The notion may sound ridiculous to you-and it should-but the myth is so persistent that the U.S. Rogers was a sniper” urban myth was predicated on the idea that Rogers always wore long-sleeve sweaters to conceal tattoos that tallied his many kills. You may wonder what nudity has to do with being a sniper. Screenwriters Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue sat down with the MovieMaker podcast, along with Tom Junod, whose Esquire magazine profile of Rogers helped inspire A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.įirst things first: Junod told us he knows Rogers wasn’t a sniper, because he once saw Rogers naked, one morning when they went swimming. But variations on that urban myth began late in his life, and the screenwriters of A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood have finally figured out where the false rumors started. Mister Rogers, aka Fred Rogers, the host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, was not a sniper or Navy SEAL.
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