soon enough.
I couldn't agree more. I liked him so much I actually cried when I started having to go to school at a time when his program was still on. I particularly remember one episode where one of the characters (Mr. Moose I think) tied a whole bunch of balloons onto the Treasure House and, like in the movie Up, the Treasure House started to float away. Last thing I remember is seeing the Captain looking out his door with surprise (the camera looking upward from floor level to give the illusion of height). I remember being outraged that I had to go to school and would miss finding out where the Treasure House wound up or how it got back. I never did find out, actually. lol
I remember seeing about half of the Capt Kangaroo show before I had to go out and catch the school bus at the end of the driveway for elementary school. If I were really lucky I would be sick that day and get to see the whole show. I loved sick days, I would rather be sick at home than at school not being sick. I hated school.
I won’t ever think of “Keeshan “a fraud”!I may be an adult,but I loved the guy.Good for his grandson,for burying his grandfather’s pictures.God rest Bob Keeshan’s soul! God bless his surviving family and relatives.🙂
100%. he inspired kids to try and be better people. he did it without guile or ulterior motive. the world needs another genuine Cpt Kangaroo, and a Fred Rodgers too. men who live up to their beliefs and morals.
I watched him every day of my life when I was a little boy and Captain Kangaroo still brings me fond memories! I feel sorry for the kids today who never got to experience Bozo the clown Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers!
I would always watch Captain Kangaroo in the late 60s and all the way through the 70's. My older brother and I used to always had a argument about who had the better show and I don't know if you remember the show Sailor Bob in the late 60s, I think, which if I remember correctly that was more of a local TV program around the Richmond area than Captain Kangaroo. But calling Captain Kangaroo even a partial fraud, that in itself is an insult to the legacy of Captain Kangaroo
@@kinghippo1515 you are a jackass!!! What is your problem??? What kind of pathetic loser takes verbal potshots at a deceased American icon? A moron who proclaims himself king of the hippos. Maybe you should change your name to King Hypocrite...far more fitting!!!!
@@just82much51 like I said Captain weirdo what a weirdo! We all remember the 1974 incident did I mention he's a weirdo! And you're a weirdo too for liking a weirdo. Checkmate! PS did I mention he's a weirdo?
I loved the show as did many children growing up in the 50’s. He was someone we all looked forward to see. Hogwash on the negative stuff about him. We need more stuff like his !!!
Even if he wasn't at Iwo Jima, he is still a hero to me. The fact that he volunteered when he didn't need to shows that he was true a member of the Greatest Generation.
@@liamroberts9047 Liam, I think DonnaJane posted here just to defend Captain Kangaroo from personal experience, as he deserves, not to try to chat up a stranger to the degree of giving out personal information.
@@kinghippo1515 , see? At it again. Trying to mislead someone. Trying to convince someone who is not interested in your opinion is a waste of time. To continue is the sign of an immature mentality.
@@luthermcgee7586 let's just agree he was a strange character let's just call him a sick human being and Luther the 1974 incident in the closet with that puppet moose weirdo
Thank You Bob Keeshan for bringing such a kind sweet character, Mr. Baxter played by James Wall, to tv....watching him made me feel so positive about myself.
So where's the fraud? I would say that the amazing things he did for children and society far outnumber any slight imperfections. I still don't get the fraud title.
I'm so thankful as a kid from the 1970's for shows like Capt. Kangaroo. Such shows helped teach us how to live with any neighbor for kindness & success!
I loved this man. I watched religiously until I was 14. I met him once at a promo autograph event. He was so cool. He was so gracious and warm. I had waist length hair and he made a big deal over me and complimented me. I was on Cloud 9 at 8 years old. ♥️
I dearly loved Captain Kangaroo, and remembered watching it when I was in kindergarten and up until my pre-teens!!! Mr. Greenjeans, Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock and when the Captain read books to the TV audience were my favorites also!!! Today's TV programming for kids are dark and wicked and full of immorality!!! Bob Keeshan was a gem, and he was no fraud!!! Oh, I forgot to mention Dancing Bear, LOL!!!
I used to watch it too. My favorite parts of the show was when Mr. Moose would drop ping-pong balls on the Captain, and when Bunny Rabbit would trick the Captain into giving him carrots. I wonder if he was based on Bugs Bunny. I also liked it when the Captain, or one of the other characters, would read stories to the young audiences at home, especially when they would show close-ups of the pictures in the books, while the story would be told by an unseen narrator. My favorites were "The Red Carpet" (about a hotel carpet that suddenly goes crazy, rolling all around the town), "Caps For Sale" (a cap peddler carries his caps upon his head, only to have them stolen by a bunch of monkeys), and "Hercules" (don't let the title fool you, it's not about the mythological Greek strongman; it's about a horse-drawn steam pumper fire engine by that name, in the days before the advent of the "horseless carriages," or the early automobiles). When "Captain Kangaroo" first went on the air on CBS in 1955, Bob Keeshan, who played the title character, was still a young man of 28. The reason he looked much older than his real age was because of the heavy make-up and the grey wig and mustache he wore, thus making him seem like a grandfather figure. As the years went by, and Keeshan became older, he practically grew into the role of an old grandpa. It was the same way with Country-Western singer "Grandpa" Jones, who we might remember from the TV Country music program, "Hee Haw." He actually started his "Grandpa" routine when he was in his early 20s, wearing a fake mustache and talking like an old man, but as time passed, he eventually became old enough to be a real grandfather, so he didn't need the phony mustache anymore, nor did he have to SOUND like an elderly man, just the way Bob Keeshan no longer had to depend on heavy make-up, wigs, or mustaches to become Captain Kangaroo. In an almost similar vein, in the 1934 Laurel And Hardy semi-musical film "Babes In Toyland" (loosely based on the operetta of the same title by Victor Herbert), which was later renamed "The March Of The Wooden Soldiers," the villainous Silas Barnaby looks like an ugly, wicked old man, but the actor who played him, Harry Kienbach (who later changed his name to Henry Brandon), was, in reality, a very handsome young man in his 20s, just like "Grandpa" Jones and Bob Keeshan in their early show business careers.
