Happy birthday, PBS! On this day in 1969, the Public Broadcasting Service was established by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to connect public television stations across the country and distribute educational, cultural, and news programming. Do you remember this iconic sound? | American Archive of Public Broadcasting

We spent half a billion dollars a year for stations like NPR and PBS to bury the truth, call half the country illiterate Nazis, have drag queens on tell kids to shimmy and shake and tell Americans that there are at least 3 genders. | Jesse Watters