John Lennon signs his autograph for his murderer Mark David Chapman
On Dec. 8, 1980, singer/songwriter/ex-Beatle John Lennon was gunned down by a former fan named Mark David Chapman. Since then, conspiracy theorists have speculated that Lennon was murdered by the CIA because he would have made trouble for the new Reagan Administration. Is there any truth to this hypothesis?
For those who believe in this theory, Mark David Chapman was trained by the CIA in special camps in South America, under the guise of a Peace Corps-type outfit. Hopelessly brainwashed, he was triggered by the novel “Catcher in the Rye” and the movie “The Wizard of Oz”. After the killing, Chapman barely knew what he was doing, nor remembered killing Lennon. Further proof is that the guard at the Dakota did not try to apprehend Chapman, because he too worked for the CIA.
While all this may seem to make sense, the theory has several fatal flaws. The biggest is that Jimmy Carter was still president in 1980. Reagan was president-elect.
In 1980, Lennon was busy recording and was doing nothing remotely political. (In the early 1970’s, he was on Pres. Nixon’s enemy list and protested the Vietnam War.) In his last interview, Lennon was philosophical about Reagan, said he “never voted” and that “we should try to make the 1980’s better.” There was no ill will.
As a child, Mark Chapman believed that little people lived in his walls and that he was the their ruler. In 1977, he had nearly committed suicide. Losing his identity, he signed his name as “John Lennon” or as “Holden Caulfield” (the main character in “Catcher in the Rye”.)
There’s no doubt the CIA has been up to some shady operations, but there’s no real motive for them to go so far out of their way to kill a pop star minding his own business. Mark David Chapman was truly insane. It behooves the far-left that a sick nobody brought down a famed celebrity activist…except that’s exactly what happened. Lennon himself once joked that he probably would be killed by a “nutter”.
John Lennon with wife Yoko Ono outside the Dakota. (NYC)
Text (C) 2017 – ERN