outside the dakota. at one point he even met shawn lennon and his nanny. chapman came from behind her, reached around to shake shawn s hand. and then he commented to her, he s a beautiful little boy, isn t he? meanwhile, inside the dakota, lennon was beginning the last day of his life. it was a busy one. starting with the now famous photo shoot for rolling stone magazine. as the shoot was wrapping up, he would be the last person to interview john lennon. what kind of mood was he? i would say his mood through this entire interview was very upbeat, very optimistic at the time, i was so young that i couldn t really process it.
my only sunshine you makes me happy when skies are grey you ll never know, dear how much i love you please don t take my sunshine away [ male announcer ] as long as there are babies, they ll be chevy s to bring them home. 30 years ago december 8th, john lennon was fatally shot outside his manhattan home. in our upcoming documentary losing lennon, we hear from people that were present when the former beatle came face to face with his killer mark chapman. here s john roberts. i left the hotel room, i knew what was going to happen that day. and i just knew it. chapman spent much of the day
laurie with questions. did you talk to him? did you get his autograph? he kept badgering me. how did he strike you? certainly it never entered my mind he had any kind of agenda, any harm, plans to harm john or yoko. i thought he was kind of some obsessive weirdo. he was going to stand there until they got back. and john roberts joining us live. really amazing reporting. how long had chapman been stalking lennon? at least a couple of months. we ve got something that you ve never seen before, and that is mark david chapman s calendar from the year 1980. and the frenzied scribbles and things crossed out and other dates put back in and goals and plans. he came to new york city in the middle of october of 1980 with the plan to kill john lennon. but decided after seeing the movie ordinary people, which is a film about a troubled