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- 0:10Speaker 1: Welcome to Conspiracy This Show, the world's most trusted conspiracy
- 0:16Speaker 1: theory podcast, with your hosts Adam Todd Brown and Olivia Hidar.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to Conspiracy the Show. I'm your host,
- 0:37Speaker 2: Adam Todd Brown joining me as co host this week. Ooh,
- 0:40Speaker 2: my favorite co host of all no co hosts. But
- 0:42Speaker 2: I do have a fascinating guest joining us this week,
- 0:47Speaker 2: David Wheeland, author of Mind Games The Assassination of John Lennon. David,
- 0:51Speaker 2: thank you for joining us.
- 0:52Speaker 3: Hey, Adam, thanks for having me. It's a pleasure right
- 0:55Speaker 3: off the bat.
- 0:55Speaker 2: This is a fantastic book. I had never looked into
- 0:59Speaker 2: this theory at all. You spent a lot of time
- 1:01Speaker 2: on this three years, right.
- 1:03Speaker 3: That's right, thank you first kind words. Yes, yes, well
- 1:05Speaker 3: four years now because the book came out, more stuff
- 1:09Speaker 3: still coming. I'd like to put it to bed, to
- 1:11Speaker 3: be honest with you, Adam, but more stuff is emerging
- 1:13Speaker 3: all the time, which is kind of what I thought
- 1:14Speaker 3: would happen. Memories are being jogged and people are reanalyzing,
- 1:18Speaker 3: and I missed stuff. You know, I'm not infallible. So yeah,
- 1:21Speaker 3: it's been very interesting. It's been an interesting journey.
- 1:24Speaker 2: Before we get into the book itself and the theory
- 1:29Speaker 2: about what happened to John Lennon. What were your feelings
- 1:32Speaker 2: about John Lennon before writing this book. Were you a
- 1:35Speaker 2: huge fan? Were you just kind of a fan.
- 1:38Speaker 3: I'd say I became a huge fan in the nineties. Actually,
- 1:42Speaker 3: as I was only fourteen when he died in nineteen eighty.
- 1:45Speaker 3: I was into the Jam and XTC and Bowie and Blondie.
- 1:48Speaker 3: I wasn't into some old guy in the sixties, you
- 1:51Speaker 3: know who I vaguely heard about, but I didn't really
- 1:54Speaker 3: know who he was, to be honest with you. When
- 1:55Speaker 3: I was fourteen, wasn't interested. Just like, starting Over sounded
- 1:59Speaker 3: like a very dull fifties prestige song to me, so
- 2:02Speaker 3: I wasn't buying it. I think it was the anthology
- 2:05Speaker 3: in the nineties that kind of got me into them,
- 2:07Speaker 3: and boy did I enjoy that deep dive into the
- 2:10Speaker 3: White Album and all their fantastic stuff they did post Drugs.
- 2:14Speaker 3: I'm not really a big early boppied Beatles fan. You know,
- 2:18Speaker 3: it was all a bit basic, but once they kicked
- 2:20Speaker 3: on from Rubbersol, I mean, wow, it was all incredible stuff.
- 2:23Speaker 3: Their geniuses, for sure, but again the nineties when I
- 2:27Speaker 3: splurged on it, I just parked it eight and again
- 2:30Speaker 3: it was an old act and they were much more
- 2:31Speaker 3: interesting people in the nineties for me to explore. So no,
- 2:36Speaker 3: not a big fan, and I always, like most of
- 2:38Speaker 3: the world, just thought, well, that murders as simple as
- 2:41Speaker 3: it gets, you know, as an obsessed fan. He shot
- 2:44Speaker 3: him outside his home. He admitted he did it. There's
- 2:47Speaker 3: something a bit odd about a book case close, you know,
- 2:50Speaker 3: And I never bothered to think about it.
- 2:52Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's most of us, because it does
- 2:55Speaker 2: seem pretty cut and dry. He was standing right there
- 2:58Speaker 2: with a gun, as we've been told at least, so
- 3:01Speaker 2: obviously he did it. But more to it than that,
- 3:04Speaker 2: we'll get there. What prompted you to look into John
- 3:06Speaker 2: Lennon's death initially, because at first you were looking into
- 3:10Speaker 2: it as just that a murder, right, Yeah.
- 3:12Speaker 3: I was. I'm a big I should say off the bat,
- 3:14Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of the Oliverstone JFK film. Clicheler
- 3:17Speaker 3: was a bit of a red pill for me back
- 3:19Speaker 3: in the day in the early nineties. It really was.
- 3:22Speaker 3: I was completely innocent up to that point about American
- 3:24Speaker 3: politics and how the CIA worked. I probably didn't know
- 3:27Speaker 3: what the CIA was before Wulliverstone Shield came out, so
- 3:31Speaker 3: that's always been an interest. And there's a really good
- 3:33Speaker 3: JFK podcast called Black Ops Radio, because I'm sure you know,
- 3:37Speaker 3: perhaps you don't know, but yeah, it'sat it's a great
- 3:39Speaker 3: kind of Jeffk thing. It's been going on for many,
- 3:41Speaker 3: many years. And it was Lockdown Adam. I was just
- 3:44Speaker 3: out walking my dog in a field listening to Black
- 3:46Speaker 3: Ops Radio or cast in my ear and someone on
- 3:50Speaker 3: that podcast can't remember who mentioned the fact that the
- 3:54Speaker 3: Dorman is an alleged CIA assassin who was at the
- 3:58Speaker 3: Bay of Pigs, and I just thought, wow, okay, Cia
- 4:01Speaker 3: Bear Pigs, Jeff Case is interesting. I didn't know this,
- 4:03Speaker 3: this is true. That's a massive coincidence that needs looking into.
- 4:07Speaker 3: And I literally just went harder. And this would have
- 4:08Speaker 3: been spring twenty twenty. I went home, obviously had a
- 4:12Speaker 3: lot of time in my hands.
- 4:13Speaker 2: Locked down.
- 4:14Speaker 3: Everything was parked, which I kind of liked, to be honest,
- 4:16Speaker 3: in the early days I didn't have. I thought, yeah,
- 4:18Speaker 3: I opened mind. Everything just felt relaxed for a short while,
- 4:22Speaker 3: so it was a good time to look into something fresh.
- 4:25Speaker 3: And the first thing I started to sort of discover
- 4:29Speaker 3: Adam was there's no detail here. Where's the detail. This
- 4:32Speaker 3: is a really famous guy and one of the most
- 4:34Speaker 3: famous men who ever lived, and his murder doesn't have
- 4:36Speaker 3: any details, kind of like the guy shot him, he
- 4:38Speaker 3: fell down, and the story, But where did he choose
- 4:40Speaker 3: to him? And what happened after he shot to him?
- 4:42Speaker 3: And where on his body was he shot? And I
- 4:45Speaker 3: started to dig a little bit deeper and deeper, and
- 4:48Speaker 3: I thought, something not right here. It just felt off.
- 4:51Speaker 3: Something wasn't making sense. And I've been a researcher and TV.
- 4:55Speaker 3: I come from a TV background. I've done news research,
- 4:57Speaker 3: so I have a research background. So I kept going
- 5:00Speaker 3: and going and going, and it really opened up. When
- 5:03Speaker 3: I spoke to the doctors, I thought, they're the first
- 5:05Speaker 3: people I need to talk to. As with JFK. The
- 5:07Speaker 3: autopsy in the medical was all a big part of
- 5:09Speaker 3: the conspiracy. Was he shot in the front, was he
- 5:11Speaker 3: shot in the back? Blah blah blah. So I thought, Okay,
- 5:13Speaker 3: I need to get this figured out. And I innocently
- 5:16Speaker 3: once I found the real doctor, because amazingly many doctors
- 5:19Speaker 3: are falsely claimed to be the doctor who treated John Lennon,
- 5:22Speaker 3: which is incredible. But when I found the real doctor,
- 5:25Speaker 3: I just expected him to say, yeah, he was shot
- 5:27Speaker 3: in the back case closed, but that's not what he said.
- 5:29Speaker 2: Yeah. It kind of reminds me of the RFK assassination
- 5:35Speaker 2: in that way, where all the witnesses say Sirhan, Sirhan
- 5:40Speaker 2: was standing in front shooting at RFK. Meanwhile the shot
- 5:44Speaker 2: that killed him was point blank behind his ear, And
- 5:48Speaker 2: at least in that case, it came out this. I
- 5:51Speaker 2: feel like this is the first time any type of
- 5:54Speaker 2: information along those lines about the John Lennon shooting has
- 5:59Speaker 2: even been made public.
- 6:00Speaker 3: You're right, Adam, Yeah, you're right, and which is amazing.
- 6:03Speaker 3: And I think the reason for that it's not down
- 6:05Speaker 3: to me. It's down to the fact that a doctor
- 6:07Speaker 3: called Dr Lynn for thirty years took the credit for
- 6:11Speaker 3: trying to save John Lenner's life, and he wasn't the
- 6:14Speaker 3: doctor that did that. He was in the room, he
- 6:16Speaker 3: was ahead of the r he came out and spoke
- 6:18Speaker 3: to the press, but he never saw John's wounds up close,
- 6:20Speaker 3: and he never tried to save John. So whenever he
- 6:23Speaker 3: went on a documentary for the next thirty years after
- 6:26Speaker 3: nineteen eighty. He just basically kept it very loose and
- 6:28Speaker 3: very brief about wounds. If he never discussed wounds because
- 6:32Speaker 3: he couldn't because he wasn't quite sure. So in kinme,
- 6:35Speaker 3: the media and documentary filmmakers and journalists didn't bother to
- 6:39Speaker 3: delve any sort of you know, because Dr Minn wasn't
- 6:41Speaker 3: bringing up the wounds. They never decided to go there,
- 6:44Speaker 3: so it just kind of never came up. And I
- 6:46Speaker 3: remember talking to doctor hallerin the real doctor who kept
- 6:49Speaker 3: in the shadows for thirty years. Still not quite sure
- 6:52Speaker 3: why he did that. He doesn't like fame, he doesn't
- 6:54Speaker 3: like fuss. He's a bit old score. But I still
- 6:56Speaker 3: think I don't know how he could have let Lynn
- 6:58Speaker 3: take the credit for thirty years. But anyway, he got
- 7:00Speaker 3: tired of Lynn constantly taking the credit because the big
- 7:03Speaker 3: key thing that Lynn always used to say was that
- 7:05Speaker 3: he tried to pump John Lennon's heart with his own hands,
- 7:09Speaker 3: you know, they cut inside John's chest and did that.
- 7:12Speaker 3: Hallan did that, and I think it was just one
- 7:15Speaker 3: documentary that Lynn was on, I don't know, the twenty
- 7:18Speaker 3: fifteen or something where he said it on CNN or something,
- 7:20Speaker 3: and Hallen told me snapped, I've had enough. I just
- 7:23Speaker 3: can't allow this guy to just keep on taking the
- 7:24Speaker 3: credit for this. So he went to the media, and
- 7:27Speaker 3: the media said, Wow, this is the real guy, and
- 7:29Speaker 3: they all discovered that was the truth. But when I
- 7:31Speaker 3: spoke to Halla and I said, so, just tell me again,
- 7:34Speaker 3: Dr Haller, and where on John's back was he shot?
- 7:36Speaker 3: Because that was still what I was thinking happened. And
- 7:38Speaker 3: remember this is what Mark Chapman thinks he's done and
- 7:41Speaker 3: has never wavered from that. March Atman's always soo. On
- 7:44Speaker 3: the night of the murder, I shot John in the
- 7:45Speaker 3: back with four bullets. If you rang up Marchapman tonight
- 7:48Speaker 3: in prison, he still thinks I think that he shot
- 7:50Speaker 3: John four times in the back. So he then said
- 7:53Speaker 3: to me, Dr Hallan, when he wasn't shot in the back,
- 7:54Speaker 3: he was shot in the front. And it was that
- 7:56Speaker 3: real kind of Royce Schneider Jaw's moment where everything just
- 7:59Speaker 3: came in sharp focus and I just I remember that
- 8:02Speaker 3: myrote really were and I just thought, oh, no, this
- 8:04Speaker 3: is bigger than I thought. This is massive. And I
- 8:08Speaker 3: didn't believe him at first, and I said, are you sure?
- 8:10Speaker 3: He said, well, of course, I'm sure I've tried to
- 8:12Speaker 3: save him. And he said there were four bullets in
- 8:14Speaker 3: his upper left chest in a tight professional grouping to
- 8:17Speaker 3: quote him, and three bullets came straight out of John's back,
- 8:21Speaker 3: upper left back, in a direct line of fire, and
- 8:23Speaker 3: one bullet that was near his upper left chest arm
- 8:25Speaker 3: upper left shoulder arm stayed in. He said, so, three
- 8:28Speaker 3: went through, one stayed in, shot in the front. I said,
- 8:30Speaker 3: where do you think the shooter was? He said, well,
- 8:32Speaker 3: the shoot had to be one two feet away, very close.
- 8:35Speaker 3: Because of the type grouping professional guy, he assumed march
- 8:39Speaker 3: Apton was a professional shooter. And when I said to
- 8:42Speaker 3: him that march Aptam was twenty feet behind John to
- 8:45Speaker 3: his left, he just said, no, that can't be. He
- 8:47Speaker 3: had to have walked up to him. But you must
- 8:48Speaker 3: be mistaken. I said no, because we've got a lot
- 8:50Speaker 3: of witnesses who saw Mark just before the shooting and
- 8:53Speaker 3: just after shooting. Mark himself says John was twenty feet
- 8:56Speaker 3: away and he shot him in the back. He said, no,
- 8:58Speaker 3: not the case, and then he asked me to I.
- 9:00Speaker 3: Then I said, there's anyone else I can corroborate with,
- 9:02Speaker 3: and he said, yeah, talked to the two nurses Dean
- 9:04Speaker 3: Barbara who tried to help me that night. They're thankfully
- 9:06Speaker 3: still alive and they're very no nonsense, straightforward New York
- 9:09Speaker 3: nurses who were very experienced at the time, so they
- 9:12Speaker 3: knew what they were talking about. And they said, yeah,
- 9:14Speaker 3: one hundred percent, four in the upper left chest throughout
- 9:17Speaker 3: a upper left back. Guy must have been standing very
- 9:19Speaker 3: close and yeah, one hundred percent that's what happened.
- 9:22Speaker 2: That is such a crucial detail because it, like you
- 9:26Speaker 2: say in the book, kind of speaks to Mark David
- 9:29Speaker 2: Chapman not being physically able to have pulled this off,
- 9:33Speaker 2: especially the grouping of the bullets, like that's Marksman stuff.
- 9:37Speaker 3: Yeah, and he had a revolver as well. I remember
- 9:39Speaker 3: so an revolver you have to it kicks and there's
- 9:42Speaker 3: a slight delay as it moves around the chamber, so
- 9:46Speaker 3: he had to re aim each time. So that kickin reanin.
- 9:49Speaker 3: It was a very dark driveway still is actually, but
- 9:53Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty there was his very low orange lights glowing.
- 9:56Speaker 3: Even if John turned, and we can pretty much prove
- 9:59Speaker 3: that he didn't turn. We'll get into a little while
- 10:00Speaker 3: because they did try to throw that in there very
- 10:02Speaker 3: early on, that he'd called out to John march Aptam,
- 10:05Speaker 3: which he's never said he did, and I don't think
- 10:06Speaker 3: he did do. But even if he did, ter just
- 10:09Speaker 3: imagine the scenario. He's walking away towards a vestibule to
- 10:12Speaker 3: go inside his home through the driveway, someone a stranger
- 10:15Speaker 3: calls out behind him twenty feet were being asked to
- 10:17Speaker 3: believe that John would then turn around one hundred and
- 10:19Speaker 3: eighty degrees stare at this stranger straight on. And this stranger,
- 10:23Speaker 3: who's not a professional marksman, though he was an armed
- 10:25Speaker 3: security guard so he had some gun training, we can't
- 10:28Speaker 3: say he wasn't familiar guns from twenty twenty five feet away,
- 10:31Speaker 3: shoot John four times in his upper left chest, and
- 10:34Speaker 3: we're asked to believe that John stood there dead still
- 10:38Speaker 3: allowed Marchapman to do this as three of the bullets
- 10:41Speaker 3: went right through him, one of them actually severed his
- 10:44Speaker 3: subclavern archery completely, and three other many archeries around his
- 10:47Speaker 3: heart rules are blown away with the three other bullets,
- 10:49Speaker 3: and he'd stays dead still. But here's where it gets
- 10:52Speaker 3: really problematic, Adam. We are then now asked to believe
- 10:55Speaker 3: that after this happened. John turns around another one hundred
- 10:58Speaker 3: and eighty degrees with these four holes in him, walks
- 11:01Speaker 3: up to a vestibule door, pulls open the vestib your door,
- 11:05Speaker 3: walks into a vestable area, walks up six steps. He's
- 11:09Speaker 3: now in a lobby. He pulls open some mahogany doors
- 11:11Speaker 3: to get into that lobby. These are big doors. He
- 11:14Speaker 3: then turns left, goes through a swinging door. He's now
- 11:16Speaker 3: into a front concierge's office. He runs through, staggers through
- 11:21Speaker 3: this concant edge's front office into another office, a back office,
- 11:26Speaker 3: and collapses down place first. And he's still got time
- 11:29Speaker 3: to say to the concierge, I've been shot. I've been shot.
- 11:31Speaker 3: So they want us to believe this happened. But here's
- 11:33Speaker 3: the problem of Adam, and here's a massive problem. If
- 11:35Speaker 3: you talk to all the doctors and nurses you treated John,
- 11:38Speaker 3: and if you take the statements of the chief medical officer,
- 11:40Speaker 3: who's a dubius man, but he did say this as well,
- 11:43Speaker 3: so they all agree on this one point. Death would
- 11:45Speaker 3: have happened almost instantly to John Lennon when those bullets
- 11:47Speaker 3: hit him, because there were very serious wounds, very serious injuries.
- 11:50Speaker 3: So the official narrative's got a big problem because for
- 11:53Speaker 3: Mark to shoot John front or back, take your pick,
- 11:56Speaker 3: it has to happen in the driveway. But John's body
- 11:59Speaker 3: wasn't found in it t And this is something that
- 12:01Speaker 3: I think the world has completely got wrong, and I
- 12:03Speaker 3: got it wrong. I just imagine he was lying in
- 12:05Speaker 3: the driveway, but his body was found by all the
- 12:07Speaker 3: cots who found him far away from the driveway in
- 12:10Speaker 3: a back office space down which is another strange anomaly.
