Stone, Jon

Jon Stone, who won 18 Emmy Awards for his work in television, was the writer, producer and director of Captain Kangaroo, and later wrote the pilot script for Sesame Street and was the original head writer and one of the three original producers of that program. He remained the principal director of Sesame Street until a year before his death in 1997. "His reputation was that he was probably the most brilliant writer of children's television material in America," said Joan Ganz Cooney, a founder of the Children's Television Workshop, in his obituary published in the New York Times.