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Thinking back to that one beautiful hot day in May of 1969 when Mister Rogers and Officer Clemmons took a cool dip together in the Neighborhood. The iconic segment aired at a time when pool segregation policies accompanied civil unrest. François Clemmons in a new Q&A with TPT - Twin Cities PBS's Next Avenue: "Now that I'm 77 years old, I understand the effects of looking upon someone and the blessing, the anointment, that he gave me on the spot. He saw something... I learned a lot about listenin