Please get a dictionary and look up "fraud" because Bob Keeshan certainly wasn't anything of the sort. I'm so disgusted with this trashy title that I'm unsubscribing from you.
@Louis Edwards I'm just trying to be honest with you Louis obviously you got triggered he was a Bonafide weirdo Louis stop defending the weirdo you should apologize unless you are a weirdo enabler
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Whats wrong here. He had no drug addiction, no divorce, no perve issues, no scandals, well thought of by everyone. I am so glad he was part of my childhood. I pray all kids can also find such an icon. Thank you Captain. You will always be Captain Kangaroo to me.
My brother and I watched Captain Kangaroo & we can't forget Mr Green Jeans
he killed a couple of guys at a K-Mart. Pulled a gun on 'em.
One thing is wrong here, the click-baity title of this video.
@@slackerman9758 True that. Seems to be a way just to sh*t on a universally beloved icon who like Mr. Rodgers was way ahead of his time. This is from 62 year old black man who grew watching Captain Kangaroo. Continue to RIP Mr. Keeshan .They don't make men like you anymore.
I agree with you people are always making something out of nothing. I will always love Bob and his show. And he’ll always be The Captain to me, may he R.I.P.
There is nothing fraud about this man. He was a TV icon that all kids enjoyed. He was wonderful and most of us loved him.
The only fraud I see is the misleading title of this.
I love him as a child ..and still do
The ping pong ball falling from the Cealing lol
@@NeilRoy Thank you
This is evil speaking about bob it's wrong to talk about others it brings no glory in the Jewish faith it's called itsarah this is back bitting gossip false SPEACH ....hmmmm food for thought
I’m a 60 year old African American man who grew up on Captain Kangaroo. He helped me to develop self esteem. He was a remarkable role model. There are none like him today.
Which is why we are having the problems we are today my friend!
CousinRedbird - I'm a 66-year-old African American woman who also grew up with Captain Kangaroo, Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Green Jeans, Mr. Moose, and Dancing Bear. I was a very shy little girl. They helped me to open up a bit more. I loved them all 🥰
i was a middle class white kid, and because Mr. Baxter visited us via television in the mornings, I've never seen color in people. These people are modern heroes. The world of kids TV is woefully short of Captain Kangaroos and Mr. Rogers these days. They taught kindness and community.
Me too, I'm about 60 & helped me appreciate my grandparents!!
Amen my friend. I’m a 71 year old retired long haul trucker and Vietnam era Navy veteran who grew up on Captain Kangaroo. He was a great and positive role model and shared many good virtues. I remember Mr Baxter the black American teacher and neighbor of the Captain. Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock, Mr Moose, and not to forget Mr Green Jeans and the Magic Drawing Board. Thank you sir for sharing your memories which awakened many that I have of a FAVORITE childhood TV show.
TAKE DOWN THAT TITLE. HE WAS NOT A FRAUD
He played the roll of a sea captain. In the 1950's summer months they transformed the "Treasure House" set into the "SS Treasure House " and it was like they were on an old sailing ship.
Good people can make mistakes. Stolen Valour is one of those things. He more than made up for that through all the good that he did for children. He was one of our heros like Roy Roger's, the Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassedy, and Sky King. Gosh our kids could use some of those folks these days.
@@richardthompson9836 he didn't steal any valor, the lie was put upon him by Lee Marvin.
AGREED. I watched him as a boy, and saw nothing wrong about him. People always grow up to say stupid things about other people that unjustifiable.
That's what I'm wondering how was he a fraud?? He was an actor and we love them as an actor. I never knew him personally.
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He WAS NOT A FRAUD. He never claimed that he fought in the battle of Iwo Jima. The big fraud is the maker of this video.
Thank you.
Captain Kangaroo sorry to disappoint you was one strange sick weirdo Captain weirdo and we all remember the 1974 incident
@Bob Evans care to elaborate?
@@kinghippo1515 Go to hell
@Gregory Milewski Typical enabler you sound like...
Bob Keeshan wasn’t a fraud, he was an actor playing a part. As a child in the 50’s and early 60’s I liked him and that’s all that matters!
Agree with you, however, Nobody can can compare with Mister Rogers. Maybe those creating this video hadn't this in mind while creating it...
The best comment! That's it. That's all.
Incredibly misleading title that needlessly dishonors a beloved personality.
Some ppl will do anything to get viewers to watch. I would’ve watched without the “fraud gimmick” I would’ve subscribed but can’t now. What a shame this person making the video is the true fraud.
