TIL that Mr Rodgers, when receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Daytime Emmys, asked his audience to take "ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are", causing many to cry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers#Emmys_for_programming



Submitted February 13, 2015 at 12:48AM by Top_Hat_Matt http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2voj79/til_that_mr_rodgers_when_receiving_his_lifetime/