onday, December 8th, 1980 was the warmest
December 8th in the history of New York City.
The temperature reached a balmy record of 64
degrees Fahrenheit that fateful day. At around 5
p.m., John and Yoko
left their apartments in the historic Dakota on
Central Park West and 72nd Street. They were to
go to the Record Plant recording studio to
supervise the transfer of some of the "Double
Fantasy" album numbers to singles.
As they were leaving the Dakota to enter their
limousine, they were approached by several
people who were seeking autographs. Among them
was a man who would be later identified as the
assassin. John was asked by the assassin, to
sign his copy of the album Double Fantasy, John
did. There is a famous photograph of John
signing Double Fantasy for the assassin.
At least three witnesses, Jose Perdomo, the
outside doorman for the Dakota, an elevator
operator and a cab driver who had just dropped
off a passenger, saw the assassin standing in
the shadows, just inside the archway of the
Dakota. You can add my name, Mark Elsis, to this
list also. I saw the assassin lurking in the
darkness while I was driving my taxi in
Manhattan that evening.
I was traveling without passengers, going north
on Central Park West and made a slow left turn
on to 72nd Street. As soon I made the left turn,
I sensed something was wrong. I quickly slowed
down to a crawl in front of the Dakota. I looked
right at this guy lurking in the darkness, and I
felt he was bad energy. I very nearly stopped.
It was almost 10:00. I'm so sorry, forgive me
John. I should have stopped. I knew there was
something terribly wrong with this guy, the
assassin. I was ever so close to stopping, I
went back and forth, should I stop or not a
couple times in the few seconds in front of the
Dakota.
John and Yoko left the Record Plant at
10:40. They were on their way back home from
their recording / mixing session for Yoko's
song Walking On Thin Ice. At 10:49 their
limousine pulled up in front of their
apartments at the Dakota, they were home. It
stopped at the curb. It was an absolutely
beautiful evening in Manhattan, so there was
no need to be driven into the courtyard, to
be let off next to the safety of the lobby
entrance.
Jose Perdomo, the front doorman, leaves his post
to open the limousine door for John and Yoko.
Yoko Ono
stepped out of the limousine first and
John
Lennon who is carrying a tape recorder and
some cassettes followed a few steps behind. As
Yoko passes him the assassin, says "Hello". Just
as John passes him, the man steps from the
sidewalk and from his pocket he takes out a 5
shot .38 revolver armed with hollow tip bullets.
He drops into a combat stance, knees flexed,
with one arm supporting the other at the wrist.
He says, Mr. Lennon?
Just as John turns, about 15 feet through the
large arch with iron gates of the Dakota, the
assassin fires two shots into the left side of
his back. There's a crash of shattering glass as
the bullets that pass through John's body smash
into the Dakota's glass frontage. These two
shots spin him around. He is now facing his
assassin.
Blood is already pouring out from the first two
bullets and the four wounds, as the assassin
takes aim at John again. He fires three more
shots. Two of the bullets smash into John's left
shoulder. The other goes astray. The greatest
singer songwriter and the most influential
political artist of our time staggers up six
steps to the room at the end of the entrance
used by the concierge, said, "I'm shot," then
fell down.
I'm shot he moans lying on the floor. John's
been shot, screams Yoko. Jay Hastings the
security man reaches under his desk and presses
the alarm button, notifying the police from the
nearby 20th Precinct. He then rushes to John's
side and removes his blood stained glasses. Then
he takes off his uniform jacket to cover him. He
wants to use his tie as a tourniquet, but can't
decide where to apply it. John is dying, blood
pours from his chest and mouth, his eyes are
open but unfocused, and he is gurgling and
vomiting blood.
The first policemen at the scene were Officers
Steve Spire and Peter Cullen, who were in their
patrol car at 72nd Street and Broadway when they
heard a report of shots fired at the Dakota. The
officers found the assassin standing "very
calmly" where he had been. The police said the
assassin had dropped the revolver after firing
it, and said he had a paperback book, J.D.
Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye."