I too grew up with the Captain. I would never miss one second of him. I felt loss if I missed that show. Kids do say the darndest things. Sad, that some are trying to make something bad of a great thing. We need MORE truly great role models for the future generation to come, like Sesame Street.
I KNOW!! I kept waiting for something off putting or upsetting. Glad, in the end, there was nothing.
I agree Greg.
I agree
Don't you dare say he was a fraud. He was a good man, who loved children. I watched him from 1955 and looked up to him. Don't ruin what he stood for.
Agree. Started watching in early 60s
Agree!
Agreed🕊he was a good man.👍🏻
I loved watching his show. Very nice person.
I feel the same way. I loved watching him. I also started watching him in 1962.
As a retired combat Marine (Vietnam 65-66/70-71) I could not care less that he was not at Iwo Jima. And since Lee Marvin bought me and some fellow Marines a drink in Hawaii when we were heading to Vietnam for my first tour of duty, I'll give him a pass too. I watched Capt. Kangaroo during the late 50's and early 60's. I liked him.
Tom Boyte
Gy.Sgt. USMC, retired
The only fraud is the title of this video
The fraudulant title of the video got my ex-wife to tell me about it.
Yeah "fraud" seems totally misleading imo, be well and safe ❣️
Seems like everyone's using false titles for veiws.
Was the title meant as a deliberate come-on? If you want a real fraud, I suggest Jeff Smith, the supposed "Frugal Gourmet".
@@bigverybadtom Yeah, or Bill Nye the science guy
He wasn't a fraud, he was wonderful!
Of course he was! He WASN'T Australian!
I know I was pretty fond of him when I was a kid in the 60’s. Loved his show.
@@DMSProduktions He may have called himself "Captain Kangaroo" but he never said he was one, nor did he act "Australian".
@@bigverybadtom Still, he had NO right to use the term 'kangaroo'! THAT belongs to US!
I loved watching Captain Kangaroo as a child. He provided good, wholesome children's entertainment without scandal or perv issues. Not many entertainers today can even come close to filling his shoes
Captain Kangaroo was far from being a fraud, he was inspirational and made a great role model! 🙏
@@roncaruso931 Indeed. How about a video titled "Barack Hussein Obama was a FRAUD".
@@tombstone1111 Leftists enjoy destroying good people's reputations. They are driven by jealous hatred of those more successful or more influential than themselves.
Im 68 and I remember watching him and being entertained by all the characters. He was a great person.
Same here ,I am 67
I watched as a kid as well. I'm 66. I always thought it funny that Bunny Rabbit had glasses--not enuf carrots I guess. LOL
I turned 69 a couple of months ago and well recall watching Captain Kangaroo every morning with my breakfast on a TV tray...Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose would crack me up but I always thought Grandfather Clock was a bit creepy! I loved the life lessons in the Captain's stories, like 'Stone Soup' and songs like 'Inchworm' and 'The Little White Duck'! Then, in the afternoon it was time to come in from playing with my friends and watch 'Superman', 'Mickey Mouse Club' and 'American Bandstand' live from Philadelphia! Such fun memories of being a '50s kid!
Right there with YoU,,💘
@@schneegeist I Never
correlated that before👍🏼🥕
Wish we had him for our children & grandchildren. I loved the shows growing up.
The title is DELIBERATELY misleading. He was NOT a FRAUD! He NEVER said he was a war hero! Shame on you all!
He wasn't a Fraud the wrong heading for this Video he was 1 if not the Best!!!!
years ago I watched a war movie with a young Bob Keeshan in it, after it was over, there was a clip in the name listing. It said he saved a lot of men in the war. That's where I earned about it and I felt so proud of him....and really surprised, 1 that he was in a movie and 2 that he was such a big hero.
Yes. But unfortunately this is the way this people grab audience. It should be illegal but I guess is not. Press dislike, please.
Lee Marvin claimed that Lee Shan was on Iwo Jima. While I respect Lee Marvin for his service, any issues are with Lee Marvin
@@johngraham1001 - An urban legend claims that actor Lee Marvin said on The Tonight Show that he had fought alongside Keeshan at the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. However, Marvin never said this, not having served on Iwo Jima (Marvin was wounded during the Battle of Saipan),[6] and Keeshan never saw combat, having enlisted too late to serve overseas.[7]
Nothing here about him being a fraud... l watched Captain Kangaroo every day growing up. What a Great man!
The moose and the ping pong balls! My favorite part.
He was a good man, a very good man; nothing at all like the trashy garbage of today that gets away with passing itself off as acceptable entertainment, thanks to the apathy of others and a filthy and sleazy media, who decides how corrupt we're supposed to be!
He wanted the A- team canceled. The greatest action show of all time.
I remember being scared to death by the Captain. I was probably about 4 and was watching the Captain and Mr. Greenjeans trying to talk over one of those cup and string phones. They couldn't hear each other so they started yelling louder and louder. My soft feelings couldn't handle it.