- 12:14Speaker 2: Yeah, I had never heard that part either. I always
- 12:18Speaker 2: assumed he just died right there where he was shot.
- 12:22Speaker 2: I don't know how a person who would be skeptical
- 12:25Speaker 2: of this, I don't know how you could justify those
- 12:28Speaker 2: two things. You don't get shot four times in the
- 12:31Speaker 2: heart basically or very near it and travel the distance
- 12:35Speaker 2: he did. He's going through doors, and why what would
- 12:39Speaker 2: he be going to that back office for anyway?
- 12:42Speaker 3: Well, to be fair, when you get up the stairs,
- 12:43Speaker 3: you go into vessel upstairs through the big homy doors
- 12:45Speaker 3: were in the lobby. That was a way of getting
- 12:47Speaker 3: into John's apartments over to the right, and the conciergeuy
- 12:50Speaker 3: buzz him in. So John was going in an area
- 12:52Speaker 3: where we would expect him to go, or where let's
- 12:54Speaker 3: say a second shooter might expect him to go. It
- 12:56Speaker 3: always had a very sort of predictable journey. There was
- 12:59Speaker 3: a kind of front on to desk there on the lobby,
- 13:01Speaker 3: and that's where he picked up his letters and his
- 13:03Speaker 3: mail and parcels and stuff, and then he went off
- 13:04Speaker 3: into his apartments. Though to the right why he decided
- 13:07Speaker 3: to sort of run left and into the concierge's front
- 13:10Speaker 3: office and the running into a back office when if
- 13:12Speaker 3: he could say to the concierge, I've been shot. I've
- 13:14Speaker 3: been shot and traveled through two offices, perhaps he perhaps
- 13:17Speaker 3: should have said as he came into the lobby, can
- 13:19Speaker 3: he buzz me in? Jay Hastings, he was a concierge
- 13:21Speaker 3: into my apartments, am I being a safer plasure to go?
- 13:23Speaker 3: Of course he didn't do any of this, but they
- 13:25Speaker 3: have to have us have him do with this because
- 13:28Speaker 3: they know, and I know. I spoke to all the
- 13:29Speaker 3: cops he saw it that night. I spoke to every
- 13:31Speaker 3: single cop that went into that back office. They all
- 13:33Speaker 3: said the same thing. Based down bleeding out back office,
- 13:37Speaker 3: so we know where he was. But How he got
- 13:39Speaker 3: from the driveway to there with those four big holes
- 13:42Speaker 3: in him is a very interesting question.
- 13:44Speaker 2: Yeah, it sure is. Jay Hastings is an interesting figure
- 13:49Speaker 2: in this. I remember there's someone who said they carried
- 13:53Speaker 2: John Lennon's body out with the cops, and it seems
- 13:55Speaker 2: like they were lying about that.
- 13:57Speaker 3: Well, yeah, let's go. We should I suppose, just for pickure.
- 14:00Speaker 3: Not too familiar the story, say the official narrative. John
- 14:03Speaker 3: and Yoko at a recording studio Monday, the eighth of
- 14:07Speaker 3: December nineteen eighty ten point fifty pm. They pull up
- 14:10Speaker 3: outside their home in a limo. Still not quite sure
- 14:13Speaker 3: who got out of the limo first, met Sam say
- 14:15Speaker 3: Yoko sometimes said it was her, Sometimes Yoka said it
- 14:17Speaker 3: was John. We'll go with Yoko first. I think that's
- 14:19Speaker 3: pretty much what happened. Yoko's ahead of John, not quite
- 14:22Speaker 3: sure what she does. She doesn't go in. I don't
- 14:25Speaker 3: think she maybe goes into the back courtyard area. Let's
- 14:28Speaker 3: just part Yoko for now. We do know what John did.
- 14:30Speaker 3: John walked in past Chapman into this driveway tunnel, walks
- 14:33Speaker 3: over to the right where these glass festival doors were,
- 14:35Speaker 3: which is to head into the lobby and into his apartments,
- 14:38Speaker 3: And according to the official narrative, Mark Chapman is on
- 14:40Speaker 3: the left hand side of the driveway, on the sidewalk
- 14:43Speaker 3: side of it as John walks past him. This is
- 14:45Speaker 3: according to Mark Chapman as well. By the way, as
- 14:47Speaker 3: John approaches the ve scuel, Mark gets out of gun.
- 14:50Speaker 3: It's got a five bullet revolver, he says. He shoots
- 14:52Speaker 3: John four times in the back on bullet missus. Then
- 14:55Speaker 3: it gets very weird with regards to the gun, because
- 14:58Speaker 3: sometimes Mark says he dropped the gun. Mark says the dorman,
- 15:01Speaker 3: Jose Perdermo, shook it out of his hand. Now we
- 15:04Speaker 3: should say that the dormant was not a CIA Operativity
- 15:07Speaker 3: was not at the Bad Pigs. There was a very
- 15:09Speaker 3: serious dude called Jose Dedermo who wasn't the Bad Pigs,
- 15:12Speaker 3: and he was a CIA assassin. And if he was
- 15:14Speaker 3: working the door the night John Lennon was as it
- 15:17Speaker 3: clearly would have been him. But it's a different Jose Perdermo.
- 15:19Speaker 3: It's a very common name. The birth dates are different.
- 15:22Speaker 3: This Jose at the started working there in sixty nine.
- 15:24Speaker 3: John didn't live there for a few years after that.
- 15:26Speaker 3: You know, How did you know to start working at
- 15:28Speaker 3: a place that he didn't even know Johnlenan was going
- 15:29Speaker 3: to come and live in. It's ridiculous. But this jose
- 15:32Speaker 3: is strange because then what he did was when this
- 15:33Speaker 3: gun allegedly was on the floor in front of Mark Chapman,
- 15:37Speaker 3: jose kicks it to the back of the driveway, okay
- 15:40Speaker 3: where the vestubl is, and then he walks up to
- 15:42Speaker 3: it and starts walking around it. Now, why didn't you
- 15:44Speaker 3: pick it up? Why did he decide to play soccer
- 15:47Speaker 3: with it? But why are you kicking a gun around, Josey?
- 15:50Speaker 3: You know, so this is odd. Then you've got another
- 15:53Speaker 3: character who comes into the scene, a kind of borter
- 15:56Speaker 3: basement crew guy called Joe Manning who says he heard
- 15:59Speaker 3: gunfire and he came up with two co workers and
- 16:01Speaker 3: they all say the same thing. When they came up,
- 16:03Speaker 3: they say that Pose the down with the dorm was
- 16:05Speaker 3: walking round a gun by the vestibule in an agitated
- 16:07Speaker 3: state and said to Joe Manny, take this gun, take
- 16:10Speaker 3: it downstairs, which amazingly Joe Manny did. Did what's going on, Jose,
- 16:14Speaker 3: Why whose gun is this? And who's that guy over
- 16:17Speaker 3: by the sidewalk now reading a book. Joe didn't do
- 16:20Speaker 3: any of this, which is what anyone I think normally
- 16:23Speaker 3: would do. But Joe and the two guys, they verify
- 16:26Speaker 3: this in there with the statements, picked the gun up.
- 16:28Speaker 3: They all went down together again. Why do they all
- 16:31Speaker 3: go down with a gun? Very strange. They all go
- 16:33Speaker 3: down in the lift with the gun. They put it
- 16:35Speaker 3: away in a drawer, and they all come back up again.
- 16:37Speaker 3: So that's the Joe Manny story up to that point. Now,
- 16:40Speaker 3: John allegedly, according to Jay Hastin's and Concierge's in the
- 16:44Speaker 3: front office, which is where he's supposed to be. Jay
- 16:47Speaker 3: Hastings said he heard gunfire after hearing the vestal door open,
- 16:51Speaker 3: which is interesting. They said he heard various shots. Sometimes
- 16:53Speaker 3: he said three, sometimes he says four. He says. John
- 16:56Speaker 3: comes running in past him, staggering like a kind of
- 16:59Speaker 3: drunk man, says I've been shot. I've been shot, and
- 17:01Speaker 3: then runs into his back office and collapses, and Jay says,
- 17:04Speaker 3: he runs into the back office. He said, John's on
- 17:06Speaker 3: his side, okay, which is interesting, so he's not faced
- 17:09Speaker 3: down at this point. He says he can see there's
- 17:11Speaker 3: a lot of blood on his chest. Never mentions holes
- 17:13Speaker 3: in his back. Everybody always talks about chess. Wings says
- 17:17Speaker 3: he realized at that point he couldn't save him. Sometimes
- 17:20Speaker 3: he said there were tapes there. Sometimes he doesn't save
- 17:22Speaker 3: his tapes there. Sometimes Peter said he took his glasses off.
- 17:25Speaker 3: Jay's told me he didn't take his glasses office just nonsense.
- 17:28Speaker 3: And then Jay says he came out and rang cops
- 17:31Speaker 3: and rang an ambulance. And at that point he says,
- 17:33Speaker 3: Jose Berno came in and Joe Maney came in. And
- 17:36Speaker 3: that's Jay Hastings's story up to that point. So Joe
- 17:39Speaker 3: mannis get back to Joe Mannie. So Joe Manie has
- 17:41Speaker 3: got the gun down in the draw. He's come back
- 17:43Speaker 3: up again. Now he's come up a different way. He's
- 17:45Speaker 3: come up in the courtyard. He hasn't come up in
- 17:46Speaker 3: some driveways, come up in a slightly different way. And
- 17:49Speaker 3: he's walked into the lobby front office area, and he
- 17:51Speaker 3: sees some very interesting things, Adam. First thing he sees
- 17:54Speaker 3: that shouldn't be there is a big pool of blood,
- 17:57Speaker 3: a large pool of blood in the front office office
- 18:00Speaker 3: that Jay Hastings said that John allegedly ran through. So
- 18:04Speaker 3: how the hell did that blood get in the front office?
- 18:05Speaker 3: And he's very descriptive. He says it was in a
- 18:07Speaker 3: gully just behind the desk in the marble floor, which
- 18:10Speaker 3: Jay Hastings has said, Yes, there was a gully there,
- 18:12Speaker 3: and he said, Jay Hastings was covered in blood and
- 18:15Speaker 3: sometimes he used the phrase full of blood. His shirt
- 18:18Speaker 3: was full of blood. So I thought, okay, that's a
- 18:20Speaker 3: bit odd. I said, well, else did you see, Joe?
- 18:21Speaker 3: He said, well, I saw John and Yoko in the
- 18:23Speaker 3: back office with Joko craigling John in her arms. So
- 18:27Speaker 3: I thought, okay, if she's cradling John in her arms,
- 18:30Speaker 3: how did he end up face down when the cops
- 18:32Speaker 3: got there. That's not what you do. That's not what
- 18:34Speaker 3: a loving wife does. But I'm no first aid medical expert,
- 18:37Speaker 3: but I know if someone shot, I'm not going to
- 18:38Speaker 3: leave him face down on the floor. You're going to
- 18:40Speaker 3: lean on their side or on the back, surely so
- 18:42Speaker 3: they can breathe. I mean, that's just basic, isn't it.
- 18:46Speaker 3: We'll part that. So I said to Jay Hastings, I said, Jake,
- 18:48Speaker 3: a couple of problems. How did that blood get in
- 18:50Speaker 3: the front office? So he said there was no blood
- 18:52Speaker 3: in the front office. Joe Manny's l like, okay, so
- 18:55Speaker 3: one of them not telling the truth there. That's slightly disturbing.
- 18:58Speaker 3: I said, how did that blood get on shirt? Jay?
- 19:00Speaker 3: I said, He said, yeah, there was blood of my
- 19:02Speaker 3: shee doesn't deny that was blood in his shirt. I said,
- 19:04Speaker 3: how did blood get on his shirt? He said, I've
- 19:06Speaker 3: got blood of my shirt through carrying John's body out
- 19:08Speaker 3: with cops. I said, okay, So I then spoke to
- 19:11Speaker 3: Joe Manny about this. I said, how did you think
- 19:14Speaker 3: Jay got blood on his shirt show? He said, well,
- 19:16Speaker 3: Jay told me well, I think he said Jay in
- 19:18Speaker 3: third that John fell into his arms, and he assumed
- 19:24Speaker 3: that John fell into his arms in the front office,
- 19:27Speaker 3: collapsed in the front office, and started bleeding out, hence
- 19:30Speaker 3: the blood in the front office. And Joe Manny assumed
- 19:33Speaker 3: that Yoko Ono and Jay Hastings moved John's body into
- 19:38Speaker 3: the back office because they felt it might be safer
- 19:41Speaker 3: away from the killer Mark Chatman, which makes some kind
- 19:44Speaker 3: of logic. Sure. When I spoke to Jay about this again,
- 19:48Speaker 3: he said, no, we didn't move his body. John didn't
- 19:50Speaker 3: fall into my arms. There was no blood in the
- 19:51Speaker 3: front office Joe Manny's life. So okay, so this is
- 19:56Speaker 3: all very interesting. Let's get to the cops. So the
- 19:58Speaker 3: first two cops arrived, Spirou and Color, and officer Spirou
- 20:01Speaker 3: and Colored. Spirou deals with Chapman. Cullen goes in to
- 20:04Speaker 3: the back office, sees John Lang face down, comes back
- 20:08Speaker 3: out to Spiro and says, put handcuffs on that guy.
- 20:10Speaker 3: There's a guy bleving out in here. Two other cops
- 20:12Speaker 3: turn up, officers from Burger and Culhen. They pull up.
- 20:16Speaker 3: They go into the back office and they see John
- 20:18Speaker 3: Lang face down again. This is how they all describe him.
- 20:20Speaker 3: Fron Berger says he tried to take John's pulse and
- 20:23Speaker 3: he felt a very faint pulse. I don't believe what's
- 20:26Speaker 3: a faint pulse there, but he unconvincedly said he felt
- 20:29Speaker 3: faint pulse. And they decided that the best thing to
- 20:31Speaker 3: do was to lift him up and carry him out
- 20:33Speaker 3: into a police calm drive him to the hospital. So
- 20:35Speaker 3: there was no time to wait for an ambulance. So
- 20:37Speaker 3: sadly they sport the crime scene and I think John
- 20:40Speaker 3: was dead at that point. Anyway, it doesn't really matter,
- 20:42Speaker 3: but it was difficult from an evidence point of view
- 20:44Speaker 3: to do that, but that's what they did. From Berger
- 20:46Speaker 3: said he took the legs. Palmer said he took the
- 20:48Speaker 3: head and shoulders and arms, and the two of them
- 20:51Speaker 3: carried John out. They both are Adam and that they
- 20:53Speaker 3: did it. Joe Manny said, Yep, two cops carried John out.
- 20:57Speaker 3: Witnesses on the street who were beginning to now mingle
- 21:00Speaker 3: outside of the Dakota they all said, yep, it was
- 21:02Speaker 3: two cops carry John's body out. So we know two
- 21:05Speaker 3: cops did it. And even Mark Chapman, would you believe Adam,
- 21:08Speaker 3: who was sitting in Spiro's car, handcuffed at the back seat,
- 21:12Speaker 3: said he saw a cop carrying John's arm and head
- 21:15Speaker 3: out swear at him as he walked past carrying John,
- 21:18Speaker 3: passed him and put John into a car. I spoke
- 21:20Speaker 3: to Para about He said, yeah, that's exactly what I did.
- 21:22Speaker 3: I swore at Mark Chapman as I walked past the
- 21:25Speaker 3: car carrying Jon's body out. So we know that from
- 21:28Speaker 3: Berger and Palmer did this, right, it was those two only.
- 21:31Speaker 3: But here's the problem. Jay Haysis says, no, they're lying.
- 21:33Speaker 3: I carried John's body out, arm and shoulders, and that's
- 21:37Speaker 3: how my shirt got coven in blood, which is clearly
- 21:39Speaker 3: a lie. It's clearly not true. So now we've got
- 21:43Speaker 3: to ask ourselves, why are you making up a story, Jay,
- 21:46Speaker 3: about why your shirt's covering blood and how did your
- 21:48Speaker 3: shirt get coven in blood? Because your story of John
- 21:51Speaker 3: running past you doesn't stack up from what the medical
- 21:54Speaker 3: people have told us, and it doesn't stack up with
- 21:56Speaker 3: that pool of blood that Joe Maney saw in the
- 21:57Speaker 3: front office, and it certainly doesn't stack to how you
- 22:00Speaker 3: got yourself covered in blood. So Jay Hastings has got
- 22:04Speaker 3: some stories that he still needs to reveal. With regards
- 22:06Speaker 3: to Yoko, Jay Hastings said that seconds, just one or
- 22:10Speaker 3: two seconds after John came running past him, Yoka came
- 22:13Speaker 3: running in screaming, get an ambulance, Get an ambulance, call
- 22:16Speaker 3: a doctor, which you would assume is logical. But there's
- 22:19Speaker 3: a problem with that. And the problem with that is
- 22:21Speaker 3: we've got a new witness that I've managed to locate,
- 22:23Speaker 3: because I should say at this point I managed to
- 22:25Speaker 3: talk to the detective Ron Hoffman and get all his
- 22:28Speaker 3: notebooks and PaperWorks, so I've got all the witness statements
- 22:30Speaker 3: now and One of those witness statements in there that's
- 22:32Speaker 3: been concealed is by a woman called Nina Rosen. Nina
- 22:35Speaker 3: Rosen is a dog walker who every night walked her
- 22:37Speaker 3: dog outside of Dakota, so she knew that patch very
- 22:41Speaker 3: very well. She was an old lady, walked a dog
- 22:42Speaker 3: there many many times over many years. And just after gunfire,
- 22:47Speaker 3: she said she double backed and came on the scene
- 22:51Speaker 3: in the Dakota Driver, which is incredible because she's she's
- 22:54Speaker 3: like a fresh new witness to give us, you know,
- 22:56Speaker 3: exactly what was going on straight after gunfire, and she
- 22:59Speaker 3: says she said she saw a few interesting things. She
- 23:01Speaker 3: saw Mark and the dormant. She said she saw a
- 23:04Speaker 3: large gentleman in the dorman by the sidewalk, which is
- 23:06Speaker 3: what we would expect. We think they're both are. She
- 23:09Speaker 3: didn't see John, which again we kind of expect that
- 23:13Speaker 3: he's off on his magical mystery tour inside the building.
