NEW YORK - 1970: Puppeteers (L-R: Daniel Seagren holding and Jim Henson working Ernie and Frank Oz with Bert rehearse for an episode of Sesame Street at Reeves TeleTape Studio in 1970 in New York ...

On May 7, 1970, Jackson-based newspaper The Clarion-Ledger said Mississippi Gov. John Bell Williams had no opinion on the news about "Sesame Street" because he "[doesn't] know what it is." ...

According to Kearney and Levine, exposure to “Sesame Street” in the early 1970s “led to positive impacts on the educational performance of the generation of children who experienced their ...