repeated. and then there was silence. and finally the head nurse brought in her husband s ring and gave it to her and she understood the finality of the act that had occurred. and the first thing that she said to me was, please delay making the announcement. my son sean is probably at home sitting in front of the tv. i don t want him to find out about his father s death while watching a tv program. i don t think that it really hit me until i heard that muzak playing the song all my loving. i called wabc, the newsroom, told them what i knew, that john lennon had been shot and as i understand it they passed it on to abc network and abc network made the decision to pass it on to howard cosell and frank gifford. and howard cosell made the broke the news during monday night football. the news ripped through the air in shock waves. by 11:35 p.m., the word was out. almost immediately mourners began gathering outside the
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monday night. john lennon was gunned down before the suspect is identified as mark david chapman. his assailant waited with a .38-caliber. on the night he shot john lennon, mark david chapman was just 25 years old. it had been 25 years of almost painful anonymity. there was nothing that we learned from the extensive interviews and investigation of the defendant s background that suggested that he was much different than any other 25-year-old person. at least on the surface. chapman grew up in georgia. the older of two children in what seemed like a typical suburban family. the defendant claimed in interviews with psychiatrists that he had a rough childhood and had a less than ideal relationship with his father. but there s nothing in his background of such an extreme or extraordinary nature that would suggest some kind of latent insanity or mental disease or defect caused by some childhood trauma. after high school chapman
whether or not he s been treated or cured, i can t tell you. i don t know. he did something that was horribly wrong. he changed the track in the life of the world, in my opinion. i think he needs to stay where he is. this guy murdered him. he shot him in the back which is what people don t realize, he shot him in the back. he s a coward. i don t think the killer of john lennon should ever be paroled. the damage that he wreaked on a wife, two sons, beatles fans around the world. i can t imagine there s anything he could do or say that would warrant parole. john lennon s widow yoko ono has repeatedly opposed chapman s release from prison. my husband john lennon was a very special man. a man of humble origin. he both liked and helped the whole world with his words and music. he tried to be a good power for
chapman, it seems, has back-ups. so he brought the gun with him, came to new york. and had planned at that point to kill someone who was a celebrity in order to bring attention to himself. lennon wasn t his only target. he had a list of substitute targets, if you will. if he couldn t get to lennon, then he would have attempted to kill walter cronkite, johnny carson, george c. scott, jackie kennedy onassis, or marlon brando. any of these people were his potential targets after lennon. lennon was his first choice. even so, chapman s agenda included a wild scheme to kill scott while the actor was on stage in a broadway show. the defendant said he had front row seats and his plan was to stand up in the middle of the show, take his gun, and fire into the body of george c. scott. it wasn t a particularly adroit
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