Who REALLY Killed John Lennon?
by Steve Lightfoot
SANTA CRUZ POLICE CHIEF, STEVE BELCHER IN F.B.I. CONSPIRACY TO MURDER ME!?
In this news letter you will learn many things. I will show you the
big picture of John Lennon's assasination, who is covering it up and
why and you will learn that last October's arrest of me for setting
foot in Santa Cruz Bookshop was a Soviet style sting to set me up
for murder in the near future. You will learn the backround of
police abuse I have suffered under ever since Terry Chodash of the
Secret Service tracked me down to interview me. Abuse that
includes kidnapping, pistol-whipping, food poisoning, guns aimed
rignt at me the night of Reagan's re-election, multiple instances
where I have been summoned to appear for charges I had nothing to
do with, the hundreds of falsely issued parking citations and
several moving violations I have received including the falsely
issued ticket I received just weeks after my Santa Cruz arrest when
a Santa Cruz officer was seen stalking my parked van. You will
learn that, In my opinion, the Santa Cruz police are exactly corrupt
enough to be partly and directly responsible for many of the dead
hippies in your mountains that earned you the title murder capital
of America. That, in my opinion, the U.S. govt. is encouraging the
destruction of the hippie movement, especially in the hippie haven;
Santa Cruz. You will learn of the threat letter I received from a
horror writer just two weeks before my Father was killed in a plane
crash, a crash tnat occured on the tenth anniversary of Nixon's
resignation. You will actually see Stephen King's handwritten letter
to me in 1992 where he accidentally signed his name; "...the man
who really did kill John. Best, Stephen King". You will see how he
used that letter and the book it was signed in as a veiled threat to
kill me as well as an offer of '. . . anything. . ." if I would quit with
"that picture of me getting John Lennon's autograph, anything."
You will learn of my five months in his home town of Bangor,
Maine and the several instances King declined to deny my charges
when he could have, including here in Santa Cruz when he
admitted that I'm a stone in his shoe. You will learn of the time
undercover S.F. police dislocated my shoulder and broke my nose
on Haight St. a week before my advertised rally at KRON TV and
how the assailant said to me only "We don't need the publicity."
You will learn that 95% of the people peddling decoy Chapman
just happen to be Jewish and that Stephen King repeats the
italicized phrase; "beware the Jewish Communist plot against the
U.S.", in at least one of his books. lncidentally, I am not an anti-
semite. I am merely aware that a small, evil group of Jews want the
destruction of America and are using the media and violence to
bring about a hasty disintegration of our morals. I, in fact, think
Moscow is behind this media monopoly under 90% Jewish control
and that America's harboring of Nazis after WWII is one obvious
reason. I do think that 99% of Jews are as good as anybody. You
will learn that america's moral breakdown and skyrocketing
statistics of violence and social disfunction are directly attributable
to the murder and coverup of John Lennon and that people like
John Lennon are the only thing that stands between a corrupt
government and the people. Mostly, I hope you will learn that each
of you are in a state of fear, cowardice and masochism regarding the
emergence of the truth of John Lennon's assassination.
It was the evening of Dec. 08, 1980 when we all heard the horrible
news that our beloved John Lennon, co-leader of the most loved
musical group of all time and the most prominent and influentlal
peace activist in the world was murdered like a dog. The National
Inquirer finished their report with the closing sentence; ". . . and
Lennon was the evil that had to be removed." The media at large put
forth the proposition that Lennon was the anti-Christ in the kilIer's
mind and before long parents all across America were displaying
their hypocracy and cowardice as they explained to their children
that it was no big deal. The same culture that excused J.F.K.'s
murder and R.F.K.'s and M.L.K. murders was now justifying the
government's evil role.
The killer was wisked away for a 60 day psychiatric evaluation that
turned into a year and 60 days of absolute silence. Then a tiny
clipping buried in the back of the nations newspapers reported that
Chapman had plead guilty days before his trial. There was no
followup. It was treated like any other murder and not the murder
of a cultural giant. I knew then the government was covering
something up. And so it was on July 26, 1982, a year and a half
after the crime that I turned to my local library to re-read the murder
reports to find out whatever became of Chapman. I wasn't looking
for government codes about John Lennon's murder in major
magazines. It was just hard not to spot the strange behavior in the
headlines of Time magazine especially since the magazine I
happened to pick up came out the day of the murder. The bold print
headlines, with almost every turn of the page, seemed to plug into
the murder of John Lennon and not just the more obvious intent of
the article. When I turned to page 16 and saw tne ominous headine
"Who's In?""Who's Out?" above just elected Reagan I began to
think I was stumbling on to govt. codes and that the double
meaning of this headline translated to "Reagan's In""Lennon's Out"
I looked closer and noticed the smaller headline below the photo
read "Fitting together the pieces of a complicated jigsaw puzzle..." I
looked at the picture and saw a vase of lillys, symbolic of death,
and Richard Nixons book The Real War sitting at Reagan's right
hand side and in the very foreground of the picture. Knowing that
Nixon was John's biggest enemy in life who tried to illegally deport
him because of his "Tricky Dicky" lyrics and peace activism, I read
relevant passages where Nixon explains why certain "..rock stars..
