Dec. 6, 2025
"THE MAN WHO KILLED JOHN LENNON: MARK DAVID CHAPMAN'S TWISTED PATH TO MURDER - PART 1"
Reid Carter examines the 45th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination. December 8, 1980: Mark David Chapman waited outside the Dakota building all day, got Lennon's autograph at 5pm, then shot him four times in the back at 10:50pm. The 25-year-old security guard from Hawaii traveled to New York twice—first in October, losing his nerve, then returning December 6th with hollow-point bullets. Hours before the murder, photographer Paul Goresh captured the iconic image: Lennon signing Chapman's Double Fantasy album while his killer watched. Chapman never fled. Police found him reading The Catcher in the Rye over Lennon's blood.
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Caalaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm reed Carter. Saturday, December sixth,
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twenty twenty five, forty five years ago, Monday, The World
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Lost John Lennon. December eighth, nineteen eighty, New York City,
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ten fifty pm. John Lennon and Yoko Ono step out
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of their limousine on West seventy second Street. They've just
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returned from the Record Plant studio, where they'd been mixing
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Yoko's song Walking on Thin Ice. John played lead guitar
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on the track, his last recording. They walked toward the Dakota,
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their gothic apartment building overlooking Central Park. A young man
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steps out of the shadows, twenty five years old, pudgy glasses.
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He'd been waiting there all day. Mark David Chapman drops
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into a combat stance, raises a point three to eight
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caliber Charter Arms revolver loaded with hollow points. Bullets fires
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five times. Four bullets tear through Lenin's back and shoulder.
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One misses, shattering a window of the Dakota. Lenin staggers
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up five steps into the security vestibule. I'm shot, I'm shot.
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Then he collapses, scattering the cassette tapes he'd been carrying.
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Chapman doesn't run, doesn't hide. The doorman, Jose Perdomo, shakes
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the gun from his hand and kicks it across the pavement.
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Do you know what you just did? Perdomo screams. Chapman
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is calm, almost serene. Yes, I just shot John Lennon.
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He removes his coat and hat, stands under a street lamp,
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pulls out a paperback book, and starts reading. When police
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officers Steven Spiro and Peter Cullen arrive two minutes later,
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they find Chapman standing peacefully on West seventy second Street
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reading The Catcher in the Rye. Inside the book he'd written,
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this is my statement, Holden Callfield. John Lennon was rushed
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to Roosevelt Hospital. Doctors worked frantically for twenty minutes, but
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he'd lost over eighty percent of his blood. At eleven
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fifteen pm, the former Beatle was pronounced dead. He was
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forty years old. I'm reed, Carter, this is celebrity trials today.
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The man who killed John Lennon mark David Chapman's twisted
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path from YMCA councilor to cold blooded assassin. How the
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Catcher in the Rye became his Bible and December eighth,
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nineteen eighty The Knight That Stole one of the greatest
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musicians who ever lived, Part one of two Chapman's troubled origins.
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Mark David Chapman was born May tenth, nineteen fifty five,
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in Fort Worth, Texas. His father, David Curtis Chapman, was
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a staff sergeant in the United States Air Force. His mother, Diane,
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was a nurse. When Mark was young, the family moved
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to Decatur, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. From the outside,
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the Chapmans looked like a normal American family. David was
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a boy Scout leader taught guitar at the local YMCA.
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Neighbors said they seemed happy, well adjusted, but inside the
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house things were different. Mark later claimed he lived in
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constant fear of his father. Said David was physically abusive
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toward his mother, emotionally distant from his son, unloving. Mark
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felt like an outsider in his own home, so he
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created his own world, imaginary friends he called the little people,
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thousands of them living in the walls of his bedroom.
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They worshiped him, followed his commands made him feel powerful, important, special,
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I used to fantasize that I was a king over
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these little people. Chapman would later say it was the
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first sign of something deeply wrong. By fourteen, Mark was
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using drugs marijuana, LSD, heroine, skipping classes, defying his parents,
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running with the wrong crowd. He once ran away from
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home and lived on the streets of Atlanta for two weeks.
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He was also bullied relentlessly at Columbia High School in Decatur.
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Wasn't athletic, didn't fit in. The other kids called him names,
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made him feel worthless. Then at sixteen, everything changed. Mark
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Chapman became a born again Christian. He started distributing biblical tracks,
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found his first girlfriend, a fellow believer named Jessica Blankenship.
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His grades improved, he stopped using drugs, and he devoted
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himself to the South DeKalb County YMCA. Mark became a
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summer camp counselor. And here's what's strange. He was exceptional
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at it. The children adored him. They nicknamed him Nemo,
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after Captain Nemo from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.
