On This Day - In 1997

(12 Oct 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Detroit, 1978
1. STILL IMAGE: Country Western singer John Denver is shown performing for a lunchtime crowd in Detroit

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow, 1 July 1985
2. STILL IMAGE: John Denver is shown performing in Moscow

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Salinas Airport - 14 October 1997
3. STILL IMAGE: Randy Ford shows the cockpit near the front of his Vari-Ez experimental aircraft at Salinas Airport His plane is the same shape as the Long-Ez aircraft that crashed with John Denver

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baltimore - 20 September 1997
4. STILL IMAGE: John Denver dances atop the Orioles dugout as he sings his rendition of "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" during an Orioles game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore

US POOL
Aurora, Colorado - 17 October 1997
5. Congregation gathered in church for memorial
6. Photograph of John Denver
7. Congregation inside church

ANNOTATED TEXT: John Denver died when the single-engine light aircraft he was piloting crashed into Monterey Bay in California, killing him instantly. He was 53 years old.

Shortly after takeoff, "it just sort of dropped unexpectedly into the ocean," Pacific Grove police Lt. Carl Miller told The Associated Press at the time.

Denver was flying an experimental fibreglass plane, similar to the one shown here, when he crashed. His body was later retrieved from the water.

During the 1970s, Denver was one the biggest stars in the world, known for such hits as "Rocky Mountain High" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads."

Later in the week thousands of people turned out to pay their last respects to the singer, at the memorial service in Aurora, California.

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