an old quote by john lennon, famously proclaiming the beatles more popular than jesus. he was very mad about it and would not listen to beatles records anymore and he destroyed all of his record albums and even changed the words to imagine to say imagine if john were dead. chapman s anger got the best of him. he dropped out of college, dumped his girl friend and move to hawaii. he attempted suicide by taking a hose and hooking it up to his gas pipe and sticking it in his window. i just gave up. i was content. i was ready to go. he felt he d been a failure and had amounted to nothing. i think he was depressed for years. but others thought he had other motives. like a former district attorney who rarely gives interviews. did he really intend to kill himself or was this something designed to bring attention to himself? he engaged in conduct to bring attention to himself. that suicide attempt got him
his dad was a violent dad. chapman s friend, chad hunter, witnessed the abuse when they were teens. mark s father would come out and used a closed fist. and punch him? yes, punch him in the face and in the stomach. he was violent. violence, he said, mark soon mirrored when they played army with toy soldiers. he would pull the arms off, he would talk to them and he would act like they were talking back to him. and a lot of times he would take a match and set one of them on fire. an extreme and vivid imagery life that journalist jim gaines says chapman wrote about. let s talk about his notebook. what s this chief of staff and how he s made this diagram? so this these are the
floor with the two speakers by each ear turned up as loud as it could go. and as the beatles started getting into drugs, so did chapman, eventually lsd. his hallucinations so intense, vance said at one point he said he was john lennon. he was psychotic. he had become a completely different person. chapman became delusional. jesus had talked to him. what did jesus tell him? jesus told him to change his ways. he changed and he decided on religion, he didn t just go to church on sunday and try to live a better life, he just became what we called a jesus freak. but that became a problem, says high school friend miles mcmanus, when chapman discovered
no one noticed the signature. october 29th, armed with thousands of dollars and a .38 caliber gun. chap mn flew fr chapman flew from hawaii to new york city. his personal calendar reveals a disturbed killer on the move, changing hotels three times in three days, hiring prostitutes, living it up like a man with no future. i went to front row plays, you know. first class fights. filet minon at the waldorf. all just blocks from lennon s home. but it turns out john lennon wasn t chapman s only murder. he wanted to kill a celebrity and killing a celebrity means that you in essence steal that individual s celebrity.
credulous, you could say. gria believed her husband was going to counseling. he didn t. chapman was beyond help. once the plan was in gear, i could pnt stop it. it ebbed for a few weeks. next, a cold-blooded killer goes back to new york and goes face to face with john lennon s son. chapman reached around to shake sean s hand. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it s a fact. kind of like shopping hungry equals overshopping. the kids went to nana s house. for the whole weekend. zzzquil. the non-habit forming sleep aid that helps you sleep easily, and wake refreshed. because sleep is a beautiful thing.