wouldn t stop. i m able to face it now. have i have strength to face the murder now. a murder no one saw coming. it was summer in the strawberry fields of john lennon s knock. he do love new york. it was so fun to be there with him. writer dave chef spent three weeks around the clock with john lennon writing an article in august 1980. you would think john lennon of all people would have security guards all around. that s not what he was about. we walked in central park and did people mob him? people would say, hey, john,
factly said we tried our best to resuscitate him but despite our best efforts, john lennon died. she yelled and screamed, no, it can t be. she didn t want to believe it. nobody wanted to believe it. not even the man who did it. i can t believe it happened. this is a nightmare. utter chaos. when we come back, a legend lost, a world demands justice.
i love your music. there was a freedom he was able to find here. an intensity from beatlemania. he was out on the road and they were propelled through the roof, you know. here he was, you know, the rock n roll good, the rock n roll prince. more money than he ever could have imagined, more fame anyone could imagine. the ability as an artist to be able to express himself and create more than any other artist ever. and yet he was still so deeply unhappy. that would all change for lennon when his son, sean, was born in 1975. he finally came home and decided to just stay home, to hide from the public. but to have a very full life that involved things that people could not have imagined of john lennon. i looked after the baby. i made the bread and i was a
in the recall 80s. i have something to tell you, the demons i have going on in me. these are exclusive recorded conversations. the first time i met him, he was telling me this murder was meant to be from before time. were you thinking, oh, my gosh, what am i getting myself into? what have i gotten myself into, exactly. he sat at the table and was clearing crumbs from the table that didn t exist all the time we were talking. when he answered a question and made eye contact, it was like he was not looking at me, he was looking through me. i knew i was looking at someone who was not ordinary. yet that didn t intimidate gaines. i spent more time than any sane person would have done. so why did you do it? because john lennon was murdered and he was important to me. i think he was important to everybody in my generation and to find out, you know, why. and i felt very lucky that i was able to interview, not because
left me and i only had the good part and the good part was freaking out. john lennon was bleeding out, dying. it was the most blood i d ever seen in one place but he still had a pulse. you knew the ambulance wouldn t be there quick enough. what did you say? i said let s pick him up and take him by car. mark chapman watched the whole thing. that wasn t all. soon after, chapman says, he was face to face with yoko ono. utter horror. a little bit of anger but mostly total shock. she came right up and i just cowered away. she was in total shock. officer pete cullen was also on the scene. she was like standing there like i don t want to use the word zombie but in that vein. and the only words i heard was can i go, too? and i said, sure. chapman was left alone at the