[nickcarraway]

Chapman, John Hickley, Lee Harvey Oswald, Robert John Bardo and Sirhan Sirhan all had Catcher in the Rye when they assassinated. So did John Booth Wilkes, Giuseppe Zangara, Leon Czolgosz, Charlotte Corday, Bruno Hauptmann and Brutus.

[Hostage]

Uh....what?

Catcher in the Rye was published in 1951.

[jobim]

I did say the world's biggest phony, according to Chapman, was John Lennon, so I am aware of the ostensible reason Chapman gave.

He read the Esquire Magazine interview with Lennon, (I too remember the interview), living as a recluse millionaire in his mansion on Long Island, doting on his son Sean, taking orders from Yoko, and he was moved to off him to save us from this world-famous phony. He bought that pistol on Piikoi Street in Honolulu, flew to NYC, looked for the ducks in Central Park to see if they survived in the winter, looked for the merry-go-round, paid a hooker twice her price for the night but dismissed her without touching her, all in Holden's footsteps. He is quoted as saying that Holden accepted the idea of murder.

But I never heard anyone who was a fan of Salinger or the book blame anyone but Chapman, but I suppose there may be some.

[Arthur McGowan]

Oswald didn't shoot anybody. JFK was killed by several shooters hired by LBJ. Read: The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ.