and i then i looked at her and i said oh, man, this is yoko o ono. aapproximately 11:10 or 11:15 that evening john lennon was pronounced dead. and then dr. lynn had to face a wife and tell her that her husband was dead. i said to her i have bad news for you, your husband has died in spite of all of our resuscitative efforts. her response was strong and immediate and it was no, it can t be, you re lying, tell me it s not true, he s not dead. she was literally lying on the floor of the emergency department then concrete banging her head against the floor. i put my hand behind her head for fear that she in fact was going to injure herself. i picked her up and i held her and i said what about shawn, you know, do you want him to see this on television or do you want to tell him, you know. and she came out of it. she said i got to get home to
the light and siren all the way. back of the dakota a fran take yoko ono followed them into the street. i didn t know t was her and she wanted to get in the car but i didn t think it was a good idea so i held her and i says we will take you in our car. they drove yoko to roosevelt hospital. steve spyro and peter cullen prepared to take mark david chapman to the 20th precinct. we put him in the back seat of the patrol car and started going into our precinct and at one point he said he apologized to us for ruining our night. id said boy, you got to be crazy. i said you just ruined your life. coming up, meet the man who literally held john lennon s heart in his hands. if your racing thoughts keep you awake.
anything. he was lying on a bed facing the door where i was no clothes on and i remember seeing a lot of blood. a lot of blood. he was lifeless. had no pulse, no blood pressure. not breathing. dr. steven lynn led his team in a feverish attempt to save john lennon s life. we opened the chest and found that all of the blood vessels leaving the heart had basically been totally destroyed. i literally held his heart in my hand and we pumped it but it was clear that whatever we did there was no way that we were going to be able to repair the blood vessels. coming down the hallway is an asian woman on the arms of a cop and looked like yoko ono to me. i realized i had to get to a phone. officer tony palma was with yoko ono. my partner came into the waiting room and says you know it is john lennon we brought it
that 1966 tour would be their last. they had been living in a goldfish bowl and they were tired of it. despite the controversy, and with their concert days behind them, the band soldiered on in the studio, producing some of the most revolutionary rock music ever recorded. they took this huge musical leaps. they wanted to be sort of part of the avongarde. the pursuit led him to a new love in november of 1966. in a london art gallery the still married 26-year-old beatle met a 33-year-old japanese conceptual artist named yoko ono. you didn t know who he was? no. john felt that he was imprisoned by the beatles. this is why when met yoko who was a real artist, a conceptual artist it hit him so hard because yoko did not give a
disaster. when wasn t in drug sessions with producer phil specter recording an album of 50s oldies recording rock and roll most of his time was spent in clubs where he was rejected for drunken behavior. it was a low point in his life. he drank too much. if there was anything negative i could say about my old pal, john lennon was a lousy drinker. although his former assistant had become his girlfriend yoko remained foremost in his mind. his only wish and only desire was to get back to the only woman he ever loved in his life which was yoko ono. i needed to be with her and could not literally survive without her. i just went to pieces. intent on getting back with yoko, john returned to new york and the couple reconciled in