It wouldn't be the holidays without at least one viewing of the time-honored TV special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas." The beloved movie first aired on national TV in 1965, instantly becoming a classic ...

SALEM – William R. Brown, 65, entered into eternal rest at 3:58 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2025. Born on June 15, 1960, in Salem, Bill was the son of the late William R. and Chiquita Marie (nee Baker ...

A choir member who sang on the original recording of the soundtrack to "A Charlie Brown Christmas," which turns 60 this year, reminisces about the experience. NPR’s Chloe Veltman reports. This segment ...

(ANALYSIS) “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the beloved animated television program, turns 60 this year. It is hard to imagine that it almost did not air. Network executives thought it moved too slowly ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As a child, Clara Spars, who grew up in Charles M. Schulz’s adoptive hometown of Santa Rosa, assumed that every ...

It’s the 60th anniversary of A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS, which is just as memorable for its music as it is for the story animation. “The music of Vince Guaraldi…is now ubiquitous with the holiday,” ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has said that “we are going to work on” a statue in Washington, D.C. of Charlie Kirk, the assassinated right-wing political activist. Johnson was cheered as the addressed ...

As a young child, I reacted to the zig-zag line of Charlie Brown’s shirt the way normal kids responded to the Golden Arches. Every stroke of Charles M. Schulz’s legendary Esterbrook 914 Radio pen ...

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