so he brought the gun with him, came to new york. had planned to kill someone who was a celebrity to bring attention to himself. lennon wasn t his only target. he had a list of substitutes, if you will. if he couldn t get to lennon, he would have attempted to kill walter cronkite, johnny carson, george c. scott, jackie kennedy onassis or marlon brando. lennon was his first choice. even show, chapman s agenda included a wild scheme to kill scott while the actor was on stage at a broadway show. the defendant said he had front row seats, and his plan was to stand up in the middle of the show and fire into the body of george c. scott. it wasn t attic laterally adroit plan because when he went to the gun store to buy bullets to have
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. chapman and gorish are on the sidewalk. and chapman silently hands lennon his copy of silent fantasy. and john turned and said to him, do you want me to sign that? he nodded, john took the album. john said do you have a pen? he handed him a pen. john started to sign the album, and i had my camera on my neck, and it looked like a good picture, so i looked through the view finder, and i took the photo. that is the photo of john signing the album for his killer.
privacy and say, hey, john, how s things going, they d shake his hand and say john, i like your music or something. but they didn t pester him. in november 1980, lennon emerged from retirement with an album he recorded with yoko ono. he had just turned 40. this image of a happy contented husband and father would only serve to enrage a young man in hawaii, a once devoted fan, mark david chapman. he was in the house, sitting naked in front of his stereo listening to really loud beatles music and invoking satan to help him have the power to kill john lennon. works for me. turn to the camera. ah, actually i think my eyes might ha. next! digital insurance id cards. just a tap away on the geico app.
devastate his sons and bring 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
we re back with jack jones, how do you react to those who say we shouldn t interview the mark david chapmans? there shouldn t be television shows or books, that we focus attention on the wrong area? probably these are the same type of people who say we shouldn t be writing about or studying aids because it s a deadly topic. we have an opportunity for a guy like mark chapman who has agreed to open himself up for exploration and study to hopefully prevent other mark david chapmans from coming along. people who criticize journalists for exploring people like that i think disappoint. it gives him publicity for this horrendous act he committed. the killers become as face as the people they killed. and it s really unfortunate. as with almost any famous tragic event, conspiracy theories have sprouted up regarding the shooting. john lennon. the prevailing scenario has mark david chapman as a patsy, programmed by mysterious government operatives to kill lennon. there was absolutely no e