Why did he want the A-Team cancelled? For all the explosions and M-16 rounds fired, I don't recall anyone ever dying, getting killed, or even getting seriously injured by the bullets or bombs. The A-Team was also about military misfits who, despite their insufficiency and incompatibility with being ideal soldiers, they still showed the ability to utilize widely varied combat, non-combat, and irregular warfare, skills (training?), as well as each member having their own set of unique aptitudes, and knowledge, with each overcoming challenges ranging from minor personality quirks, to various character flaws, random phobias and hang-ups, occasional anti-social behavior, to borderlibe OCD, and outright mental illness that periodically resembled schizophrenia (though Murdock was often so fully functional, self-aware, quick witted, and slanting his bizarre sense of humor purposefully to irritate and unnerve the quick-tempered B.A. that it was unclear if he truly was dealing with mild or debilitating psychological dysfunction, or if he was just a strange guy pulling his version of Max Klinger from M.A.S.H. and acting like he has mental illness to relieve him if the responsibilities, and the difficulties, of his military life as a helicopter pilot who was sometimes very open about the extreme difficulty he had coping with what he saw, experienced, and was ordered to do, as a copter pilot), and despite all the dysfunction, and shortcomings, every week the A-Team HELPED often desperate people with problems they likely would never have been able to solve without that HELP. The A-Team was hardly a dangerous show.
What a caring,compassionate man he was. He entertained rather than screamed and yelled.
"He wasn't a perfect person" No shit... He seems to me a perfectly decent person and I know I enjoyed his show when I was a little kid. Facts Verse is a fraud.
No one is!
@@Grundsau47
Exactly. We are all sinners.
I grew up watching this show on CBS every morning in the 1960s. Wow, what wonderful memories. The only fraud in this video is the jerk trying to convince us the captain was a fraud.
I loved this man. He read the book Corduroy on TV, and it became one of my favorite books.
Also loved Mr. Moose and the ping pong jokes!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Loved Mr Green Jeans😂❤😊
My dad was in the Air Force and we moved around a lot. Captain Kangaroo was a constant beloved figure. We watched him before going to school everyday. Much loved and irreplaceable.
Hello Brenda, How are you doing?
He was not a fraud at being a beloved children's icon.
I think my mom went to school with him.
Was there a Mr Green jeans too ya i watched that PBS bewitched the munsters Addams family gilligan's island all those wonderfully shows
He was a sick weirdo Captain weirdo that is
@@kinghippo1515 The man was not a fraud nor was he a weirdo. He was a beloved children’s icon just like Mr. Rogers.
I grew up with his show in the 1960s. Glad to see he integrated his show early and was educational.
I don't know that Lee Marvin said he fought with him. As I remember the interview, Lee just called him a bad ass Marine. The reason Bob wore long sleeve clothing is he did not want children to see his tattoos. He was concerned it would influence them into getting them.
To say one story, (not even told by him), makes him a fraud, is unjust. A life full of helping children makes him more of a Hero than a war ever could.
I agree. Except l thought Fred Rodgers had tattoos. And was a Special Ops soldier.
@@johnnyintrieri Yes I said he had tats. he kept them covered up for the children's sake. I don't know about special ops.
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I AGREE WITH YOU. ALSO LEE MARVIN DIDN'T FIGHT AT IWO JIMA AS FAR AS I KNOW I READ ABOUT LEE MARVIN AND HIM FIGHTING AT SIAPAN AND IT WASN'T AN EASY BATTLE I BELIEVE LEE WAS WOUNDED ON SIAPAN, THE BATTLE OF IWO JIMA WAS AFTER AFTER THE BATTLE OF SIAPAN.
@@mikehartsook5281 in the interview Lee said he got shot in the butt. He didn't say the circumstances.
@@johnnyintrieri Why are you spreading this garbage?!! Mr. Rogers did NOT have tattoos. He did NOT serve in the military!
The life of Fred Rogers is well documented from birth until death. During the time men of his age would have been in the military, he was in seminary school and became an ordained minister. As for tattoos, that is the most absurd thing that can be spread - there is video of him swimming clearly showing no tattoos unless they are hidden under his swim trunks.
The sweaters he wore were knit by his mother. She knitted one for each of her children and gave them a new one to them every Christmas. As for the long sleeves, most men did not appear on television in short sleeves unless it was for a specific acting part, and no children's hosts did.
Instead of repeating this nonsense started by people who are obviously jealous of someone who was a genuinely good person, bother to read his biography. His children said he never even raised his voice; they knew they were in trouble when he used his King Friday XIII voice.
Watched captain Kangaroo every day as a kid ,,never forget it,,Great show
Yes me too
Same here
We need more captain kangaroos today Welost Mr Roger's & the Captain but we still have Hunter Biden,what a joke from a family of clowns.He never claimed hero status like Senator Blumenthal. And we still have Elizabeth Warren(Princess SpreadingBull).
Don't know how you can call him a fraud, he had no control over the story Lee Marvin concocted. His show taught family values, and he lived those family values.
I never missed Captain Kangaroo. I remember Bob also hosted CBS Storybreak. He wasn't "perfect"? Know anyone that is?
@@thingfish000 Amen to that! I know a few who think they are, but it's gonna come back & bite em' in the ass one day. I just hope I'm around to see it. I did get to in one case already. :-)
People will do anything to get their 15 minutes of fame these days making misleading videos on RUclips just to get views is the biggest thing today!
@@waverider227 SOOOOO many of them on here. It's a shame what people will do or say just to get views.
Someone else concocted that story about Lee Marvin. He never said that about Captain Kangaroo. The whole thing is a lie.
A big part of my childhood. I remember Mr. Green Jeans, Dancing Bear, Mr. Moose, and Bunny. Wow, I'm a baby boomer and that is do ingrained into my memory. Thank you Captain Kangaroo!❤❤
SO TRUE ....