- 23:16Speaker 3: She didn't see a gun, which is strange because you'd
- 23:20Speaker 3: think for Mark to drop the gun or for Horizon
- 23:22Speaker 3: to knock it out his hand and then kick it
- 23:23Speaker 3: to the back and then walk towards a gun that
- 23:25Speaker 3: would take a bit of time. But she saw no gun,
- 23:27Speaker 3: so that's troubling. And she saw Yoko. Now, according to Jay,
- 23:33Speaker 3: she shouldn't see Yoko because Yoko came running in straight
- 23:35Speaker 3: after John. But she saw Yoko in a far courtyard,
- 23:38Speaker 3: which is a kind of gated fountain area beyond the driveway,
- 23:42Speaker 3: which again you can access Lennond apartments in, so Yoko
- 23:44Speaker 3: going that way makes some kind of sense. But Yoko's
- 23:47Speaker 3: in the courtyard screaming. She shouldn't be there. Quite a
- 23:51Speaker 3: few Yoko statements. She's given five different statements on the
- 23:54Speaker 3: night of the murder and the day after. I've got
- 23:56Speaker 3: all the statements. They're all different. Sometimes she said she's ahead,
- 23:58Speaker 3: sometimes John's ahead. Sometimes she runs it out to John.
- 24:00Speaker 3: Sometimes she doesn't run out John. Sometimes John says that
- 24:03Speaker 3: I'm shot. Sometimes he doesn't say I'm shot. So you
- 24:05Speaker 3: could say this is shock and PTSD makes total sense.
- 24:09Speaker 3: She saw something horrific, so I'm going to give her.
- 24:11Speaker 3: You know, we shouldn't be too harsh on her having
- 24:13Speaker 3: different statements. But at no point does she say around
- 24:15Speaker 3: to the courtyard I screened, which is now I'm pretty
- 24:18Speaker 3: sure what she did. So Joko's troubling. She's very troubling
- 24:22Speaker 3: in fact, that all of their statements Joemani's statement, Jay
- 24:25Speaker 3: Hastings statement, Yoko knows many different statements. I'd like to
- 24:28Speaker 3: tell you what the dormant Jose Perdermo's statement is, Adam,
- 24:31Speaker 3: But strangely the NYPD and DA's office do not want
- 24:35Speaker 3: to release Jose Pedermo's with the statements. Now we know
- 24:39Speaker 3: he gave various statements, because we know from some people Tommy,
- 24:42Speaker 3: that Joremani said he went to the station with Jose
- 24:45Speaker 3: in a police car and they gave a statement that night,
- 24:46Speaker 3: and Jeremani said that he gave lots of statements the
- 24:48Speaker 3: DIA's office in the days and weeks afterwards, which you'd expect.
- 24:51Speaker 3: So we know Paduma did this, but for some reason,
- 24:54Speaker 3: the authorities do not want to release those statements. They've
- 24:57Speaker 3: released everyone else's statements, but not that one. That's which
- 25:00Speaker 3: is interesting, very very interesting, and I'm barely convinced that
- 25:05Speaker 3: the reason they've not done that is Padermo didn't see much.
- 25:09Speaker 3: I think he probably walked back to his gold booth,
- 25:11Speaker 3: his watchman's booth after John and yoga the limousine. I
- 25:14Speaker 3: think he heard gunfire. I think he came on the scene,
- 25:16Speaker 3: and I think John was gone at that point, and
- 25:18Speaker 3: I think he just kind of panicked and felt guilty
- 25:21Speaker 3: that he didn't do his job as a security guard.
- 25:23Speaker 3: But the official narrative wants us to believe that Jose Padermo,
- 25:27Speaker 3: the dormant, saw everything, and he's the crucial key witness
- 25:30Speaker 3: who if it went to trial, which of course it didn't,
- 25:32Speaker 3: he's the guy that's going to give them all they
- 25:33Speaker 3: need to know. I think he's a suspicious guy, Jose,
- 25:36Speaker 3: because he wasn't actually supposed to be working that night.
- 25:38Speaker 3: He was a dormant, but a few weeks diding up
- 25:40Speaker 3: to about he was in the back office, working in
- 25:42Speaker 3: the concierges office because he had bad legs. But on
- 25:45Speaker 3: that particular night he said to Jay, I want to
- 25:48Speaker 3: go and work the door tonight because it's quite mild.
- 25:49Speaker 3: It's quite a mild evening, and my legs are feeling better.
- 25:52Speaker 3: So he made sure he was on the door when
- 25:54Speaker 3: Mark turned up, thinking he was doing something that we
- 25:57Speaker 3: now know Mike wasn't doing. So I think think just
- 26:00Speaker 3: these basic facts about the actual mechanics of the murder
- 26:04Speaker 3: and who was there and what they saw and how
- 26:06Speaker 3: all their statements conflict. I think just that alone is
- 26:10Speaker 3: enough to bring a new investigation into the whole thing.
- 26:12Speaker 3: None of it stacks up. I speak to the nurses
- 26:14Speaker 3: and doctors about John's I don't want to be flippant,
- 26:17Speaker 3: but you know, he was a magical mystery tour and
- 26:20Speaker 3: they just go, no, no way, no way, no, that's ridiculous.
- 26:24Speaker 3: He wasn't moving in the second those bullets in him.
- 26:27Speaker 3: He's down, he's not going anywhere. There's no way that
- 26:29Speaker 3: guy was running anywhere. And they're kind of angry now
- 26:32Speaker 3: because people like Jay Hastings has now come out in
- 26:34Speaker 3: the press sam that John ran past him. They never
- 26:36Speaker 3: knew this. They always assumed that Mark Chaltang just walked
- 26:38Speaker 3: up to him at point bank range, straight in front
- 26:41Speaker 3: of him, shot him four times, dropped the gun John
- 26:43Speaker 3: dropped in the driveway. Cops found it in the driveway,
- 26:46Speaker 3: carried him to the hospital. End of story. You know,
- 26:48Speaker 3: they think it's simple. When I tell them that Mark
- 26:50Speaker 3: was nowhere near John and he shot him, his thinks
- 26:52Speaker 3: he shot me in the back, and they're troubled. That's
- 26:55Speaker 3: the word troubled.
- 26:57Speaker 2: I imagine this part of it is probably not that
- 27:02Speaker 2: tough of a cell. Once you get into the ballistics
- 27:05Speaker 2: and the weird witness statements, it's pretty clear something's going on.
- 27:09Speaker 2: But then there's the Mark David Chapman part, where you're
- 27:13Speaker 2: having to sell a skeptical public on the idea of
- 27:18Speaker 2: brainwashing and mind being. Al talk about some of the
- 27:23Speaker 2: weird cast of characters that were surrounding Mark David Chapman
- 27:28Speaker 2: in the years leading up to this, like the psychedelic
- 27:33Speaker 2: pastor and the specially Pastor. That all is very weird
- 27:37Speaker 2: to me.
- 27:38Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was weird to me. Again, I wasn't
- 27:40Speaker 3: looking for any of this. I just thought Mark Chapman
- 27:43Speaker 3: was a guy who, to call a clicheo was in
- 27:45Speaker 3: his bedroom listening to Judas Prease records backwards. Yeah, it
- 27:49Speaker 3: was a bit of a bit of a loser. Snapped
- 27:52Speaker 3: got a bit obsessed about John then and then just
- 27:53Speaker 3: got it going and rushed out and shy him just
- 27:55Speaker 3: because he was angry at the world or he had
- 27:57Speaker 3: mummy or daddy issues. You know, I just want the
- 27:59Speaker 3: cliches that we've been felt about low nuts And I
- 28:02Speaker 3: was surprised to find he had quite a rich, interesting life,
- 28:05Speaker 3: as so many of these low nuts tend to have
- 28:07Speaker 3: and I look at Lee Harvey Oswald and his globetrotting.
- 28:10Speaker 3: Mark came from the South Georgia, middle class family, very straightforward.
- 28:15Speaker 3: Dad worked in the military, was always a military dad somehow.
- 28:19Speaker 3: Then then got into banking. Man was a nurse, pretty standard,
- 28:23Speaker 3: bog standard family, nothing big, no strangeness there. He wasn't
- 28:27Speaker 3: particularly close to his sister. It all changed for Mark
- 28:30Speaker 3: round about sort of fourteen fifteen when he got into
- 28:33Speaker 3: LSD and he got into drugs and I spoken to
- 28:35Speaker 3: the guy who got him into that he wants to
- 28:38Speaker 3: stay anonymous. The friendly did that, and they said, you know,
- 28:40Speaker 3: it was the standard stuff. They started to smoke a
- 28:42Speaker 3: little bit of weed and then they'd started to do a
- 28:44Speaker 3: little bit of this and a little bit of that,
- 28:46Speaker 3: and they ended up doing LSDE this. So they never
- 28:48Speaker 3: progressed a heroin. There's been obviously these things always expanding.
- 28:50Speaker 3: You know, Mart was a heroin. You didn't do it,
- 28:53Speaker 3: I suppose, as I can find out. But LSD was
- 28:55Speaker 3: a big thing. And at fifteen he was identified by
- 29:00Speaker 3: local pastor called Charles McGowan, who started to keep an
- 29:03Speaker 3: eye on him. According to Charles and Charles's x US
- 29:06Speaker 3: Army and his ex counterintelligence for Navy intelligence. So he's
- 29:10Speaker 3: not just a pastor. He's a heavyweight spook Charles mcgow
- 29:14Speaker 3: which is concerning. And it's a Southern Baptist spoke at that,
- 29:18Speaker 3: which is again quite concerning, because what are you are
- 29:21Speaker 3: you aspire a priest. I don't like this melding together
- 29:25Speaker 3: thing anyway, That's who he is, so whatever. So what
- 29:29Speaker 3: happened at fifteen was Mark met at school a guy
- 29:32Speaker 3: called Arthur bless It. I'm pretty sure that's the stage name,
- 29:35Speaker 3: who was the kind of preacher who was into He
- 29:38Speaker 3: called himself the Psychedelic Preacher, and he was all into
- 29:40Speaker 3: this kind of Jesus freak movement. He was trying to
- 29:42Speaker 3: convert people. I wouldn't say convert, I would say incorporate
- 29:46Speaker 3: drug taking youth into Jesus. I suspect he was quite
- 29:49Speaker 3: happy for them to continue taking drugs while they were
- 29:51Speaker 3: in his flock. And Mark one day he went to
- 29:54Speaker 3: one of his charismatic events at school and he touched
- 29:57Speaker 3: Mark on the head and said Jesus and Mark fell by.
- 30:00Speaker 3: And Mark's friend was laughing and joking about all this,
- 30:02Speaker 3: but something happened that day to Mark, and he became
- 30:05Speaker 3: a convert to Christian and born again Christian, and he
- 30:07Speaker 3: became a Jesus freakently walked around with a big wooden
- 30:09Speaker 3: cross and brown smock top and it was he became
- 30:12Speaker 3: very dull of course his friends and he started to
- 30:15Speaker 3: preach to them, and all the drugs went to one side,
- 30:17Speaker 3: and he just became very, very evangelical. And that's when
- 30:20Speaker 3: Charles McGowan really got him into his flock and started
- 30:23Speaker 3: to really keep tabs on him. And that's when Charles
- 30:26Speaker 3: McGowan sent Mark off to see another interesting guy called
- 30:29Speaker 3: Fred Krause, who was a charismatic preacher slash hypnotist slash exorcist.
- 30:35Speaker 3: Very interesting and an as yet unknown guy. Still all
- 30:38Speaker 3: this stuff about Fred Krauss I wants to find out about.
- 30:41Speaker 3: But I know he was a hypnotist. I know he
- 30:42Speaker 3: was a preacher, and I know he was into charismatic
- 30:45Speaker 3: Christianity and he fused all these things together. And at
- 30:48Speaker 3: the time there was a movement, would you believe, Adam
- 30:50Speaker 3: of hypnotists and evangelical preachers who wanted to fuse the
- 30:54Speaker 3: two things together, which I think is deeply disturbing on
- 30:57Speaker 3: lots of different levels. So these are the kind of
- 30:59Speaker 3: people that Mark sessions with Fred Krauss, who was sent
- 31:02Speaker 3: to Viatarles McGowan's church, it was all about exorcisms. Speaking
- 31:07Speaker 3: in tongues, Mark said there were men sort of pressing
- 31:09Speaker 3: down in his chest, demanding demons to come out of him.
- 31:12Speaker 3: He just said, it was just deeply, deeply disturbed. And
- 31:14Speaker 3: if you look into mind control on mkulture, one of
- 31:17Speaker 3: the first things they say, right from the beginning of
- 31:19Speaker 3: the literature on it, on the sort of fifties and
- 31:21Speaker 3: sixties onwards, the kind of pioneer a hypnotist say, one
- 31:24Speaker 3: of the best ways to get somebody as a candidate
- 31:27Speaker 3: for that is to crack their brain first, is to
- 31:30Speaker 3: actually give them such disturbing events. Their brain becomes a
- 31:34Speaker 3: much more easier vessel to actually imprint a new personality
- 31:37Speaker 3: onto it. And one of the reasons, one of the
- 31:39Speaker 3: things that was actually stated way back in the literature
- 31:41Speaker 3: was that religious mania was a great way to do this.
- 31:44Speaker 3: And I'm pretty sure this was a very deliberate ploy
- 31:47Speaker 3: by the people that were surrounding Mark to get him
- 31:49Speaker 3: ready for his Manturian candidate programming, and as you know,
- 31:52Speaker 3: you've done program on h Kulture Adam, you know it
- 31:55Speaker 3: was a thing they were looking to create, Manturian candidate assassins.
- 31:59Speaker 3: I think Mark Schatton was a mancha and candidate at Patsy.
- 32:02Speaker 3: I don't think they actually were going to rely on
- 32:04Speaker 3: Mark to actually do the kill, but like Sarah and Syrian,
- 32:07Speaker 3: he was there to take the can when the event
- 32:10Speaker 3: went down, so it was all very convenient. So the
- 32:13Speaker 3: next thing that Mark did after his kind of sessions
- 32:15Speaker 3: with Fred Krauss is he went to bea route with
- 32:17Speaker 3: ther YMCA, which is a bit odd and I think
- 32:20Speaker 3: if you look into the YMCA there are some very
- 32:24Speaker 3: clear evidence and documentation that they were funded indirectly by
- 32:27Speaker 3: the CIA. Of course, what a great thing to do.
- 32:30Speaker 3: You know, you fund evangelical YMCA workers who go all
- 32:34Speaker 3: over the world doing God's work and they take notes
- 32:37Speaker 3: obviously for Langley and you know pass it back. You
- 32:41Speaker 3: could say that pastors do this as well across the world.
- 32:44Speaker 3: It's a great cover, isn't it if you're a priest
- 32:45Speaker 3: or a religious Christian worker doing good work in a
- 32:48Speaker 3: foreign land. A bit like the Peace Corps again, same
- 32:50Speaker 3: kind of thing. You're out there on the surface doing
- 32:52Speaker 3: something that it's good for others, but you know, the
- 32:55Speaker 3: funding tells another story. So he comes back from Bay Route.
- 32:58Speaker 3: We're not quite sure what you got to, but he said,
- 33:00Speaker 3: there's a lot of violence out there. There was a war.
- 33:02Speaker 3: Charles wick Gowan again is overseeing all of this. He said,
- 33:05Speaker 3: Mark came to his church and gave you a speech
- 33:07Speaker 3: about his adventures in Beirut. So Mark then starts to
- 33:11Speaker 3: work at Fort Chaffee with Vietnamese refugees. And this is
- 33:14Speaker 3: where a big myth comes in because Weld Vision was
- 33:17Speaker 3: also working at Fort Chaffee, and weld Vision is run
- 33:20Speaker 3: by John Hinckley's father, and John Kinkley's father was friends
- 33:23Speaker 3: with the Bush family, and I can see how people
- 33:25Speaker 3: get very excited about that link.
- 33:27Speaker 2: I was just going to say the only thing because
- 33:30Speaker 2: I must have missed if that's mentioned in the book,
- 33:33Speaker 2: I probably I feel like I missed it. But I
- 33:36Speaker 2: was going to say, the one thing that surprises me
- 33:38Speaker 2: about this is that George Bush never comes up. But
- 33:41Speaker 2: here we go there, well.
- 33:42Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, he's there. I think he's there
- 33:44Speaker 3: in spirit, but he's say not there in evidence. Because
- 33:46Speaker 3: wel Vision actually weren't working with Mark Chavner Fort Chaffie.
- 33:49Speaker 3: Their job at Fort Chaffee which is to place Vietnamese
- 33:52Speaker 3: orphans into Christian homes. Okay, so Mark Shannon is the
- 33:56Speaker 3: YMCA guy, was just there to play with kids. Basically,
- 33:58Speaker 3: he was a kid, kind of played coordinator. So he
- 34:01Speaker 3: had a very specific job there, which apparently he enjoyed
- 34:04Speaker 3: and excelled in, and well Visioned has another specific job
- 34:08Speaker 3: there which they did almost not on site. They kind
- 34:11Speaker 3: of well admin So when kids were done through the camp,
- 34:14Speaker 3: they placed the Vietnamese kids into Christian homes. And it's
- 34:17Speaker 3: really well documented Fort Chatty. You know, it was a
- 34:19Speaker 3: government scam. Basically, the government made a lot of money
- 34:22Speaker 3: out of Fort chadv There's a lot of money and
- 34:23Speaker 3: refugees and it costs a fortune to run, and a
- 34:26Speaker 3: lot of people make a lot of money out of it,
- 34:28Speaker 3: including the YMCA and World Vision. I'm assuming, but there's
- 34:31Speaker 3: no proof that it was a weld visioned plot to
- 34:34Speaker 3: get Mark Chapman into a program. You don't need Bush.
