"John O'Brien stabbed Gerald Kahanovitch to death in 1982 because his roommate was a secret agent conspiring with then Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to drug him into impotence, and kill him. O'Brien insisted Oliphant hear the music because he says Dylan was also the victim of a large conspiracy involving former U.S. president Lyndon Johnson. He said Trudeau got the idea for his own conspiracy from his American political counterpart."