The second police team at the Dakota,
Officers Bill Gamble and James Moran,
realizing John Lennon was critically
injured, didn't wait for an ambulance, and
took John Lennon to Roosevelt Hospital in
their patrol car. Officer Moran said they
stretched Lennon out on the back seat and
that the singer was "moaning." Officer Moran
asks, "Are you John Lennon?" and that Lennon
had moaned, "Yeah." The patrol car makes a
left through the red light on to Columbus
Avenue and speeds down the 13 blocks to 59th
Street, where it swings into the entrance of
Roosevelt Hospital.
Roosevelt hospital's emergency trauma team has
already been alerted. John is brought into the
emergency room with virtually no pulse. The two
bullets that hit him on the left side of the
back had both pierced a lung and passed through
his chest. A third bullet had shattered his left
shoulder bone, and a fourth had hit the same
shoulder and ricocheted inside his chest, where
it severed his aorta and windpipe.
After an unsuccessful attempt at cardiac
massage, a medical team of seven people led by
Dr. Stephen Lyman labored to save John using
every device and technique available. Nothing
work. John Lennon the greatest singer songwriter
and the most influential political artist of our
time was pronounced dead at 11:15 p.m. on
December 8, 1980. The official cause of death is
shock produced by massive hemorrhaging. Dr.
Elliott M. Gross, the Chief Medical Examiner,
said after the autopsy that Lennon had died of
shock and loss of blood and that no one could
have lived more than a few minutes with such
injuries.
Yoko Ono, crying "Tell me it's not true,"
was taken to Roosevelt Hospital and led away
in shock after she learned her husband was
dead. David Geffen later issued a statement
in her behalf: "John loved and prayed for
the human race. Please do the same for him."
Within minutes of the first broadcasts of the
news of the shooting, people began to gather in
front of the Dakota, reciting prayers, singing
Lennon's songs and burning candles. I first got
to the Dakota at 11:45. I was there longer than
anyone on Earth that evening - 9 hours, from
11:45 p.m. till 8:45 a.m. the next morning. (Read
John Lennon Day Petition)
On December 14, all around the world, people
paused to stand alone or come together in
silence, heeding a plea from Yoko Ono that they
take 10 minutes to remember John.
CIA - FBI - Deranged Lone Nut Fan - Manchurian
MKULTRA Candidate
The assassin was a brainwashed hit man carrying
out someone else's contract, writes Bresler, "he
is in many ways as much the victim of those who
wanted to kill John Lennon, as Lennon himself."
The Manchurian MKULTRA candidate assassin
dropped the gun and proceeded to take out a
copy of J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye,
and calmly started reading. The Dakota
doorman, Jose Perdomo, shouted at the
assassin, "Do you know what you've done?" "I
just shot John Lennon," he replied,
accurately enough.
"He walked past me and then I heard in my head,
'Do it, do it, do it,' over and over again,
saying 'Do it, do it, do it,' like that,"
recalled in a BBC documentary several years
after going to prison. "I don't remember aiming.
I must have done, but I don't remember drawing a
bead or whatever you call it. And I just pulled
the trigger steady five times." The assassin
described his feeling at the time of the
shooting as "no emotion, no anger dead silence
in the brain."
His unnatural tone sounded all-too-familiar
for British lawyer and journalist Fenton
Bresler, who wrote the book, Who Killed John
Lennon? The assassin was a brainwashed hit
man carrying out someone else's contract,
writes Bresler, "he is in many ways as much
the victim of those who wanted to kill John
Lennon, as Lennon himself."
Prosecutors were at a loss for motive, so they
opted for the cliché, the assassin did it for
the attention. The troublesome American
preoccupation with grabbing that elusive fifteen
minutes propels many a
daily-newspaper-journalist-cum-pop-sociologist
into raptures of sanctimony. But Arthur
O'Connor, the Detective who spent more time with
the assassin immediately following the murder
than anyone else, saw it another way.
"It is definitely illogical to say that [the
assassin] committed the murder to make himself
famous. He did not want to talk to the press
from the very start. It's possible somebody
could have used him. I saw him the night of the
murder. I studied him intensely. He looked as if
he could have been programmed."
Detective O'Connor was speaking to Bresler, and
publicly for the first time. Bresler's book, Who
Killed John Lennon? -- Offers the most cogent
argument that the assassination of John Lennon
was not the work of yet another "lone nut."