who say 'Peace' is 'good' and 'war' is 'bad' . . . must be removed from
the stage of public debate by whatever means are needed. . ."
About ten pages explain why people like John bennon must be
assassinated showing me that this was no ordinary photo. In fact I
found the same photo also in Newsweek above the caption 'Head
hunting in Pacific Palisades..." In the Dec. 08,1980 issue of
Newsweek, released a week before the murder, I discovered
consecutive headlines; "Odd Man Out-Bad Blood-The Nixon
Factor-Stay Tuned-Intensity" and passages like; "...abruptly
withdrew under rising enemy fire... after he was shot down he
graciously withdrew ...caught in the crossfire of Washington
politics. .in the bad graces of Richard Nixon. .he intimidated some
of the elders with his brash brilliance..." Then I knew all this was
too much to be mere coincidence. In fact I discovered that up to
75% of the bold print messages in Time and Newsweek issues
surrounding the nignt of Lennon's murder read like govt. codes all
about it. That, in fact, these magazines had intelligence ties to our
govt. and documented secrets via bold print coded messages.
Eventually, I discovered Mark David King Chapman attached to a
letter to the editor of U.S. News & World Report where Chapman
explains that he is armed waiting for the giant hand of Reagan to
move him to some hostile square.
Finally, I discovered the killer's face and true identity, Stepnen
King, in Time magazine three months before the murder advertised;
"One great big Zippo lighter." which describes the murder scene of
a man at night firing a gun with the flame blazing from the barrel. I
didn't know who Stephen King was then as he was not yet really
famous. A quick read of the book review where King; "...dubs this
infammatory force 'pyrokinesis' a combination of the Greek words
meaning 'fire' and 'movement'" clued me to the real possibility that
not only did Nixon have John Lennon assassinated, he let a famous
horror writer pull the trigger besides. My thoughts then were that
Nixon was a criminal genius as no one would ever believe such a
truth no matter how provable with facts. Subsequent readings of
other King novels confirmed that, indeed, this was the killer. Years
before the murder King was already writing about Johnny and a
political assassination plot, shooting a man between the shoulder
blades and getting "down there with the Oswaids, Sirhans,
Bremmers and crazies of the world. There was no shortage of
sufficiant evidence I would find.
That is how the biggest true story since Christ was discovered. It is
absolutely the biggest story since Christ that can be proved. it is a
story guaranteed to topple Time, Newsweek and U.S. News, the
worlds biggest magazines, a story guaranteed to reveal all of us
naked in all our blindness and brainwashed state and all the evil of
covering it up we have already demonstrated, a story that will
ultimately prove Nixon had the Kennedy's killed as revealed in
1963 codes and a story that will revolutionise all our lives and
expose the world conspiracy to destroy the United States. Just like
Jesus was killed by the government of the day so will Lennon's
murder be also proved. Most of all we the people will be exposed
for buying into tne evil of coverups period and how that accounts
for the moral disintegration of America as evidenced in our
headlines of the last decade and a half. This story will bring more
truth and justice to our lives than our parents ever dreamed of and
will alter the course of human history. It is precisely because this
story has so much potential power that the U.S. govt. has enlisted
the help of the corrupt Santa Cruz police dept. and a city council
member, Neil Coonerty to set Steve Lightfoot up for assassination.
When I was on national television getting arrested in handcuffs
preliminary news footage was obtained to later demonize me after I
am dead. In other words, a propaganda campaign is being built for
future purposes after I am killed to portray me as a stalker and a
criminal who probably had it conning. A recent encounter with
officer T. Barry suggests to me that the Santa Cruz police are
planning to plant a gun on me or in my van and kill me and then lie
to the public that I was threatening an officer and had to be shot.
