Quechee, Vermont - Bob Keeshan, who entertained children for 36 years as Captain Kangaroo, has died. Keeshan’s family says he died Friday in Vermont after a long illness. Keeshan debuted as Captain ...

QUECHEE, Vt. (AP) — Bob Keeshan, who gently entertained and educated generations of children as television's walrus-mustachioed Captain Kangaroo, died Friday at 76, his family said. Keeshan died after ...

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Bob Keeshan, who gently entertained and educated generations of children as television's walrus-mustachioed Captain Kangaroo, died Friday at 76. Keeshan died of a long illness, his family said in a ...

If I had known as a child how good for me Robert J. (Bob) Keeshan intended Captain Kangaroo to be, I’m sure I never would have watched it. Keeshan, who died last Friday at 76 from a long illness, ...

With the obvious exception of Bullwinkle and Mr. Moose (with a nod to those with enough mileage on them to remember Captain Kangaroo), moose are cranky and don’t want to be bothered. The Creator was ...

You'd have thought Elvis had risen from the grave. It was October 1991 and Bob Keeshan, a true legend of our times, was paying a visit to the Houston Chronicle. There was a mini-mob scene at the ...

I seem to be stuck on a theme — and that is quite alright with me. After last week’s column about the Three Stooges coming to the area twice in the 1950's, another reader (thank goodness to all of you ...