- 34:36Speaker 3: There's plenty of other nefarious characters that we can choose from,
- 34:38Speaker 3: So I mean, I'm sure boys was across this to
- 34:41Speaker 3: some degree, because, as I'm sure we're going to discuss later,
- 34:43Speaker 3: there are some deeply disturbing links to the people that
- 34:46Speaker 3: were around Mark Chapman and the Reagular Administration. Of course,
- 34:48Speaker 3: George Bush was the vice president of the role of
- 34:50Speaker 3: Reagular Administration, and he also was a CIA director of
- 34:53Speaker 3: nineteen seventy seven, which neatly pulls me into the next
- 34:56Speaker 3: phase in Mark Chapman's life, which was nineteen seventy seven
- 34:59Speaker 3: at the age of twenty two. After being a bit
- 35:01Speaker 3: of a lose, he did a little bit at the YMCA,
- 35:03Speaker 3: he went to Theological College, didn't quite cut it there,
- 35:06Speaker 3: had a few bad relationships, just a bit of a drift,
- 35:10Speaker 3: a bit of a loser. He kind of officially moves
- 35:13Speaker 3: away from Charles McGowan's oversight and decides to go to Hawaii.
- 35:18Speaker 3: Now Mark believes that he went to Hawaii in seventy
- 35:21Speaker 3: seven to kill himself, and that's what he's always thought
- 35:23Speaker 3: was the reason why he went there. He possibly did,
- 35:26Speaker 3: possibly didn't we know. He tried to do it with
- 35:29Speaker 3: a hose connected to his exhaust on his car. Apparently
- 35:32Speaker 3: a Japanese fisherman walked past and it all just sounds
- 35:35Speaker 3: a little bit too on the nose for me, this
- 35:38Speaker 3: suicide story, but we do know Mark thinks he did it,
- 35:42Speaker 3: and we do. Mark ended up in a mental facility
- 35:45Speaker 3: in Hawaii called the Castle Memorial Hospital, which was run
- 35:47Speaker 3: by the Seven Day Adventists, again another Christian group surrounding
- 35:51Speaker 3: Mark and the Seven Day Adventists to have a history
- 35:54Speaker 3: of working with the military, offering up their followers for
- 35:59Speaker 3: chemical warfare experiments. They did this in the Korean War
- 36:01Speaker 3: because obviously they're consciential subjectives. They didn't want to fight,
- 36:04Speaker 3: but they said, they don't worry. You can just go
- 36:05Speaker 3: into this room and take these drugs and see if
- 36:07Speaker 3: you survive. And then he didn't. You know, you can
- 36:09Speaker 3: find a documentary on this. They literally some of them
- 36:12Speaker 3: died for the experiments that the American military did on them.
- 36:15Speaker 3: So that's the Seven Day Adventists for you. So they
- 36:17Speaker 3: had a very unhealthy relationship with the American military. Chapman
- 36:20Speaker 3: walks into this hospital. On the surface, they treat him,
- 36:24Speaker 3: and he does so well there for depression and various
- 36:27Speaker 3: other things. He does so well there that they decided
- 36:30Speaker 3: to keep him on his janitor as you do, you know,
- 36:32Speaker 3: of course, we love you, Mark, come and work with us.
- 36:35Speaker 3: Someone could say, if you're being a bit uncharitable. They
- 36:37Speaker 3: want to keep an eye on him and keep the
- 36:39Speaker 3: work whatever they were doing with him ongoing, and by
- 36:42Speaker 3: having him there as a janitor they can carry on
- 36:44Speaker 3: the program. And we found out later that there was
- 36:46Speaker 3: a program. There was a doctor there called doctor Kasahani
- 36:49Speaker 3: who was running a brainwashing program there. And we know
- 36:51Speaker 3: that because another doctor that was working there actually whistleblowed
- 36:54Speaker 3: that this is what go Sahani was doing. He was
- 36:57Speaker 3: doing brainwashing programs at the exact time that Mark Chattan was.
- 37:00Speaker 3: They are being treated for his mental problems. So we
- 37:02Speaker 3: obviously there's no paperwork cast wee Morey have lost all
- 37:05Speaker 3: their paperwork with Mark Chapman and all their accounting they
- 37:07Speaker 3: weon't release because of confidentiality. So what he really got
- 37:12Speaker 3: up to in there is kind of secondhand hearsay. I
- 37:15Speaker 3: believe Gasahani was running a brainwashing program there. What we
- 37:18Speaker 3: next know is this is what we do know for
- 37:21Speaker 3: certain is that in nineteen seventy eight, while Mark Chapman
- 37:24Speaker 3: is mopping the floor Adam in the castle with Morial
- 37:26Speaker 3: Hospital in Hawaii, he decides he wants to travel the
- 37:28Speaker 3: world Janetor's wage. Okay, that's going to be tricky, but
- 37:33Speaker 3: that's what he wanted to do. And allegedly he got
- 37:35Speaker 3: money from two sources. He got it from the Credit
- 37:37Speaker 3: Union loan from the hospital or the Castle Mourroo hospital,
- 37:39Speaker 3: which is very kind of them to give him a
- 37:41Speaker 3: loan when you consider they had no way of knowing
- 37:43Speaker 3: if he'd ever pay it back or if he even
- 37:45Speaker 3: returned from his worldwide trips. And apparently his father, who
- 37:49Speaker 3: wasn't very close to allegedly gave him some money for
- 37:51Speaker 3: this worldwide trip. Now what's interesting about this trip is
- 37:54Speaker 3: he kind of went everywhere. He went to India, he
- 37:56Speaker 3: went to Japan, he went to Nepal. He went to
- 37:59Speaker 3: Iran you believe, yeah, yeah, pre revolutionary Iran, as you do.
- 38:04Speaker 3: And at the time it was a very dangerous place.
- 38:07Speaker 3: But Mark decides that's where he wants to go. After India,
- 38:10Speaker 3: he went to Europe. He went to Switzerland where he
- 38:12Speaker 3: cooked up with some old YMCA pals, and went to
- 38:14Speaker 3: the United Nations. Would you believe this is very interesting.
- 38:16Speaker 3: He went from a meeting there where apparently he met
- 38:18Speaker 3: some dignitaries and then went to London, Paris, Dublin, Israel,
- 38:22Speaker 3: you name it. This guy was. He was really moving around.
- 38:25Speaker 3: Now what's interesting about this is I've done a bit
- 38:27Speaker 3: of digging. I've only recently found this out that the
- 38:29Speaker 3: first place that Mark went to was Japan, and the
- 38:32Speaker 3: first place he went to in Japan in the summer
- 38:34Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy eight was Mount Fuji. And interestingly, at
- 38:37Speaker 3: that exact time in July nineteen seventy eight, staying at
- 38:40Speaker 3: Mount Fuji, would you believe Adam was John Lennon, Yoko
- 38:44Speaker 3: Ono and Seawan Inner. So Mark Chapman just decides to
- 38:48Speaker 3: start his worldwide trip in Japan at Mount Fuji at
- 38:52Speaker 3: the exact time that the Lens are there. I'm sorry,
- 38:56Speaker 3: that's the coincidence. I'm just not going to buy what's
- 39:00Speaker 3: interesting is Adam He's never mentioned this. You'd think that
- 39:02Speaker 3: the Beatles obsessive Mark out would say, oh, it's amazing,
- 39:05Speaker 3: it's such a strange thing. I was in Malt Fuji,
- 39:07Speaker 3: and you know, it was a big thing at the
- 39:09Speaker 3: time when the Lens were in Japan. It was in
- 39:10Speaker 3: the media, and it was obviously would have been the
- 39:12Speaker 3: Japanese media for sure, but Mark just happens to be
- 39:15Speaker 3: there at the same time. There was another location, I
- 39:16Speaker 3: can't quite think of it now, a very affluent location
- 39:19Speaker 3: in Tokyo, forget the name, and then it begins with gee.
- 39:21Speaker 3: But anyway, Lenin was there and Mark was there at
- 39:24Speaker 3: the same time, so he seems to be kind of
- 39:27Speaker 3: shadowing Lenin in Japan Tokyo in nineteen seventy eight. Now
- 39:31Speaker 3: you would think, well, if he was send there to
- 39:33Speaker 3: do something nefarious, why would he be sort of tracking
- 39:36Speaker 3: John Lennon's seventy eight John Lennon wasn't doing anything at
- 39:38Speaker 3: seventy eight, you know, his comeback was nineteen eighty, but
- 39:40Speaker 3: actually in nineteen seven shows you Believe had him. In
- 39:42Speaker 3: the spring of nineteen seventy eight, John and Yoko made
- 39:44Speaker 3: an announcement they were going to do a Broadway musical
- 39:47Speaker 3: called The Ballot of John and Yoko with new songs,
- 39:48Speaker 3: and they're going to do a big comeback. So potentially
- 39:51Speaker 3: nefarious people that were controlling Mark in Hawaii you might
- 39:54Speaker 3: have thought, you know what if John's making the comeback
- 39:56Speaker 3: seventy eight, Mark's gone through twelve months of our programming
- 39:59Speaker 3: with Kasa. Now's the time of send him out to
- 40:01Speaker 3: Mount Fuji. But what's odd is Mark doesn't remember any
- 40:04Speaker 3: of this. Wow, he remembers the trip. There's lots of
- 40:07Speaker 3: photography of the trip of Mark standing there and all
- 40:10Speaker 3: these tasmahole and all these amazing places. We're not quite
- 40:13Speaker 3: sure who took the pictures. Maybe Mike was very trusting
- 40:16Speaker 3: and gave his camera away to strangers everywhere he went.
- 40:18Speaker 3: But there's some cameo shots of Mark walking off into
- 40:21Speaker 3: the very instagram friendly today, Mark walking off into the
- 40:24Speaker 3: distance kind of Instagram shots. That's not a shot. You
- 40:27Speaker 3: don't give a guy a stranger of the camera and
- 40:29Speaker 3: go I'm just going to walk off into the distance
- 40:31Speaker 3: and wanting to take a picture of me. You just
- 40:33Speaker 3: don't do that, do you. So? You know, so someone
- 40:36Speaker 3: was with him on this trip, or someone was with
- 40:38Speaker 3: him for part of this trip. Now, this trip was
- 40:42Speaker 3: arranged for Mark by a woman called Gloria Chapman, who's
- 40:45Speaker 3: travel agents, and she was a couple of years older
- 40:47Speaker 3: than Mark, and Gloria became Mark's wife. Some unchattable people
- 40:51Speaker 3: may say Mark's handler to this day. You need to
- 40:55Speaker 3: if you want to get to Mark you've got to
- 40:56Speaker 3: go ass your Gloria. I approached Gloria in all innocence
- 40:59Speaker 3: a few years and said, look, I'm looking into your
- 41:01Speaker 3: husband's case. We need to talk. I've got some anomalies
- 41:04Speaker 3: you should know about. And she just came back and said,
- 41:06Speaker 3: I've spoke to Mark about your requests. No, in those
- 41:09Speaker 3: kind of words, which was basically saying to get it power. Yeah.
- 41:14Speaker 3: You know, I didn't ask her to speak to Mark,
- 41:16Speaker 3: by the way, but I think she was basically saying
- 41:18Speaker 3: to me, I'm in control here, I'm not interested yea.
- 41:21Speaker 3: So it was quite It was a very interesting reply
- 41:23Speaker 3: for a so called loving wife. You'd think a loving
- 41:25Speaker 3: wife would go but what the anomalies. Yeah, at the
- 41:28Speaker 3: very least because she's apparently waiting for Mark and still
- 41:31Speaker 3: holding the flame.
- 41:32Speaker 2: Yeah, she's an interesting character in all.
- 41:36Speaker 3: Of this, for sure. For sure.
- 41:38Speaker 2: There's that phone call that yeah, she said she received
- 41:42Speaker 2: when this all happened, and it seems like there's no.
- 41:44Speaker 3: Way, well she gave the phone call. She actually made
- 41:47Speaker 3: it herself and recorded it. That's interesting about Gloria is
- 41:50Speaker 3: she really had nothing to do with Mark Chapman. I mean,
- 41:52Speaker 3: he was a bit of a dew we loser, and
- 41:54Speaker 3: you know, she was quite attractive. Gloria a bit old,
- 41:57Speaker 3: a bit more worldly, apparently had a slightly I don't
- 42:00Speaker 3: think she used the word promiscus, but she heard a
- 42:02Speaker 3: slightly immoral. That was the word she used life when
- 42:05Speaker 3: she was a travel agent traveling in the world. Some
- 42:07Speaker 3: could say that that may have got into some compromising
- 42:10Speaker 3: positions where she might have been easily manipulate to do things.
- 42:12Speaker 3: But anyway, Mark walks into a travel agency in Hawaii
- 42:15Speaker 3: to book his amazing, fabulous around the World trip, talks
- 42:18Speaker 3: to someone else, and Gloria says she saw him talk
- 42:21Speaker 3: to someone else, and she made sure that she got
- 42:24Speaker 3: Mark's number and name and number, and she rang Mark
- 42:27Speaker 3: and she took over the job. So she pursued Mark,
- 42:29Speaker 3: and she pursued the gig to become his travel agent.
- 42:32Speaker 3: And if you look at a postcard that Mark sant
- 42:34Speaker 3: Gloria from India talking about his upcoming trip to Iran,
- 42:38Speaker 3: it's very lovey dovey, it's very intimate. It's like I
- 42:43Speaker 3: can't wait to see again, and we'll go for a
- 42:44Speaker 3: walk in that place that we'd like to go to.
- 42:46Speaker 3: It seems like it's not someone who's just met a
- 42:49Speaker 3: travel agent a few times and is thankful that she
- 42:51Speaker 3: arranged this great trip. So that relationship was odd right
- 42:54Speaker 3: from the start. But when Mark came back from this
- 42:57Speaker 3: amazing trip, she's there waiting at the airport. He wasn't
- 42:59Speaker 3: apparently expecting her. She's got crutches, she broke her and foot.
- 43:03Speaker 3: She was determined to be there at the carousel as
- 43:05Speaker 3: his luggage is coming round, and he said he got
- 43:07Speaker 3: his luggage off the carousel. We turned around, there's glory,
- 43:10Speaker 3: and she just sort of flung herself on him. So
- 43:12Speaker 3: Gloria made sure, Yeah, she made sure she was going
- 43:15Speaker 3: to get into Mark's life. And she did get into
- 43:17Speaker 3: Mark's life, and a year later they got married, and
- 43:19Speaker 3: she's been in Mark's life ever since. What's disturbing about
- 43:22Speaker 3: Gloria is is so many disturbing things about that. I
- 43:25Speaker 3: don't know where to begin, but let's just go with
- 43:26Speaker 3: the murder. So when Mark started to become compelled to
- 43:30Speaker 3: assassinate you on Lenin or murder John. Then in the
- 43:32Speaker 3: summer of nineteen eighty two, things happened when he got
- 43:35Speaker 3: into the capturing rhyme in the summer nights that he
- 43:37Speaker 3: was never obsessed about it. He was a child. There's
- 43:39Speaker 3: no evidence for that. It happened in summer in nineteen eighty,
- 43:41Speaker 3: and he also got obsessed about Lenin and the summer
- 43:43Speaker 3: of nineteen eighty, and those two things shoes together. Also,
- 43:46Speaker 3: we could say, in the summer nineteen eighty that's when
- 43:47Speaker 3: John Lennon got back into the studio, so he got
- 43:49Speaker 3: acting again, and Ronald Reagan was a shoe in to
- 43:52Speaker 3: become the president in November, which is what happened. So
- 43:55Speaker 3: all these things coalesced. Interestingly, in the summer of nineteen eighty.
- 43:58Speaker 3: Mark went on an aborted mission and compulsion to shoot
- 44:01Speaker 3: John Lennon at the end of October nineteen eighty and
- 44:04Speaker 3: the first few days of November nineteen eighty. He didn't
- 44:07Speaker 3: go through with it. He flew back, and when he
- 44:09Speaker 3: flew back to Hawaii, he walks into Gloria. They both
- 44:13Speaker 3: admitted this. He put a gun down on the table,
- 44:15Speaker 3: and he put some bullets down on the table, and
- 44:16Speaker 3: he said, I've just gone to New York, so I
- 44:18Speaker 3: felt compelled to shoot Johnlenhan. But your love for me,
- 44:21Speaker 3: blah blah blah, I'm not going to do it, and
- 44:24Speaker 3: I managed to your love for me saved me or
- 44:26Speaker 3: something like that. Yeah, so Gloria knew he did this.
- 44:29Speaker 3: Four weeks later, three and a half weeks later, Gloria
- 44:31Speaker 3: Booksmark tickets to New York and drives him to the
- 44:35Speaker 3: airport so he can fly off to New York via Chicago.
- 44:39Speaker 3: Some people say third in December, some people say sixth December.
- 44:42Speaker 3: Take your pick. I don't think I'm not too bothered
- 44:44Speaker 3: about the so called stay over in Chicago. Mark's programming
- 44:47Speaker 3: happened way before Chicago, and Gloria must have known, or
- 44:52Speaker 3: she did though, that her husband just a few weeks
- 44:54Speaker 3: earlier had said that he went to New York show
- 44:56Speaker 3: over the guns shot John Onna. But yeah, she's still
- 44:58Speaker 3: happy to book in tickets and drums at the airport
- 45:00Speaker 3: for him to go back there again. So that alone
- 45:03Speaker 3: means that she's the very minimum and accomplice to some
- 45:07Speaker 3: degree to all this. It's just it just shouldn't be
- 45:10Speaker 3: like that. So then we get to the amazing thing.
- 45:12Speaker 3: On the night of the murder, she calls Mark up
- 45:15Speaker 3: at the twentieth Precincts Police station where Mark's being held
- 45:18Speaker 3: round about hopos two. Now, the problem that is Mark's
- 45:21Speaker 3: name hadn't actually been released to the media at that point,
- 45:25Speaker 3: but that's fine. She knew he went there to shoot
- 45:27Speaker 3: him a month earlier, so I'm pretty sure when it
- 45:29Speaker 3: came on the news she knew. She knew the market
- 45:31Speaker 3: done it, or allegedly done it. So she calls up
- 45:34Speaker 3: the twentieth preseint and gets put through and she's there
- 45:37Speaker 3: chatting to Mark and she's like, yeah, do you know
- 45:39Speaker 3: what you've done? Some very awkward conversation. You can tell
- 45:42Speaker 3: they want to say more, but they know they're being recorded.
- 45:45Speaker 3: And we know they're being recorded is because Glora actually
- 45:47Speaker 3: said that she recorded all their conversations from their flat.
- 45:50Speaker 3: She said they had a recording device recording a tleve conversation. Now,
- 45:53Speaker 3: why are you doing that, Gloria while they're loving what?
