Dr. Lewis Dixon :
We'll need a full autopsy.
With special emphasis on the cranial and oral areas.
Let us know when the report comes in.
Will you, please?
I'd better do this alone.
******
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
Um, we mean you no, uh, harm.
D- Do you understand?
We will not Hurt You.
ZIRA :
Poor Dr. Milo...
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
Doctor?
ZIRA :
Yes. Doctor.
You killed him!
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
No, no I didn't. He did.
One of your own kind.
ZIRA :
He's a gorilla.
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
Well, look, uh, there's nothing
to be afraid of.
You see, he's in chains.
He's under sedation.
Do you understand that?
ZIRA :
I should. I've been doing it
half my life to humans.
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
Humans..?
ZIRA :
I'm A Psychiatrist.
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
Oh, uh, well, I'm --
I'm A Psychiatrist.... too....
Do you, uh, have A Name?
CORNELIUS :
My Name is Cornelius.
This is My Wife, Zira.
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
And I'm Lewis. Lewis Dixon.
.....Nobody's going to believe this!
ZIRA :
Believe what?
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
That primitive apes can talk!
ZIRA :
Primitive?!
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
Uh, well, I mean that in our, um...
uh, primitive, um, Civilization...
Apes just don't talk.
I mean, I think it's important...
that when our primitive security
precautions are lifted...
that the first time you say
anything in public...
you should talk to, what
we primitively call...
"The Right People."
ZIRA :
May I Say Something...
personal?
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
Please.
ZIRA :
I Like You.
CORNELIUS :
I have, from The Beginning.
*****
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
You were fabulous!
Just wonderful!
STEVIE :
You were marvelous.
They loved you.
All that applause.
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
But, there was a moment —
ZIRA :
There was, when he started to ask us —
CORNELIUS :
Zira!
ZIRA :
Cornelius, I think we should tell them.
CORNELIUS :
No.
ZIRA :
But o-only to Lewis and Stevie.
CORNELIUS :
Oh, Zira.
ZIRA :
I have to be honest with someone.
Cornelius, please.
You tell them.
CORNELIUS :
Well, you see...
We did know Colonel Taylor.
We came to love him.
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
I don't understand what harm there could be
in telling that to The Commission.
CORNELIUS :
Where we come from,
uh, Apes did not love Humans.
They, uh, hunted them for Sport...
uh, much as you would animals.
ZIRA :
Yes. We used their bodies,
alive and dead, experimentally
for anatomical dissection
and scientific research.
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
Well, uh, we do the same thing to animals.
I mean, as a scientist, I sympathise...
but, uh, I agree that that's a revelation
the masses would not take kindly to.
I think you did The Right Thing in denying
knowledge of Colonel Taylor.
ZIRA :
There was another reason.
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
What?
ZIRA :
They would have asked
if he was still alive.
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
And is he?
CORNELIUS :
Oh, no, no, no, he can't be.
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
Well, how do you know?
CORNELIUS :
Because —
Dr. Lewis Dixon :
Well?
CORNELIUS :
From the windows of the spaceship
We saw the Earth...
destroyed.
++++++
Khan Noonian Singh :
I had planned it all so well. In just one month,
we move on to our winter quarters in Florida.
I could have released you in the Everglades, and, oh,
my dear, dear friends... you might have lived
happily ever after.
But now, what can I do?
Zira :
You have done enough to make us
grateful to you forever.
Khan Noonian Singh :
I did it because I like chimpanzees best of all apes
and you, the best of all chimpanzees.
I did it because I hate those
who try to alter Destiny,
which is the unalterable
Will of God.
And if it is Man's Destiny one day
to be dominated...
then, oh, please, God, let Him
be dominated by such as you.
All I can now do to help you...
is give you this for The Baby --
It's a medal of St. Francis of Assisi.
Cornelius :
Who is he?
Khan Noonian Singh :
He was -- a holy man who loved
and cared for all animals. Yes.
Zira :
Oh, thank you.
Khan Noonian Singh :
We'll hang it around The Baby's neck.
For protection, huh?
Cornelius :
Thank you.
Khan Noonian Singh :
Yes. And now, my dear, dear friends...
before The Police come and
The Audience gathers...
you and your pretty baby must go.
Lewis is on his way.
Zira :
Armando.
Khan Noonian Singh :
Yes?
Zira :
I should like to say good-bye to Heloise first.