Me too. Wonderful man who I really adored as a child.
I remember Mr. Green jeans from watching in the 80s - he wore green jeans.
He will always be a hero. He fought for the minds of children everywhere. Thanks!
Hello Linda, How are you doing?
I had the good fortune to meet Bob Keeshan at a teachers' workshop in Knoxville, TN, many years ago. He completely mesmerized me! And his values were everything that I have valued all my life. He is one of my heroes.
The closest Bob Keeshan came to being a fraud, was the claim that he served in the battle of Iwo Jima. But that claim was made by Lee Marvin, NOT Bob Keeshan..
And Lee Marvin did not fight on Iwo Jima. He was badly wounded on Saipan and discharged before Iwo. Why he made up that story, who knows?
Lee Marvin did not SERIOUSLY say that. Marvin appeared as a guest on numerous shows. He didnt say it in a serious interview with Carson. Carson also had comedy skits going on, so there can be blurring of the two segments.. If he said something that stupid , it was joke in a comedy piece .
@@isilder no. They weren't doing a skit. I've seen it. Maybe Lee was trying to make some kind of anti war statement or something. It was 1970 and Marvin had grown his hair long and was wearing hippie garb. So.....who knows?
Where is the proof that Lee Marvin and Captain Kangaroo didn't serve on Iwo Jima? I'll take Lee Marvin's word for it until proven otherwise.
Lee Marvin was injured at the Battle of Saipan in 1944 and spent the remainder of the war in a Naval Hospital until being medically discharged in 1945.
I have seen two interviews where LM talked about it, 1970 Dick Cavett and 1984 Wogan (British)…..both times he mentioned his injury and spending the remainder of the war at hospital. He never once mentioned Iwo Jima nor Bob Keeshan.
The Battle for Iwo Jima was in 1945!
I doubt the veracity of all these recollections of him saying that as the Dick Cavett interview was around the same time as it was claimed he said it.
I still have fond memories of watching Capt. Kangaroo. He truly was a great and kind man.
I sure learned more about Captain Kangaroo than ever & as millions we loved his show as kids during the decades he was on.Captain Kangaroo is a Legend!!!
Thanks for watching!
Why does your title say he was a fraud? It would seem you are the fraud.
I haven't watched the video, but I would imagine that it shines a light on the fact that he was neither a captain, nor a kangaroo.
It's just a teaser to get you to click on the video.
Why do people want to destroy the memory of a great and good person.
I'll tell you why. Because leftists/Marxists/Communists....which are taking victory laps as of late....want to remake every aspect of traditional America....primarily ANYTHING that is/was good and positive in our country's past. This is directly out of the Communist Manifesto....don't take my word for it. This is why you've got so many old statues being pulled down by basically kids who don't even know the history behind the statue. Same thing here ....this time it's just poor old Capt'n Kangaroo....God Bless him....who isn't here to defend himself. But read these responses....a LOT of us are here to defend him. To hell with you deluded leftist fools. You are going to lose.
@@joelewing4498 very well said Joel and thank you for saying it!!!
@@joelewing4498 Don't forget "to get clicks and make money". Most of these guys would call their own grandmother a criminal if it would get them extra RUclips money.
to get views... make a buck
@@joelewing4498 First consider who is putting these things together and why. Most of these "examinations" of TV icons of the past are done by people trying to "discuss" things that happened well before they were born. This also explains many clips that are out of context, particularly the 1960 color video footage from HOWDY DOODY. Bob Keeshan was not Clarabell then. One might first ask what sources they are using for their information and just how accurately they are reporting their "facts." Many times there is more paraphrasing, or a reflection of their perceptions rather than a true understanding of those facts. There is also weak writing in that the subject or focus of the piece is confused, and the copy contradicts itself in places. This is just random rambling of the CAPTAIN KANGAROO story without clear direction. I wonder what the real motivations was here and if a personal bias was at work to destroy the image and reputation of CAPTAIN KANGAROO. It would seem not, but again, the creator here seems lost in the direction he was supposed to be going in. While I do not believe the poster meant to destroy the reputation of Bob Keeshan here, others who focus on negative aspect about the lives of celebrities and center on destructive, false comments sometimes get some false sense of power. So when people have done good things and brought joy to the world WHY must they be destroyed? We have enough cynicism in the world already.
He was there for a lot of us kids in the mornings and we look back at this time as being wonderful. Thank you Captain, wherever you are.
Avid Captain Kangaroo viewer here... I wished his show was still on when I had my son, he would have loved the Captain as much as I did. ❤
Nothing was shown to support the claim that He was a fraud.
Sorry to give you the bad news but he was the biggest fraud of them all. Just call him Captain weirdo And he was a big freaking weirdo what a scumbag weirdo and the story.
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If so, do say.
@@kenshores9900 you know? You're just covering up for him
@@kinghippo1515 Let me be more clear and direct. I ask you to tell your story. So say what you have to say.
The king of fake news is RUclips. The bloggers that post on here will tell their subscribers anything they think they want to hear to get a thumbs up, it's very misleading. You have to be skeptical about what you believe and take as anything other than fictional entertainment.
His show taught manners, kindness, things many youngsters could learn a two from these days. Loved the show and I still have warm memories of it.