- 45:55Speaker 3: That's really weird. And it had to be anologu remember
- 45:57Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty so it's not a digital thing. She
- 45:59Speaker 3: had to say it all up press player and record,
- 46:01Speaker 3: and so she wanted a record of this. And we
- 46:03Speaker 3: know she did this because she went on Barbara Waters
- 46:06Speaker 3: ten years ago and she fled the tape. You can
- 46:08Speaker 3: see on my YouTube channel. She's actually there, said Hi,
- 46:11Speaker 3: it's the Gloria. I'm the wife of the murderer. I'm
- 46:14Speaker 3: the wife of march Adman and class beach to him.
- 46:16Speaker 3: So she called in and after a Connor, the head
- 46:19Speaker 3: of the detective not headed Church was a lieutenant detective.
- 46:22Speaker 3: After a Connor at the time said to a guy
- 46:24Speaker 3: called Fenton Bresire in the eighties, the minute that phone
- 46:26Speaker 3: call came in, he said, I knew it was a conspiracy.
- 46:29Speaker 3: So I just thought, this is a conspiracy. How the
- 46:30Speaker 3: hell did she know he was staying here? It's just
- 46:33Speaker 3: impossible to know. And he said, Mark Chapman. The same
- 46:36Speaker 3: Lieutenant O'Connor said, March happened to him appear programmed. He said,
- 46:39Speaker 3: he just, you know, he feel he looked like a
- 46:41Speaker 3: color of robot kind of guy. So Gloria at that
- 46:45Speaker 3: point made sure she stayed the loving wife outside the
- 46:49Speaker 3: march Atman prison experience, and she always played portrayed herself
- 46:53Speaker 3: as a kind of wife waiting in the wings for
- 46:55Speaker 3: Mark to eventually be released. But one thing gloriad ended
- 46:59Speaker 3: almost immediately after Mark was incastreted was she started to
- 47:02Speaker 3: kind of work with two journalists journy called Jim Gaines
- 47:05Speaker 3: Jone's called Jack Jones for the next twenty thirty years
- 47:07Speaker 3: and basically gave Jim and Jack all the info they
- 47:10Speaker 3: needed regarding kind of calendars with sort of weird writing
- 47:13Speaker 3: on and stories of Mark praying to the devil and
- 47:16Speaker 3: all this crazy stuff. You know, she couldn't give them
- 47:19Speaker 3: enough salacious, undocumented, unprovable stuff, but she was kind of
- 47:24Speaker 3: their cheerleading on their kind of attempts, these two journalists
- 47:27Speaker 3: to villify Mark and to make him out to be
- 47:31Speaker 3: some kind of crazy guy who was always obsessed with
- 47:34Speaker 3: John then, and when the proof of the actual evidence
- 47:36Speaker 3: of that is he was never obsessed with On then
- 47:38Speaker 3: John then, and wasn't a big part of his life.
- 47:40Speaker 3: He wasn't obsessed with the Beatles, and his obsession slash
- 47:43Speaker 3: compulsion to shoot John only occurred in July nineteen eighty.
- 47:47Speaker 2: I found it really interesting how The Catcher and the
- 47:51Speaker 2: Rye and the role of that book has kind of
- 47:55Speaker 2: changed over the years. And I found it really interesting
- 47:59Speaker 2: that when they first interviewed Mark Chapman, his whole thing
- 48:03Speaker 2: was The Catcher in the Rye. That's why I did it.
- 48:05Speaker 2: And it seemed like they were actively trying to talk
- 48:07Speaker 2: him out of that talking point and shift him more
- 48:11Speaker 2: toward No, it was John Lennon. You did it because
- 48:14Speaker 2: you were obsessed with Johnny.
- 48:15Speaker 3: It's interesting I think that I put this in my book,
- 48:18Speaker 3: that first statement that he gave round about sort of
- 48:21Speaker 3: one am in the twentieth precincts to a couple of detectives,
- 48:24Speaker 3: and Mark signed it. He didn't write it down. It
- 48:26Speaker 3: was written by the detective, but Mark did sign it.
- 48:29Speaker 3: And I've got a copy of this document. And this happened,
- 48:33Speaker 3: let's say, two hours after he allegedly thought he shot
- 48:35Speaker 3: you on that. And what's interesting in it, Adam, is
- 48:37Speaker 3: it's a guy. It's not a guy. We've always been
- 48:40Speaker 3: totally shot on MSPY fans. So you think l like
- 48:42Speaker 3: Lee Harvey Oswad should have said, yeah, I killed him
- 48:45Speaker 3: and I'm glad I killed him and now I'm famous.
- 48:48Speaker 3: But he didn't, did it? Lee Harvey as went on
- 48:49Speaker 3: passy So straight away blows there. That blows there, that story.
- 48:54Speaker 3: And with Chatman, what you'd expected to say is if
- 48:56Speaker 3: he shot John end for fame, yeah I'm famous now
- 48:58Speaker 3: my name is Mark Chapman. Don't forget get the spelling right,
- 49:00Speaker 3: CEAPM and that's not the guy, the guy that we
- 49:03Speaker 3: got at one AM in the twentieth pretheint is basically saying,
- 49:06Speaker 3: I don't really know what I've just done. I'm a
- 49:08Speaker 3: bit confused. I've got nothing against John Lennon, I've got
- 49:11Speaker 3: nothing against the Beatles. I kind of don't really remember aiming.
- 49:14Speaker 3: I remember thinking it's a bit weird that my bullets
- 49:16Speaker 3: are working, and I kind of I don't I'm confused.
- 49:20Speaker 3: And he's kind of like, he talks about a big
- 49:22Speaker 3: part of the small part, but he doesn't mention capturing
- 49:24Speaker 3: the right. But you're right. In the next few days
- 49:27Speaker 3: after that, the lawyers get in there and they start
- 49:30Speaker 3: to mention that market, and he's pastor. Charles McGowan of course,
- 49:34Speaker 3: flies straight in to get involved in the action, and
- 49:37Speaker 3: Mark starts to talk about capturing the right almost obsessively.
- 49:40Speaker 3: So I did it because I want to promote this book.
- 49:42Speaker 3: I thought I was holding call Field. It was almost
- 49:44Speaker 3: like from the night of the murder, probably twenty four
- 49:47Speaker 3: hours after that sort of operation. Capturing the Rye is
- 49:50Speaker 3: now and they're happy to do this. And we've got
- 49:52Speaker 3: sort of some evidence that some of these psychiatrist slash hypnotists.
- 49:56Speaker 3: You've got into March Outman Cell. We're happy to talk
- 49:59Speaker 3: to Mark about Capturing the Rye and he's holding call
- 50:01Speaker 3: Field and it's a great books from Mark, and they
- 50:03Speaker 3: were kind of goading me along and they were quite
- 50:06Speaker 3: happy to go with this narrative. And this narrative stayed
- 50:09Speaker 3: in place in the next three months. But then what
- 50:11Speaker 3: happened in March nineteen eighty one was Adam is that
- 50:14Speaker 3: John Hinckley tried to shoot Ronald Reagan and in his
- 50:17Speaker 3: hotel room Hinckley had a copy of Catching the Rye.
- 50:20Speaker 3: And I'm pretty sure at this point the powers that
- 50:22Speaker 3: be that were controlling Mark thought, do you know what,
- 50:24Speaker 3: that's two famous assassinations next to this book. We need
- 50:28Speaker 3: to get Mark off Capturing the Rye. And from that
- 50:30Speaker 3: point onwards, Operation Demon came into operation, and basically a
- 50:34Speaker 3: load of that Fred Kraust type exorcists started to pile
- 50:38Speaker 3: into March Atman Cell and for the next few years
- 50:41Speaker 3: he went through some just abuse, mental abuse, where these
- 50:45Speaker 3: guys were convincing him that he was obsessed by demons
- 50:47Speaker 3: and they were exercising these demons from him, and it
- 50:50Speaker 3: was just abhorrent. What they did to it was like
- 50:52Speaker 3: gas light. And he didn't do it. Captured didn't make
- 50:54Speaker 3: you do it, Mark, Your obsession with John Lennon didn't
- 50:56Speaker 3: make you do it. Well, now, demons made you do it. Mark.
- 50:58Speaker 3: And even to this very day, Mark thinks that demons
- 51:00Speaker 3: controlled him to kill John Lennar because I think they
- 51:02Speaker 3: needed a narrative that they will comftable him that might
- 51:04Speaker 3: will be comfortable with that they could have moved forward with.
- 51:07Speaker 3: But I actually interested in Madam. I don't think Mark
- 51:10Speaker 3: Chapman was meant to live. I think march Atton was
- 51:12Speaker 3: shooting blanks, which is what I think Sara and Sarah
- 51:14Speaker 3: was doing. And I think Lisa Piece has got that
- 51:15Speaker 3: theory as well with Sara and Syren. And I think
- 51:17Speaker 3: the second shooter was in the vestibule. It was would
- 51:19Speaker 3: have been a contained area that they knew John was
- 51:21Speaker 3: coming into after hearing the bullets behind him, and a
- 51:23Speaker 3: rushed in there. I think that's where he was shot. Interestingly,
- 51:26Speaker 3: the lead detective has told me that's where he was killed.
- 51:28Speaker 3: I said to Rod Hoffman, where was John shot? He said,
- 51:31Speaker 3: he was shot in the vestibule on the steale I've
- 51:33Speaker 3: got him on tape saying that, and he actually says
- 51:35Speaker 3: it outside the hospital on the night of the murder. Again,
- 51:37Speaker 3: you can go to my YouTube channel Assassination of Lennard,
- 51:39Speaker 3: and you can see Ron Hoffman in some news rushes
- 51:42Speaker 3: outside the hospital just after John's been called dead, and
- 51:44Speaker 3: he basically says he was shot inside the vestibule. So
- 51:48Speaker 3: Mark Chapman can't shoot him inside the vesticule, he can't
- 51:50Speaker 3: do it. I think it went wrong because I don't
- 51:53Speaker 3: think the one thing I don't they wanted was a
- 51:55Speaker 3: Mark Chapman going back to the twentieth precinct and saying,
- 51:59Speaker 3: I know quite a what I did. I'm a bit confused.
- 52:01Speaker 3: If he was dead, this game over. And I think
- 52:04Speaker 3: there's a two ways I think they wanted to do it.
- 52:06Speaker 3: I think possibly the programming was to commit suicide after
- 52:10Speaker 3: he did whatever he thought he was doing. And there's
- 52:12Speaker 3: a display, a hotel display in his room that he
- 52:15Speaker 3: did on the morning of the murder, which looks which
- 52:17Speaker 3: Mark Chandmer's even admitted looks like a suicide note in
- 52:21Speaker 3: kind of item form. Its photos, and there's the Bible
- 52:24Speaker 3: and that there's a few mementos of his life, and
- 52:27Speaker 3: I think that was potentially what they were hoping would happen.
- 52:29Speaker 3: Or I think they were hoping for Mark to run
- 52:31Speaker 3: and there'd be a Jack Ruby type character, a vigil
- 52:34Speaker 3: anti cop or a vigilanty member of the public who
- 52:37Speaker 3: would be ready to tackle Mark as he runs into
- 52:39Speaker 3: Central Park or down seventy second Street and confront him
- 52:43Speaker 3: and shoots him and kill him. And we know this
- 52:45Speaker 3: interestingly because jose Pedermo went up to Mark and Mark
- 52:48Speaker 3: said this is he heard Hosea say this and said
- 52:50Speaker 3: get out here, just get out of here, just run,
- 52:52Speaker 3: which Mark didn't. So strange, so strange. And we know
- 52:56Speaker 3: he said more because Nina Rosen, good old Nina Rosen,
- 52:59Speaker 3: said something that she heard. She said she heard her
- 53:02Speaker 3: Dermo so to chat with the dorm and so to
- 53:04Speaker 3: the man, she said, you better get out of here
- 53:06Speaker 3: soon because the cops will be here. Now. That's not
- 53:08Speaker 3: just get out of it. I'm scared of you. That's
- 53:10Speaker 3: a warning. That's a warning that I think an accomplice
- 53:13Speaker 3: would give to another accomplice too. This is all going wrong.
- 53:15Speaker 3: Get the hell out of it. But he didn't get out.
- 53:18Speaker 3: They stood there and he said he didn't know what
- 53:19Speaker 3: to do. He got the book out, he said, the
- 53:21Speaker 3: words are all getting jumbled on. I think he malfunctioned,
- 53:24Speaker 3: and I don't. I think the last thing they wanted
- 53:26Speaker 3: him to do was to stand there and be arrested,
- 53:28Speaker 3: because once that happened, all hell broke loose, you know,
- 53:32Speaker 3: and the people that rushed to his side and the
- 53:35Speaker 3: people that tried to get into his cell in the days,
- 53:38Speaker 3: in the hours and days after the murder, I think,
- 53:40Speaker 3: really reveal themselves. I mean, really reveal themselves and reveal
- 53:45Speaker 3: the plot and reveal who was perhaps behind the plot.
- 53:47Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask a weird question, what is your stance
- 53:50Speaker 2: on Darren Brown? And the reason I ask is because
- 53:55Speaker 2: it's the mind control, in the brainwashing that people always
- 53:59Speaker 2: have a problem with. In what I always mentioned is
- 54:02Speaker 2: Darren Brown did this TV show where he basically went
- 54:07Speaker 2: through the steps that I think it was sir Han.
- 54:10Speaker 2: Sir Han was alleged to have gone through to see
- 54:12Speaker 2: if he could basically manipulate someone into shooting Stephen Fry
- 54:18Speaker 2: and it worked. And whenever I bring that up, people
- 54:21Speaker 2: are like, well that was fake too. It's like, ah,
- 54:24Speaker 2: was it? I don't know? But what is your stance
- 54:27Speaker 2: on that.
- 54:27Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still uncomfortable hypnotism. I don't know. Yah, uncomfortable,
- 54:32Speaker 3: I really am. And because I'd like to think, I
- 54:34Speaker 3: wouldn't be. It wouldn't happen to me. I wouldn't allow
- 54:36Speaker 3: to that to it. I think when you study it,
- 54:39Speaker 3: look into it, I'm sure you have as well. Certain
- 54:41Speaker 3: people are more successful than others. I think march Aton
- 54:43Speaker 3: was a classic carries some very people. Please, I want
- 54:46Speaker 3: to be kind of guy, and you know only some
- 54:48Speaker 3: people are kind of usable in that spectrum. Darren Brown, Yeah,
- 54:52Speaker 3: I mean I've not managed to speak to Darren.
- 54:55Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 54:56Speaker 3: They do fake TV shows. Look at David Copperfield and
- 54:58Speaker 3: all the nonsense that he did. I don't believe that
- 55:00Speaker 3: he made an airplane to disappear, So we know they
- 55:02Speaker 3: fake stuff. But Stephen Froy was there. There was a
- 55:05Speaker 3: lot of people there who will sort of say yeah this,
- 55:07Speaker 3: I mean, you can see it for goodness, say yeah,
- 55:09Speaker 3: the guy he comes up using blanks and tries to
- 55:11Speaker 3: shoot Stephen on stage. If they did set it all up,
- 55:14Speaker 3: it was done very well. It was done very convincingly.
- 55:17Speaker 3: So I believe it is possible. I believe what they
- 55:19Speaker 3: were trying to do with MKA culture most of the
- 55:21Speaker 3: time was to give people two personalities. See every day
- 55:24Speaker 3: they were there, and then you kind of switch and
- 55:26Speaker 3: you go off and deliver your secret message, and then
- 55:29Speaker 3: once you switch back, you don't even remember you've done it.
- 55:31Speaker 3: I think that was the key thing. They didn't want
- 55:32Speaker 3: people to be caught and interrogated and sort of reveal
- 55:35Speaker 3: who they were and where they came from. And by
- 55:37Speaker 3: having these split personalities, I think the kind of schizophrenics
- 55:40Speaker 3: were the classic people they were looking for who already
- 55:43Speaker 3: had that kind of split mind. Do I think it's possible, Yeah,
- 55:46Speaker 3: I do. Yeah, I do think brainwashing is possible, and
- 55:47Speaker 3: I do think, but well, we know it is possible.
- 55:49Speaker 3: I tell you how we know it's possible. We can
- 55:51Speaker 3: actually quote someone who was part of the program. It
- 55:54Speaker 3: was a guy called Milton Klein who in nineteen seventy
- 55:57Speaker 3: nine went on a ABC documentary called Mission Mind Control
- 56:00Speaker 3: with a lot of other ulture psychiatrists, and Milton Climb
- 56:04Speaker 3: was the chief consultant to the CIA on their Manturian
- 56:07Speaker 3: Candidate mkulture program, and in this documentary he says a
- 56:11Speaker 3: couple of times, yeah, I could program someone to kill.
- 56:14Speaker 3: I could program someone to murder. Now we don't know
- 56:16Speaker 3: whether it was lying or not, but he's in there
- 56:18Speaker 3: very convincingly saying, of course, yeah, we could do it
- 56:20Speaker 3: in a time of war. This is something that we
- 56:22Speaker 3: know we should be thinking about. So Milton went on
- 56:24Speaker 3: camera saying this, And this is where things get very interesting.
- 56:28Speaker 3: And I know we're taught to believe that coincidences can happen,
- 56:31Speaker 3: and you've got this Ockham's Raiser stuff and all these
- 56:33Speaker 3: very simplistic ways of wrapping up strange coincidences. But this one,
- 56:37Speaker 3: I think is the strangest I've ever come across. Is
- 56:40Speaker 3: after Mark Chapman's first lawyer got some death threats, is
- 56:42Speaker 3: public lawyer, he gets moved out of the way after
- 56:45Speaker 3: two days, and the third day a private lawyer comes
- 56:48Speaker 3: in called Jonathan Marx, way underqualified for the job, living
- 56:52Speaker 3: it up in a big office in Rockefeller Plaza, which
- 56:54Speaker 3: again is kind of how do you get the money
- 56:56Speaker 3: for that, you're a young, up and coming lawyer, But
- 56:58Speaker 3: that's where he was, and Marks has an assistant, David Suggs,
- 57:02Speaker 3: who comes from another company in Rockefeller Plaza called Donovan
- 57:05Speaker 3: Newton Irvin in leisure Donovan Newton Irvan in Leisure was
- 57:07Speaker 3: set up by wile Bill Dollovan, the founder of the CIA.
