and joan ganz cooney was the great master behind that experiment. and she gets a lot of credit for "sesame street" and it is owed her. but, she would tell you, it wasn't her alone. not at all. it was an incredible ensemble. a confluence of genius. she hired the very best people she could find. and she had a great eye for talent. and she had enough sense to let them do their jobs, and get out of the way. one of those people was a producer for captain kangaroo, in fact all of the founding producers had a term of service at captain kangaroo but the one i'm thinking of specifically was a man named john stone. and if you read "street gang" i think you will find that john stone is the very heart of the book. john gave sesame street its soul. and hebrew the word is noshumah and he's this one who had the idea to create a set that would look like an urban neighborhood. with a stoop, and a general store, with a proprietor who looked and sounded like that jewish guy who in the 1960s, had the shop with the soda fountain and the candy and the stack of newspapers