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I loved The Captain and watched him every day before I went to school. Before Sesame Street there was The Captain and Sheri Lewis and Kukla Fran and Ollie. Brings back great memories.
Glad to know that you love the Captain! Be safe and have a great day ahead 💗
He was no fraud I grew up watching him and he heavily influenced me. Because of Captain Kangaroo I have a lifetime goal to learn something new each and every day. This has broadened my interest into many different subject and became very self educated as a result.
Sounded like a great guy...I'll always have a soft spot for figures that were part of my childhood...I remember watching him every morning waiting for the school bus..Fond memories 😊
The surprise that his grandson Britton put his Grandpa's photo on Mr.Everest..That was such a loving tribute I loved Captain Kangaroo. My children who are 58, 56 and 49 loved him..
Hello Rose, How are you doing?
I’ll be 49 next week and I loved him 😊
I am 67 and I watched Captain Kangaroo every day as a child. 1955 was the first air date of Captain Kangaroo
I think the "fraud" portion goes to FV.
When I was a child, I absolutely LOVED the show! Every time it came on, I remember bouncing up and down, grinning ear to ear and even giggling and saying yeah out loud. I don't feel he should be so harshly judged, lest we all be judged for allowing others to believe better of us without always correcting them.
I remember growing up watching Captain Kangaroo the show was educational and had respect for kids. Please leave Bob Keeshan to rest in peace.
I agree Mary
Agree wholeheartedly!! Misleading us all.
Mary Squillacote please is not wanted it’s annoying like telemarketers who call during dinner
Yes I agree
@@sherryhannah498 huh. That made no sense lol 😂
Countin' flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all, playin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of 51, smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo, now don't tell me I've nothin' to do.........
Never a hint of Scandal no cuss words he never called them them kids but children a wonderful man god bless him rip
He was the real thing
Far more than being a mere reference in a '66 country song. I guess that was just a tribute.
Well, it's good to see you, I must go, I know I look a fright. Anyway my eyes are not accustomed to this light. And my shoes are not accustomed to this hard concrete. So I must go back to my room and make my day complete.......
He always treated people, rabbit and moose with politeness and with respect.
This guy helped to raise generations of kids including me. Give him the respect he is due.
POOR choice to use the word "fraud". He did so much more for children than almost anyone I can think of. Started watching him in 1959 and am a better person for it. So are many folks who saw and learned from him.
In a world largely devoid of honorable, honest and decent people, Mr Keeshan leaves a legacy that we'll not see again soon enough.
When I was a kid I loved this show. Fond memories as a child with this show..No one is perfect, you me or anyone.
People are not happy unless they are putting someone down.
The maker of this video is an asshole.
@Diana woh - it just shows how petty and little they are themselves. Shame on them for doing this.
That's the LEFT.
@@JamesSmith-pc6bh what??
I loved Captain Kangaroo as a kid! Bad title & choice of words buddy.
I couldn't agree more. I liked him so much I actually cried when I started having to go to school at a time when his program was still on. I particularly remember one episode where one of the characters (Mr. Moose I think) tied a whole bunch of balloons onto the Treasure House and, like in the movie Up, the Treasure House started to float away. Last thing I remember is seeing the Captain looking out his door with surprise (the camera looking upward from floor level to give the illusion of height). I remember being outraged that I had to go to school and would miss finding out where the Treasure House wound up or how it got back. I never did find out, actually. lol
I agree! I loved Caotain Kangaroo.
So tired of these misleading sensationalist titles.
I remember seeing about half of the Capt Kangaroo show before I had to go out and catch the school bus at the end of the driveway for elementary school. If I were really lucky I would be sick that day and get to see the whole show. I loved sick days, I would rather be sick at home than at school not being sick. I hated school.
I won’t ever think of “Keeshan “a fraud”!I may be an adult,but I loved the guy.Good for his grandson,for burying his grandfather’s pictures.God rest
Bob Keeshan’s soul! God bless his surviving family and relatives.🙂
ABSO-FREAKIN - LUTLEY !!! GREW UP WATCHING THE CAPTAIN !!!
100%. he inspired kids to try and be better people. he did it without guile or ulterior motive. the world needs another genuine Cpt Kangaroo, and a Fred Rodgers too. men who live up to their beliefs and morals.
My day started with the Captain during breakfast in the 60's as a child. Happy memories of him.
I watched him every day of my life when I was a little boy and Captain Kangaroo still brings me fond memories! I feel sorry for the kids today who never got to experience Bozo the clown Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers!
The maker of this vid should be ashamed of themselves for posting a miss leading title/vid against such a great man .
it is utterly reprehensible
I remember Captain Kangaroo from the 50's and early 60's. One of my favorite shows back then.
Watched this show all the time. He was a kids show icon.
I loved that show growing up. Mr. Green Jeans was a favorite of mine also.
How was he a fraud if someone else started the rumors? I remember watching him early mornings before school in the mid to late 1960’s.
Loved Cpt. Kangaroo ❣️
I was a Howdy Doody & Captain Kangaroo big little fan. I had a Howdy Doody chair. Captain Kangaroo was no fraud.
My sister loved that show.
Exactly
That is RIGHT! He HIMSELF did not promulgate those rumors!!