- 57:10Speaker 3: I'm sure this is just a coincidence. And that law
- 57:14Speaker 3: firm that while Bill set up was a wash with spooks,
- 57:17Speaker 3: which has been well documented. Even William Colby, the ex
- 57:20Speaker 3: head of the CIA, used to work there, so we
- 57:22Speaker 3: know this was a CIA law firm. David Suggs when
- 57:25Speaker 3: I'm not saying David Suggs and the pharies who worked
- 57:26Speaker 3: to SA but he did go to work. Joglan Marx
- 57:29Speaker 3: Jonathan Marx, after three days does an announcement in the
- 57:32Speaker 3: New York Post Mark Chapman to be hypnotized. He decides
- 57:35Speaker 3: to actually go right out there and tell the world
- 57:38Speaker 3: I'm going to hypnotize Mark Chapman. And I think he
- 57:40Speaker 3: did that because there's a piece of footage you can
- 57:42Speaker 3: see in a recent Apple documentary where he's talking about
- 57:45Speaker 3: the psychiatrist that he's going to send in and someone
- 57:48Speaker 3: says to him, isn't that psychiatrist a hypnotist, Jonathan, and
- 57:51Speaker 3: he says, yeah, yeah, he's a hypnotist as well. That's
- 57:55Speaker 3: part of his skill set. And then Kylo, you can
- 57:57Speaker 3: see these journeys are sort of thinking, why he's setting
- 57:59Speaker 3: a hypnotis into Mark Chapman cell. So anyway, I think
- 58:02Speaker 3: that's where the New York Post admission came from. That
- 58:05Speaker 3: hypnotist last psychiatrist was Milton Clumb. He sends Milton Climb
- 58:11Speaker 3: into Mark Chapman cell to shut the door and have
- 58:14Speaker 3: him all to himself. Jonathan Marx does that now why
- 58:17Speaker 3: you're doing Is that just a coincidence or is that
- 58:20Speaker 3: something else? Because I of all the psychiatrists who must
- 58:23Speaker 3: have been working in America in nineteen eighty, is Milton
- 58:26Speaker 3: Climb the Manchurian candidate consult for the CIA? Is he
- 58:29Speaker 3: the only guy you could find? Yeah? Yeah.
- 58:32Speaker 2: There's a lot of coincidences in this that people have
- 58:35Speaker 2: to accept as coincidence for the public version of events
- 58:40Speaker 2: to work. And it's I've talked about it a lot
- 58:42Speaker 2: on this podcast. It's really frustrating how when you're talking
- 58:46Speaker 2: true crime, people will tell you forever there's no such
- 58:50Speaker 2: thing as coincidences, But then when you get into stuff
- 58:53Speaker 2: like this, everything's a coincidence, and it's like pick Alane,
- 58:58Speaker 2: there's either no coincidences or maybe there's sometimes coincidences and
- 59:03Speaker 2: sometimes they're not a coincidence, but people approached this kind
- 59:07Speaker 2: of thing as such a like black and white, cut
- 59:10Speaker 2: and dry thing, where like even with MK ultra. It's
- 59:14Speaker 2: really frustrating anytime I've brought that up with people who
- 59:19Speaker 2: are skeptical. For one thing, we know it happened, like
- 59:21Speaker 2: there's government documents, we know the scope of it, we
- 59:25Speaker 2: know how big it all was. But the pushback I
- 59:28Speaker 2: always get from people is, well, yeah, but nothing came
- 59:32Speaker 2: of it. They didn't accomplish anything. And it's like, are
- 59:35Speaker 2: you sure, because the entire progressive wing of American politics
- 59:41Speaker 2: got assassinated in the sixties and it all happened in
- 59:45Speaker 2: really weird MK ultra fashion, and this seems like a
- 59:50Speaker 2: part of that. It seems like they did accomplish their
- 59:53Speaker 2: aims and a lot of people got murdered over it.
- 59:57Speaker 3: Yeah, we know. He got found out in the mid
- 59:59Speaker 3: seventies off the War Gate at various hearings. It all
- 1:00:02Speaker 3: came out, and obviously they tried to hide it. Richard
- 1:00:04Speaker 3: Helms tried to shred all the documentation. I'm sure you know, Adam,
- 1:00:07Speaker 3: and he came through because some accounting files were overlooked
- 1:00:11Speaker 3: and were found in boxes and we would have known
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: it would have been covered up forever. Who knows what
- 1:00:15Speaker 3: else they've covered up and shreaded. So thank goodness those
- 1:00:17Speaker 3: account files were found. And all right, let's say the CIA,
- 1:00:20Speaker 3: the people, as I know you brought this up on
- 1:00:22Speaker 3: some one of your other shows, that people look like
- 1:00:24Speaker 3: havys have a heart attack. Gun. Yeah, those guys. Let's
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: just say they decided to be nice and not do
- 1:00:29Speaker 3: MP culture anymore in the mid seventies. That doesn't mean
- 1:00:32Speaker 3: Navy intelligence didn't stop it, because we know Navy intelligence
- 1:00:34Speaker 3: did it because the Commander new rat in I think Sweden,
- 1:00:38Speaker 3: back in the seventies admitted to a Sunday Times journalist
- 1:00:42Speaker 3: that Navy intelligence had mansurin candidate assassins via an MK
- 1:00:46Speaker 3: culture program all over the world. And the Sunday Times
- 1:00:48Speaker 3: journalists printed that admission, and of course the next day
- 1:00:52Speaker 3: after that, Maybe came out and said, O, I know
- 1:00:54Speaker 3: he was just talking hypathetically. He wasn't talking nypathetically. He
- 1:00:57Speaker 3: was talking very clearly. We have this. We have these
- 1:00:59Speaker 3: guys all over the world and they're ready to go.
- 1:01:01Speaker 3: Jason Bourne, I think was based on fact. At the
- 1:01:05Speaker 3: end of the day, you know, rober Ludluch's an interesting guy.
- 1:01:07Speaker 3: He should maybe one day try and look into him
- 1:01:10Speaker 3: and the origins of that Jason Bourne story and who
- 1:01:13Speaker 3: was inspired by I'm working on arcical and that's I'll
- 1:01:16Speaker 3: be hoping to publish soon. But yeah, there's a lot
- 1:01:18Speaker 3: more to come with regards to MK Ultra And look
- 1:01:20Speaker 3: what you know Tom and Neil did with Chaos and
- 1:01:23Speaker 3: Dr Jolian West hanging out in height Sasbury clinic at
- 1:01:26Speaker 3: the same time that Charlie Manson his followers are in there.
- 1:01:29Speaker 3: Now Again, it's one of these coincidences that whe of
- 1:01:31Speaker 3: the leading just like me on Climb while the leading
- 1:01:33Speaker 3: guys in MK Alture just happens to be in the
- 1:01:36Speaker 3: same clinic that Charlie Manson his followers are in the
- 1:01:39Speaker 3: same Charlie Manson, who people said had a hypnotic power
- 1:01:42Speaker 3: of his followers. Is that a coincidence?
- 1:01:45Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm never willing to accept the CIA being on
- 1:01:48Speaker 2: the scene as a coincidence. That's never a coincidence. I'm
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: not willing to accept that the kids of the CIA
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: being on the scene anywhere as a coincidence. The CIA
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: loves a family band, know that it's and they're on
- 1:02:02Speaker 2: the scene in all of these murders, all of these assassinations,
- 1:02:07Speaker 2: there's someone even the Bob Marley attempted assassination. The cameraman
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: documenting that was CIA, And we're supposed to just take
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: that as, oh, what a wacky coincidence that American intelligence
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: was on the scene when one of the most influential
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: musicians of all time was trying to make peace. That's
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: not yea coincidence. Come on. One of the things we
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: haven't touched on yet that I want to talk about
- 1:02:35Speaker 2: is there's a very famous picture of Mark David Chapman
- 1:02:39Speaker 2: getting an autograph from John Lennon, and there's some weirdness
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: behind the photographer took that picture.
- 1:02:46Speaker 4: It seems like, right, yeah, part of the I could
- 1:02:49Speaker 4: put this part of the sort of official narrative hangout
- 1:02:53Speaker 4: that they like to dangle like some kind of weird
- 1:02:56Speaker 4: always in this a bit odd.
- 1:02:58Speaker 3: Was this a lovely, cuddling, obsessive photographer? And when you
- 1:03:02Speaker 3: got cuddly and obsessive together, it kind of doesn't sit
- 1:03:06Speaker 3: well with me and Paul Garesh's kind of sold to us. Now,
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: this is the photographer and took that famous picture as
- 1:03:11Speaker 3: a kind of Lenin super fan who befriended his idol,
- 1:03:15Speaker 3: and John and him were the best of buddies, and
- 1:03:17Speaker 3: they went off together to have coffee together, and Paul
- 1:03:21Speaker 3: Greesh lived his dream. He's obsessed with the Beatles, and
- 1:03:23Speaker 3: John initially was a little bit annoyed with him, but
- 1:03:26Speaker 3: then they became the best of buddy. This all complete, bs.
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: He was a stalker. He was a John Lennis stalker.
- 1:03:31Speaker 3: And he was a Beatles collector of kind of probably
- 1:03:34Speaker 3: a magnitude never seen since. He apparently had a flat
- 1:03:37Speaker 3: that was just water ceiling full of boxes of Beatles
- 1:03:41Speaker 3: memorabilia and images and pictures and photos and stuff which
- 1:03:45Speaker 3: is now got missing by the way. Interestingly, and Gores
- 1:03:47Speaker 3: spent his life doing what people said Chapman did standing
- 1:03:51Speaker 3: outside of Dakota, stalking Leonard then taking pictures off, and
- 1:03:54Speaker 3: much of Lenin's annoyance, and the point where Lennon would
- 1:03:56Speaker 3: go up to him and grab him and almost strangle
- 1:03:58Speaker 3: him with his camera strap. This is all. This all
- 1:04:00Speaker 3: been seen and documented. So Garesh wasn't the guy who
- 1:04:04Speaker 3: had told he was. He tried to get into Lenon's
- 1:04:06Speaker 3: flat by saying he was a tenor repair man, famously
- 1:04:09Speaker 3: he didn't get into Lenin's flats. These documentaries had said
- 1:04:11Speaker 3: he got that fire, he didn't get past the hallway.
- 1:04:13Speaker 3: But he kept trying. He kept trying. He was prepared
- 1:04:15Speaker 3: to deceive people to get what he wanted. He used
- 1:04:17Speaker 3: to be outside the flat, outside the Dakota in a van, sleeping.
- 1:04:21Speaker 3: Sometimes in the van, some could say unfairly, perhaps he
- 1:04:24Speaker 3: was kind of surveying the Dakota. If anybody knew John
- 1:04:28Speaker 3: and the Oko's movements, boy, it would have been Paul Garesh.
- 1:04:31Speaker 3: And Paul Garesh on the day of the murder was
- 1:04:33Speaker 3: in his usual place, stalking the Lenin's outside with his camera,
- 1:04:36Speaker 3: no doubt, trying to get some good photos that he
- 1:04:38Speaker 3: could sell on a memorabilia market, which he was so
- 1:04:40Speaker 3: famous in. And he just happened to have a copy
- 1:04:43Speaker 3: of Double Fantasy with him and he gave this in
- 1:04:45Speaker 3: this this spare copy as evidence too. And I've got
- 1:04:48Speaker 3: his evidence vout it that he gave it into to
- 1:04:50Speaker 3: the cops that the day after the murder. But what's
- 1:04:52Speaker 3: interesting about Paul Garesh is he has kind of inferred
- 1:04:56Speaker 3: that Chapman was this kind of guy who pushed his
- 1:04:59Speaker 3: way in to Lennin to get this autograph. But the
- 1:05:02Speaker 3: actual truth of it is kind of Chatman gave it
- 1:05:05Speaker 3: away in a ninety two interview, and I've spoken to
- 1:05:07Speaker 3: other people who've verified this is that it was Garesh
- 1:05:10Speaker 3: who said to Mark, come over, this is your chance
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: to get the autograph. Mark, come and stand here. And
- 1:05:17Speaker 3: Garesh just happened to be with a spare copy in
- 1:05:20Speaker 3: his hand, just in case Mark didn't have a copy.
- 1:05:22Speaker 3: But Mark went off to buy a copy of that day. Interestingly,
- 1:05:24Speaker 3: just to quickly backtrack on that, he went to lunch
- 1:05:27Speaker 3: Mark that day with two Beatles super fans called Jerry
- 1:05:29Speaker 3: and Jude, and I've got their testimony now, and they
- 1:05:32Speaker 3: both say two really interesting things. First thing they say
- 1:05:34Speaker 3: is he knew nothing about the Beatles, He knew nothing
- 1:05:36Speaker 3: about John them, so he was not a fan. And
- 1:05:39Speaker 3: they also say he didn't even know that there was
- 1:05:40Speaker 3: a new album out, So they said, why don't you
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: go and buy a new album Mark and get it signed.
- 1:05:45Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be cool? And he said, yeah, a great idea,
- 1:05:48Speaker 3: So he went off and bought the album. That's where
- 1:05:49Speaker 3: Mark got his album from. But Garesh wanted to have
- 1:05:51Speaker 3: a spare copy just to make sure that if Mark
- 1:05:54Speaker 3: didn't have his own album, the rest could give the money.
- 1:05:56Speaker 3: Isn't that a little bit odd, little bit strange? So
- 1:05:59Speaker 3: he calls Mark over and as John comes out, he
- 1:06:01Speaker 3: gets Mark framed. He gets the picture of his lifetime bang,
- 1:06:06Speaker 3: a picture that has made him a lot of money,
- 1:06:08Speaker 3: more than any Beatles MEMORABILEI guy I could ever dream of.
- 1:06:11Speaker 3: He got this picture. What's interesting. Then after that he
- 1:06:14Speaker 3: then goes off. He's not there for the event that night.
- 1:06:17Speaker 3: He goes home allegedly, but when he apparently sees Mark
- 1:06:21Speaker 3: under a coat, he says he recognizes Mark's clothing. Now,
- 1:06:26Speaker 3: it's very hard to recognize Mark's clothing because it's all
- 1:06:30Speaker 3: kind of like very grainy eighties video footage. And actually
- 1:06:32Speaker 3: some cops have now come out and said, that wasn't
- 1:06:34Speaker 3: Mark under that coat. It was a dummy guy for
- 1:06:37Speaker 3: the press again. But Gresha's I recognized the guy under
- 1:06:41Speaker 3: the coat as the guy that I took a picture
- 1:06:43Speaker 3: of earlier in the day. And I put two and
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: two together, and I ran the cops up and said,
- 1:06:47Speaker 3: I think I've put your man on camera. How could
- 1:06:49Speaker 3: he know that? How could he know that he was
- 1:06:52Speaker 3: taking apparently lots of snaps that day, but he knew
- 1:06:55Speaker 3: he knew it was Mark, he knew he had a
- 1:06:56Speaker 3: picture of him. Interestingly, the cops weren't interested at her,
- 1:07:00Speaker 3: so like, no, leave us alone, but one cop allegedly
- 1:07:04Speaker 3: got involved, rang up Paul and said I'll be your eight.
- 1:07:07Speaker 3: He's almost acted like his agent, and the cop got
- 1:07:10Speaker 3: in touch with the papers and said, we're negotiate a
- 1:07:13Speaker 3: deal for you in this It was like, oh, this
- 1:07:15Speaker 3: is not meant to be. This is It was almost
- 1:07:17Speaker 3: like someone kind of got scared that this image was
- 1:07:20Speaker 3: out there and then perhaps losing control of the native.
- 1:07:22Speaker 3: And I think when they realized that the actual image
- 1:07:25Speaker 3: might help to bolster keeping Mark Chapman where they want
- 1:07:28Speaker 3: to have him as this kind of cool, calculated lenin
- 1:07:31Speaker 3: obsessive killer who actually got his autograph, he was obsessed
- 1:07:34Speaker 3: with him, I think they realized, yeah, let's just run
- 1:07:36Speaker 3: with us, let's get this in the papers. And of
- 1:07:38Speaker 3: course it did get in the papers. It made Paul
- 1:07:39Speaker 3: Gresh a lot of money. And Paul Garesh weirdly, really weirdly,
- 1:07:44Speaker 3: was approached by Yoko Ono in January, and she asked
- 1:07:48Speaker 3: to use one of his images of John and her
- 1:07:50Speaker 3: walking out of the Dakota Driveway to go on a
- 1:07:53Speaker 3: posthumous John Lennen single called watching the Wheels and so
- 1:07:56Speaker 3: he made more money that way. And when he died,
- 1:08:00Speaker 3: I don't know about ten years later, maybe fifteen years
- 1:08:02Speaker 3: later now actually know that he went maybe twenty twenty
- 1:08:04Speaker 3: five years later, sometime in the two thousands he died.
- 1:08:07Speaker 3: Yoko apparently sent a message of condonance to Paul. That's weird, yeah,
- 1:08:12Speaker 3: Paul gesh Again, it's just a classic example of how
- 1:08:16Speaker 3: people are sold a BS narrative about a person that's
- 1:08:20Speaker 3: involved in the case. He wasn't John's French. He was
- 1:08:25Speaker 3: Fred Seaman, who worked with John spank to fread many times.
- 1:08:29Speaker 3: He said they were really scared of him. He was
- 1:08:31Speaker 3: a serious security threat because he was always following them.
- 1:08:34Speaker 3: He was always stalking them. John. John called him some
- 1:08:37Speaker 3: horribly obscene names. John did not like this guy, but
- 1:08:41Speaker 3: he kind of I can imagine John just went that,
- 1:08:43Speaker 3: I'll just humor him now and again give him the
- 1:08:45Speaker 3: odd smile. He gave him a famous photo and there's
- 1:08:47Speaker 3: one of poorn John together. Was apparently happened a few
- 1:08:49Speaker 3: days before the murder. Paul Gresh is a man of
- 1:08:51Speaker 3: great interest to me because if someone was going to
- 1:08:53Speaker 3: be there stalking the place, keeping an eye on Mark
- 1:08:55Speaker 3: Schapman and what he's doing, keeping an eye on Lenin's
- 1:08:58Speaker 3: comings and goings, Paul Gress sort of fitted that bill
- 1:09:01Speaker 3: just perfectly. And there was whispers from people inside of
- 1:09:04Speaker 3: the character that he might have been an FBI guy.
