"David Looser" wrote in message
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"Jim Lesurf" wrote

At the time and since, I've had the wish that people would cease
mentioning
the name of the killer. This is to discourage the idea that someone can
become 'famous' by killing someone else who is well-regarded. So I
welcome
your reminder of the anniversary, but wish you hadn't mentioned the
killer's name.


I've heard the suggestion made that that was, in fact, the motivation of
John Lennon's killer.

One of the psychiatrists who examined him suggested the
possibility that Chapman was trying to preserve Lennon's
innocence, even into immortality, by killing him.

It certainly seems to me to be an infinitely more
likely cause than that this murder was the result of a
politically-inspired conspiracy.

Indeed. It is well-known that Nixon feared Lennon's
popularity and his contrasting views.

But, do you think, if that had been the case, that they would
not have "tied up the loose ends"? Leaving the killer alive to
later spill the beans would surely not be in the best interests
of the conspirators.