I would always watch Captain Kangaroo in the late 60s and all the way through the 70's. My older brother and I used to always had a argument about who had the better show and I don't know if you remember the show Sailor Bob in the late 60s, I think, which if I remember correctly that was more of a local TV program around the Richmond area than Captain Kangaroo. But calling Captain Kangaroo even a partial fraud, that in itself is an insult to the legacy of Captain Kangaroo
I did a children's live performance with him. Bob keeshan was awesome. Change this title, he obviously wasn't a fraud
He was a scumbag and weirdo Captain Kangaroo was a pure weirdo
@@kinghippo1515 you are a jackass!!! What is your problem??? What kind of pathetic loser takes verbal potshots at a deceased American icon? A moron who proclaims himself king of the hippos. Maybe you should change your name to King Hypocrite...far more fitting!!!!
@@just82much51 like I said Captain weirdo what a weirdo! We all remember the 1974 incident did I mention he's a weirdo! And you're a weirdo too for liking a weirdo. Checkmate! PS did I mention he's a weirdo?
@@kinghippo1515 democrat!
@@kinghippo1515 and you are a jerk
CAPTAIN KANGAROO GOT ME THROUGH A ROUGH CHILDHOOD ALONG WITH MR.GREENJEANS AND MR.BAXTER. I OWE THEM FOR THAT MY GRATITUDE.
You're sweet. ❤
I loved the show as did many children growing up in the 50’s. He was someone we all looked forward to see. Hogwash on the negative stuff about him. We need more stuff like his !!!
@@MegaCarmine12 INDEED, HOGWASH ON THE NEGATIVE.
There IS no downside to what we saw.
I think a lot of us owe him.
"Well you know my name is Simon, and the things I draw come true." WE LOVED THAT SONG/skit!!
I got his autograph and I was star stuck and he is no fraud so why bring up the word fraud?
Captain Kangaroo was a pure 100% weirdo what a weird nut weirdo piece of crap we all remember the 1974 incident
I think the guy telling this is a fraud.
@@kathys.5872 and he thinks the readers are idiots.
You lucky duck.
@@markmayfield2228 Captain Kangaroo is a sick puppy! 100% weirdo Captain weirdo that is we all remember the 1974 incident? Did I mention weirdo
He was my idol in the 50s. Grew up watching him. RIP-Captain
I loved his show, watched it mainly in the 60s, aired at 8 am in Wisconsin. Mr. Greenjeans was wonderful.
Where is the fraud?!? That was Lee Marvin’s doing. Watched him in the 60’s. Loved it.
Watched him as a kid in the sixties loved it!
So did I as I was getting ready for school. (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534 Me too. I miss those times when my life was worry free, long before the aches and pains, when life had some fun moments.
Even if he wasn't at Iwo Jima, he is still a hero to me. The fact that he volunteered when he didn't need to shows that he was true a member of the Greatest Generation.
I'm surprised anyone would call him a fraud for something someone else said, falsely, about him.
When you join the Marines during a war time like he did there are no frauds Jerry Mcdonogh US MC
HE WAS NOT A FRAUD!! I was a guest on his show when I was in second grade and he was wonderful to the children!
Hello Donna, How are you doing?
@@liamroberts9047 I'm just fine and yourself?
@@donnajanecastle4807 I'm well thanks, where are you from?
@@liamroberts9047 Liam, I think DonnaJane posted here just to defend Captain Kangaroo from personal experience, as he deserves, not to try to chat up a stranger to the degree of giving out personal information.
I have fond memories of Captain Kangaroo growing up too ❣️God Bless Bob Keeshan 🙏 May He Rest in Peace 😇
Captain Kangaroo with a huge part of my childhood in the 1970s. Leave the poor man and rest in peace please.
Tell me about it.
Captain Kangaroo or can I call him Captain weirdo what a sick weirdo we all remember the 1974 incident
@@kinghippo1515 , see? At it again. Trying to mislead someone. Trying to convince someone who is not interested in your opinion is a waste of time. To continue is the sign of an immature mentality.
@@luthermcgee7586 let's just agree he was a strange character let's just call him a sick human being and Luther the 1974 incident in the closet with that puppet moose weirdo
@@char524 well it's obvious you don't remember the 1974 incident? He's a strange Weirdo And You Know It Captain weirdo
Nothing but fond memories of the Captain from when I was a child. I always love to see Dancing Bear.
Thank You Bob Keeshan for bringing such a kind sweet character, Mr. Baxter played by James Wall, to tv....watching him made me feel so positive about myself.
So where's the fraud? I would say that the amazing things he did for children and society far outnumber any slight imperfections. I still don't get the fraud title.
Exactly, we all have imperfections in our lives. The only perfect person was Jesus. The Captain was a fine man.
What imperfections that were noted were on the part of other people, not Bob Keeshan.
Remember watching Captain Kangaroo as a child. Thanks for the info...took me back as to how old I was then and that even now remember that show...
Watched with my children, Howdy Dowdy as a child ‼️❤
Yep he’s a fraud alright! I saw nothing fraudulent in that entire 9 minute video. He seemed exactly the captain kangaroo I watched growing up.
I know Captain Kangaroo was a Marine, because a Marine Recruiter showed me a book of celebrities who were in the Marines.
CK photo is on the wall at the Parris Island Museum
Mr Green Jeans was a Marine also. I have that book.
As a kid me and my brothers loved the show. I believe he was a great guy. I don't know why anyone would even suggest the idea of fraud
I'm so thankful as a kid from the 1970's for shows like Capt. Kangaroo. Such shows helped teach us how to live with any neighbor for kindness & success!