Khan Noonian Singh :
If only she could speak, she would say
how very sorry she is.
Zira :
I know, but we understand each other.
Khan Noonian Singh :
All right. All right.
++++++
Senator Pastore:
All right Rogers, you've got the floor.
Mr. Rogers:
Senator Pastore, this is a philosophical statement
and would take about ten minutes to read,
so I'll not do that.
One of the first things that A Child learns
in a healthy family is Trust, and
I Trust what you have said,
that you will read this.
It's very important to me.
I care deeply about children.
Senator Pastore:
Will it make you happy if you read it?
Mr. Rogers:
I'd just like to talk about it, if it's alright.
My first children's program was on WQED
fifteen years ago, and its budget was $30.
Now, with the help of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation
and National Educational Television,
as well as all of the affiliated stations --
each station pays to show our program.
It's a unique kind of funding
in educational television.
With this help, now Our Program
has a budget of $6000.
It may sound like quite a difference,
but $6000 pays for less than
two minutes of cartoons.
Two minutes of animated,
what I sometimes say,
bombardment.
I'm very much concerned, as I know you are,
about what's being delivered to
Our Children in This Country.
And I've worked in the field of
child development for six years now,
trying to understand
the inner needs
of children.
We deal with such things as --
as the inner drama of childhood.
We don't have to bop somebody over the head to...
make drama on the screen.
We deal with such things as getting a haircut,
or the feelings about brothers and sisters,
and the kind of anger that arises
in simple family situations.
And we speak to it constructively.
Senator Pastore:
How long of a program is it?
Mr. Rogers:
It's a half hour every day.
Most channels schedule it in the
noontime as well as in the evening.
WETA here has scheduled it
in the late afternoon.
Senator Pastore:
Could we get a copy of this so that we can see it?
Maybe not today, but I'd like to see the program.
Mr. Rogers:
I'd like very much for you to see it.
Senator Pastore:
I'd like to see the program itself,
or any one of them.
Mr. Rogers:
We made a hundred programs for EEN,
the Eastern Educational Network,
and then when the money ran out,
people in Boston and Pittsburgh and Chicago
all came to the fore and said
"We've got to have more of this
neighborhood expression
of Care."
And this is what --
This is What I Give.
I give an Expression of Care every day to each child,
to help him realize that he is unique.
I end the program by saying,
"You've made this day a special day,
by just your being you.
There's no person in the whole world
like you, and I like you,
just the way you are."
And I feel that if we in public television
can only make it clear that
feelings are mentionable and manageable,
we will have done a great service for mental health.
I think that it's much more dramatic that
two men could be working out
their feelings of anger --
much more dramatic than showing
something of gunfire.
I'm constantly concerned about what our children are seeing,
and for 15 years I have tried in this country and Canada,
to present what I feel is a meaningful Expression of Care.
Senator Pastore:
Do you narrate it?
Mr. Rogers:
I'm The Host, yes. And I do all the puppets
and I write all the music, and
I write all the scripts --
Senator Pastore:
Well, I'm supposed to be a pretty tough guy,
and this is the first time I've had goose bumps
for the last two days.
Mr. Rogers:
Well, I'm grateful, not only for your goose bumps,
but for your interest in -- in
our kind of communication.
Could I tell you the words of one of the songs,
which I feel is very important?
Senator Pastore :
Yes.
Mr. Rogers:
This has to do with that good feeling of Control
which I feel that children need to know is there.
And it starts out,
"What do you do with the
mad that you feel?"
And that first line came
straight from a child.
I work with children doing puppets in --
in very personal communication
with small groups:
"What do you do with the
mad that you feel?"
When you feel so mad
you could bite.
When the whole wide world
seems oh so wrong,
and nothing you do
seems very right.
What do you do?
Do you punch a bag?
Do you pound some clay or some dough?
Do you round up friends for a game of tag
or see how fast you go?
It's great to be able to stop
when you've planned
a thing that's wrong.
And be able to do something else
instead, and think this song --
'I can stop when I want to.
Can stop when I wish.
Can stop, stop, stop anytime....
And what a good feeling to feel like this!
And know that the feeling is really mine.
Know that there's something deep inside
that helps us become what we can.
For a girl can be someday a lady,
and a boy can be someday a man.'
Senator Pastore:
I think it's wonderful.
I think it's wonderful.
Looks like you just earned
the 20 million dollars.
