- In 1991 he received the Distinguished Service Award from The American Medical Association.
- His memoirs, entitled Good Morning, Captain, were published in 1995.
- Keeshan had high standards for his programming. In a time when advertisers wielded heavy influence, Keeshan stood fast against any ads which he felt were inappropriate for children.
- It is an urban legend that actor Lee Marvin fought alongside Bob Keeshan in Iwo Jima.
- The 1970's saw many changes to Keeshan's Captain Kangaroo. The programming became much more fast-paced to reflect the shorter attention spans of children.
- He was married forty years to Anne Jeanne Laurie, until her death in 1990.
- Bob Keeshan turned down an offer to become Captain Kangaroo again on a revised version of the show in 1995.
- Keeshan has two daughters, Laurie and Mave, and a son named Michael.
- Britton Keeshan, Bob's grandson, posed atop Mt. Everest with photos of his famous grandfather, whom he credited as the source of his inspiration.
- His grandson, Britton Keeshan, became the youngest person ever to scale The Seven Summits in May 2004.
- Bob Keeshan appeared as Captain Kangaroo for a Schwinn bicycle advertisement.
- Keeshan served in the United States Marine Corps.
- He was made Honorary Fellow at The American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Keeshan won the Emmy Award five times.
- In 1980 Keeshan was awarded "TV Father of the Year."
- Unlike most other children's programming, Keeshan did not include children as part of his regular cast.
- He believed that the easiest and fastest way children learned was to make education delightful.
- Keeshan's approach to television embodied a rejection of pressures towards the increased commercialization of children's programming as well as a toning-down of the high volume, slapstick style associated with earlier kid show hosts.
- Much of the slapstick humor and pie-in-the-face antics of The Howdy Doody Show Keeshan actually loathed.
- Bob Keeshan was a sharp critic of much of contemporary children's television programming.
- Upon his retirement, Keeshan became an active lobbyist on behalf of children's issues and worked in favor of tighter controls over the tobacco industry.
- Keeshan did not use studio audiences when filming, as he did not want anything to come between him and the children in his television audience.
- He exerted pressure on one station for which he worked to remove from airplay cartoons he felt were too violent or perpetuated racial stereotyping.
- In 1996, Keeshan published a children's book entitled Hurry, Murry, Hurry.
- Bob Keeshan was a news commentator for Up to the Minute on CBS News in 1981 and 1982.
- He played an Alpine toymaker on Tinker's Workshop, an early morning program, which served as the prototype for his character of Captain Kangaroo.
- Keeshan personally supervised which commercials could air on his program Captain Kangaroo, and promoted products which he saw as facilitating creative play, while avoiding those he felt were purely exploitative.
- Keeshan was fired from his role as Clarabell the Clown by fellow cast member Buffalo Bob Smith, and replaced by a Clarabell who was more musically inclined.
- Keeshan founded Corporate Family Solutions In 1987, with former Tennessee Republican Governor Lamar Alexander. The company provided day-care programs to businesses.
- Keeshan worked for a brief time in the early 1950s for his father-in-law, who was an undertaker.
- Bob Keeshan was inducted into the Clown Hall of Fame in 1990 for his portrayal of Clarabell the Clown.
- Bob Keeshan was a strong opponent of video game violence, and even took part in congressional hearings against it.
- Bob Keeshan: I think the cumulative effect of programs like that solve problems with violence is showing up in our society in disturbing ways.
- Bob Keeshan: Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
- Bob Keeshan: The children should never be excluded from what I am doing and should never have the feeling of being part of an audience.
- Bob Keeshan: It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
- Bob Keeshan: It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.
- Bob Keeshan: Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.
- Bob Keeshan: One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.
- Bob Keeshan: Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
- Bob Keeshan: TV is a convenient baby sitter, and parents too often use it that way. By the time a child starts school, he has seen about 5000 hours. That's time taken away from peers and parents at a crucial period of development. The effect has to be negative.
- Bob Keeshan: The responsibility of parents is to raise children who do not need parents.