Children need more shows like Capetian Kangaroo and Mr Rogers children would be better
I know.
You can bet your boots on that partner and win every time!
He was a good man, a very good entertainer and a United States Marine........so was Mr. Greenjeans.....Semper Fi......
My late father,Merlin Joseph Clair was a Marine who fought in WWII against the Japanese in the Pacific.God bless all three of their dear memories.
He was not a fraud. He was a great educator that loved children.
"Rest in peace captain-kangaroo (bob-keeshan 1927-2004) you'll be missed by everyone always & forever amen" 🙏😔👼🇺🇸📺🎥.
We need his Reruns even more today.They were great and not WOKE
I loved this show and never missed it. Taught me to be a better person. How dare you say he was a fraud !!!
One of my all time favorite shows.
I loved this man. I watched religiously until I was 14. I met him once at a promo autograph event. He was so cool. He was so gracious and warm. I had waist length hair and he made a big deal over me and complimented me. I was on Cloud 9 at 8 years old. ♥️
Hello Patricia, How are you doing?
I dearly loved Captain Kangaroo, and remembered watching it when I was in kindergarten and up until my pre-teens!!! Mr. Greenjeans, Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock and when the Captain read books to the TV audience were my favorites also!!! Today's TV programming for kids are dark and wicked and full of immorality!!! Bob Keeshan was a gem, and he was no fraud!!! Oh, I forgot to mention Dancing Bear, LOL!!!
Same here!
I used to watch it too. My favorite parts of the show was when Mr. Moose would drop ping-pong balls on the Captain, and when Bunny Rabbit would trick the Captain into giving him carrots. I wonder if he was based on Bugs Bunny.
I also liked it when the Captain, or one of the other characters, would read stories to the young audiences at home, especially when they would show close-ups of the pictures in the books, while the story would be told by an unseen narrator. My favorites were "The Red Carpet" (about a hotel carpet that suddenly goes crazy, rolling all around the town), "Caps For Sale" (a cap peddler carries his caps upon his head, only to have them stolen by a bunch of monkeys), and "Hercules" (don't let the title fool you, it's not about the mythological Greek strongman; it's about a horse-drawn steam pumper fire engine by that name, in the days before the advent of the "horseless carriages," or the early automobiles).
When "Captain Kangaroo" first went on the air on CBS in 1955, Bob Keeshan, who played the title character, was still a young man of 28. The reason he looked much older than his real age was because of the heavy make-up and the grey wig and mustache he wore, thus making him seem like a grandfather figure. As the years went by, and Keeshan became older, he practically grew into the role of an old grandpa.
It was the same way with Country-Western singer "Grandpa" Jones, who we might remember from the TV Country music program, "Hee Haw." He actually started his "Grandpa" routine when he was in his early 20s, wearing a fake mustache and talking like an old man, but as time passed, he eventually became old enough to be a real grandfather, so he didn't need the phony mustache anymore, nor did he have to SOUND like an elderly man, just the way Bob Keeshan no longer had to depend on heavy make-up, wigs, or mustaches to become Captain Kangaroo.
In an almost similar vein, in the 1934 Laurel And Hardy semi-musical film "Babes In Toyland" (loosely based on the operetta of the same title by Victor Herbert), which was later renamed "The March Of The Wooden Soldiers," the villainous Silas Barnaby looks like an ugly, wicked old man, but the actor who played him, Harry Kienbach (who later changed his name to Henry Brandon), was, in reality, a very handsome young man in his 20s, just like "Grandpa" Jones and Bob Keeshan in their early show business careers.
I remember Tom Terrific and Larriet
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I remember them too.
I loved him, and his birthday cakes at the beginning of each month. Grandfather clock, Mr. green jeans are my favorites. Oh, and Mr Moose so cute.
Bologna Captain Kangaroo? More like Captain weirdo he was a weirdo Captain weirdo that is
Oh yea I forgot about Mr GreenJeans. 👍
I love and watched the Captain Kangaroo show everyday until I was in school. Thank you Captain Kangaroo for the wonderful memories.
Please get a dictionary and look up "fraud" because Bob Keeshan certainly wasn't anything of the sort. I'm so disgusted with this trashy title that I'm unsubscribing from you.
Same.
@@Chesterton7 he is a weirdo Captain weirdo we all remember the 1974 incident
@Louis Edwards Captain Kangaroo was a pure weirdo weirdo weirdo
Captain Kangaroo was a scumbag piece of trash weirdo
@Louis Edwards I'm just trying to be honest with you Louis obviously you got triggered he was a Bonafide weirdo Louis stop defending the weirdo you should apologize unless you are a weirdo enabler
The Captain and his show was something I could always count on to start my day in a positive way.thanks Captain!!!
Man. Me and my late grandpa use to watch Captain Kangaroo in the 60's and 70's. The Captain was first class. It's just as simple as that.
It was great to see all of my old friends from the early days...Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Green Jeans, Moose and Bunny Rabbit.
I’ll never hate Captain Kangaroo because I have fond memories of watching him when I was a kid & he has a special place in my heart ❤️
I loved Captain Kangaroo as a kid. He was an important part of the day. Nobody's perfect. Thank you, Captain. 💁🏼
Loved this man as a child and still do today.