John Lennon: Life, Times and Assassination
Phil Strongman
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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.
Duration - 10h 18m.
Author - Phil Strongman.
Narrator - William Birch (Male Synthesized Voice).
Published Date - Monday, 01 January 2024.
Location:
United States
Networks:
Phil Strongman
William Birch (Male Synthesized Voice)
Lume Books
English Audiobooks
Findaway Audiobooks
Description:
This recording has been digitally produced, by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration. 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. Duration - 10h 18m. Author - Phil Strongman. Narrator - William Birch (Male Synthesized Voice). Published Date - Monday, 01 January 2024.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:20:31
Dedication
Duration:00:22:23
Author's Introduction
Duration:10:43:40
Chapter 1: Another Time, Another Place
Duration:05:22:17
Chapter 2: Roots
Duration:13:32:37
Chapter 3: Art for Art's Sake
Duration:29:56:35
Chapter 4: Love me Do
Duration:24:37:41
Chapter 5: 1963
Duration:22:37:14
Chapter 6: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Duration:16:34:17
Chapter 7: The First Lone Nut
Duration:35:09:57
Chapter 8: Invasion!
Duration:12:04:28
Chapter 9: Under Fire
Duration:22:29:21
Chapter 10: 1968
Duration:28:52:47
Chapter 11: Concert Security
Duration:32:53:51
Chapter 12: Insanity April-May 1972
Duration:16:22:49
Chapter 13: Watching the Detectives
Duration:07:51:32
Chapter 14: The Lost Weekend
Duration:36:48:28
Chapter 15: Watching the Wheels-1979
Duration:10:42:09
Chapter 16: Walking on Thin Ice
Duration:27:39:35
Chapter 17: Whispers
Duration:27:55:47
Chapter 18: Conspiracy Facts
Duration:21:53:24
Chapter 19: Not Fade Away
Duration:27:46:33
Chapter 20: Postscript
Duration:20:12:03
Appendix
Duration:13:28:05