to the limo and that is how she got out of there. what is the last thing that you said to her? sorry, we couldn t do it. from the time that the news broke of lennon s death, new yorkers began streaming to the dakota s apartments. reporter: by the time owe coco yoko had arrived home, the streets were full of fans. it is hard to imagine. i guess even to this day, it still feels like a dream. more than 3,000 miles away in england, then 17-year-old julian len knob was just waking up when he got the news. he immediately flew to new york. every person on the plane had the newspaper of dad the s picture and john lennon slain, murdered, and da, da, da. and that is a toughy, a toughy.
them. it was somebody who was planning to use those bullets to kill someone. but chapman didn t use those bullets to kill, not yet. there was part of me that did not want to kill john lennon. i called my wife and i said i m going to kill john lennon. he had finally realized what i meant to him and finally understood something when he was ready to come home. home to his wife gloria in mid november. it s crazy. i laid out the gun and i laid out all five bullets. she d never seen a gun before. and i said this is what i wanted to do. why didn t she do something? she wa a very devoted person
studio for the last time, and mark david chapman waited outside. chapman had the double fantasy album with him and asked lennon to sign it. i said, mark, how did that feel? he said, i was just so excited to see him. he was just a fan. but also a killer. lennon jumped into a limo. lori kay stayed behind. mark caught her off guard? he said did you talk to him, did you get an you a graph? it was beyond fandom. it was creepy. did you think he could be dangerous in any way? not at all. but she wishes she had. what if i had said go home,
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.