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(Military snipers are actually well-trained professional soldiers who perform a difficult, demanding, and vital task at no small risk to themselves, but the civilian public’s general perception of a sniper, however, is someone like Charles Whitman: a man with a long-range rifle holed up in an impregnable tower, mercilessly gunning down defenseless, unarmed people.) (An apt touch, since the controversial Vietnam War had created a decidedly negative image of the military in the minds of a large segment of American youth in the early 1970s, when Denver’s career was at its peak.) Offering Denver as a sniper was a double stroke of genius: it created the impression that not only was he a soldier, but that he actually shot people (since plenty of military personnel serve in support of combat operations without ever firing a gun) and it painted a picture of Denver not just as a killer, but as a cowardly one who hid in buildings and shot unsuspecting victims.
Tell everybody he used to shoot people!” Casting John Denver as a hired killer for the mob being a bit too far-fetched, the rumor-mongers decide to present him as a soldier. He was an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church.)Ĭonsider the possible thought processes of whoever invented this rumor: “Hey, let’s make up something outrageous about that wimp John Denver! I know, we’ll Like Denver, Rogers never served in any branch of the military. He too was rumored to have been a sniper, with even his penchant for long-sleeved cardigans ascribed to his hiding tattoos from the eyes of curious little tykes. (As was Fred Rogers of television’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. (Other examples include Uncle Don and singer Mariah Carey.) Thus John Denver, known to the world as a gentle, nature-loving pop singer, is transformed into his antithesis: a professional killer. The John Denver “sniper” story is a typical example of the “he’s not what he seems to be” legend type, tales of contradictory excess generally applied to celebrities who entertain children or otherwise have a cloying public image that show them to be the opposites of their public images.