http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Banner_686X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner_234X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250 http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo-Watermark_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner-ALT_234X60.jpg Bigthink http://www.bigthink.com/feed/rss/user/16254 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:01:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bigthink.com/arts-culture/music/10272 It's obvious Today that it is not true but in 1969 (I was 12 then) it seemed very plausible, at least to a 12 year old.  I think It was a hoax perpetrated by Lennon at the prompting of Yoko maybe.  Lennon had an exquisitely ironic, almost sadistic sense of humor.  Also, the Sixties was a very strange and dark period.  Mass media, i.e. television, was reletively new.  People were always launching hysterical rumors and usually found enough niave listeners to start a panic.  After JFK was assasinated there were rumors almost immediately that it was a pre-emptive strike by the russians who were about to launch world war III (this was shortly after the cuban missle crises, which was also rumored to have nearly started WWIII).

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