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He'd get down on one knee to help a struggling
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kid play games with them for hours make them feel seen,
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valued important. When Mark won the award for Outstanding Counselor,
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the children were on their feet chanting his name, Neamo
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name Oh. The YMCA director called him a pied piper
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with the kids. Everyone who worked with him in caretaking
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professions said he was outstanding, compassionate patient, exactly the kind
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of person you'd want working with children. So how does
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that person become an assassin? It was around this time
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that a friend recommended a book, J. D. Salinger's The
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Catcher in the Rye, published in nineteen fifty one, the
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story of Holden Callfield, a disaffected teenager railing against the
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phoniness of the adult world. Mark felt an immediate connection
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Holden's alienation, his disgust with hypocrisy, his fantasy of being
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the Catcher in the Rye, standing at the edge of
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a cliff, saving innocent children from falling into the corrupt
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adult world. The book became Mark's new Bible, and Holden
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Callfield became his new identity. Something else happened during Mark's
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religious phase. He turned against one of his childhood heroes,
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John Lennon. In nineteen sixty six, Lenin had made his
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infamous comment about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus
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in the American South. That statement sparked outrage, album burnings, boycotts,
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death threats. Mark's Christian friends made a joke they'd sing
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Lenin's song Imagine with altered lyrics, Imagine Imagine if John
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Lennon was dead. Mark called the original song communist. Was
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furious about the line imagine there's no Heaven? Who did
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Lenin think? He was telling people not to believe in God?
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The seeds were planted, the contradiction was forming. Mark Chapman
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loved John Lennon's music, and Mark Chapman despised everything John
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Lennon stood for. After high school, Mark moved to Chicago
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briefly to play guitar in churches and Christian night spots,
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then came back to Georgia, worked odd jobs for the YMCA,
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attended community college. In nineteen seventy five, he went to
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work with Vietnamese refugees at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. Again, he excelled,
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was promoted to assistant director. People trusted him with their
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most vulnerable populations, but the demons never went away. The
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little people still talked to him, and the darkness was
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always there. Waiting. In nineteen seventy seven, Mark's parents began
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divorce proceedings. His world was crumbling. He bought a one
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way ticket to Hawaii Paradise escape. Instead, he tried to
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kill himself carbon monoxide poisoning. Failed attempt, woke up in
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a hospital, and here's the twist. He recovered so well
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that the hospital hired him, first in maintenance, then in
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the print shop. For a while, things seemed better. Mark
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fell in love with his travel agent, a Japanese American
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woman named Gloria Abe. In nineteen seventy eight. He took
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a trip around the world Tokyo, Soul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok,
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New Delhi, Beirut, Geneva, London, Paris, Dublin, came back and
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proposed to Gloria. They married on June second, nineteen seventy nine.
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But happiness never lasted long for Mark David Chapman. He
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got fired from the hospital, rehired, then quit after an
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argument with a nurse. Took a job as a night
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security guard at a high end apartment complex, started drinking heavily,
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and the obsessions returned. The Little People The Catcher in
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the Rye artwork, music and John Lennon, the lavish lifestyle,
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the millions of dollars, the Dakota apartment overlooking Central Park.
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Reading Anthony Fawcett's book about Lenin's life in New York,
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the yachts, the farms, the country estates, while the man
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preached love and peace. In Mark's mind, twisted by the
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Catcher in the Rye, John Lennon was the ultimate phony,
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a hypocrite, someone who needed to be stopped. September nineteen eighty,
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Mark wrote a letter to a free I'm going nuts.
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He signed it the Catcher in the Rye. The countdown
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had begun. The first trip to New York. Eight minutes
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October nineteen eighty, Mark David Chapman resigned from his job
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as a security guard. He told his wife he was
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going to New York, didn't tell her why. On October
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twenty seventh, he walked into a gun shop in Honolulu
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and purchased a Charter Arms point three to eight special revolver,
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five shot snub nosed, perfect for concealment. Two days later,
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he flew to New York City. Called the Federal Aviation
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Administration beforehand to learn how to transport a firearm. They
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told him. Bullets could be damaged during air travel, so
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he left the ammunition behind. Mark checked into a hotel
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on the Upper West Side, walked to the Dakota Building
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on Central Park West, just to look, just to see
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where John Lennon lived. He stood outside for hours, watching, waiting,
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but he didn't have bullets, and part of him, maybe
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the part that was once Nemo, the beloved camp counselor,
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didn't really want to go through with it, so he left,
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flew back to Hawaii, tried to put the murder out
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of his mind, but he couldn't stop thinking about it,
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couldn't stop reading The Catcher and the Rye, couldn't stop
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listening to John Lennon's music and getting angrier. I would
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listen to this music and I would get angry at him.
