two police officers came rushing through the front door of the emergency department and literally carrying over their shoulders a limp body and they said, dr. lynn, we can t get any vital signs. also in the emergency a young news producer for wmpxwabc for new york who had been in a motorcycle accident. and so i heard somebody saying, it is a gunshot, and we have him coming in. i remember asking when is it coming in, and they said right now. at that moment a stretcher is wheeled in. i remember seeing them trotting. running as fast as they could. we rushed into the trauma room. there was no pulse, there was no blood pressure. we had an unresponsive patient. they brought him literally to the room i m lying outside of, and the doctor ran in, and some other people ran in and pulled the curtain. we didn t know who the patient was at the moment of time, and the nurses took the wallet out, and one of the
shooting. we got out of the car, we approached the archway on each side of it. looked in and saw a man with his hands up. five shots had been fired. all but one found their target. so i grabbed the guy around the neck. the doorman, jose said he s the one. he s the only one. he shot john lennon. i was totally shocked. i threw him up against the wall. i said you did what? former beatle john lennon has been shot with four hollow point ..38 caliber bullets at close range. police rush him to roosevelt hospital but it s too late. he was pronounced dead. john lennon was gunned down as he entered john lennon, shot and killed
deep sorrow and tears to the world. in 1985, new york city dedicated an area of central park, directly across from the dakota as strawberry fields, for one of lennon s most famous songs. countries from around the world donated trees. and the imagine mosaic centerpiece was a gift from the city of naples. tangible proof that the legacy of john lennon transcends borders and generations. i was walking down the street and i saw a kid probably no older than 16 or 17 wearing a t-shirt with john lennon s face on it. i thought this is really interesting. here he is, he died more than 30 years ago, and for this young person, he still had resonance. the best way to remember john lennon is to be inspired by his
songs and chanted give peace a chance. i just felt like, you know, an incredible weight was just pressing down on me. was just extraordinarily, extraordinarily sad. it impacted all of us so severely, and it was as if a friend or a family member had passed away. i think that one of the reasons that we felt that way about him is because we had embraced him as our own. on december 10th, john lennon was cremated in a private ceremony. four days later, on december 14th, millions of people around the world responded to yoko ono s request to pause for ten minutes of silence to remember john lennon. over 225,000 people converged on new york central park. for those ten minutes every radio station in new york city
had come to know lennon personally. one of the photos was later used as the cover of lennon s single watching the wheels. he s standing outside the archway on the right side as you went into the dakota. he was standing there holding a copy of double fantasy and this guy approached to me and said are you waiting for lennon? so i said, yeah. he said, do you work for john? i said no. he said, oh, my name is mark. he said, i m from hawaii. what struck me strange is when he said that he had a southern accent. so i said, if you re from hawaii, how come you have a southern accent? and he said, well, originally, i m from georgia. i said, oh. so i said, where are you staying while you re in the city, and with that he turned to me and said, why do you want to know? sometime before 5:00 p.m., lennon and ono leave the apartment to go to his last recording session.