10/12/1969: A DJ on Detroit’s WKNR radio station received a phone call telling him that if you play The Beatles ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ backwards, you hear John Lennon say the words “I buried Paul.” This fueled a worldwide rumor that McCartney was dead. Just a few weeks earlier, Tim Harper at Drake University in Iowa published an article titled, ‘Is Paul McCartney Dead?’ which described rumors circulating on campus pointing to various clues on Beatle albums.