As many of you now already know I was arrested for tresspassing
for entering the same bookstore where Stephen King was lying to
the media about me regarding River Phoenix's death and how he
claims that I said the U.S. Dept of Agriculture had Phoenix killed
because he was a vegetarian. I never said that to begin with. I was
not allowed my free speech rights to alter the outcome of what the
media would do to my reputation later that week. I was immediately
handcuffed and arrested and jailed and not just jailed but also
deliberately slandered. I was put in the nutcase wing in solitary
lockdown and was even corralled into a three minute interview wIth
a psychologist during the one time in three days I was given my
hour recess. After the media told King's lie about me all across
America I was released three days later. In fact I am told by my
public defender that the charge against me will be dismissed on
Dec 02, 1994. It turns out that a journalist witness contradicts the
police account of my arrest and they didn't have a case. In fact I was
never told to stay out of that bookstore to begin with. It was a
conspiracy to defame me as a stalker and a criminal. It just so
happens that Neil Coonerty is a former mayor of Santa Cruz. He
was the one that gave the undercover police permission to let me in
so I could be arrested. A week before the arrest he told me "The
police and I have discussed you and we'll be watching you
carefully. King doesn't know anything about it but we just don't
want to go through the hassle. l'm not going to sell you a ticket to
the Civic Auditorium, King has done a lot to help independant
bookstores, this is a privately owned store now please leave." It was
a trick remark to be used as a false reason to arrest me if I dared to
confront King with my accusation. And more it was censorship of
the highest order or the lowest order if you please. Had I been
allowed my right of free speech the media would not have printed
King's Phoenix remark without it being challenged by me and they
would also have been obligated to include that I accused him of
being Lennon's real life killer.
And so it was that chief Steve Belcher became an accessory to a
murder coverup and guilty of aiding the escape of a murderer. He
became an enemy of the people of Santa Cruz and the lone
messenger trying to bring about justice. He became a criminal
helping another criminal and stopped being a protector of the
public. Like the New York police who were in on the murder of
Lennon in 198O Steve Belcher became an extention of the same
murder coverup. He also became a violator of my rights and a
willing conspirator in the defamation campaign against me. Since
my release the police have parked next to me while I was
distributing literature to scare off tbe public and gave me a false
citation based on an unwarrented and unreasonable search of my
parked van. My garbage he viewed after he stuck his head in my
car. When I reached to get my drivers licence he said to me "Don't
pull out a gun." It made me think the police are trying to shoot me
as if I would ever pull out a gun or possess a gun in the first place
and then lie to the public about the reasons I was killed. The police
had my car keys for three days and can plant anything at any time
they want and I'm telling you now not after they kill me.
Though Coonerty discussed me with the police before King's arrival
and my arrest made nation wide TV chief Belcher denies that he
has ever heard of me. Not likely.
In the summer of 1993 his dept. harrassed me no less that twenty
times and falsely cited me for a peace disturbance that was
ultimately not pursued by the coffee shop owner they solicited to
help make the complaint. Way back then I knew the Santa Cruz
police were hostile towards me and my bombshell expose.
My life came under police assault In 1983 wnen I received a
summons to appear for charges of "breaking and entering and
attempted grand theft" that I had nothing whatsoever to do with. I
wound up with the lawyer who unsuccessfully represented mass
murderer Juan Corona and he corralled me also into an interview
with a psychiatrist who tried to write in the answers to a test
himself after I told him I'm not going to participate. After months of
court appearances where I was the only one in the court room it
became obvious that they were terrorizing me. I made the
newspaper then accusing the govt. of practicing state terrorism
against a U.S. citizen. And they were. I was released as not being a
suspect only to be confronted with guns pointing directly at me the
night of Reagan's re-election by S.F. police the next year. My
belongings were searched but my I.D. was never requested at all.
In 1984 also my father was killed in a plane crash after I received a
threat letter (SEE SUPPLEMENT) from a horror writer. The F.B.I.
refused to even accept the letter or the matter at all. Two weeks
later my father was dead. Months before he died his dog was found
dead, hanged from a drape cord with all the eirie connotations of a
mob threat. Incidentally, included in the phony summons I received
already mentioned was a line out of King's then recent movie
Christine "I'll get you!"
In Berkeley I was the target of multiple police attempts to arrest me
and violent attacks with a baseball bat and strangers kicking me in
the back from behind and these attackers were released as suspects
after positive I.D. was made and these youths were also seen often
talking with police besides.
