John Lennon would be 70 today

[Jan Klimkowski]

Wow. Doesn't time fly? Where did it go? I feel old.
You have to wonder where all these lone assassins are for Brittany Spears and Justin Beaver.

When Brittany and Justin become famous for ending the wars....
just sayin..

Yup, Manchurian Candidate Mark David Chapman was programmed to go after Lennon, not McCartney.

The deep black shrinks' use of The Catcher in the Rye as, speculatively, the hypnotic trigger text was a resonant touch.

So much so that Salinger's novel is implicated in the failed 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan by John Hinckley Jr, who stated that The Catcher in the Rye was his favourite book.

The Hinckley family had interesting connections:

“ The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan is acquainted with the family of Vice-President George Bush and had made large contributions to his political campaign ... Scott Hinckley, brother of John W. Hinckley, Jr., was to have dined tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the Vice-President's sons ... The Houston Post said it was unable to reach Scott Hinckley, vice-president of his father's Denver-based firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corporation, for comment. Neil Bush lives in Denver, where he works for Standard Oil Company of Indiana. In 1978, Neil Bush served as campaign manager for his brother, George W. Bush, the Vice-President's eldest son, who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress. Neil lived in Lubbock, Texas, throughout much of 1978, where John Hinckley lived from 1974 through 1980.[8]

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