How to pronounce “coon” in English

Joan Ganz Cooney and Fred Rogers went into TV to do good, to basically make the world a better place-- like pure altruism, which is kind of amazing.

Joan Ganz Cooney went from CBS to the precursor of today's Channel 13 in New York, WNDT, because they thought, OK, let's be real.

that Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett were interested in doing.

Well Joan Ganz Cooney always called it an experiment.

Joan Ganz Cooney was really good-- and this is a great leadership thing.

confronted Joan Ganz Cooney and said, where the hell are we?

They're Maine coons, and they're kittens, and they're enormous, and they're adorable.

I need a coonhound to come with me.

But Gene Roddenberry and Gene Coon gave us this vision of a future.

And so when Joan Ganz Cooney tapped John Stone, it's basically, run "Sesame Street." And I want to say, John Stone deserves a lot of credit, too.

And it's "Maddie the Coonhound, a Super Serious Project About a Dog and a Motorcycle." So the plan is to traverse all of America

Turkish Vans, Maine Coons, Bangles, some other exotic mixes do you have a history with the water and appreciation for the water.

Turkish Vans, and Maine Coons, as well as Bengals, and some exotic mixes do have history with water and, actually, get in and swim.

And then we also have some Maddie the coonhound shirts and stickers.

center get away from doop and modernist provocations and Jeff Coons and get back to the center and once you go back and

In the 1950s, Joan Ganz Cooney was a young woman from Arizona who had finished college.

Yeah. And what were Ganz Cooney and Stone and them thinking about?

Television Workshop, which is Joan Ganz Cooney's production entity that made "Sesame Street," they thought the character was too, quote, unquote, street.

In this case, Joan Ganz Cooney listens to the anti-Roosevelt side and took their side.

So I decided that in this instance I was going to use the actual image of a coon.

to alleviate poverty? Somehow, Joan Cooney said, television is going to be the way to alleviate poverty and better

They got together. And remember, Joan Ganz Cooney, she saw television as a means to possibly alleviate the effects of poverty, shine a spotlight on poverty, and maybe

And so there's this dinner party where the two of them both go to this dinner party at Joan Ganz Cooney's apartment

Yeah. And at that time, how were Cooney and Morrisett thinking about their goals in creating this show, specifically with trade offs around funding

Yeah. And at that time, Joan Ganz Cooney was thinking specifically that she wanted a show that would target that same demographic

Can you tell us about Marlo Thomas and how she, like Cooney and Morrisett, also saw a way for media to shape America for the better?

After months of planning, we are so excited to introduce Maddie the coonhound and Theron.

same way that I did for the young man at the Jewel, helped get Coonley that was on the closed list, to now a gifted program that's bustin' at the seams.

Yes. Well, that coonskin cap.

Well, I just have to choose me in this moment, and go and coon on stage for a check,

First of all, I'm really excited because I love Carrie Coon.

So the symbols here I wanted to use, the derogatory term for black people, coon.

So I'm hoping we can start with the woman who forms one of the centerpieces of your book, Joan Ganz Cooney.

And he had a friend named Julian Ganz who, just by chance, was the cousin of Joan Ganz Cooney.

So basically, the thinking back then is, like, Puerto Rican and Black kids in New York City-- that was who people like Joan Ganz Cooney