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Author:	Phil Strongman
Title:	John Lennon
Subtitle:	Life, Times & Assassination
Publisher:	The Bluecoat Press
Country:	UK
Date:	31 Oct 2010
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Biography, Music
ISBN-13:	9781904438946
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288 pages. Book dimensions: 12.9 cms x 19.8 cms x 1 cm.

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In 1976 or 1977, Lennon first started to dream about a stranger who asked for an album to be autographed then returned later, angry and with a loaded gun....

Who really killed John Lennon?

John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono moved to New York in 1971, in part to escape the vitriol of the British press who blamed Ono for the breakup of their beloved Beatles. They had hoped to live quietly in America and raise their son Sean. But, just nine years later and three weeks after the release of his final album, Lennon was shot dead in the archway of his Manhattan apartment building by Mark Chapman.

It is impossible to understate the extent of Lennon’s celebrity at that time and the shockwaves his slaying sent around the world. Chapman was swiftly tried and found guilty by the American courts as a lone wolf assassin, a Beatles fanatic with a grudge and a history of psychological problems. But was he? Who financed Chapman’s flight from Hawaii to execute the killing? In this meticulously researched study, British author Phil Strongman digs into Chapman’s background. He discusses the evidence for US agency involvement in the assassinations of JFK, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and others and draws inescapable parallels with the death of John Lennon, whose political activism and high-profile support for the anti-Vietnam war movement had, by the late 1970s, put him firmly on the radar of the CIA and FBI.

Forty years after the FBI and the CIA opened files on the ex Beatle, Strongman questions the facts behind the killing and goes beyond the realm of conspiracy theory, to leave the reader in little doubt as to the part played by covert forces in the assassination of one of the twentieth century’s most charismatic and influential men.

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