In the year of 1987 undercover S.F. vice officer and martial artist
Thomas Decker and his tall accomplice dislocated my shoulder and
broke my nose on a sidewalk for no reason after he said "We don't
need the publicity." He was released by D.A. Costello after I made
a citizens arrest and a positive I.D.
Earlier that year I was confronted six times in five days by S.F.
police who threatened to shoot me up with thorazine while I was
displaying my signs on Van Ness Ave. No amount of complaints I
made did any good as I would find Frank Jordan was behind the
campaign. When chief Casey replaced Jordan the harassment,
literally stopped. Like night and day. When Jordan was chief my
signs and P.A. system were constantly being seized.
Two months after my nose was broken I was invited to the Lennon
art exhibit by the manager of the DYANSEN gallery who let me in
ahead of over a hundred people in line apparently to insure that
Yoko Ono and I were there together. I gave her my literature and
told her to please read it. She said she would and then went with
her security to a room to immediately see what was inside. She left
the gallery and her security came back a half hour later and
violently pushed me down the exit stairs into the waiting arms of
four police who kidnapped me, handcuffed me, said "We're going
to beat your ass", drove to a seedy neighborhood and then
pistolwhipped me unconscious. I was then delivered to the General
Hospital where officer Kevin Hall said "I'm going to break your
nose." Instead I was delivered to the Psych wing and strapped,
bloodied and bruised, to a table. The report said that I was yelling
death threats to Yoko Ono. It was a complete lie yet I was evaluated
for 48 hours and released as completely sane and only physically
beaten. My body was later placed in a tunnel to photograph my
internal organs. The officers were Kevin Hall and Steven Rist. I
filed a 12 million dollar suit only to find no willing attorney.
A year after meeting Michael McCartney, Paul's brother, and
imploring him to tell Paul I need help Paul yelled out my name in
front of 60 thousand fans at the 1990 Berkeley concert: During the
instrumental of one song, and I have it on tape for proof, he yelled
out; "Yeah Steeeeeeeeeeve! That's right. I don't know about you
Berkeley but I want you to know we like it and we need you as a
people to get to the promised land..."
That plug got all police off my back for two years.
In l992 I took my evidence to King's home town of Bangor, Maine.
I was cited the minute I hit town for a red light violation I didn't
commit and was branded a stalker in the media. King would not
deny my claims then and said "I just want to say this guy has been
doing this for ten years." Two weeks later I was again falsely cited.
Both tickets were dismissed after officer Keith Mercier admitted
under oath that "Stephen King gives me five grand a week to
harrass you."
It was during my five month stay there that Stephen King had a
young man deliver a letter of bribery to me contained in a book
called LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN. It was also a veiled threat
considering the fact he had already taken Lennon down. On the
inside cover of the book was a page long handwritten letter by
Stephen King to me. (SEE SUPPLEMENT) Taik about a freudian
slip! He unwittingly signed his name to me, his accuser, "...the man
who really did kill John - Best, Stephen King" insIde the book was
not only a book marker but also a smudge mark parallel to some
amazing passages where Chapman is begging Paul Goresh " . .
.anything for that picture of me getting John Lennon's autograph..."
I took it as a veiled bribe since my case is based in part on matching
photographs of King and Lennon's killer getting the autograph. You
be the judge (SEE SUPPLEMENT)
Both Stephen King and I are in this book about Chapman and I am
demonized as a stalker and wrongfully portrayed as being barred
from King's home town. (SEE SUPPLEMENT)
So, you see folks, Stephen King IS more than casually aware of me
and has offered me millions if I quit my story. After two years of
not biting he decided to give Santa Cruz a shot at trashing my
reputation. He advertised his Santa Cruz stop knowing I would
confront him. In the past he kept his schedule secret. In fact the
major book stores he derides may have told him he is not welcome
at their stores because of my evidence. In fact, he may be looking
for a new home as Maine knows all about me and has thousands of
my articles of evidence. Maine also knows that King was found
guilty of having sex with a minor in a Belfast, Maine court case and
that he was ordered to pay a fine. Maine knows he killed Lennon
and that he is also a child molester.
During the 92 election George Bush admitted twice on TV
"Nobody likes who shot John... I know the media is fascinated with
this story but..." I even have the N.Y. Times transcript where he
mentions my story "EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS: WHO SHOT
JOHN LENNON?" during the Richmond, Va. presidential debate
(SEE SUPPLEMENT) as one reason he is losing in Maine.
