[Statement about Old Friends New Friends television program].

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[Statement about Old Friends New Friends television program].

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In this typed statement, Fred Rogers explains that, through a grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, he has produced 7 episodes of "Old Friends New Friends." He says that the program will feature "imaginatively filmed portraits of people whom I suspect our audience will want to befriend."

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Saint Vincent College, Saint Vincent Library

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