At nearly three hundred pages, John Lennon's
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file
reveals that he was under "constant
surveillance." His apartment was watched, he
was followed, and his phone was tapped. The
FBI did not keep a particularly low profile
around the ex-Beatle, apparently attempting
to harass him into silence or at least drive
him nuts, similar to the tactic they had
used on
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., just a few
short, but eventful years earlier.
In late 1972, when the "surveillance" was at its
peak, John Lennon told humorist Paul Krassner,
"Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it
was not an accident."
The FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) tracked John at from at least his "Free
John Sinclair" concert in 1969 until 1976, even
though by then John had won his immigration
battle and dropped out of not only political
activism but public life altogether. This turned
out to be a five-year period of seclusion to
raise his newly born son, Sean.
Sean Lennon was born on October 9, 1975, his
dad's 35th birthday.
Placing a person under "constant
surveillance" and ordering that person
executed are admittedly two very different
things. Nevertheless, Bresler's point is
that the government did not consider John
Lennon a harmless rock 'n' roller. John's
political publicity stunts such as in his
and Yoko's Montreal "Bed-In" and "War Is
Over" were always capable of seizing the
spotlight and speaking directly to tens of
millions of young people who venerated him.
With unfettered access to the world's media,
his power truly was immense. Because of
this, in some circles he was correctly
viewed as the most dangerous radical who
needed to be stopped. John Lennon was the
most dangerous person in the world, to those
whose interest is a world under corporate
military rule.
John Lennon was assassinated only four years
after the intense FBI and CIA surveillance
ceased. In those intermittent years,
James
Earl Carter was President, a Democrat who
kept the two agencies more or less in check.
Matter of fact, about 1000 CIA was let go under
James Earl Carter's Presidency.
But on November 4, 1980, when John Lennon's
first album (Double Fantasy) in half a decade
was climbing high on the charts,
James
Earl Carter became a lame duck President. I
discovered a very interesting fact about the
last three major assassinations in the United
States. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
Robert
Francis Kennedy and
John
Winston Lennon were all executed during the
time of a lame duck Presidency.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson became a lame
duck on March 31, 1968 when he said to a
national television audience; he would not run
for reelection even if the Democrats wanted him
to. Four days later Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
was assassinated. Sixty-three days later,
Senator Robert Francis Kennedy was assassinated
after winning the California Democratic primary
(RFK would have been the Democratic Presidential
candidate against the Republican Presidential
candidate Richard Milhouse Nixon, and RFK would
have won the Presidency). On November 4, 1980
President James Earl Carter lost the
Presidential election to Ronald Wilson Reagan,
thus becoming a lame duck President. Thirty-four
days later, the heartbeat of music for his
generation, John Winston Lennon was
assassinated.
In every single major assassination these
black-op conspirator killers have actually
had the balls to blame it on some poor
deranged lone gunman. They have had a patsy
or a mind controlled Manchurian candidate
fall guy for the last four assassinations.
President
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., Senator Robert Francis Kennedy,
and the founder and leader of the most
influential musical group The Beatles, the
person who was his generations and about to
be another generations leader for peace and
love, John Winston Lennon.
Reagan's campaign was managed by career secret
agent William Casey, who under President Reagan
became the CIA's most freewheeling chief since
Allen Dulles (who JFK fired). The new far-right
administration would reassemble the intelligence
services and grant them a cheerful carte blanche.
Something quite interesting about William Casey,
who just happening to die very quickly from a
supposed brain tumor on May 6, 1987. He died
without ever testifying in the scandal, which
most certainly originated with him, the Iran
Contra Affair.
The forces that tried desperately to neutralize
John Lennon for at least seven years lost power
in November of 1976. The Lennon's government
dossier ends in that year. In 1980, as those
forces were preparing to retake control of the
government, "the most dangerous extremist" John
Lennon emerged from retirement with the best
selling album, Double Fantasy, and was promptly
assassinated.
The paper trail that helps support this is the
airline ticket found in the assassin's hotel
room, a Hawaii to New York connection departing
December 5, 1980. But the assassin had actually
purchased a Hawaii to Chicago ticket to depart
December 2, 1980 with no connecting flight. The
ticket found after his arrest had apparently
been altered. None of his friends knew that he
traveled on to New York. They thought he went to
Chicago for a three-day stay. Where was the
assassin from December 2 through 5, 1980?
