![]() But now, for the first time, the extensive and unsettling collection of tapes is being heard on broadcast television, obtained by Dateline NBC. These conversations were the basis of a book written by that newspaper reporter, Jack Jones. The result was over 100 hours of recorded conversation. ![]() Jack Jones, crime journalist who interviewed Chapman: He handed me a note saying: “I’m sorry I killed John Lennon.” And I said, “Mark, if you’re serious about trying to figure out figuring and explain why you murdered John Lennon, we should sit down and talk about it.” There would be no definitive, public account of what led him to murder.īut a decade after that fateful night, Chapman invited one newspaper reporter he trusted into his world. ![]() Richard Bloom, psychologist who interviewed Chapman in prison: I diagnosed him as paranoid schizophrenic.īut the case never went to trial. Kim Hogrefe, Manhattan district attorney’s office, ADA on case: The defendant in this case was narcissistic-self centered and-very much involved in doing that which he thought was necessary to bring attention upon himself. Why is it always the good ones who get killed? It’s a scary thing about America.įrom that night on, for 25 years, we wondered: Why did Chapman do it? It was dark, it was cold, and it was the last moment before everything would change-ĭoug Brinkley: Just boom, boom, boom, right in front of where you live with your wife holding your head bleeding, similar to Jackie Kennedy in Dallas holding her husband-Jon Wiener, historian who published Lennon’s FBI files public: Martin Luther King was killed, Bobby Kennedy was killed, and John Lennon was killed. On the night of December 8 th, 1980, Chapman stood in front of his childhood idol’s home, waiting. How did a troubled Southern boy, raised on the Bible and the Beatles locked in on his prey seeking warped salvation, revenge, and fame? In the bowels of Attica prison in upstate New York, 350 miles from the scene of the crime, Mark Chapman describes on audio tape the frenzied nights leading up to murder’s door. Gruen: I tend to think of New York City as the place where John lived, and not just the place he died. Gruen took the photo of the famous pose of Lennon, on a rooftop, wearing a New York City t-shirt. On a Manhattan rooftop, friend and photographer Bob Gruen, captured Lennon’s love of the city. So I wanted to show that in my photographs. In Central Park, he felt free to stroll with his wife Yoko Ono and his son Sean.īob Gruen, rock n' roll photographer, Lennon friend: You know, he was very proud to be a New Yorker. The former Beatle from Liverpool had found peace in New York. And it would have been really intense and beautiful. We can only imagine what might have been.Įlizabeth Partridge, author, "John Lennon: All I Want Is The Truth": There’s no way of knowing what he would have done if he hadn’t been shot, but it would have been interesting. ![]() Even after 25 years, the loss of John Lennon is still staggering. All over the world, people gathered to celebrate his music, remember his life, and sing the pop hits of a songwriting team that changed history. October 9 th would have been John Lennon’s 65 th birthday. Mark David Chapman was 25 years old when he murdered a pop culture icon and wounded a generation.
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