Catcher in the Rye
Tim Strzechowski
dedalus204 at attbi.com
Sat Jun 22 10:41:25 CDT 2002
John Hinckley, Jr., described himself in his high school days as "a rebel
without a cause" and was shocked to hear that Lennon had been murdered. A
year later Hinckley himself tried to kill President Reagan. In Hinckley's
hotel room, police found, along with a 1981 John Lennon color calendar,
Salinger's novel among a half-dozen paperbacks.
http://wwwlwhs.lkwash.wednet.edu/edu/ias/chorc1.html
> For those of you out there who love conspiracies, I wonder if you could
> point me to articles/web pages on The Catcher in the Rye and it's role as
a
> supposed instigator of violence. I've found plenty of stuff on Mark David
> Chapman, but wasn't the book linked with other assassinations and occult
> activity?
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