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New Evidence in John Lennon's Murder: Singer Was Shot With Two Different Type of Bullets
Radar Online ^ | Joshua Wilburn

Posted on 07/02/2023 8:20:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Two different guns may have been used in the December 8, 1980 shooting of music icon John Lennon, RadarOnline.com has learned.

According to British author and TV producer David Whelan, two different types of bullets were removed from Lennon's body during the autopsy. One was marked as a Semi-wadcutter or hollow-point bullet, while the other was listed as a 38-caliber lead bullet.

Whelan believes that the different bullet types add weight to his theory that a second shooter was involved in the killing.

The author has spent three years investigating the murder and has highlighted several inconsistencies in the official narrative, including the suggestion that police may have misunderstood how the shooting occurred.

Whelan's investigation has also revealed a 'hit list' compiled by convicted gunman Mark Chapman, including the former Beatle, Godfather actor Marlon Brando, and former First Lady Jackie Kennedy.

The prosecution's accepted version of events was that Chapman shot at Lennon five times, with four of the bullets hitting the singer in the back. However, Whelan's witnesses have suggested that the shooting may have been recorded incorrectly and that the fatal shots were actually fired into Lennon's chest.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: banglist; clickbaitadspam; davidwhelan; johnlennon; lennon; markdavidchapman; music; thewalrus
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To: llevrok

Pull-easze....

The World is better off without internet links to yoko.


21 posted on 07/02/2023 8:33:23 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
Yoko had NO skill.

I have to disagree with you there. Yoko was 7 years older than John, and 6 years older than Cynthia, she got him ditch his loyal wife and his son, and walked away with all the money just over a decade later. Yoko had ALL the skill, my friend.

22 posted on 07/02/2023 8:33:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Egon

Imagine there’s two bullets.

It’s easy if you try.


23 posted on 07/02/2023 8:33:40 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: nickcarraway

2nd gunman was on the grassy knoll outside the Dakota and Yoko didn’t even see him! ha ha


24 posted on 07/02/2023 8:34:16 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

“I don’t understand. It’s not a big deal to load different types of ammo into a revolver.”
Exactly! A Brit reporter probably would not know that. None of them here would know that either.


25 posted on 07/02/2023 8:36:37 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: P.O.E.
claiming the CIA wanted Lennon out of the picture. He was having a career renaissance and they didn’t want his peacenik ways interfering.

That makes no sense. His peacenik and revolutionary days, which are greatly exaggerated anyway, were long over. None of the songs on Double Fantasy were political.

And what war were they defending in 1980, and a few years AFTER the Church commision.

(By the way, the U.S. could have kicked Lennon out of the country in the early 70s, but they never did.)

26 posted on 07/02/2023 8:36:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: allblues
Semi wadcutters are not hollow point bullets and those of that era were typically lead

That was the first thing I noticed also.
27 posted on 07/02/2023 8:39:03 PM PDT by Tailback
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To: Flag_This
#2: "And they BOTH missed Yoko?"

It's what is referred to as the magic bullet theory.

28 posted on 07/02/2023 8:41:27 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Flag_This

Yeah, where WAS Yoko? Snicker...

Look, both those bullets could have been fired from the same
gun. It depends on the calibers, the number of shots fired,
the magazine of the gun in custody.

Such a worthless shooting. I disagreed with a number of
Lenin’s views, but this wasn’t the way to handle it.

I try not to remember the guy’s name who shot John. I
also try not to remember who shot Reagan.

I won’t let them gain popularity living inside my head
if I can help it.


29 posted on 07/02/2023 8:41:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; Flag_This

Wait, this means the walrus was never Paul.


30 posted on 07/02/2023 8:42:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Clowns? FIB? 🤔


31 posted on 07/02/2023 8:44:51 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: Blue Highway
IMAGINE if they got this all wrong and it was the Eggman?

I suspect the Walrus

32 posted on 07/02/2023 8:45:23 PM PDT by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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To: nickcarraway

Who says the bullets were different, other than how much they were deformed? It seems pretty clear that one of the 2 bullets was deformed to the point it could not be identified beyond caliber, thus “.38 caliber lead bullet”. The other bullet was also seriously deformed, but identifiable as “semi-wadcutter OR hollow point”.


33 posted on 07/02/2023 8:46:14 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: DoughtyOne

The guy who shot Reagan had family ties to the Bush family.


34 posted on 07/02/2023 8:48:46 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: TheCipher

Where was Eleanor Rigby?


35 posted on 07/02/2023 8:51:38 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

Happiness isn’t always a warm gun I guess.


36 posted on 07/02/2023 8:51:46 PM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: Flag_This

“And they BOTH missed Yoko?”

Yeah no kidding.😟


37 posted on 07/02/2023 8:53:47 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: nickcarraway

Stephen King shot John Lennon
(by) Steve Lightfoot

“Reveals government codes in major magazines, Including the killers face, and true identity. Mark Chapman’s name attached to a letter to the editor printed weeks before the murder and more that proves a Nixon, Reagan, and yes, Stephen King conspiracy.”

This guy used to drive around the Bay Area in a van with writing all over it in the early 90s, and call in to talk shows on KGO.


38 posted on 07/02/2023 8:54:29 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: bankwalker

And the FBI investigation into the business dealings of the father of John Hinckley were dropped weeks after the failed assassination attempt. Bush Sr. also could not remember where he was when Kennedy was shot and only years latter recalled that he was in Dallas at the time. (This would be like forgetting you were in Manhattan on 9/11. )


39 posted on 07/02/2023 8:54:42 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

He still does. I’ve seen his vans and trucks many times in the last five years, including once in the last few months. I think that was in Pacific Grove, but they are often near downtown Monterey. I haven’t heard him get in to the radio station in a while.


40 posted on 07/02/2023 8:56:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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