Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination

Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination New research exonerates murder suspect Mark David Chapman.

By Salvador Astucia, May 10, 2003

Full article (37 pages) can be viewed at: http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/ lennon_intro.htm

Here is a summary of the findings:

* Lennon’s wounds are on the wrong side of his body from where Chapman reportedly stood when he allegedly shot Lennon. Chapman was reportedly standing behind Lennon and to his right. (to Lennon’s right) Before firing, Chapman reportedly called to Lennon who turned towards Chapman. All four wounds were on the left side of the body. They should have been on the right.

* The doorman at the Dakota on the night of the shooting was an anti-Castro Cuban, Jose Perdomo; Chapman’s primary accuser. It is widely known that Cuban exiles have been used extensively by the intelligence community since the Bay of Pigs in 1961.

* Patrolman Peter Cullen, one of the officers in the first police car responding to the shooting, believed the shooter was a handyman at the Dakota, not Chapman. Cullen thought Chapman 'looked like a guy who worked in a bank.' Perdomo convinced Cullen that Chapman was the assailant.

* Hours after the shooting, the New York Times reported that Lennon was shot near concierge stand next to the courtyard gates in the Dakota entryway. The next day the NYT reported that he was shot near the entrance of the Dakota, nearly 40 feet away from the spot originally reported. The shift in location was apparently needed because police and witnesses found Chapman at the entrance of the Dakota building, not 40 feet inside.

* Lennon’s true assassin was probably the handyman (aka, elevator operator) who fired from inside or near a service elevator located across from the concierge stand where Lennon collapsed after being shot. Shooting from the service elevator would easily hit the left side of Lennon’s body which is where the wounds were located.

* Mark David Chapman has never been judged legally insane, although opinion leaders within the American news media continually portray him as crazy. He pled guilty to the crime, thereby forfeiting his right to a trial. As a result, he has spent the last 22 years of his life in Attica State penitentiary for a crime he did not commit.

* Facts indicate that Chapman was likely the victim of mind control

lennon wasnt assassinated.

he was murdered.

now put that in your KoOk jar and smoke it.

http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/ lennon_report.htm

Congratulations. Thank you for your original research which may be a a genuine breakthrough.

I have always been troubled by details of the Lennon assassination .. but never took as close an examination at them as you have.

The 'smoking gun' here with the reported history is the canard that Lennon staggered up steps - which were also several yards away from where he was supposedly located at the time he assaulted by multiple frangible bullets.

Clearly, anybody attacked so brutally would have fallen down right then and there at the spot. Lennon may have been on a health food diet, but he was by no means so physically supreme that he could have possibly delayed his immediate disability.

I have also always been troubled by the fact that Chapman was reported just to be observed passively and calmly standing in the same spot and making no effort whatsoever to escape.

Is that how a typical violent assailant behaves -?

It is, however, consistent with the behavior of a decoy.

( Chapman 'calls out' for Lennon and fires out a single shot or a blank - causing Lennon to turn away from the direction where the real killer will fire the fatal shots ).

I guess it all comes down to what Yoko Ono and the Limousine driver are able to recollect.

What did they see?

Did they make any detailed staements?

Can they be interviewed on those details of this subject?

It is important that we know the whole truth...

- Derek

I guess that Derek agrees with Astucia's claim that John and Yoko were anti-Semites.

now see what you've gone and done?.

Which is a truck-load of rubbish! You've even gone to great lengths to make Lennon look anti-Jewish which you are mixing in something absurd into relation to his assassination. Another spin doctor appears out of the woodworks...and I thought Albert Goldman is about as low as they come!

John Whelan

Well if this is true than it proves that it was an inside job that Yoko arranged, which is what a friend of mine who lived in Hawaii told me at the time.(I don't really believe it, but since she travelled from Hawaii to Japan all the time, this is what she 'heard'

you are truly nuts.

can you guys *please* grow up???

this guy is a total fuking nutjob, possibly even nuttier than yourselves (special mention for derek larrson).

I was just being sarcastic here. This story is totally ludicrous.

He's dead. nothing else matters, now does it? (in reply to the original article)