April fools’ day was just a few days ago, but this is for real. I am sure the internet is full of similar crazy websites made by nuts, but when I stumble upon a site about the death of a central figure in music like John Lennon, I can’t stop reading. I know it’s insane, I know I’m wasting my time but it is so entertaining! Plus after reading Lennonmurdertruth.com, I may be convinced that, at least, we don’t have the whole truth about the Beatles’ tragic death? Just kidding…
The site, built by Steve Lightfoot, presents in many details the so-called conspiracy behind the assassination of Lennon, and I won’t hide the truth any longer, Lennon was not killed by Mark David Chapman as everyone thinks, but by bestseller author Stephen King, who was actually backed up by Nixon and Reagan. To be honest, it’s not the first time I hear about a government conspiracy related to Lennon’s murder, but what does King have to do with all this?
Lightfoot goes on and on for pages, with incomprehensible mumbo jumbo, but his main argument is that ‘the man photographed getting Lennon’s autograph hours before he killed him is not Mark Chapman like we were all told. Chapman’s glasses are the wrong prescription, his features are more centrally boxed in the middle of his face and his hair is the wrong texture, as well as the fact that the killer has dimples that Chapman does not. Only Stephen King’s features exactly trace the proportions of the autograph hound. Chapman is a look alike actor.’
Wow, I really wonder how he can tell anything about Chapman’s prescription on this famous picture, but the insanity doesn’t stop there, the guy asking Lennon for an autograph is obviously King, and Lightfoot presents old pictures of King to prove it and because the famous author wrote about it in his book ‘Salem’s Lot’!
The rest of the site tries to link the government to the story with random pieces of newspapers which have nothing to do with the story and where the words King, Mark, Chapman and other words are randomly found and highlighted or circles, making imaginary connections… at the end this looks like the work of a highly deranged mind, either paranoid or schizophrenic.
The website exists since 2001 and the guy has even a book out ‘Stephen King shot John Lennon’, videos on YouTube, and he travels in California aboard a white van advertising his website…. I may encounter him at one point since he was born in Los Angeles.
Stephen King’s fans and King himself are well aware of this Californian nutcase, and King nicely wrote to him more than two decades ago (Lightfoot has been around) telling him ‘Why don’t you let it go?’ Unfortunately, I don’t think he will ever let it go.