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Chapman later said, for saying that he didn't believe in God,
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that he just believed in him and Yoko, and that
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he didn't believe in the Beatles, I just wanted to
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scream out loud, who does he think he is saying
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these things about God and Heaven and the Beatles? In
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Mark's warped mind, killing Lenin wasn't murder. It was justice.
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Holden Caulfield's justice, punishing the phony, saving the world from hypocrisy.
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He needed bullets. Mark flew to Atlanta, visited an old
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friend from the shooting range, picked up hollow point ammunition,
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the kind that explodes on impact, designed to cause maximum damage.
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Then he practiced, went into the woods near Atlanta, fired
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round after round, getting comfortable with the gun, preparing for
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what came next. December sixth, nineteen eighty, two days before
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the murder, Mark David Chapman flew back to New York City.
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He checked into the YMCA on the Upper West Side
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for one night, fitting given his history with the organization,
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then moved to the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown, Manhattan. He
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had everything he needed, the gun, the bullets, the book,
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the target. December eighth, nineteen eighty, Monday morning, Mark left
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his hotel room, left behind personal items police would later find,
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including a copy of the album he planned to have signed,
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walked to a bookstore bought a fresh copy of The
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Catcher in the Rye. Inside the front cover, he wrote
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this is my statement and signed it Holden Callfield. Then
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he walked to the Dakota and waited. The day was
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cold but clear, Mark positioned himself outside the building's entrance
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on West seventy second Street. He wasn't alone. There were
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always fans waiting for a glimpse of Lenin. He blended
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in perfectly. Around mid morning, he missed seeing Lenin step
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out of a taxi and enter the building, but later
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he spotted Lenin's five year old son, Sean, returning from
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a walk with the family nanny, Helen Seaman. Mark approached them,
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reached out and shook Shawn's hand. He was a beautiful boy.
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Chapman later said he even quoted Lenin's song beautiful Boy
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to the child. Something should have stopped him then, holding
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the hand of an innocent child, knowing what he was
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about to do to that child's father, But the Holden
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Callfield delusion was too strong. The phonies had to be punished.
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Around five pm, John Lennon and Yoko Ono urged from
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the Dakota. They were heading to the record Plant studio
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to work on Yoko's song Walking on Thin Ice. A
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team from RKO Radio was there to interview them. Fans
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crowded around. Mark stepped forward with his copy of Double Fantasy,
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Lenin's recently released album with Yoko silently handed it to
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Lenin asked for an autograph. Lenin obliged. He was always
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gracious with fans, believed they'd earned it by waiting. Standing
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nearby was Paul Gorish, an amateur photographer and Lenin superfan.
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He'd been taking pictures of Lenin for years had developed
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a casual relationship with the musician. Gorrish raised his camera
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snapped a photograph. The image would become one of the
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most haunting in rock history. John Lennon head bowed, signing
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an album. Mark David Chapman beside him, watching intently. The
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assassin and his victim caught together in the same frame
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hours before the murder. After signing, Lenin looked at Chapman,
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Is this all you want? Chapman smiled, nodded. He was
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very kind to me, Chapman would later say, ironically, very
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kind and was very patient with me. He asked me
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if I needed anything else. I said no, no, sir,
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and he walked away, very cordial and decent. Man. Lennon
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and Ono got into the waiting limousine, drove to the
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recording studio, spent the evening mixing, walking on thin ice
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and Mark David Chapman stayed right where he was, waiting,
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the signed album in his hand, the gun in his pocket,
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the book ready to be read. Paul Gooresh talked to
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him briefly, asked where he was from Hawaii. Where are
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you staying? Chapman snapped at him, why do you want
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to know? Gor Esh backed off. As the hours passed,
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Gorsh decided to leave. It was getting late cold. He
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had the autograph he wanted, he told Chapman, and he
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was heading home. Chapman tried to stop him. I'd wait.
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You never know if you'll see him again. Gorsh left anyway,
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missed the murder by minutes. Mark David Chapman stood alone
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outside the Dakota reading The Catcher in the Rye, waiting
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for John Lennin to come home. Make it make sense.
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He had the autograph, Lenin had been kind to him,
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very cordial and decent. Chapman could have walked away, could
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have gone back to Hawaii, could have gotten help. Instead,
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he waited because in his twisted mind, kindness didn't matter.
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Fame was the crime, and the punishment was death. We'll
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be right back with December eighth, nineteen eighty The Night
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Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon outside the Dakota. The
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Hollow Point Bullets, the five Shots, the Last Words, and
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the book that explained nothing. Welcome Back to Celebrity Trials.
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I'm reed Carter. December eighth, nineteen eighty ten fifty pm.
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono returned to the Dakota after
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spending the evening at the Record Plant studio. Their driver,
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