- 1:09:06Speaker 3: And we know he wanted to be a policeman. Apparently
- 1:09:09Speaker 3: that was one of his ambitions. He was a repairman, apparently,
- 1:09:13Speaker 3: and those guys don't imagine a repair man in late
- 1:09:16Speaker 3: seventies New York. You have to be pretty handy, You
- 1:09:20Speaker 3: got to know, you know, you've got to be pretty useful.
- 1:09:23Speaker 3: And that's Whuperugress was. So he's not this cuddly Lenin
- 1:09:26Speaker 3: fan slash friend. He was a very strange, affaious guy.
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: Speaking of Yoko Ono and the FBI both the bodyguard
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: situation around John Lennon is very very strange. Can you
- 1:09:43Speaker 2: talk about that a little bit before you do? I
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: will say that's the part that I find the most
- 1:09:48Speaker 2: weird about Yoko Ono in all of this, because her
- 1:09:53Speaker 2: giving conflicting statements and things. I'm always hesitant to base
- 1:10:00Speaker 2: a theory on how someone acts in the moments after
- 1:10:03Speaker 2: the most traumatic event of their life. So sure, I
- 1:10:07Speaker 2: could reconcile the conflicting statements, but hiring an FBI agent
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: for your bodyguard when the FBI was so actively harassing
- 1:10:19Speaker 2: and tracking John Lennon seems very strange to me. And
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: then to kind of make him the person who decided
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: when John Lennon was cremated and who got to see.
- 1:10:30Speaker 3: The body, What the hell?
- 1:10:32Speaker 2: That is very odd?
- 1:10:34Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, he kind of came into the
- 1:10:37Speaker 3: picture a year before the murder, hired by Yoka to
- 1:10:40Speaker 3: be a bodyguard. There was a recent documentary where it
- 1:10:43Speaker 3: was inferred that he was a bodyguard to Sean. I
- 1:10:46Speaker 3: think he was. That's not true. He was hired to
- 1:10:48Speaker 3: be the bodyguard to the Lenins and Sean. I'm sure
- 1:10:51Speaker 3: he was keeping an eye on Sean as well as
- 1:10:53Speaker 3: John and Yoko, but it was mainly John and Yoko
- 1:10:55Speaker 3: who was a threat. The thing about Doug McDougal is
- 1:10:57Speaker 3: he was x FBI. He was a only a very
- 1:11:00Speaker 3: serious counter intelligence a Soviet expert in New York, and
- 1:11:04Speaker 3: I've heard from an unverified source that he was part
- 1:11:07Speaker 3: of a kind of FBI Black Ops Team, assassination team.
- 1:11:11Speaker 3: I can't verify that, so I really wanted I want
- 1:11:13Speaker 3: people to take that on a pinch of salt. But
- 1:11:15Speaker 3: I think he was a very serious individual. There's no
- 1:11:17Speaker 3: doubt about that. He had Scottish ancestry and by all
- 1:11:20Speaker 3: accounts was a very large, very handy individual, could look
- 1:11:24Speaker 3: after himself, a very gruff not the kind of guy
- 1:11:26Speaker 3: you would expect Yoko oroner wants to be hanging around
- 1:11:29Speaker 3: her really to be honest, but Yoko hired him. Yoko
- 1:11:31Speaker 3: always took care of security. When they started to record
- 1:11:34Speaker 3: Double Fantasy in the summer in nineteen eighty, Yoko started
- 1:11:37Speaker 3: to give interviews to magazines where she started to tell
- 1:11:39Speaker 3: the journalists their movements. We get up, we get there
- 1:11:42Speaker 3: on ten am on a Tuesday, and then we leave
- 1:11:44Speaker 3: normally at four pm, blah blah blah, and he allegedly
- 1:11:47Speaker 3: Dug pulled her up and said, you shouldn't be doing this.
- 1:11:49Speaker 3: It's a security threat. You need to be a little
- 1:11:51Speaker 3: bit more careful about what you say about your movements.
- 1:11:54Speaker 3: According to legend, Yoko then got angry that he suggested
- 1:11:58Speaker 3: this and put him on a leave of Abbs didn't
- 1:12:00Speaker 3: fire him put him in a leave of absence. So
- 1:12:02Speaker 3: around about sort of sort of September, early October time,
- 1:12:06Speaker 3: Doug mcdog was gone. Okay, Now, there are some people
- 1:12:09Speaker 3: who interviewed the Lenards who said they saw security around them.
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: There was a BBC DJ journalist called Andy Peebles who
- 1:12:15Speaker 3: said he came to intersue the Lenonds two days before
- 1:12:17Speaker 3: the murder and saw two very big, burly bodyguards that
- 1:12:20Speaker 3: were always around them. We don't know who these people are.
- 1:12:22Speaker 3: I still can't figure out who these people are. So
- 1:12:24Speaker 3: he might have been confused and thought there was someone else,
- 1:12:28Speaker 3: But anyway, there was some kind of security around them.
- 1:12:30Speaker 3: What we do know is on the night of the murder,
- 1:12:32Speaker 3: Doug McDougal wasn't there, so when they got out of
- 1:12:34Speaker 3: that limo, there was no security. Now, some people said
- 1:12:37Speaker 3: Yoka made sure of that. Yeah, Okay, maybe maybe not.
- 1:12:40Speaker 3: It might just been a really horrible coincidence that she
- 1:12:43Speaker 3: came to leave of absence a few weeks before the murder.
- 1:12:46Speaker 3: I can see how people put two and two together there,
- 1:12:47Speaker 3: but for me, that's not enough evidence to say that
- 1:12:49Speaker 3: she's nefariously involved. What we do know is is that
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: he turns up that night, very early hours of the morning.
- 1:12:55Speaker 3: He turns out to start work again. Now some people said,
- 1:12:58Speaker 3: out there you go. She kept him, stood him down
- 1:13:01Speaker 3: until John was done, and she got him straight back
- 1:13:03Speaker 3: into the fold. Or you could say someone just shot
- 1:13:06Speaker 3: her husband and she rang out security guard and said,
- 1:13:07Speaker 3: when you come in and help protect me, because you know,
- 1:13:09Speaker 3: I don't want someone to come and shoot me, which
- 1:13:11Speaker 3: again makes perfect sense. Fred Seaman, a guy who worked
- 1:13:14Speaker 3: with the Lennon's, has said in his book that he
- 1:13:17Speaker 3: saw in Yoko's diary that the next day, the ninth
- 1:13:21Speaker 3: of December, was kind of like Doug McDougall returning to
- 1:13:24Speaker 3: work kind of entry. He's given no proof of that.
- 1:13:27Speaker 3: We have to take Fred Seamans word for that, and
- 1:13:29Speaker 3: what Fred's obviously inferring is she kept him out of
- 1:13:31Speaker 3: the way until she could till John was shot, and
- 1:13:34Speaker 3: she got him back on. Now, what we do know
- 1:13:36Speaker 3: is when he did come back to work on the
- 1:13:38Speaker 3: early hours of the morning of after Monday the eighth
- 1:13:41Speaker 3: for December, is he kind of got the Pinketon Agency
- 1:13:43Speaker 3: in going to the very serious hardcore security firm with
- 1:13:46Speaker 3: machine guns and lots of armor and AMMO, and they
- 1:13:49Speaker 3: all started to wander around the Dakota corridors and rooms,
- 1:13:52Speaker 3: and so they went from zero to one hundred when
- 1:13:54Speaker 3: it came to security, and everyone was a bit frightened
- 1:13:56Speaker 3: of these heavy duty guys around the place. And then
- 1:14:00Speaker 3: thirty six hours after John's murder, so not the day after,
- 1:14:03Speaker 3: the day after that. Wikipedia have got that wrong. Wikipedi
- 1:14:06Speaker 3: says it was on the day after the body. It wasn't.
- 1:14:08Speaker 3: It was a day after day after, So it's thirty
- 1:14:10Speaker 3: six hours after. She instructs Doug McDougall to take John
- 1:14:15Speaker 3: from the morgue to a phone Cliff's crematorium, and John
- 1:14:19Speaker 3: was made without her attending, without John's family attending, without
- 1:14:23Speaker 3: anyone getting a chance to say goodbye. Some people could
- 1:14:25Speaker 3: say that was rushed. It was rushed. It was a
- 1:14:27Speaker 3: bit callous that she didn't turn up or didn't just
- 1:14:30Speaker 3: have an ex FBI agent there arranging John's funeral is
- 1:14:34Speaker 3: very strange. What's even stranger is Doug McDougall found a
- 1:14:38Speaker 3: metal object in John's ashes. Not quite sure whether that
- 1:14:42Speaker 3: Doug found that or whether the sort of crematorium staff
- 1:14:45Speaker 3: heard a bit of jangling in the jar, or I
- 1:14:47Speaker 3: don't know how they all this came about. I've got
- 1:14:49Speaker 3: a note from Doug McDougall sent to Ron Hoffman, the
- 1:14:53Speaker 3: lead detective, saying there's this unverified gray metal object in
- 1:14:57Speaker 3: John's ashes. It was probably a fragment of a bullet,
- 1:14:59Speaker 3: to be honest, I think, because there was lots of
- 1:15:01Speaker 3: different bullets sort of fan in John, which is a
- 1:15:03Speaker 3: story for another day. So they Ron Hoffin said, yeah,
- 1:15:06Speaker 3: we sent it off analysis and it was a bit
- 1:15:07Speaker 3: that broke off the crematorium. It just wasn't very convincing
- 1:15:12Speaker 3: what they said it was. But anyway, Doug brings back
- 1:15:14Speaker 3: John's ashes in a colorful box to fall the fans.
- 1:15:17Speaker 3: Outside of the character, it's just almost Borderville. Really walks
- 1:15:21Speaker 3: in with John's ashes, gives it to Yoka. Famously, one
- 1:15:23Speaker 3: of the guys in the kitchen says, what's in the box, Doug,
- 1:15:25Speaker 3: and he said, this is the most famous musician who
- 1:15:27Speaker 3: ever lived. Just sounds too cheesy to me, but we'll
- 1:15:29Speaker 3: go with it. And then it gives it to Yoka.
- 1:15:32Speaker 3: She puts the ashes under her bed, and apparently that's
- 1:15:35Speaker 3: that's the last anybody's kind of verified of where John's
- 1:15:37Speaker 3: ashes is with regards to Doug. Next year next spring,
- 1:15:41Speaker 3: Doug's still doing his job and allegedly he takes his
- 1:15:44Speaker 3: eye off Shaan in Central Park. Co fires him for
- 1:15:47Speaker 3: not keeping an eye on him all the time. Doug
- 1:15:50Speaker 3: then takes a lot of Lenen possessions would you believe?
- 1:15:53Speaker 3: And I think this weird stuff like letters and tapes
- 1:15:56Speaker 3: and a pen knife. Would you believe? A Swiss Army
- 1:15:58Speaker 3: pen knife? Away, I thought that was important. But he
- 1:16:01Speaker 3: takes all this stuff. Rings up Elliot Mintz Joko's very famous,
- 1:16:05Speaker 3: some would say infamous publicist, and says to Elliott Mints
- 1:16:08Speaker 3: I've got all this stuff. And the reason I've taken
- 1:16:10Speaker 3: all this stuff is you only back paid. Come and
- 1:16:12Speaker 3: bring me on my back pay and you can have
- 1:16:14Speaker 3: all this stuff back. And according to earlier he went
- 1:16:16Speaker 3: over to Doug's house gave him whatever back paid. Doug
- 1:16:19Speaker 3: thought he was owed, got all the material back, and interestingly,
- 1:16:23Speaker 3: I'm pretty certainly given an NDA. I'm pretty sure at
- 1:16:25Speaker 3: that point because we never heard from Doug officially again.
- 1:16:27Speaker 3: But I've never actually said this in my book. I've
- 1:16:30Speaker 3: only found this out recently, and this is an exclusive
- 1:16:32Speaker 3: for you, Adam. Doug does turn up again in the
- 1:16:34Speaker 3: Lenon's life afterwards, You'd think that would be the end
- 1:16:36Speaker 3: of Doug stealing stuff, demanded money, But Doug became in
- 1:16:41Speaker 3: the years to come. He started to work for Lino
- 1:16:44Speaker 3: No Music, And I've got documentation to prove this. And
- 1:16:47Speaker 3: Lino Music was a Lenin publishing house set up by
- 1:16:50Speaker 3: Yokoono after John's death. Now I think it might have
- 1:16:53Speaker 3: been set up before John's death, but actually it was
- 1:16:55Speaker 3: active after John's death. Publishing. Now, why would the bodyguard
- 1:17:00Speaker 3: work for that company?
- 1:17:01Speaker 2: Yeah, that's strange.
- 1:17:02Speaker 3: Why would she allow that to happen? Because I've spoken
- 1:17:05Speaker 3: to Mike Madeiros and Fred Seaman who both say that
- 1:17:09Speaker 3: Doug didn't like Yoka after the murder, didn't like the
- 1:17:12Speaker 3: way it was treated. Wasn't a big Yoko fan. And
- 1:17:15Speaker 3: obviously he did that thing by taking all the possessions
- 1:17:17Speaker 3: and demanding money, and Elliott did all this. So what
- 1:17:20Speaker 3: the hell is he doing working for Lenono Publishing? Yeah,
- 1:17:23Speaker 3: it makes no sense whatsoever, But clearly Yoko forgave him.
- 1:17:27Speaker 3: Ye should have had to should have had to assanction that.
- 1:17:30Speaker 3: So the Doug mcdougas story has got a long way
- 1:17:33Speaker 3: to go. There's a lot more to come. Regarding Doug
- 1:17:36Speaker 3: McDougal and who he was and who he was working
- 1:17:38Speaker 3: for and what he did after the murder. I'd like
- 1:17:40Speaker 3: to know more about how he ends up working for
- 1:17:42Speaker 3: a Lenin company. That makes no sense to me.
- 1:17:45Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that. So million dollar question. Why
- 1:17:50Speaker 2: would the American government want to kill John Lennon?
- 1:17:53Speaker 3: Well, the first thing I'd say, Adam is I don't
- 1:17:56Speaker 3: think it was the government. I think and I don't
- 1:17:58Speaker 3: think any of these operations you could talk about for
- 1:18:00Speaker 3: a Hampson, Malcolm x jfkrfk All, the suspicious murders of
- 1:18:04Speaker 3: the sixties and Lemon. I don't think it is just
- 1:18:07Speaker 3: one entity. I think it's always a mistake to say
- 1:18:08Speaker 3: it was a CIA, it was American government, it was
- 1:18:10Speaker 3: the FBI, it was this, it was that, it was
- 1:18:12Speaker 3: a Satanist, it was a scientologist theories. For me, I
- 1:18:16Speaker 3: think the way this works is it will certainly never
- 1:18:19Speaker 3: be an official government sanction. I think it's an off
- 1:18:21Speaker 3: books group of people, like minded people who get together
- 1:18:26Speaker 3: and say, do you know what, if that guy went,
- 1:18:29Speaker 3: it would sort of be good for all of us.
- 1:18:31Speaker 3: And I think it was elements within the Republican movement.
- 1:18:36Speaker 3: I think it would have been Republican sympathizers who put
- 1:18:38Speaker 3: it all together. And I think we forget that John
- 1:18:41Speaker 3: Lennan was the most influential political musical artist in the
- 1:18:44Speaker 3: twentieth century. There's no doubt about that. John. John wasn't
- 1:18:47Speaker 3: just amind of the greatest music artists. It was a
- 1:18:48Speaker 3: politically active and politically influential music artist. And sometimes you
- 1:18:53Speaker 3: don't need to see a problem to fix it. You
- 1:18:55Speaker 3: have to just imagine the problems coming. And I think
- 1:18:58Speaker 3: they probably imagined that once he got his green card
- 1:19:00Speaker 3: stamped to Fishy in January nine and eighty one, because
- 1:19:03Speaker 3: remember he got it in seventy six, provisionally be in
- 1:19:05Speaker 3: eighty one, he would have been free to come and
- 1:19:07Speaker 3: go from the country who's planning a world tour. So
- 1:19:11Speaker 3: he would have been able not only to spread an
- 1:19:12Speaker 3: anti Ronal Reagan message in America and have been able
- 1:19:15Speaker 3: to spread that all over the world. They knew that.
- 1:19:17Speaker 3: So think about the timing here. We knew he was back,
- 1:19:19Speaker 3: we knew his active. He was due to go to
- 1:19:21Speaker 3: San Francisco at the end of December to attend a
- 1:19:24Speaker 3: Asian Workers rally for Asian Workers' rights, So he was
- 1:19:27Speaker 3: already planning political activism at that point. And I just
- 1:19:30Speaker 3: think the people that surrounded Mark Chapman were Republican sympathizers
- 1:19:35Speaker 3: who were connected to Nixon. There are connections to Nixon,
- 1:19:38Speaker 3: There are connections to Reagan's administration with regards to Joe Rogers,
- 1:19:42Speaker 3: there are connections to as people like Courtis Cooper who
- 1:19:46Speaker 3: knew people who knew Chapman, and Courtus Cooper worked for
- 1:19:48Speaker 3: the Rand Corporation in the Pentagon. So there are very
- 1:19:52Speaker 3: serious military Republican sympathizers attached to people, strongly attached, deeply
- 1:20:00Speaker 3: attached to people who were handling Mark Chapman. And I
- 1:20:03Speaker 3: think I just can't walk away from that coincidence, and
- 1:20:06Speaker 3: I can't ignore that coincidence. And I think Mark Chapman
- 1:20:10Speaker 3: was like John Hinckley and various other people that will
- 1:20:12Speaker 3: probably never get to know their names. He was just
- 1:20:14Speaker 3: part of a group of people who could be plucked
- 1:20:16Speaker 3: off a shelf and programmed to become obsessed about a
- 1:20:19Speaker 3: certain thing. And I think initially they probably had an
- 1:20:23Speaker 3: initial dry run in seventy eight when he was sent
- 1:20:25Speaker 3: to Mount Fuji. I think that might have been just
- 1:20:27Speaker 3: to see how far we can get this guy to
- 1:20:29Speaker 3: get close to John Lennon. And then clearly in the
- 1:20:31Speaker 3: summer of nineteen eighty by all the evidence that Mark
- 1:20:34Speaker 3: which just suddenly became obsessed about catching the Ryan John Lennon.