Bresler concludes that the Lennon assassination,
which, as the assassin himself noted in a rare
interview, "ended an era," bears similarities to
another assassination that took place twelve
years earlier: the murder of Robert Francis
Kennedy.
Robert Francis Kennedy's apparent lone assassin,
Sirhan Sirhan, and John Lennon's assassin just
happened to have shared the same defense
psychiatrist. But while Dr. Bernard Diamond
couldn't skirt the obvious fact that Sirhan was
under hypnosis (Diamond wrote it off as
self-hypnosis), he labeled John Lennon's
assassin a "paranoid schizophrenic."
The court disagreed. The assassin, even now, has
never had more than routine psychiatric care
since entering his guilty plea. He was not sent
to a mental hospital, but to Attica State
Prison. He was judged legally "rational."
Bresler clears up a few widely disseminated
misconceptions about John Lennon's assassin.
While any mention of his name is now
accompanied by the phrase "deranged fan,"
John's assassin was anything but. He was no
more or less an ardent Beatles / Lennon fan
than anyone of his generation. His real rock
hero was Todd Rundgren, a cynical studio
craftsman who could not be further from
Lennon in artistic sensibility.
Notwithstanding his announcement months
after the murder that he "killed Lennon to
gain prominence to promote the reading of
The Catcher in the Rye," he never exhibited
strong feelings about the novel until
shortly before the shooting. Catcher,
Bresler muses, may have been used as a
device to trigger the assassin's
programming."
After the murder, major media ran bizarre
stories of the assassin's supposed growing
identification with John Lennon - at one point
he even "re-baptized" himself as Lennon,
according to Newsweek. These stories were all
quite fascinating, but there was no evidence to
back any of them up. What is true is that when
the assassin quit his last job he signed out as
"John Lennon," then crossed the name out.
The assassin of John Lennon was not a "loner."
He was for most of his life a normally social
individual and a camp counselor who had a
special rapport with kids. Bresler also notes
that when the assassin signed up for a YMCA
overseas program, he selected an odd
destination: Beirut - a perfect place, says
Bresler, for the assassin, a once gentle soul,
to be "blooded," that is, desensitized to
violence.
A final note to the mystery of the assassin: As
he was ready to go to trial and his diligent
public defender was winding up six months spent
assembling his defense, the accused killer
suddenly decided to change his plea to guilty.
His lawyer was perplexed and more than a little
perturbed. But the assassin was determined. He
said he was acting on instructions from a "small
male voice" that spoke to him in his cell.
Bresler interviewed Arthur O'Connor, the
lieutenant who was commanding officer of the
20th Precinct of the New York Police that dealt
with John Lennon's murder. He quotes O'Connor as
saying, "As far as you are trying to build up
some kind of conspiracy, I would support you in
that line. Like I said originally over the
phone, if the [assassin] wanted to get away with
it, he could have got away with it. There was
the subway right on the corner and no one around
to stop him." Instead, once the assassin had
accomplished his task, he calmly sat reading
Catcher In The Rye and waited for the police to
come.
"Why one method rather than the other, the
amateur as against the professional? Because
that way you avoid any awkward questions,
and everyone seems to fall for it anyway. If
a professional killer had gunned down John
Lennon, the whole world would have known.
Such swift expert assassinations carry their
own individual hallmark. It would have been
obvious what had happened, and with Lennon's
history of War Is Over, peace and love
political activity, there would have been
[an in-depth investigation]." "But if you
program an amateur to do the job, a
so-called 'nut', very few questions are
asked."
Hinckley, Bush, Reagan Assassination, World
Vision And The Assassin
Ronald Wilson Reagan was sworn into in
Presidency on January 20, 1981. On his
sixty-ninth day in office, March 30, 1981,
Reagan was nearly killed by an assassin. The
person named as the assassin was John Hinkley.
His family ties were to oil. Through that oil
connection, Neil Bush - Vice President George
Herbert Walker Bush's son, who worked in oil
[later to steal hundreds of millions through
Silverdo in the Saving and Loan crisis] -- knew
Scott Hinkley, (brother of John) who also worked
in oil.
"Scott Hinckley, the brother of John Hinckley
Jr., who is charged with shooting President
Reagan and three others, was to have been a
dinner guest Tuesday night [March 31, 1981] at
the home of Neil Bush, son of Vice President
George Bush, The Houston Post has learned."
