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Chapman was a patsy set up for the hit by the CIA's MK-Ultra program. Why? Because Lennon was due to win his U.S. citizenship a few months later, and they needed to eliminate the chance that Lennon would have joined the opposition to their murderous counterrevolutionary wars in Central America (esp. Nicaragua and El Salvador), just getting underway as Reagan's transition team was taking power in December 1980. Think that's nuts? Read _Who Killed John Lennon?_ by Fenton Bresler, and _The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: the CIA and Mind Control_ by John Marks. And visit ciakilledlennon.blogspot.com
Because he was crazy and said that he had "saved the world by killing John Lennon."

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Chapman was a patsy set up for the hit by the CIA's MK-Ultra program. Why? Because Lennon was due to win his U.S. citizenship a few months later, and they needed to eliminate the chance that Lennon would have joined the opposition to their murderous counterrevolutionary wars in Central America (esp. Nicaragua and El Salvador), just getting underway as Reagan's transition team was taking power in December 1980. Think that's nuts? Read _Who Killed John Lennon?_ by Fenton Bresler, and _The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: the CIA and Mind Control_ by John Marks. And visit ciakilledlennon.blogspot.com

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some officials think Chapman was being brainwashed in a way, that someone or some organization was convincing him about weird thoughts and ideals. The Catcher in The Rye is about an insane character, too and has some strange ideas that would promote the shooting in a way, so perhaps Chapman needed assurance from the book that he was doing the "right" thing in his mind

The book deals with issues that Chapman suffered from and could relate to such as teenage angst, complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation. Because of his insanity, Chapman may have thought he WAS the character in the book, as proven by Mark David Chapman's shooting of John Lennon (Chapman was arrested with his worn copy of the book, and inside, he had scribbled a note: This is my statement, From Holden Caufield.)

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He never kissed John Lennon he killed him.

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Mark David Chapman was 25 years old at the time that he shot and killed John Lennon, having been born May 10, 1955.

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He said he was a big fan of John Lennon and wanted to be linked to him forever and unfortunately he got what he wanted by killing him

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No Lennon was not even his original target.

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