So you see even the President has discussed my story on the most
watched TV event of the year.
The time is coming when he will be exposed and jailed and he
knows it. King has been advised by his attorney's not to sue me
because I have the proof to back up my claims and to instead derail
me if he can with propaganda to defame me and my credibility. In
coming to Santa Cruz to conduct his charade he has fingered whose
police dept. is corrupt enough to kill me. The surly disrespectful
demeaner of the police here match the behavior of the S.F.P.D. and
suggest to me they are plotting to kill me. In fact, both King and the
police are trying to get me to move here. My last citation requires
that I change my address to Santa Cruz. I had recently been
interviewed as a guest in San Diego's biggest talk radio station and
I an making headway. King's in a hurry to to let Santa Cruz police
kill me apparently.
In the past King has never denied my claim. He has responded
instead with comments like; "That's not worth discussing... well
guys there is the other side of me, he's been doing this for ten
years..." and, usually, "No comment" as he did here and in a N.Y.
paper when he added; "You guys in N.Y. can keep Lightfoot."
He has never denied my claims. He can't afford to sue me beside.
W h a t k i n d o f p e o p l e a r e w e i f
w e c a n ' t d e f e n d J o h n L e n n o n ?
What kind of parents are we if we can't even admit that we never
saw a trial for John Lennon's killer or that our children are paying
the price of our neglect? How can we not admit that that attitude in
the past encouraged the murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin
Luther King and now John Lennon? How can we not admit the fact
that Tricky Dicky has been hurting us our entire lives much like
Susan Smith who pushed her kids into the lake, we have strapped
our kids into the lie of Mark David Chapman and pushed them into
the lake of another coverup guaranteed to spawn yet more evil. How
can we not grab the wheel now when one of us, me, has not only
discovered hard, incontrovertible evidence that cracks open the real
picture of our lives, but has also honored you with the courage to
bring it to the public? Don't you have a duty to people like me-and
there's not many to rescue them when the courts and the police and
the media have sold all of you out already and are only trying to put
an early lid on my casket? Don't you know the media is an
extention of the military and not just a bunch of people making
money? Don't you know that if you don't pick up a sign and help
me no one else will? I've been a loyal, humble watchdog guarding
all of you from evil assassinations. You should have seen me that
day when King had to pull his Harley on the other side of the block
to pretend he didn't see my huge sign; "STEPHEN KING IS A
MURDERER: IT'S TRUE OR HE'D SUE" You should have read
the pamphlet I put out before he arrived exposing his child
molestation conviction and his face getting Lennon's autograph and
even daring him to sue me or deny the charge. He couldn't. All he
could say Was; "No,,,,,comment." and "Lightfoot is a stone in my
shoe but more importantly let's lie about the messenger have him
arrested and make him look like the bad guy..." or so many words.
We live a lie. Our orgasms are unholy under these perverted sheets.
Lennon's killer is molestIng your kids everybody! Even the animals
seem bored with humans lately. I think it's time we picked ourselves
up off our face and break "Who shot John Lennon".
We live in a world where N.Y. police and prison officials and
journalists like Walters, L. King, Goldman, People magazine, the
Enquirer, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN etc. all stalked, murdered,
laughed, and lied to us after they killed John Lennon. A world
where scumbags like Chapman accept a million dollars to cop to
the crime because Stephen King and the govt. need a decoy
lookalike. I can't wait till Chapman and King both go to jail.
Reagan is already claiming Alzheimers disease. Maybe Yoko's no
good either. Let the pieces fall where they may, I say. Clean our
lives up. While Chapman was waiting in the police station King
was murdering Lennon. Corrupt cops et all arrived and buried the
truth and King and Chapman were let out hours later. It's all the
truth about our lives and it's not good enough for me, not when a
simple gathering of ...fifty people at the Sentinel Dec, 08, 1994 can
change everything, one news, spot at a time. Please be there,
people.
My own mother and brothers and sister and friends would rather let
the govt. murder me than carry a sign for even one day with me.
Even McCartney has lost what little nerve he once had. I am
carrying thIs story all alone and I need your help people of Santa
Cruz. Dec. 08, 1994 I will give you people a chance to do the right
thing and rescue me and expose Stephen King. I will conduct a
rally in front of the Santa Cruz Sentinel from noon to six PM.
As John would say; "DON'T LET ME DOWN." Please support me.
I can't do it alone. Let's confront the media or they won't tell.
THANK YOU,
STEVE LIGHTFOOT
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