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Sesame Street creator Lloyd Morrisett has died at the age of 93 as tributes poured in for the show co-founder. The Sesame Workshop Facebook account revealed the sad news on Tuesday but did not reveal a cause of death.
He along with Joan Ganz Cooney founded the Sesame Workshop in May 1968
Sesame Workshop – then called Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) – created legendary television show Sesame Street which began airing in November 1966.
The idea for the series began in December 1965 as Morrisett noticed how engaged his three-year-old daughter was to the family television set which got him contemplating if it could be used to educate children.
In a lenghty statement it read: “Sesame Workshop mourns the passing of our esteemed and beloved co-founder Lloyd N. Morrisett, PhD, who died at the age of 93.
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