- 1:20:37Speaker 3: He says this himself, and I think that's when the
- 1:20:39Speaker 3: plot was triggered. But again I think it went wrong.
- 1:20:42Speaker 3: The one thing they didn't want Adam was Mark Chapman
- 1:20:45Speaker 3: to say I shot John in the back, but the
- 1:20:46Speaker 3: actual evidence was John was shot in front. That was
- 1:20:49Speaker 3: a mistake. I think Mark, we imagined something obviously we
- 1:20:52Speaker 3: know he didn't do. And I think the minute you
- 1:20:53Speaker 3: actually if you think about that logically, how is it
- 1:20:56Speaker 3: would it be for Mark Chapman to say, I shouted
- 1:20:58Speaker 3: out to John, I walked up to him, he turned around,
- 1:21:01Speaker 3: I shot him in the front and he fell down
- 1:21:03Speaker 3: or he staggered off into the building. Yeah, it's no
- 1:21:05Speaker 3: words to Mark whether he shot him in the front
- 1:21:07Speaker 3: or the back. But Mark is imagining something that he's
- 1:21:10Speaker 3: not doing, so clearly his mind is not fully there.
- 1:21:15Speaker 3: So it's and then when you think, oh, okay, and
- 1:21:17Speaker 3: you're and then suddenly a couple of days later, some
- 1:21:20Speaker 3: mind control expert from the CIA walks into cell and
- 1:21:23Speaker 3: someone is a legend that you were doing some brainwashing
- 1:21:25Speaker 3: techniques in a mental hospital a couple of years earlier.
- 1:21:29Speaker 3: It all starts to stack up that this guy was
- 1:21:31Speaker 3: a classic Manchurian patsy. I'm getting back to your question
- 1:21:34Speaker 3: about the American government. I think it was people who
- 1:21:37Speaker 3: were sympathetic to the incoming Ronald Reagan administration, which is,
- 1:21:41Speaker 3: you know better than anyone was a very hawkish and
- 1:21:45Speaker 3: that's putting it mildly administration and the atrocities that they
- 1:21:48Speaker 3: did in Central America and Iran Contra and a corruption.
- 1:21:52Speaker 3: I was just shocked when I looked into it and
- 1:21:53Speaker 3: researched this administration, just the amount of corruption that was
- 1:21:56Speaker 3: involved and they were all pardoned. The corruption didn't go
- 1:21:59Speaker 3: in Reagan. He's a puppet as far as I was concerned.
- 1:22:03Speaker 3: He's an actor and he was a bush was behind
- 1:22:05Speaker 3: him pulling the strings. I'm pretty sure about that, and
- 1:22:07Speaker 3: he did what he was told. He came across as
- 1:22:09Speaker 3: a great folksy homesteader, but I just think the people
- 1:22:12Speaker 3: that are around him were not going to allow his
- 1:22:15Speaker 3: program to not go through it. In the next twelve years,
- 1:22:17Speaker 3: that program right up to the first in right war
- 1:22:19Speaker 3: was on steroids. And you know, America changed from nineteen
- 1:22:22Speaker 3: eighty to the end of the Bush first Bush administration. Wow,
- 1:22:25Speaker 3: those twelve years, not just America, the whole world changed
- 1:22:28Speaker 3: from being a kind of it was. It didn't change
- 1:22:31Speaker 3: for the better as far as I'm concerned. And so no,
- 1:22:34Speaker 3: So I just think Lemon people underestimate and forget just
- 1:22:38Speaker 3: what a gobby, brave, reckless man he was, you know.
- 1:22:42Speaker 3: And if he saw something he didn't like, he didn't
- 1:22:44Speaker 3: care who it was, he'd say it, and often to
- 1:22:46Speaker 3: his detriment. And I think they knew this. He was
- 1:22:47Speaker 3: a loose cannon. I think the religious element does come
- 1:22:50Speaker 3: into it. I think the bigger than Jesus thing was
- 1:22:52Speaker 3: used on Mark. There was a psychiatrist in Hawaii. He
- 1:22:56Speaker 3: gave one interview and then he disappeared down the memory hull,
- 1:23:00Speaker 3: Jiles Bernhardt, who was a psychiatrist slash hicknotist, another one
- 1:23:03Speaker 3: of these guys, and he said he gome one Intovie
- 1:23:06Speaker 3: and he said that Mark Chatman saw himself as a
- 1:23:08Speaker 3: kind of Christian avenging angel. And as John never mentioned
- 1:23:11Speaker 3: the stuff about Jesus and didn't make a comeback then
- 1:23:13Speaker 3: Mark that the plot for Mark to kill him wouldn't
- 1:23:16Speaker 3: have been activated. So I think Jiles Bernhardt got the
- 1:23:18Speaker 3: game away there that I think Mark was not only
- 1:23:20Speaker 3: being used to use the capturing the Rye John Lem
- 1:23:23Speaker 3: as a phony kind of triggering in his mind, but
- 1:23:26Speaker 3: I think he was also set up as a kind
- 1:23:28Speaker 3: of Christian ge hardy. I think that was another part
- 1:23:31Speaker 3: of the Mark Chapman mindset. It was a pretty far
- 1:23:35Speaker 3: right Southern guy. Mark Chapman not a pleasant individual when
- 1:23:38Speaker 3: it came to his politics. There are sort of some
- 1:23:40Speaker 3: evidence that he was quite racist, and it just wasn't
- 1:23:42Speaker 3: particularly nice guy when it came to that kind of thing.
- 1:23:45Speaker 3: And I just think I think he was partly willing,
- 1:23:47Speaker 3: and I think he was partly abused. And I think
- 1:23:50Speaker 3: the team around him would have been connected to American
- 1:23:53Speaker 3: government through kind of support and affiliation and kind of
- 1:23:56Speaker 3: how they would have wanted the outcome to happen with
- 1:23:58Speaker 3: the guys to what Reagan did. But I wouldn't even
- 1:24:00Speaker 3: say that the CIA officially were sanctioning this. I just
- 1:24:02Speaker 3: think it was people that had connections to the CIA,
- 1:24:04Speaker 3: and people had connections to the minitriyanto Us. But I
- 1:24:06Speaker 3: think if you're looking for an American intelligence outfit that
- 1:24:10Speaker 3: was more than likely behind it, I think you're looking
- 1:24:12Speaker 3: at OHNI you're looking at the Navy intelligence more than anybody,
- 1:24:15Speaker 3: because there's just wherever you look in this story is
- 1:24:19Speaker 3: the fingerprint of Navy intelligence, including Charles McGowan. I'm not
- 1:24:22Speaker 3: saying for a minute Charles McGowan was behind the plot,
- 1:24:24Speaker 3: but he's got some very serious questions to answer, Charles.
- 1:24:27Speaker 3: And it's just very odd that a day after the
- 1:24:29Speaker 3: murdery flew to Mark in New York on the dime
- 1:24:32Speaker 3: of another preacher called Stephen Olford, who was committed Sir
- 1:24:34Speaker 3: Richard Nixon. And this preacher, Stephen Alford, funded Mark's defense.
- 1:24:39Speaker 3: He got Charles McGowan to put another preacher into Mark's sales,
- 1:24:42Speaker 3: Like why why are you doing all this? Charles? Why
- 1:24:45Speaker 3: is Stephen Alford doing all this? You don't know march Appen,
- 1:24:47Speaker 3: He's nothing to you. Mark left to go to a
- 1:24:49Speaker 3: y in seventy seven. Why is Charles McGowan even interested
- 1:24:53Speaker 3: in march app How did you know that march Atten
- 1:24:56Speaker 3: was in New York that night? You know, they've got
- 1:24:57Speaker 3: so many questions to answer. These guys. And when you
- 1:25:00Speaker 3: look at the people that are connected to Alford McGowan,
- 1:25:02Speaker 3: you're looking at Richard Nixon, You're looking at Joe Rogers,
- 1:25:06Speaker 3: who is Ronald Reagan's main money man, and you're looking
- 1:25:09Speaker 3: at people like Courts Cooper, who was a serious deep
- 1:25:13Speaker 3: state Rand Corporation Pentagon insider. These people should not be
- 1:25:17Speaker 3: connected to march Appman. They just should not. March Adman
- 1:25:20Speaker 3: should be that guy that we talked about right at
- 1:25:22Speaker 3: the start of this living above his dad, mum and
- 1:25:25Speaker 3: dad shot, listening to Judas Price records backwards, and just
- 1:25:28Speaker 3: an ultimate loser who just suddenly snapped. I could buy that.
- 1:25:32Speaker 3: I could totally buy that gets a gun in a
- 1:25:34Speaker 3: fit of anger. So I want to be someone I'm
- 1:25:37Speaker 3: going to kill John them and to be that's not
- 1:25:39Speaker 3: the march Appman story, and that's not who was around him.
- 1:25:42Speaker 3: So I really hope, Adam, that people take this batter
- 1:25:46Speaker 3: on now and there's more to uncover here. We need
- 1:25:48Speaker 3: to find out more about these people who are around
- 1:25:50Speaker 3: Marchapman because we're running out of time here, because a
- 1:25:53Speaker 3: lot of these people are getting very old. They're going
- 1:25:55Speaker 3: to be around much longer, and I want accountability. And
- 1:25:59Speaker 3: I think the NYPD and the DIA's office need to
- 1:26:01Speaker 3: release how's they bedern my statement? They need to release
- 1:26:04Speaker 3: crime scene photos. They need to tell us coherently why
- 1:26:07Speaker 3: march Atman thinks he's done something he hasn't done, and
- 1:26:10Speaker 3: we just we need some answers. Jonathan Marx, he needs
- 1:26:12Speaker 3: to come out of the woodwork now and say, did
- 1:26:14Speaker 3: you know that Miil Klein was on a documentary boasting
- 1:26:17Speaker 3: about his CIA menta in candidate credentials a year before
- 1:26:21Speaker 3: you send him into march out the cell? How could
- 1:26:23Speaker 3: you not have known that? Were you comfortable sending him in?
- 1:26:26Speaker 1: So?
- 1:26:26Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot more to come.
- 1:26:28Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like it. I know we haven't covered
- 1:26:32Speaker 2: everything in the book obviously. Is there anything we haven't
- 1:26:36Speaker 2: talked about before we wrap up that you want to
- 1:26:40Speaker 2: make sure people know?
- 1:26:41Speaker 3: Yeah? I think the final thing we can talk about
- 1:26:43Speaker 3: is the autopsy, just quick for sure. Yeah. The guy
- 1:26:47Speaker 3: who did the autopsy was a guy called Elliot Gross,
- 1:26:50Speaker 3: and I haven't seen the autopsy, but I've spoken to
- 1:26:52Speaker 3: a lot of people who have, and I've got a
- 1:26:53Speaker 3: pretty good run out of what's on it. Elliot Gross
- 1:26:56Speaker 3: talks about wounds in the side and front, and he
- 1:27:00Speaker 3: talks back wounds on the lower back of the upper back.
- 1:27:02Speaker 3: He talks about quite sort of chaotic bullet wounds that
- 1:27:06Speaker 3: are kind of literally all over John's body. Really, they're
- 1:27:09Speaker 3: coming out at different angles all over the place. He
- 1:27:11Speaker 3: doesn't talk about four in the front. He doesn't talk
- 1:27:13Speaker 3: about three in the back. Two things people should know
- 1:27:15Speaker 3: about Elliott Gross. One thing is he turned up on
- 1:27:17Speaker 3: the night of the murder at the Roosevelt Hospital tell
- 1:27:19Speaker 3: you out of the blue. Wasn't supposed to be there.
- 1:27:20Speaker 3: The nurses were furious because he asked them to unwrap
- 1:27:23Speaker 3: John's body, unwrap the wounds so he could take a
- 1:27:26Speaker 3: very quick look at the ins and outs of the
- 1:27:28Speaker 3: front and back. I think that was very ne fairest.
- 1:27:30Speaker 3: I think someone sent Elliott Gross there to actually get
- 1:27:32Speaker 3: the lowdown on exactly where John's wounds were. The very
- 1:27:35Speaker 3: next morning there, Elliot Grosse did the autopsy on John,
- 1:27:39Speaker 3: and that's an autopsis that obviously contradicts what the nurses
- 1:27:41Speaker 3: and doctors saw, but does kind of help the official
- 1:27:45Speaker 3: narrative that Mark might have shot him in the back.
- 1:27:47Speaker 3: People should also know that Elliott Gross has had multiple
- 1:27:50Speaker 3: accusations throughout his career, and I mean multiple of falsifying
- 1:27:54Speaker 3: autopsies on behalf of the NYPD. It should be said
- 1:27:57Speaker 3: he was never convicted. He always got off and had
- 1:28:00Speaker 3: to move on to another state because his name was
- 1:28:03Speaker 3: so badly dragged through the mud in New York for
- 1:28:05Speaker 3: a start. But yeah, Elliott Gross is not a guy
- 1:28:08Speaker 3: I would say personally that has an unimpeachable record, And
- 1:28:11Speaker 3: it's just a shame that the guy that got to
- 1:28:14Speaker 3: undertake John's autopsy was a guy who has multiple accusations
- 1:28:17Speaker 3: of fraud in regards to autopsies. So is that a coincidence? Again,
- 1:28:22Speaker 3: maybe maybe not. But one thing he did do lastly
- 1:28:25Speaker 3: to say that, And when he did go and ask
- 1:28:27Speaker 3: Barbara and Dee the nurses to take off John's bandages
- 1:28:30Speaker 3: and see those bullets again, he gave the nurses yet
- 1:28:32Speaker 3: another chance to see John's wounds up close. So they
- 1:28:36Speaker 3: saw John's wounds three times. They saw it when he
- 1:28:38Speaker 3: first came in the r room, they saw his wounds
- 1:28:40Speaker 3: when they first washed his body and shrouded it, and
- 1:28:43Speaker 3: they saw his wounds again when Elliot Gross asked him
- 1:28:45Speaker 3: to deshroud John. And then they had to retroud him again.
- 1:28:48Speaker 3: So they know, these nurses know for sure where John
- 1:28:51Speaker 3: Lenham was shot, and they said he was shot four
- 1:28:55Speaker 3: times up left chest, three coming out of upper left
- 1:28:57Speaker 3: back as this doctor Hall would say. And there's no
- 1:28:59Speaker 3: on earth Mark Chapman from where he was standing and
- 1:29:02Speaker 3: where John was standing could have pulled that off. So
- 1:29:05Speaker 3: this this is the crux of the matter.
- 1:29:08Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope there is more news about this at
- 1:29:12Speaker 2: some point.
- 1:29:13Speaker 3: I'm host to a documentary I'm hoping to do. I've
- 1:29:15Speaker 3: got a documentary and the film in the works, but
- 1:29:17Speaker 3: they will have to be done right. I won't be
- 1:29:19Speaker 3: doing anything that doesn't tell the full story. So and
- 1:29:22Speaker 3: people are from you know, it's like film and TV.
- 1:29:24Speaker 3: I heard you guys talking about the recent optical stuff
- 1:29:26Speaker 3: on Netflix. It's good to get someone who's info out,
- 1:29:29Speaker 3: but it's never put out fully. There's always stuff they
- 1:29:32Speaker 3: don't say. So I want to say it. I want
- 1:29:35Speaker 3: to get the story out properly. I hope this will
- 1:29:37Speaker 3: come out later this year. But if it doesn't come
- 1:29:39Speaker 3: out of the way I want it to come out,
- 1:29:41Speaker 3: it's not going to come out. But my book's out
- 1:29:42Speaker 3: there now. The information is out there, so I hope
- 1:29:44Speaker 3: people will buy the book and they will pick up
- 1:29:46Speaker 3: the information, run with it and dig out some new
- 1:29:48Speaker 3: stuff and find some new stuff out. There's still time.
- 1:29:51Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll link to the book in the show notes obviously.
- 1:29:56Speaker 2: Where else in the meantime between the book and hopefully
- 1:29:59Speaker 2: the document coming out, where can people keep up with
- 1:30:03Speaker 2: you and updates on this?
- 1:30:05Speaker 3: Great? Thank you, Adam. I've got a substact David Whelm
- 1:30:08Speaker 3: at substack dot com where all my Lenin articles are on.
- 1:30:11Speaker 3: I've got a YouTube channel, Assassination of Lenin, where there's
- 1:30:14Speaker 3: a lot of footage of people talking about the case,
- 1:30:17Speaker 3: especially Ron Hoffman talking about being shot in the vestigal.
- 1:30:20Speaker 3: That's a clip world worth seeing. There's you can get
- 1:30:22Speaker 3: me on Twitter x where it's called at Lena Murder.
- 1:30:26Speaker 3: And yeah, just come and message me, Come and talk
- 1:30:28Speaker 3: to me, come and follow me, Come and get involved
- 1:30:30Speaker 3: in the conversation. There is new stuff coming out all
- 1:30:32Speaker 3: the time. I've got a couple of articles going up soon.
- 1:30:35Speaker 3: I am getting new information given to me all the time.
- 1:30:37Speaker 3: So this is ongoing. And yeah, just all I can
- 1:30:41Speaker 3: say to people that there is it spread the word.
- 1:30:44Speaker 3: Just to spread the word. There's too many people who
- 1:30:46Speaker 3: don't know about this, and he was a major musical
- 1:30:50Speaker 3: artistic icon. He deserves there to be no question marks
- 1:30:56Speaker 3: over his death. So let's hope we can get it
- 1:30:58Speaker 3: all cleared up. But you know, yeah, hi, Jeff kay,
- 1:31:01Speaker 3: is that kid up? No? No, I'm not that hopeful. Yeah.
- 1:31:06Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for doing the episode. I
- 1:31:09Speaker 2: really appreciate it. I appreciate all the work and research
- 1:31:13Speaker 2: that went into this book. It is a fascinating book.
- 1:31:16Speaker 2: I hope people pick up a copy and read it
- 1:31:19Speaker 2: because it make a very compelling case. Mildly and I
- 1:31:23Speaker 2: think that's it. Thank you everyone for listening. I appreciate it.
- 1:31:27Speaker 2: We're going to get out of here. Hey, David Wheeland,
- 1:31:30Speaker 2: say goodbye, goodbye, Thank you, Adam, goodbye, everybody.
- 1:31:33Speaker 1: We love you
- 1:31:39Speaker 3: People.