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Hearings on the Public Broadcasting Act

U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications. Hearings on the Public Broadcasting Act. May 1969.

Why this matters here

The May 1969 Senate subcommittee hearings on public broadcasting recorded Fred Rogers’s testimony defending federal support in a room organized around expenditure justification. When Others Become Leaders treats that appearance as a case of leadership that increases others’ capacity to stay present—work hard to attribute because it becomes part of the person rather than a résumé line.