The two families lived close to each other. They
knew each other socially and financially. When
the Hinkley oil company started to fail in the
sixties, Bush's Zapata Oil financially bailed
out Hinkley's company. It went from being
Vanderbilt Oil to Vanderbilt Energy or
Vanderbilt Resources in the 60s after Bush
intervened. The Hinkley's had been running an
operation with six dead wells but then they were
making several million dollars a year after the
Bush bailout. Was this some sort of a money-pass
front where they were laundering money through
on this phony oil operation but actually
operating some type of an intelligence pay-off?
The father in that family, John W. Hinkley Sr.,
was also the president of the board for World
Vision. World Vision is a far-right evangelical
missionary operation that does missionary and
"good work" operations in countries where there
is a political purpose for it to be there. From
its inception, it was rabidly anti-Communist and
it focused on refugee populations of people
running from countries that had been taken over
by Communism. This was from the fifties on.
World Vision had a hand in the movement of
the Cubans into the United States and other
refugees of revolutionary regimes. When
you're a refugee you're cut loose,
basically, and pretty much fair game to be
manipulated by whoever is willing to give
you a hand because you don't have a home or
any place to stay and somebody has got to
accept you.
World Vision was able to recruit out of these
mercenary populations, people who could be
politically turned to their intelligence
purposes. World Vision served as a penetration
force -- not as visible as the military actually
going in or the CIA going in - but going in as
missionaries and working among the people.
This link between missionary and intelligence
for capitalistic infiltration operations goes
way back. It was part of the internationalism
with the Rockefellers. It's talked about in the
book, Thy Will Be Done, about Rockefeller,
Venezuela, and Latin American Oil, the Summer
Linguistic Institute, World Vision and others.
But they operated in this way for a long time.
They were paid by the CIA for a long time during
the Vietnam War and went into South East Asia --
Cambodia and Laos. Throughout Vietnam they were
given U.S. military equipment to use. They still
maintain a budget under USAID, (Agency for
International Development), which was just a
pass-over in order to give the CIA more cover.
They ran operations through USAID. The current
cover replacing that is the NED (National
Endowment for Democracy), which is supposed to
be how we're exporting democracy around the
world.
But of course, we're exporting exactly the kind
of corrupt democracy we have here, which is
rigged and manipulated elections and press
manipulation in order to keep in power or put in
power the people that we want to be in those
countries for the purpose of having our
investments protected and milking what we can
out of the resources and the labor available in
any of those countries.
World Vision was part of that scheme and
they did some nasty things. They ran the
refugee camp in Sabra-Shatilla where the
fascist Phalange was allowed in to kill the
Palestinians. They ran the Cuban and Thai
refugee camps in the United States. The
assassin -- who eventually shot John Lennon
-- worked at the Thai refugee camps out in
Arkansas that World Vision operated there.
They ran these camps brutally, forcing
people into political education against
Castro, refusing to feed people, beating
people -- by many reports -- and bringing in
Alpha 66 and Omega 7 people (the worst of
the killing teams -- or murder squads -- of
the anti-Castro Cubans in the United States)
to run the camps in Florida, Fort Chafey in
Arkansas and other places where the Cuban
exiles were. These people came in and there
were eventually riots in the Cuban refugee
camps against their treatment there. And the
eventual assassin of John Lennon just
happened to work there.
Who Authorized The Assassination Of John Lennon?
It took me almost 22 years to figure out who
most likely authorized the assassination of
John Lennon, the greatest singer songwriter
and the most influential political artist of
our time. I believe it could have been the
CIA that manipulated the assassin of John
Winston Lennon, but more likely, I believe a
new army of old school CIA, which was let go
under President Carter, manipulated the
assassin. I believe the assassin was a
mind-control experiment, like all their old
tricks of MKULTRA, only much more
sophisticated. I believe their old boss
authorized it. The person the CIA building
in Washington D.C. is named after. I believe
he was the same person who tried to
assassinate President Ronald Wilson Reagan
on his sixty-ninth day in office -- March
30, 1981. He is the person with the most to
gain from both of these assassinations. So,
who authorized the assassination of John
Lennon? I believe it was the 41st President
of the United States,
George Herbert Walker Bush.
"Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me,
it was not an accident."
John Lennon
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