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- ↑ "Burr Tillstrom's 'Berlin Wall'" on YouTube (accessed 2/16/2015)
- ↑ Julia Child - National Book Foundation
- ↑ December 9, 1965 - Charles M. Schulz Museum
- ↑ History of the Ku Klux Klan|C-SPAN Classroom
- ↑ Peabody Awards (1967) - IMDb
- ↑ 2018 Peabody Awards honor The Fred Rogers Company|Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- ↑ Report Card On Sesame Street - The New York Times
- ↑ Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV?|TIME
- ↑ ‘Sesame Street: the Musical’ is Arriving Off-Broadway This Fall|The Nerd Stash